About

I’m an early-stage investor building a new form of product for founders to address their most critical operational challenges.

I’m also a Venture Partner at Leadout Capital (previously a Principal from 2022-2025), backing software and software-enabled businesses across categories. I’m inspired by visionary founders who see the world differently and turn bold ideas into reality—reshaping how we think along the way.

Before Leadout, I scaled the developer platform and app ecosystem at Rippling, and started my career as a founding investor at Olive Capital, a deep-tech seed fund spun out of ZhenFund.

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Manifold / Personal Investments

Paraform

Marketplace that connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill your hardest roles.

Lemi Robotics

Robotics foundation model founded by the authors behind the ALOHA framework.

Vellum

All-in-one platform for building production-grade LLM applications.

Ironsite

A vision-based AI platform that redefines construction by addressing its largest variable cost, labor.

Koah Labs

Ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products

Noto

AI-enabled operating system for lesson-based businesses.

Prospect

An employee’s opinionated guide through the entire equity lifecycle

Deeptune

A simulation environment where AI can practice doing work like writing code or making a spreadsheet.

Kina Health

AI-driven risk adjustment platform for Medicare Advantage payers

Tandem

User facing AI-copilot for your app.

Ego AI

AI-native game engine to enable players to build simulations populated with human-like generative agents.

Aomni

Autonomous agent platform for software teams.

Exa

Google for the AI era, building a developer-focused AI search engine.

Leadout Investments

Creatify

AI-native Shopify for SMB marketing, starting with automating the creation of short video ads.

First Bite

All-in-one GTM engine (prospecting + CRM + rebate stack) purpose-built for food manufacturers.

Medfinder

Central hub for real-time pharmacy data, starting with a voice AI call bot to access hard to find drugs.

Streamlane

End-to-end shipping optimization for e-commerce brands

Meadow AI

Video & audio intelligence platform to help the restaurant and retail industry drive operational efficiency.

Latii

Vertically integrated doors and windows manufacturing marketplace.

Equiply

Tech-enabled GPO that wraps procurement in financing, sourcing, and inventory management.

Stellation

Universal doctor graph, analytics solution, and action engine for health plans, starting with Medicare & Medicaid.

Seed, 2022

Series A, 2022

Seed+, 2023

Seed, 2023

Pre-seed, 2023

Seed, 2024

Personal Investments:

Seed (lead undisclosed), 2023

Seed led by 776, 2023

Seed, 2023

Seed led by A*, 2024

Pre-seed led by Neo, 2022

Seed led by Construct Capital, 2024

Seed (lead undisclosed), 2024

Pre-seed F&F round, 2024

Seed led by Patron, 2024

Seed (lead undisclosed), 2024

Pre-seed (lead undisclosed), 2024

Dion Dong

Talent Researcher & Investor