Sam Ellis

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.

Partner

2021 - 2022

Quantitative Developer

2019 - 2020

Foundational quant dev on the Internal Alpha Capture platform team. Built applications to manage and orchestrate systematic trading signals.

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.

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.