Hi I’m Sam,

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• I'm an entrepreneur, developer and designer that lives in San Francisco. I from Sydney but have lived in the UK, South Africa and Dubai

• Started my career in Sydney, founding a few startups that didn't go anywhere

• Was part of the 2015 Startmate batch where I founded Robby, an app for retail workers, which grew so popular with Apple Retail, that Apple ultimately shut it down and released a cloned version for their for retail team

• I moved to San Francisco in 2017 to start Tilt.com (fka Empower Finance) with 3 other people, a now profitable Series C lending company with 9 fig, backed by Sequoia & Initialized.

• I then started Tilt México in 2022 with a team of 4, now a gross margin positive 6 figure ARR business

• I’ve mentored portfolio companies for First Round Capital and was part of the first Design Track program

• I try to angel invest every now and again

  • Booodl (seed)

  • LawTrades (seed)

  • AbstractOps (seed)

  • Autograph (seed)

  • + funds & more