Freddie King

Principal, Fieldstone Venture Partners - open source · venture capital · developer tools

Fieldstone Venture Partners

Cork, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)

9+ years experience

University of Southampton

English

Investing

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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Fieldstone Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 12 years before investing. Before that: Standard Chartered and Amazon. Most at home with open source and venture capital.

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venture capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in India and SEA

Cheque size: $2M
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Developer infrastructure, climate
Geographies: LatAm
Lead or follow: Follow
Decision time: About two weeks
How I help: First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Cork, Irelandopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools

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Experience

Principal
Jun 2023 - Present
Fieldstone Venture Partners · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cork, Ireland
- Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
- Backed 16 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Led or co-led 19 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
Director of Product
Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
Standard Chartered · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Cork, Ireland
- Took marketplace activation from 23% to 53% in three quarters.
- Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 10 days to 3.
Associate Product Manager
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Amazon · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cork, Ireland
- Took platform activation from 18% to 43% in three quarters.
- Grew platform revenue from $1 million to $17 million ARR.
Director of Product
Aug 2017 - Mar 2020
Ryanair · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Cork, Ireland
- Ran 154 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Took developer activation from 31% to 40% in three quarters.

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Education

University of Southampton
MEng, Engineering
2016 - 2018
University of Warwick
BSc, Engineering
2013 - 2016

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