Josef Chen

Investing

$5k-100k angel checks into 50+ pre-seed rounds, mostly founders building physical things. Usually the first or weirdest check on the cap table.

Hardware

  • Dirac (Manufacturing) · w/ Founders Fund & Coatue
  • Isembard (Manufacturing) · w/ CIV, USV
  • Minerva (Humanoids) · w/ General Catalyst
  • Aethero (Space Compute) · w/ Kindred
  • Icarus (Space Robots) · w/ Soma
  • Space Forge (Space Manufacturing) · w/ NIF
  • RMFG (Manufacturing) · w/ YC, Soma
  • Dalus (Systems Engineering) · w/ YC
  • Swish (Consumer Robots) · w/ Accel
  • Crewline (Construction) · w/ Initialised
  • Raven (AR Glasses) · w/ Draper
  • Tau Robotics (Robot Learning)
  • Deft (Forward Deployed Robotics)
  • Standard Manufacturing (Assembly) · w/ Visionaries Club
  • Cuby (Construction) · w/ Type One
  • Eridale (Food Robotics) · w/ Founders Fund & OpenAI

AI

  • Haize (LLM Harness) · w/ General Catalyst
  • Hone (Agent Systems) · w/ Benchmark
  • Strala (Claims Processing) · w/ Founders Fund
  • Seamflow (Certifications) · w/ Northzone
  • Iconic (Gaming) · w/ Kindred
  • Faction (Industrial Commerce) · w/ Hidden Capital
  • Asterix (Healthcare)
  • Truvo (Insurance) · w/ firstminute
  • Agon (Defense) · w/ Lakestar & Lux

Solo GPs

Other

…and many more, including aphrodisiac drinks and seaweed rum.