Consumer Internet

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No current personal angel check range is public. Historical Northzone deals ranged from pre-seed through growth, but firm-level third-party range estimates do not establish Deepka's present allocation. Founders should ask directly about current angel activity and should use Northzone's live team for fund pitches.

At Northzone, Deepka focused on product-led consumer and B2B software, with a particularly developed Future of Work thesis. She argued that structurally scarce frontline labor and obsolete tools create room for vertical systems of record spanning HR, scheduling, payroll and operational insight. Her Sona work shows a preference for multi-module products that expand from a sharp wedge, serve multiple verticals and demonstrate exceptional execution. Kota reflects a related interest in rebuilding regulated employee-benefits infrastructure. Her current personal activity includes occasional angel investments and hands-on experimentation with AI automation, but a new formal mandate is not yet public.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Khosla Ventures invests from seed through growth, but fund assets and portfolio round sizes are not David's personal minimum or maximum.

David backs internet software and services with the potential to become large, durable businesses. His operator writing emphasizes product-management accountability, quantitative decision-making, and proving genuine product-market fit before scaling sales or spend. He is especially credible where category ambition can be paired with disciplined product, go-to-market, and unit-economics execution.

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Jessica's personal allocation range.

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfolio and writing emphasize strong user experience, scalable community or network effects, methodical technical execution, and go-to-market models that can start bottom-up before expanding into larger enterprise or regional relationships.

DST Global

Check: No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or public listings including Xiaomi, Meituan and Kuaishou. The repeatable lens is growth-stage platform scale, large addressable markets, strong network or marketplace effects and the ability to compound across geographies—not Maki.vc's early-stage Web3 mandate.

Y Combinator

Check: YC's live standard deal is $500K for every accepted company: $125K on a post-money SAFE for 7% plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, with a future participation right. This is YC's program deal, not Brad's personal check, and founders should read the current official terms before applying.

Brad helps very early founders move from idea to a launched product users want, then build the fundraising, hiring and customer-development habits needed to survive. His Perfect Audience background and YC teaching focus point to practical evaluation of distribution, ideal customer, conversion to paid use, capital efficiency and whether a founding team learns quickly enough to find product-market fit.

Craft Ventures

Check: No Bill-specific check range is public. Craft's current portfolio attributes investments to him across angel, seed and later venture/growth rounds, but round labels and company financing totals do not establish his personal or fund check size. Confirm vehicle, ownership target and lead appetite directly.

Bill's record reflects a founder-led approach to category creation across internet platforms, mobile virtual goods, institutional crypto and frontier technology. His operating history at Remarq, Social Concepts and BitGo and his attributed investments in SpaceX, Neuralink, Fold and other platform companies suggest a preference for products that open a new market, establish trusted infrastructure or ride a durable distribution shift.

Hashed

Check: No personal or role-specific check range is publicly disclosed. Hashed describes itself as an early, hands-on investor across AI, crypto and frontier technology; founders should confirm vehicle, round and decision process directly rather than infer authority from title.

SJ combines strategic-investment experience in gaming and entertainment with broad early-stage venture diligence and cross-border operating work. His current public activity centers on connecting Korean technology and builders with Abu Dhabi's capital, institutions and market-access infrastructure. Within Hashed's wider mandate, that supports companies at the intersection of AI, crypto, consumer adoption and frontier technology that can travel between Asian and Middle Eastern ecosystems.

AppWorks

Check: $200K-$15M at the firm level, from Seed through Series C; AppWorks can lead or follow and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Andy focuses on growth-stage technology companies and evaluates them through business-model clarity, competitive strategy, product-market fit, and long-term value creation. His published perspective tracks the shift from hardware to software, centralized to decentralized systems, and physical to virtual experiences, within AppWorks' broader AI, blockchain, and Greater Southeast Asia mandate.

AppWorks

Check: $200K-$15M at the firm level, from Seed through Series C; AppWorks can lead or follow and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Nice focuses on growth-stage startups and seasoned founders, bringing a founder-operator lens shaped by building an internet company to profitability and later running strategy and operations after its acquisition. Within AppWorks, that lens is applied to technology companies in AI, blockchain, and Greater Southeast Asia, with particular attention to scalable operations, trusted customer relationships, and durable growth.

Monex Ventures

Tokyo