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Marcelino Pantoja

Founder of Platform Venture Studio

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Marcelino Pantoja is a seasoned professional with a strong background in venture capital and investments, having held key roles at prominent firms like Amity Ventures and Tribe Capital. Currently serving as a Vice President at Amity Ventures, he specializes in early-stage investments in sectors like TransportationTech and E-commerce, showcasing expertise in team leadership and financial modeling. His career highlights include founding Measurement and serving as a Founder-in-Residence at Platform Venture Studio, demonstrating a track record of success in the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Vice President

    2023 - Current

    Your partners for the journey. Beyond capital.

Amity Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports founders in building category-defining businesses.

  • CEO and Founder

    2021

    Invest in companies that scale (before they scale).

  • Founder-in-Residence

    2021

    Platform provides the infrastructure for founders from all backgrounds to build groundbreaking companies that tackle the world’s biggest problems.

Platform provides the infrastructure for founders from all backgrounds to build groundbreaking companies

  • Contributor

    2019

    This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation. Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.

Conversations with leaders in the money game.

  • Vice President

    2020 - 2021

    Quantifying and amplifying product market fit.

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science.

  • Director

    2012 - 2016

    Costanoa Ventures is an early-stage investor in companies focused on Enterprise SaaS, Infrastructure, Mobile, and Data.

Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2007 - 2013

    Stanford Management Company manages the University’s $26.9 billion Merged Pool with the dual goals of preserving the purchasing power of the endowment for future generations of students and scholars and enabling a robust annual payout to the current operating budget.

Education 

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