Build with Moxxie
It takes courage, and a little Moxxie, to build a better future.
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We back exceptional founders building a better future.
Venture rewards outliers—not rule followers. We look for the weird, the wild, the what if’s. At Moxxie, we invest early and work alongside founders with the potential to build something meaningful and enduring.
We’re deeply networked engineers, marketers, product managers, founders and sales leaders. We move fast, go deep, and hustle like we’re already on your team.
We’re just getting started, but here’s who we love so far.
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Katie started Moxxie because she loves working with founders who are living in the future. A former operator turned investor, she has led teams in product, marketing and market development at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color. She also served in the Obama White House and the US State Department and loves public service.
Katie loves to roll up her sleeves with founders on go-to-market, brand architecture, storytelling and team building. She has invested in 100+ early-stage companies including Airtable, Coinbase, Cameo, Modern Fertility and Shape Security. She is on the Board of Yahoo and Vivendi. She would like to make clear that she doesn’t like it when people talk in the third person but was overruled by her team.
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Alex is an engineer, leader and investor. He will help you with any problem you have: operations, managing burn, shipping really quickly and building out engineering and product. A master of “known unknowns”, he’ll find someone to help you when he’s not your guy.
Alex takes “being uniquely helpful” extremely seriously. He once offered to fill in as a first officer for an airline portfolio company when the CEO said her #1 problem was a pilot shortage.
Alex used to run Kittyhawk Flyer, an electric flying car company, where among other things he served as a test pilot after new major software releases (aligning incentives!). He was also SVP Engineering at Twitter, and built their ads team from $0 to $2.5B in revenue. He’s been advising and angel investing for over a decade, working with companies like Coinbase, Veho, Spellbook, and more. Long before the days of vibe coding, he was a software engineer when it was still cool to understand your pull requests.
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Marie is the strategic CFO every early-stage fund didn’t know they needed until the first LP meeting. She has helped new funds go from great ideas to first close. She has a sweet spot for emerging managers and can be found advising new and aspiring GPs in her spare time. Marie brings over 20 years of experience working in venture with funds including Magnify Ventures and Crosscut Ventures.
Marie is the go-to for cap table sanity, strategic budgeting, and keeping cash burn from becoming a bonfire. Her superpower is automating everything and keeping meetings on topic!
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Prateek has built AI infrastructure for everything from computer vision to mobile apps to industrial automation at Fortune 500s. He’s a founder, engineer, and an author of 13 books on AI. He’s the host of the Infinite Curiosity podcast with listeners in 140 countries and writes a newsletter on the intersection of AI and Startups. He’s obsessed with going from whiteboard to working product faster than anyone thought possible. He's intimately familiar with the zero to one journey of building startups and now uses that experience to help founders. Need help translating your AI vision into an MVP or shipping LLM features quickly? He’s your guy.Prateek started his career at Nvidia, built Plutoshift from scratch and now backs founders building AI that actually works in the wild.
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Ashwin is a career engineer turned investor and has scaled real world automation across land, air, sea and space. At Apple Maps he led the engineering team which shipped computer vision to hundreds of millions of devices, and at the Air Force Research Laboratory his autonomy stack supported combat missions. He has accelerated multiple startups to reach Series B.
Founders rely on him when speed and technical proficiency must be navigated inside regulated industries. He works with lawmakers in Washington, state capitals, and Europe on policy linking automation to job creation in manufacturing, construction, health care, and energy. As a former founder, he is an early believer who sits with teams on site through pilots, integrations, and first installs. He optimizes for shipments and uptime, not slideware.
Haley is the operational heart of Moxxie. She’s the person who turns vision into process, and chaos into community. With a background at funds like Magnify Ventures, Serena Ventures, and Vamos Ventures, she brings startup grit and heart to every touchpoint - especially founder relationships and investor stewardship. She helps portfolio companies with storytelling, hiring, events, and everything in between.
Haley holds an MBA from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt, and has a lifelong passion for bringing people together to build meaningful communities.
Rob leads go-to-market at Moxxie. He has scaled sales orgs from the ground up - first at Google and Twitter, where he built mid-market revenue teams, and later as a startup CRO focused on turning early sales efforts into repeatable systems. At Moxxie, Rob helps founders identify the right customers, sharpen their messaging, and build the early sales infrastructure needed to grow. He’s especially good at making sales a team sport, offering frameworks, feedback, and tools that make GTM feel less daunting and more actionable.
We believe venture is a privilege.
We aim to share our experience, network, and support so exceptional founders can build faster and stronger.
We invest in software and systems solving meaningful problems.
We invest across sectors, but look for founders with deep technical skills, sharp market instincts and the drive to build something enduring. Our core areas of interest include:
We invest in software and smart systems solving meaningful problems
- Given our focus on software solutions, we require at least one technical founder.
- We prefer to invest in companies that have some evidence of product (vs just an idea).
- Every company we invest in is world positive, meaning will not meaningfully contribute to further damage to our environment (e.g. we do not invest in DTC products, CPG or anything related to fossil fuels that may contribute to increased CO2 emissions).
- During the due diligence process, we primarily focus on three areas: People, Market, and Product.
- We invest at the pre-seed and seed stages. Our target ownership is 10%.
- Our check size ranges from $500K to $2M. Our sweet spot is $1.5M at a $15M Post Money valuation.
- We can lead and co-lead rounds.
- We are price sensitive and prefer small rounds of $2-4M and valuations less than $15M.
- We pay attention to the use of funds. We shy away from rounds that require significant investments in sales and marketing at Seed.
We primarily invest in companies that are based in North America.
We typically avoid aviation, blockchain, fashion, DTC, and media - unless you’ve hacked around the hype and found a real customer pain point.
We’re also probably not the right fit for AI horoscopes, cryogenic smoothie bars, psychic SaaS. But if you’ve accidentally built a portal to another dimension and it’s monetizable… call us.
We’re early believers, active partners, and constructive collaborators.
We lead (and can simply participate) in rounds and then do the best part, get to work.
Capital is table stakes. Execution is everything. What’s rare is a partner who shows up post-wire. We help founders move faster, get sharper, and unlock leverage early because Seed is when it matters most.
We plug you into a curated, high-signal network of operators, policy wonks, execs, and weirdly specific experts (like AI doctors and robot agronomists). We call them the Moxxie Besties™. You’ll call them on speed dial.
We don’t spray-and-pray. We invest with conviction and stay with intensity. That means late-night calls, Figma comments, debug sessions, and real talk when it’s not working.
We’ve scaled teams, fought through product-market purgatory, rebuilt after failure, and shipped things that broke (then fixed them fast). We’re here for the messy parts—because that’s where the leverage lives.
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We’re just getting started, but here’s who we love so far…
“Katie is one of the most positive and tenacious people we’ve worked with. Through the ups and downs, she stayed committed, helped us find the right investors, and even got us meetings that opened international doors. You’d be incredibly fortunate to have her as an investor.”
"Moxxie is one of my first calls when I need help or intros from an investor. They are incredibly well connected, easy to work with and amazing people."
“Moxxie’s operating experience sets them apart from other funds. Their network is gold—our #1 source for investor intros and candidate referrals.”
"Moxxie has been a day-one partner helping us scale, fundraise, and build our engineering team. They backed us early when conviction mattered most. We wouldn’t be here without the belief Moxxie had in us at seed."
“Having Moxxie lead our pre-seed round was the best decision I’ve made since launching Soxton. The team is exceptional - they introduced me to my first employee, helped close the round, and took me out for matcha ice cream to celebrate. I knew I made the right choice the moment we signed the term sheet and immediately exchanged dog pictures."
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"Moxxie Ventures is the real deal. The team moves fast, operates as one, and genuinely cares about helping founders win. They’ve been instrumental for us—from helping with a critical market launch, to opening doors, to pressure-testing big decisions. If you’re looking for investors who show up and make a difference, Moxxie’s the one."
“Partnering with Moxxie was one of the most pivotal decisions we’ve made as a startup. They’re a no-fluff, high-conviction VC that shows up when it matters, whether it’s helping us hire top talent, connecting us with press, challenging product ideas, or hopping on a same-day call to work through a tough decision. They understand founders, they understand engineering (rare in VC), and they lead with values that align deeply with ours. More than investors, they’ve become an extension of our team.”
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“Moxxie has been an incredible resource. Katie made our advisory board happen with her intros. Moxxie is always my first call.”
"Moxxie is one of my first calls when I need help or intros from an investor. They are incredibly well connected, easy to work with and amazing people."
“Moxxie has been an incredible partner. Katie’s introductions have been game-changers - this is 12 out of 10 support. We’re so grateful Moxxie led our seed!”
Our portcos have raised capital from some of the best in the world
We’re backed by people who’ve built and scaled the best companies in tech.
We’re proud to have LPs who’ve done it before—across operating, investing, and scaling. They know what it takes to win and believe in backing bold ideas that don’t look obvious at first.
Notable supporters include
Bain Capital Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Cendana, First Close Partners, Foundry Group, Gingerbread Capital, Global Endowment Management, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Industry Ventures, Rock Creek Group, Sapphire Partners, TIFF
Sumit Agarwal, Gina Bianchini, Francoise & Bill Brougher, David Fischer, Vijaya Gadde, Aileen Lee, Jackie Reses, Chris & Crystal Sacca, Tina Sharkey, Ev Williams, Jerry Yang
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