Draft Ventures careers

We're pre-seed and seed stage technology investors with a track record of eight unicorn investments including Notion, FabFitFun, Protocol Labs, Dfinity, Thrive Market, Side Inc, Wintermute, and Cosmos, all of which we invested in at the seed stage.

Draft Ventures has operated both as a direct investment fund investing our personal capital and as an institutional fund investing LP capital since 2015. Our direct investment fund total value to paid-in capital is over 4.57x with an IRR of 70.43%. Our institutional fund total value to paid-in capital is 5.82x and IRR of 60.51%.

We’re David Rodriguez and Artia Moghbel – our venture careers started in 2010 at Greycroft Partners, and we’ve since been investing in and operating tech companies. As COOs, we have operated companies from founding through Series E and acquisition and have collectively raised over $250M in venture funding as entrepreneurs from Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and others.


- We work closely with CEOs/founders and only invest in companies we can directly impact and add value to
- We apply a higher level of diligence to every deal than is typical for a seed fund, following a process similar to our background as Series A/B investors
- We ensure terms are fair and syndicated company valuations are reasonable