Charlie Pinto

Operating Partner

2018 - Current

We invest at the pre-seed and seed stages. Our check sizes range from $500K-$3M. My time is spent on SaaS and Enterprise, Defense, Critical Technologies, Vertically Integrated Businesses leveraging AI, Healthcare and Education, and Consumer Tech. Bling Capital is an early stage venture fund founded in 2018 by Ben Ling, a former product executive at Google, Facebook, and YouTube. Since inception, Bling Capital has backed over 100 companies that have collectively raised over $2B. Bling Capital offers a unique Product Council of 100+ top executives as resources to its portfolio companies. We are honored to have been featured by TechCrunch as “The VCs that Founders Love the Most” and Ben Ling was ranked every year the Midas Seed List has been published, most recently at #4 and #5 (2022, 2023, 2024).

Board Observer

2024

Building hypersonic (Mach 5) aircraft to radically accelerate air travel.

Board Observer

2024

Saving lives by enabling critical communications for the world’s most important organizations

Board Observer

2022

Board Observer

2021

Board Observer

2021

Draft and review legal contracts 10x faster with AI

Angel Investor

2014

Fundamental Ventures is the name I use for my angel investing activities. My angel investing sectors of interest include: Critical technologies, defense, space, climate, and some biotech. Public - Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA). Grow better products. - Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI). Quantum computing. - One Codex (acquired by Invitae, NYSE: NVTA). Microbiome platform. - Notable Labs (NASDAQ: NTBL). Predictive precision medicines for cancer. Private - Stoke Space Technologies. Reusable rockets for micro-satellites. - Prometheus Fuels. Carbon neutral fuels from CO2. - Culture Bio. On-demand bioreactors. - Notable Labs. Transforming the way cancer is treated. - Paperspace. Effortless GPU infrastructure. - Zbiotics. Enhanced probiotics. - Kodif. Low code customer experience flows. - Taelor. Pick, wear, and return mens clothing monthly. - Blue Cargo. Move cargo from marine ports to first warehouses. - Aware Healthcare. New mental health care system. - Sunbound. One-stop relocation platform for older adults (55+). - Forte. Online music lessons with audio quality optimized for music. - Agora. Digital wallet and marketplace for K-12 education. - Noetica. Machine learning for corporate debt documentation. - Sixfold Bio. Drug delivery systems. - Synkrino Bio. Discover and deliver drug targets from immune system of patients. - Saratoga Energy. Carbon nanotubes from CO2. - Industrial Microbes. Cheaper chemicals with lower CO2 emissions. - Mobius Motors. Travel platform for Africa. - Quilt Data. Data versioning portal for AWS. - Standard Cyborg. Build spatially-aware applications. Sold off their claims: - Framed Data (acquired by Square). - Zesty (acquired by Square, Caviar). - Rescue Forensics (acquired by IST Research). More info: https://www.fundamentalventures.com

Head of Operations, Enterprise

2020 - 2024

Expanding Google's bandwidth for building and buying better enterprise software.

Head of Operations, Google Domains

2018 - 2021

Helped scale product market fit. Acted as an emergency room doctor assessing and fixing operational components, setting revenue milestones, and profitably scaling product market fit.

Lead, CIO Enterprise Software Program

2018 - 2020

Improved the way Google assesses and buys enterprise solutions that touch 100K+ Googlers and TVCs, and built partnerships with Enterprise SaaS solutions to improve the way Googlers work.

Director of Product Management

2015 - 2017

via the acquisition of SlidePay Recruited and managed high-performing team tasked with untangling and stabilizing a moody, monolithic architecture so we could expand the core business internationally. My team designed and launched: * Global payments platform * Platform infrastructure model for hosting APIs with Kubernetes * Data pipeline with Prometheus, Grafana, Kafkta, Hive to improve accuracy of reporting. * Overhaul of authentication services, integrating Auth0 into a new API Gateway auth model. * New versions of electronic signature (eSign) and Documents API powering the core business.

Director of Business Development

2014 - 2017

via the acquisition of SlidePay Led and managed strategic partnership with Stripe to power Registered Agent and Incorporation services for Stripe Atlas customers (see more: https://stripe.com/atlas). Created and launched payments business within Rocket Lawyer. Managed partnerships with external vendors and internal stakeholders while driving payments strategy across global organization.

Co-Founder and CEO

2011 - 2014

(acquired by Rocket Lawyer) Backed by Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, DCVC, Start Fund. SlidePay started as Cube, a modern point of sale for SMBs. We pivoted to offer integrated banking, underwriting, and marketplace payment capabilities to the enterprise. Our bank-as-a-service solution connected banks' infrastructure with fintech startups so they could build new product experiences. Our technology continues to power $10B+ in payments. I had the pleasure of working alongside my co-founders while recruiting and leading a group of incredibly talented engineers and operators over periods of 100%, and -100%, mom growth.