Pedro Torres Picon

Founder and Managing Director

2011 - Current

Early investor in Cruise Automation (acquired by General Motors), Chargehound (acquired by PayPal), Tapad (acquired by Telenor), August (acquired by Assa Abloy), Fieldlens (acquired by WeWork), Locu (acquired by GoDaddy), Grand Street (acquired by Etsy), and many other great companies.

Adjunct Instructor

2020

Lead the Lab portion of the Entrepreneurship Capstone class in the MS program in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MS-CEI), offered jointly by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of Business at NYU.

Recurring Guest Lecturer

2019 - 2019

Created and delivered a 5-lecture series on VC fundraising and pitch deck building for the Entrepreneurship Capstone class in the MS program in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MS-CEI), offered jointly by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of Business at NYU.

Founder

2020

Building something new in the crypto space.

Member

2019

Founder

2019

Board Chair

2017 - 2020

Advisor

2015 - 2019

Research Affiliate

2016 - 2017

Founder

2012 - 2017

qLabs is a co-working space for NYC founders, located in Flatiron. Started as a home for Quotidian Ventures portfolio companies, it has grown to be an independent community of entrepreneurs with its own unique culture and values.

Re-founder and CEO

2013 - 2014

Incubated a reboot of the company and product in early 2013. Hired the team, led the redesign of the app and the brand, and led product for subsequent iterations through late 2014.