Tribe Capital Firstlook

Arjun Sethi, two-time founder and co‑CEO of a billion-dollar revenue company, treats VC like a tech firm—using real‑time analytics, custom bots and 50+ direct reports to find N-of-1 value creators.

Helps set Tribe Capital's strategy, joining in 2022. Previously co-founded Republic Capital (grew to over $1B AUM) and two venture-backed companies, Breaktime Media and VentureApp.

Partner on the Venture team with an engineering and product background, previously an ML engineer at Airbnb and founding engineer/Chief of Staff at Humu.

Apolo Ohno is an eight-time Olympic medalist in speed skating and the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, competing across three Olympic Games. He works as a high-performance speaker and workshop facilitator, partnering with Fortune 100 companies and startups to develop mental performance systems based on his competitive experience. Ohno is also an investor in human performance companies, a former General Partner at Tribe Capital, a New York Times bestselling author, and an NBC Olympic analyst.

Co-founding partner who helped establish the firm's quantitative investment approach and now leads the Venture team. Previously held data science roles at Social Capital, Slack, Remind, and Facebook.

Brianna C. Hammer is a fractional CFO and angel investor focused on early-stage companies in AI, enterprise software, and health tech. She previously served as an investment partner at Tribe Capital, identifying seed and Series A opportunities, and advised on technology M&A transactions exceeding $6 billion in value at Qatalyst Partners, working with companies including LogMeIn and Happy Returns. Hammer holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a dual degree in Economics and Political Science from Purdue University.

Eman Zadeh is an investor at Figure with experience founding companies and expertise in sales, product marketing, product development, and product design. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine, and invests in early and late-stage fintech and blockchain startups.

CTO of Termina and co-founding partner, chief architect of Tribe's quantitative deal-evaluation system. Previously an Investment Engineer at Bridgewater Associates; holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago.

Partner on the Venture team focused on enterprise software, sitting on several company boards. Previously SVP of Business Development at Nobl9 and spent seven years at Google in product strategy and Cloud Commerce.

Jessica Slocum is a Senior Product Manager at Fluxx with a background in education. She focuses on developing learning experiences and applies data-driven decision-making in her work.

Jonathan Hsu is a PhD string theorist-turned-VC who scaled Facebook data science to 150+, built growth analytics frameworks and Magic 8-Ball for PMF, and audits founders' growth even when passing.

Luke Erickson is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 24) who applies quantitative methods to assess product-market fit and unit economics for early-stage and pre-IPO companies. Previously, he held positions as Head of Data at Forerunner Ventures, Partner at Tribe Capital, Vice President at CapitalG (Alphabet's growth equity arm), and Product Manager at Social Capital, where he contributed to the development of an automated investment platform.

Omar Chohan is co-founder and general partner of an investment manager focused on venture, crypto incubations, and advisory services. He brings over 20 years of investment banking experience, including work with metal commodities groups and a tenure as corporate CFO where he led the development of an international division generating $500 million in annual recurring revenue across 14 locations and 200 employees. He currently holds leadership positions across multiple organizations including a venture capital firm, management consulting firm, fintech company, and data center operator.

Paul Lee is CEO and co-founder of Patlytics. His professional interests include building the company and working with ambitious colleagues focused on execution.

Prateek Alsi is an operator-turned-investor leveraging Square experience leading distribution partnerships and bundled hardware for SMB acquisition, backing early-stage Stripe, Gusto and Fundbox, investing globally with network- and data-informed approaches.

Raaid Hossain is a General Partner at The Pay It Forward Company, where he invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs. His focus areas include technology development and entrepreneurial support.

Ryan George is founder and CTO of a stealth-stage company. He has experience as an early-stage employee at Coursera and as an investor and data scientist who has worked with companies including Lyft and Tribe, where he joined during Fund I and saw assets under management grow to $1.7 billion.

Ted Maidenberg co-founded back-to-back venture firms and advanced a data-science-led model, combining Asia‑Pacific media and content-distribution experience at Time Warner and Warner Bros. with operator-like IP monetization expertise.

Francis Zhan is a Principal at Tribe Capital, where he invests $500k–$2m in pre-seed and seed-stage crypto and AI companies. He has prior experience in finance, software, startups, gaming, and community building, including launching a consumer content platform that achieved over 90,000 daily active users and generated more than $100,000 in revenue. At Tribe, he also develops agentic workflows for internal AI adoption.

Former CEO of Cover, an insurance company that underwent a venture capital restart led by Tribe Capital. Saroya shares lessons from his experience managing a challenging recapitalization during COVID-19, emphasizing the risks of assuming capital-efficient operations and the importance of making tough operational decisions quickly.

Yinebeb Atel is a Software Engineer at GSK focused on data platform development. He has experience building and deploying scalable data pipelines and collaborating across functional teams.