Sam Ellis
Investor at Various Companies
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Seed Investor
2021 - Current
Vanta, mappy, paar, Perfect Venue, Ravyn, Chiplytics, VF protocol, SightX
Managing Partner
2020
A first-check software fund with an affinity for West Point grad co-founders. Low volume, high touch. Finding exceptional leaders in the West Point network to solve meaningful software problems, and providing them a framework of resources to execute.
WPMC builds software companies co-founded by West Point grads.
Partner
2021 - 2022
Early-stage venture capital firm making the world a better, safer place by investing in frontier and dual-use technologies
Quantitative Developer
2019 - 2020
Foundational quant dev on the Internal Alpha Capture platform team. Built applications to manage and orchestrate systematic trading signals.
Point72 invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide.
Raised $45,171,689.00.
Technical Co-Founder
2017 - 2019
Technical co-founder who wrote the first version of dutchie's software that helped achieve product market fit and raise capital. Also helped build several foundational components of the company like the team and culture. Left dutchie operationally around Series A, but still helping where I can strategically.
Dutchie provides an all-in-one technology platform that powers dispensary operations.
Raised $603,000,000.00 from DFJ Growth, Growcore Investments, Dragoneer Investment Group, Park West Asset Management, D1 Capital Partners, Glynn Capital Management, Vine Ventures, Willoughby Capital, Gron Ventures and Thrive Capital.
Software Engineer
2016 - 2017
Full-stack software engineer working on the web application portion of the core offering, along with computer vision problems that included object recognition and optical character recognition. Also developed the initial cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Software Developer
2013 - 2016
Intern (Operations Research and Computer Vision)
2012 - 2012
Worked on an interdisciplinary engineering team building a 3D printed, modular UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Developed a linear programming model that solved for the coordinates of internal components to keep the UAV balanced. Also worked on using an android phone for obstacle avoidance using optical flow.
MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that operates research and development centers.
Raised $2,052,767.00 from US Department of Energy and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.