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Sam Cassatt

Founder of Aligned Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Sam Cassatt is the Founder of Aligned Capital, with a background as Chief Strategy Officer at ConsenSys and Chief Technology Officer at Atmospheir. He has a strong track record of successful investments in sectors like Web3/Crypto, Health & Hospital Services, and AI, with a focus on Series B, Series A, and Seed stages. Cassatt's career highlights include founding Aligned Capital and serving in key leadership roles at prominent organizations like ConsenSys, showcasing his expertise in strategic decision-making and investment in cutting-edge technologies.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2019 - Current

  • Chief Strategy Officer

    2015 - 2019

ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.

Raised $725,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth and Axevil Capital.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2014 - 2015

Atmospheir operates as a mobile CRM application and social network.

Raised $6,360,000.00.

  • Co-Founder, Principal Design Engineer

    2011 - 2013

    Work with government and industry clients and in-house team to architect prototype-level software and hardware systems meeting technical and financial constraints. Act as technical lead in design and production processes. Designed and managed a team to implement all backend code for a mobile app serving 100K users. Worked with interdisciplinary team to design and engineer a next-generation computer vision technology, providing guidance to engineering team regarding design goals.

  • Associate Engineer

    2008 - 2011

    Communicate with clients and engineering team to generate and revise design requirements for software and hardware systems. Contribute Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Human-Computer Interaction knowledge to multi-disciplinary engineering teams. Design and implement custom algorithms and algorithms drawn from academic and industry research in software.

Sensorstar is a technology engineering firm that offers research and development services.

  • Research Assistant

    2008 - 2008

    Created software necessary to translate between linear-algebra based models of working memory and neural network simulator software, with the end goal of modeling serial order representation in working memory. Created software to evaluate the performance of the model based on established neuropsychological tests used to assess spelling in dysgraphic patients. Participated in reading groups, evaluating current research in visuospatial and computational cognitive neuropsychology. Evaluated presentations of ongoing research in the lab, offering constructive criticism.

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