Pre-Seed & Seed Fund
Global Founders
Pre-Seed & Seed Fund
We believe talent is universal and invest in the world’s best founders at their breakout moments.
Our insights into economic, social, and technological shifts fuel multiple blockbuster companies a decade.
Across Market Cycles
Our Team
Don Stalter
Bio
Founder, Sunshine Lake
True alpha doesn’t come from the obvious path. It comes from founders navigating extreme constraints who share DNA that turns global outsiders into category leaders. We back that hunger from the very first check.
Ivan La Frinere-Sandoval
Bio
Partner, CFO & COO
True innovation requires a rigorous framework. Combining technical depth with financial discipline lets us see viable opportunities where others only see complexity. That’s the edge I look for in every founder we back.
Suhail Younus
Bio
Partner
I’ve always been drawn to messy problems. The ones where nothing’s obvious and you have to think from zero. Getting to do that alongside founders, and build real conviction in what comes next, is the best part of this job.
Wieger Lamers
Bio
EMEA & Platforms Lead
Having a front-row seat to a defining startup journey early in life taught me that enduring success is often born from early adversity. Empowering visionary founders across Europe and beyond is what drives me every single day.
Advisors
Esther Wojcicki
Educator, author of How to Raise Successful People, and the "Godmother of Silicon Valley" — deep ties to Google, with a family that built YouTube and 23andMe.
Mike Franklin
Chairman of Computer Science at UChicago and co-creator of Apache Spark — the engine powering data teams worldwide; a founding advisor at Databricks.
Venture Partners
Andrew Hovelson
NYU Tisch graduate and TV and Broadway veteran who leads narrative and brand storytelling — most recently coaching the Wordware founders to a $30M seed.
Jamie Feaster
Growth operator across adtech, DTC, and B2B marketplaces — a 10th-generation Mexican-Spanish Californian building AI-driven growth systems across the portfolio.
Top 1% Track Record
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