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    Erik de Stefanis

    Erik de Stefanis

    Investing @ Interlace Ventures, DVC, Gen Z Ventures.

    Swedish/American

    Interested in commerce-tech, consumer tech, creator infra

    Other New York City Uppsala University
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    Experience
    DVC
    DVC
    Founding Partner 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    New age VC firm - we do SPVs and since January have done 30+ as a team. I have led several of our deals including Bling Finance (Coinbase Ventures & several crypto funds),... more FixMyCar (Mucker Capital), Ampersand (Julia Lipton, El Cap, etc.), Pallet (Backend Capital, several well-known angels, etc.), Kraken (secondary transaction), etc.
    Gen Z Ventures
    Gen Z Ventures
    Founder/Partner 2020 - Present (almost 6 years)
    I founded this Gen Z centric syndicate and have led a handful of investments (most LPs are Gen Z). Given that we have young investors, we've been able to get into competitive... more rounds as many founders value this. Investments include Monet (Pear VC, Sahil Lavingia, Rarebreed), Pager (Bessemer, Haystack, Homebrew), Buzzer (Sapphire Ventures, Canaan Partners, Lerer Hippeau), etc.
    Interlace Ventures
    Interlace Ventures
    Associate 2019 - Present (almost 7 years)
    NYC/SF based seed fund investing in next generation commerce-tech (ecom enablement, experiential retail, etc.). Team of 3 so I wear many (all) hats.
    Crescite Ventures
    Crescite Ventures
    Associate 2017 - 2020 (almost 4 years)
    NYC based family office investing in pre-seed through series A startups. I led our earlystaged efforts.
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    Crescite Ventures, Interlace Ventures, Gen Z Ventures, DVC
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    I founded a consumer startup during college and raised some external funding for this. This exposed me to the VC world which I immediately jumped into post-college. I am now on the team at Interlace Ventures, a seed fund investing in next gen commerce, recently co-founded a group called DVC where we do SPVs from pre-seed through pre-IPO (35 since Jan. 2021) and lead Gen Z Ventures, a Gen Z centric syndicate. I am just about to join a OnDeck angels cohort as well.

    Previous personal investments and SPVs that I have led include:

    Sunroom // Li Jin, Backend Capital, Whitney Wolf
    Pager // Bessemer, Homebrew, Haystack
    Bling Finance // CoinBase Ventures, Block Tower, etc.
    Buzzer // Sapphire Ventures, Canaan Partners, Lerer Hippeau
    Pallet // Backend Capital, Lenny R., Packy McKormick, Andreas Klinger
    Ampersand // Julia Lipton, El Cap, Twitch execs, etc.
    Currently leading an SPV along side Worklife, EQT Ventures, Luxor Capital (unannounced as of writing)
    Several others.

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    New York Miami Remote
     
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    Email me directly at [email protected]

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