We empower visionary entrepreneurs to
summon the future!

Building is our superpower

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We are founders and operators with multiple successful exits in B2B SaaS, Marketing Tech, Retail Tech, AI, Computer Vision and Data. We can help with fundraising, product and marketing strategy, go-to-market operations, organizational development and founder coaching.

Our deep expert networks accelerate your growth with valuable industry or technology insights, sales and BD prospecting, and yes, we know a lot of investors and VCs.

Summoner can be:

  1. Smaller check “dumb money” that won’t waste your valuable time during a fundraise

  2. Advisors and board members who will be more than a headshot on a slide

  3. Consultants or incubators that can be instrumental to your success

We are often the partners founders call first. It’s up to you what role you want us to play.

We are lego kids. We love building. We love helping you build.

Amplifying superpowers of extraordinary founders

At Summoner, we pride ourselves on identifying exceptional founders who harness the power of technology with an innate drive - a fundamental need within - to summon their vision of the future.

Our goal is to empower and accelerate their innovative journeys with insightful advisory support, access to expert networks, and strategic investments.

Are you a founder with superpowers?

Extraordinary founders. Disruptive innovation.

Stage: Seed Thesis: Out-of-stocks and planogram compliance is a huge problem in brick-and-mortar retail, to which I have direct experience. Current solutions require awkward hardware like robots or countless shelf cameras, or leverage large scale m
Stage: Series A Thesis: Underserved retail logistics for high-end auctions and collectibles, with low margin sensitivity and need for global delivery footprint. Strong founding team and initial customer base had huge room for expansion. Reasonable v
Stage: Series A Thesis: Carro has an ambitious mission to be the universal product catalog for any eCommerce site, making any product from any site available for you to sell on yours - and checkout as if it were your own. Founders have a history of
Stage: Seed Thesis: Software is eating the world and software productivity tools until recently have been mostly semantic verification, lacking context. Huge productivity increase are possible with greater contextual understanding of code base and s
Stage: Seed Thesis: Health monitoring is laborious and manual. Huge market ripe for disruption. AI and computer vision detection algorithms require deep technology expertise in both hardware and software. Knew founder and his unique capabilities i
Stage: Initial Seed Investment Thesis: Clear product value with easily proven ROI, very large procurement space, strong initial traction, enthusiastic founders. Active advisory allowed me to get closer to internals of business. Status: $65m raised
Thesis: Strong founder with deep technical expertise, transformational approach, large target market, easy to understand value proposition (cost, productivity, quality). Status: $135m raised from Canaan Partners, Tiger at 30x value
Stage: Seed Thesis: I generally avoid ad tech, but this was compelling in their 400% YoY revenue growth, strong technical team, and an identified need of providing real scoring to viewability and audience attention of ads. It had strong traction fo
Stage: Seed Thesis: Packsmith is the AirBNB type of crazy idea that might turn out to be something big. They leverage gig workers to create a hyper-distributed network for eCommerce delivery for SMB and MidMarket brands, allowing them to compete w
Stage: Seed Thesis: Reduced friction in fin service connectivity and Tik Tok as a customer acquisition vehicle have created a window to build a brand for younger consumers to invest responsibly. Grifin is capturing younger, female investors, an unta
Stage: Pre-Seed Thesis: Founder with deep experience in PR industry whom I’ve had a strong working relationship and ability to add value on advisory board. PR is a sizable industry with minimal tooling and data. Had personal insights into technolog
Stage: Pre-Seed, First Check Thesis: Although D2C is not my usual investment sector, this was the best founder intro meeting I’ve had as a lead mentor at ERA, with excellent industry experience, market research, proven CaC dynamics, and a large mark
Stage: Seed Thesis: Networked GPS systems have inherent energy flaws. Low power peer-to-peer networks of location open up new applications. Underlying IP is valuable across a broad range of industrial applications Status: Raised $6m Series A from f
Stage: Seed Thesis: Regulated three-tiered alcohol industry has prevented beverage brands from establishing direct relationships with customers. Requires disruptive distribution and technology. Other competitors working on marketplaces that don’t gi
Stage: Seed Thesis: IoT intelligence will be widely deployed to increase the efficiency of logistics and supply chain, but brands don’t have access to data without their own devices in specific convenience categories (beverage, etc.). Technical foun
Stage: Seed Thesis: Strong technical founder inheriting IP assets for more performant storage systems for large data applicaitons, which are increasing rapidly. Status: Running profitably.
Stage: Pre-Seed Thesis: I was part of the founding team, large market in SaaS / Martech, clear understanding of the market and oppotunity. Status: Successful exit to Blackstone at 10x return
Stage: Seed Thesis: Joined the team so confident as CEO, large market, SaaS / MarTech, strong customer base Status: Acquired by Raydiant
Stage: Initial Seed Investment Thesis: Strong founder with successful exit, voice space exploding, easily understood problem space and solution. Status: Acquired by Adobe in 12 months for a considerable 2.5x return.
Stage: Pre-seed Thesis: 89% of B2B companies are unhappy with their competitive intelligence. Incubating a new GenAI and NLP-based approach to monitoring B2B competitive intelligence that can be delivered for less than $200/mo, opening up approval-
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