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terrence rohan

“The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.” – Ratatouille

Hi 👋, thanks for visiting.

Based in San Francisco, I’m a startup investor. I’ve been a board member, advisor, investor to 50+ companies over the past 10+ years. I love what I do.

I serve 🦸‍♀️🦸

As an investor, below are some of the founders I’m fortunate to support:

Immad @ Bank Mercury (Venture)
Joe @ Bison Trails (Seed) (Coinbase acquisition)
Sid @ Circle (Seed)
Dylan & Evan @ Figma (Seed, fmr Board Member; Growth)
Mathilde & Laurent @ Front (Seed, Growth)
Josh & Patrick @ Gowalla (Seed)
Isaac @ Justworks (Seed, fmr Board Member)
Ivan & Simon & Akshay @ Notion (Seed)
Jordan @ OnceUpon (Seed)
Jack & Cat @ Pace (Seed)
Diego & Tomas @ Pachama (Seed)
Jack & Sam @ Patreon (Venture, Growth)
Vlad & Baiju @ Robinhood (Seed, Growth) (IPO)
Siqi & Arya @ Runway (Seed)
Yury @ SuperDAO (Seed)
Clem @ The Hugging Face (Seed)
Josh & Hursh @ The Browser Company (Venture)
Christina @ Vanta (Seed, Growth)
Sam & Travis @ Vouch (Venture)
Michael @ WorkOS (Venture)

When working with founders, I like to invest early but will get involved at any stage. My typical check size is around $200k but can invest $1,000,000’s too (see more, below). I don’t care about valuation. If you are curious on what’s its like to work with me, feel free to reach out to any founder I’ve supported.

I build 🏴‍☠️💵

In addition to supporting founders, I am building Otherwise. If you’ve ever thought founders should be able invest millions into their peers (i.e. other founders), just like a venture capitalist, well, that’s Otherwise. You won’t find much on the Internet about Otherwise, and that’s on purpose.

As part of Otherwise, I can help founders with alternative financing products including SPVs, Secondaries, etc. I’ve helped some special companies in this way, including: Coinbase, Figma, Front, Loom, OpenSea, Patreon, Rippling, Robinhood, Vanta, to name a few.

More about me 🔎

Happily married and a father times two, I love food, and the quote, “An idea that is not dangerous is hardly an idea at all” – Oscar Wilde 💡🧨

Say 👋

I am always happy for folks on Internet to reach out to me.