A former founder and engineer turned venture capitalist, Todd Poole has been investing both personally and professionally for over a decade. He currently helps lead Pathfinder’s investments in traditional and deep technology start-ups (seed to series F/pre-IPO) with recent activity in AI/ML, SaaS, hardware, silicon, quantum, cybersecurity and greentech/carbontech. Outside of work, Todd also operates as a small, private angel investor in the San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago start-up scenes (pre-seed to seed). He enjoys speaking publicly about venture investing, serving as a judge in national VC competitions and volunteering as a mentor to first-time founders (via Alchemist Accelerator and Berkeley SkyDeck) and young investors new to the venture industry (via NVCA and Venture Forward).