Sunshine Lake

founders forge the future.

Pre-Seed & Seed Fund

Our founders rebuild critical global systems that failed them.

Balance, restored.

Money

Trade

Work

Risk

Care

Energy

We connect them to the
beating heart of Silicon Valley.

Don Stalter

Founder

Bulge-bracket PE and M&A, then scaled Airbnb across EU and APAC after selling CityDeal to Groupon. First checks into decacorns. LinkedIn ↗ Jefferies Leadership Spotlight video interview ↗

Ivan La Frinere-Sandoval

Partner, CFO & COO

Caltech- and Stanford-trained; SolarCity with Kimbal Musk, then his own companies. Runs fund operations and the investment committee. LinkedIn ↗

Suhail Younus

Partner

Runs the global coverage engine, scoring thousands of startups a year. Cornell-trained in venture and frontier technologies. LinkedIn ↗

Wieger Lamers

Platform Lead

Came up inside Adyen's rise to one of Europe's defining IPOs. Runs EMEA sourcing and the platform team from London. LinkedIn ↗

Advisors

Esther WojcickiGodmother of Silicon Valley; the family behind YouTube and 23andMe. Wikipedia ↗

Mike FranklinCo-creator of Apache Spark and founding advisor at Databricks. UChicago ↗

Andrew HovelsonBroadway actor alongside Tom Hanks and Glenn Close. IMDb ↗

Jamie FeasterUnicorn founder, backed by Justin Kan, Snoop Dogg, and top VCs. LinkedIn ↗

Sunshine Lake Portfolio

Every blockbuster begins as a founder's story.

Led Versapay for nine-plus years through a take-private with Great Hill Partners. Now rebuilding B2B payments for the AI era.

Money · founder from Canada

Craig O'Neill

Argentic

Built TaxProper through to an Opendoor acquisition. Now an AI teammate for finance teams: AP, AR, and reconciliation.

Money · founder from Oxford

Thomas Dowling, Geoff Segal & Aaron Coppa

FullSeam

Geoffrey Tisserand and Anji Ismail, Concord.ai

Sold Agora to PayScale; helped build Checkr into a $5B company. Now reskilling the global workforce for the AI era.

Work · founder from France

Geoffrey Tisserand & Anji Ismail

Concord.ai

Now in Silicon Valley, building his next company in stealth.

Trade · founder from Japan

Hide Morita

Stealth

Co-founded Aurora Solar and scaled it to $4B. Now building foundation vision models that let machines understand the physical world.

Work · founder from Kenya

Samuel Adeyemo

Duranta

Ran GitHub and scaled Copilot. Now building the trust layer for the agent era, so the world can verify what machines build.

Work · founder from Germany

Thomas Dohmke

Entire

A founder psychology that sparks movements.

Machines make visions reality, faster than ever.

Extreme origins Prescient Benevolent

He hustled harder for me than anyone else did. I want him to be part of every single round and company that I start.

Jake Sussman

Headway$2.3B

With us from day zero, a tremendous supporter through the twists and turns of the journey that have made Kalshi a mainstream prediction market.

Tarek Mansour

Kalshi$40B

When the SVB situation unfolded, Don helped pull his entire portfolio away. He's been in the trenches and is a great human.

Michael Tannenbaum

Figure

There’s no better time to build than when the world needs it most.

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