I’m the President and co-founder of Capital Factory and The Texas Fund, the most active venture capital fund in Texas. We are anti-consensus, deep tech investors focused on pioneering entirely new markets and technologies across defense, industrial, and health/biotech sectors. Select investments include: - Apptronik, Lead investor $935M Series A (Q1 2025) - Paradromics (Board Observer, Q2 2025) - Voyager Space successful IPO VOYG 6/11/2025) - Intuitive Machines IPO LUNR, (first commercial moon landing 2/19/2024) - Firefly Aerospace IPO FLY (second moon landing 3/2/2025), - Early investor in X.ai, Keen Technologies (John Carmack’s AGI venture), Saronic, Aalo Atomics, Colossal Biosciences, Element 3, Firehawk Aerospace, Eon Systems, Casimir, Becoming Bio, Venus Aerospace, X-Bow, Saronic, Syzygy Plasmonics, Cemvita Factory, Radia, PGA+EP Golf Fund, and hundreds of others. Previously, I was a founding team member at Fixd Repair (acquired by ANGI Homeservices) and launched the Blackstone LaunchPad and UT Dallas Seed Fund. I serve on the faculty at UT Dallas’ Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where I teach venture capital and startup strategy. I co-founded Venture Dallas, a catalyst for advancing the North Texas startup and venture ecosystem.