Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Team
Daniel
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Allison
Light
GTM
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
As a Partner at TheGP, Ben’s mission is to help founders and companies from getting stuck in ruts.
Ben loves to discover how and why things work the way they do — whether he’s learning about a new startup, unpacking a complex market, or trying to fix his car’s A/C from YouTube videos. He brings this curiosity to his work everyday and is always on the lookout for opportunities to nudge forward the systems, incentives, and norms that drive how startups receive capital and support from their investors.
Previous experience
Asia Pacific Land
Ben started his career publishing research for the U.S. Congress and the National Science Foundation. Shortly after, he joined Hong Kong-based real estate private equity firm Asia Pacific Land. While there, he worked on investments across the region, including the $1.2B acquisition of Tokyo’s Shiba Park Building, at the time one of the largest single-asset transactions in Japan since the GFC.
First Round
As a VP at First Round, Ben built new approaches to discovering startups and cultivating investor communities. Equal parts builder, investor and team leader, he started and ran programs like Angel Track, Co-ops and First Round’s associates team, which led to over 20 new additions to the First Round community.
Ben’s mission is to help people, companies, and industries from getting stuck in ruts. The work he enjoys most is when he’s helping people or companies change course.
Highlights
Creating structure out of chaos
Ben loves to build the systems and scaffolding that unlock new ways for people to collaborate and bring their best work forward. This includes anything from creative fund frameworks to cohort-based programs for angel investors.
Taking baby steps
Ben brings patience, persistence, and a measurement attitude to anything he’s building. His biggest successes have involved many small steps over long periods of time.
Breanna
Manore
Operations
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Allison
Light
GTM
Breanna
Manore
Operations
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
As a Partner at TheGP, Ben’s mission is to help founders and companies from getting stuck in ruts.
Ben loves to discover how and why things work the way they do — whether he’s learning about a new startup, unpacking a complex market, or trying to fix his car’s A/C from YouTube videos. He brings this curiosity to his work everyday and is always on the lookout for opportunities to nudge forward the systems, incentives, and norms that drive how startups receive capital and support from their investors.
Previous experience
Asia Pacific Land
Ben started his career publishing research for the U.S. Congress and the National Science Foundation. Shortly after, he joined Hong Kong-based real estate private equity firm Asia Pacific Land. While there, he worked on investments across the region, including the $1.2B acquisition of Tokyo’s Shiba Park Building, at the time one of the largest single-asset transactions in Japan since the GFC.
First Round
As a VP at First Round, Ben built new approaches to discovering startups and cultivating investor communities. Equal parts builder, investor and team leader, he started and ran programs like Angel Track, Co-ops and First Round’s associates team, which led to over 20 new additions to the First Round community.
Ben’s mission is to help people, companies, and industries from getting stuck in ruts. The work he enjoys most is when he’s helping people or companies change course.
Highlights
Creating structure out of chaos
Ben loves to build the systems and scaffolding that unlock new ways for people to collaborate and bring their best work forward. This includes anything from creative fund frameworks to cohort-based programs for angel investors.
Taking baby steps
Ben brings patience, persistence, and a measurement attitude to anything he’s building. His biggest successes have involved many small steps over long periods of time.
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
Doug
Hanna
GTM