Elias Adams

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Investment Analyst at Redwood Ventures · open source, venture capital

Redwood Ventures
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
2+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English
Investing
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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Redwood Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 8 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with open source and developer tools. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
developer toolsventure capitalopen source
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in Europe

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, AI applications
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

San Jose, CAventure capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Investment Analyst
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Redwood Ventures · 2 yr · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Led or co-led 7 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Computer Science
    2020 - 2024

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