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Hello! I am Martin Tobias, the founder of Incisive Ventures. Over decades of investing, I have identified seven meta themes and developed a screening process that has successfully identified outlier companies and founders.

Incisive Ventures is a pre-seed fund in Seattle investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging a network built as an angel investor in 60+ companies in the sector — including four unicorns — that secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing.

I have noticed that some of the most transformative technology companies fundamentally reduce friction at scale. Amazon: frictionless shopping. Uber: frictionless transportation. That pattern guides everything we back.

I am a serial entrepreneur who has invested in over 250 companies as an angel, half a dozen as a venture partner at a major VC firm, and I am a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. I am also the founder of a leading angel network, Element8.

As a 3x venture-backed CEO with experience from Microsoft and Accenture, I have raised over $500M (including two IPOs) for my own companies. This combination of investing in and operating early-stage technology companies gives me an edge in working with founders and securing follow-on financing.