Pedro Torres Picon
Founder of Something new
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
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
The Economic Club of New York is a membership organization with members drawn from the top executive levels of business, industry & finance.
Founder
2019
Board Chair
2017 - 2020
CSforALL is the national hub for the Computer Science to build rigorous, inclusive, & sustainable CS education for all students.
Raised $500,000.00 from Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and National Science Foundation.
Advisor
2015 - 2019
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
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.