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Stewart Pond

Partner at Operator Stack Fund

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Stewart Pond is a Partner at Operator Stack Fund in San Francisco, California, with a background in financial modeling, analysis, and portfolio management. He has made significant investments in companies like Glow (Series A) and Eightfold AI (Series C), focusing on sectors such as Supply Chain Tech and FinTech. With experience at firms like Cota Capital and Capital One Ventures, Stewart has successfully invested in companies like Farther Finance (Seed) and Socure (Series D), showcasing expertise in venture capital and asset management.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Backing founders at the pre-seed/seed stage across Enterprise software, Fintech, Supply Chain/Logistics, and AI. Some of our investments include: Nue.io Distributional Layer2 Loop Logistics Bluedot Good Drone Company (GDC) Opal Camera Vooma Greenscreens.ai

Operator Stack is an early-stage technology fund and operator network that invests across logistics or supply chains, FinTech, and B2B SaaS.

  • Principal

    2021 - 2024

    I led early stage investment opportunities (Seed - Series B) across Enterprise B2B, Fintech, Insurtech, Proptech and Vertical SaaS. Led investments in: Farther Finance Radius Agent Glow Layr Token.io Qu POS Citcon

Cota Capital is a technology investment firm that partners with exceptional teams to build and grow timeless companies.

  • Investor - Series A

    2021 - 2021

The leading software for integrating accessibility into web and mobile development.

Raised $57,000,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Insight Partners, Capital One Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.

  • Investor - Series A

    2020 - 2021

Enveil is a privacy enhancing technology company that specializes in secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization services.

Raised $40,000,000.00 from Mastercard, C5 Capital, DataTribe, IQT, Cyber Mentor Fund, USAA, GC&H Investments, Capital One Ventures, 1843 Capital and Bloomberg Beta.

  • Senior Associate - Capital One Ventures

    2018 - 2021

    Sourced and Led Investments in: Observe, Evinced, Socure, Snowflake, Enveil, Styra (OPA), CodeSignal, Eightfold.ai, OvationCXM (fka Boomtown)

Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

Raised $954,000,000.00 from Berkshire Hathaway.

  • Venture Debt & Equity

    2016 - 2018

Hercules Capital offers clients an alternative investment vehicle through which they can have access to venture capital investments.

Raised $6,500,000.00 from AloStar.

  • Private Credit Team

    2014 - 2016

  • Portfolio Manager

    2011 - 2014

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