Angel Investing
Together with Sue Odio, I angel invest small ($2.5k - $5k) checks in early-stage startups we’re excited about. Think of us as advisors with skin in the game — we love helping with tricky, ambiguous problems, providing access to our networks and audiences, or even just lending an ear.
Max is one of our highest value-add investors: he constantly gives us good product feedback and knows everything about open source. On top of that, every time he talks about us to his developer audience our stats go wild. – Brendan Falk, CEO at Fig
If you’re founding a startup and think this could be a good fit we’d love to meet you. Send us an email and let’s chat!
What we invest in
We invest first-and-foremost in the people. Our main filter is “Do we believe these founders can go through the one-of-a-kind challenge of building a company that can change the world?”
We love investing early to make the most of the limited amount of money we have. The earlier, the better.
I personally love investing in products that I (would) use myself, even more so if they’re products aimed at developers.
Investments
So far, I have invested in:
- a developer-focused cloud for deploying apps close to users
- the #1 platform for incident management
- an extensible MacOS launcher
- the developer experience platform
- a complete suite to authenticate and manage users
- a data platform for the serverless world
- a high-performance, multiplayer code editor
- a toolchain to build real-time collaborative products
- an all-in-one team communication app
- a security layer for Node.js
- a fund by Andreas Klinger
- an embeddable notification system
- a job matching platform for developers
- a CDN for performantly personalizing websites
- an AI tool to extract signal from noise
- a terminal for the 21st century
- a system of record for tech stacks
- a tool for thought for deep work
- a copilot for customer success in Slack
- an online video platform focussed on creators
- a modern JavaScript toolchain