Amara Okonjo
Managing Partner
Founded a payments infrastructure company, sold it in 2013, then started Rifatela the year after. Leads fintech and security. Sits on seven boards and answers email faster than she should.
Team
Six people. No investment committee.
Everyone here has built, operated, or practised in the fields we fund. Decisions are made by the people you meet, which is why they happen quickly.
Partners and platform
Who you will work with.
Daniel Reiss
Partner
Spent eleven years shipping distributed systems, the last four as VP Engineering at a company that grew from 30 to 900 people. Works with infrastructure and developer tools teams.
Priya Ramanathan
Partner
Trained as a physician, moved into health data, then spent six years investing. Covers health and life sciences. Reads clinical literature for fun, which is unusual and useful.
Tobias Lund
Partner, Climate
Built grid forecasting models at a European utility before joining us in 2019. Takes an engineer view of climate: fewer slogans, more load curves.
Nell Farrow
Principal
Runs sourcing across applied AI. Was employee number four at a research tooling company and still writes small scripts to keep an eye on open source releases.
Marcus Oyelaran
Head of Talent
Hired engineering and go-to-market teams at two scale-ups. Helps founders make their first ten hires without inheriting an org chart built for somebody else.
How we work
Four habits we hold each other to.
01
Answer quickly, even when the answer is no
Founders are spending the scarcest thing they have. A slow no costs them more than a fast one costs us.
02
Write the reasoning down
Every investment has an internal memo and every pass has a reason. We share both with the founder. It keeps us honest when we are wrong, which happens.
03
Stay in the details
We read the code review, the churn cohort, the support tickets. Pattern matching from a distance is how firms miss the interesting companies.
04
Take the long view on people
We have backed four founders twice, including two whose first company did not work. Judgment compounds even when a company does not.
From a founder
“Priya read our clinical validation protocol line by line and sent back questions our own advisers had missed. That was before she invested.”
Careers
Open roles.
We hire rarely and slowly. If nothing here fits, write to us anyway and tell us what you would do in the job.
Investor, Applied AI
Sourcing and diligence across AI-native software
Full time
Platform Lead, Talent
Help portfolio companies make their first ten hires
Full time
Analyst
Two-year programme starting each September
Full time
Come and meet us.
Whether you are raising, hiring, or just want to argue about a market, the door is open.