backing founders
moving culture.
A pre-seed fund for founders pushing both the technical and cultural frontiers. Across atoms, bits, and cells.
The Dual Frontier.
With AGI on the horizon, society is violently fracturing. The 0.1% top talent has become existential, searching for a mission worth bleeding for. Meanwhile, the 99.9% public is turning nihilistic, revolting against an industry they no longer trust.
To survive, the best founders must now push two frontiers simultaneously: the technical one just to avoid being killed by the next models, and the cultural one to craft a meaningful narrative to talent, VCs, regulators, and the public.
Me? I'm not technical, but I'm cultural. I help founders on narrative with one core belief: PR is dead and the public no longer trusts legacy media. Founders must go direct and build their voice alongside narrative allies who have skin in the game: the creators.
Culture has moved upstream of technology. Narrative capital has become an asset class that compounds like financial, human & social capital. - The Babylon thesis
Hence, Babylon. It was the first ancient metropolis where culture and technology worked together at scale. Raising the massive Ziggurats meant nothing without writing the Epic of Gilgamesh to give human ambition meaning. Building the machine is no longer enough. You have to write the myth.
The Baby Lions.
writing the myth across three frontiers.
The Babylon
Banquet.
Historically, the banquet is how allies build trust, celebrating the campaigns they have survived and the frontiers they are about to cross.
But technology has become all too serious. The ecosystem is relentless, optimizing away the time to actually celebrate together. In a moment where the individual holds so much leverage, collective celebration matters more than ever.
So every month, I host the Babylon Dinners. I gather 25 people across tech and culture around one long, candlelit table. Founders and creators sit together over shared Middle Eastern plates - a space for the wildly ambitious to drop the corporate scripts, share food, laugh, and have unvarnished conversation that does not end at eleven.
