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Chris Quintero

Collective Member at Baukunst

Lagos, Lagos State

Overview 

Chris Quintero is a seasoned professional with expertise in technical recruiting and venture financing, currently serving as a Principal at Bolt. He has founded companies like Sourcing Sprints and Stack Shift, showcasing a strong track record in building successful ventures. Quintero's career highlights include his role as a Collective Member at Baukunst and his focus on investing in pre-seed stages in key sectors like Boston/New England, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2023 - Current

    Recruiting designed for busy founders. More at sourcingsprints.com

  • Collective Member

    2024

    Baukunst is a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building at the frontiers of technology and design. Collective members are a select group of top practitioners in their field, invited to advise founders in the portfolio, support company building, and promote collaborative learning across the collective.

A collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building companies at the frontiers of technology and design

  • Founder

    2021

    Advancing distributed work. More at stackshift.com

  • Learning Sabbatical

    2019 - 2020

    Left VC in 2019 to take a ~1.5 year long learning sabbatical. See more at learningsabbatical.org/about and the curriculum at https://bit.ly/37uzurE

  • Principal

    2013 - 2019

    Bolt is a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of hardware and software. I was Bolt's first hire and joined at the close of our first fund ($3M). I stayed with the firm over the next 7 years as we raised and invested our second ($32M) and third ($80M) funds in over 70 early stage companies. Previous titles: Program Manager, Associate, Senior Associate

Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.

Raised $3,900,000.00 from Mick Mountz, Logitech, Foundry Group, Grishin Robotics, Eran Egozy, Bantam Group, Bruce Sachs, Autodesk, River Valley Investors and Semyon Dukach.

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