Paul Strasma

“Owning stakes in thriving technology-enabled businesses not held to power-law return expectations sounds like a modern take on Warren Buffet's recipe for getting rich slowly.”

“A bit of guerrilla marketing increased the $10K top prize in the 2025 MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition to over $100K of funding. Glad to contribute to crushing Lyme disease.”

“It’s Electric directly addresses my frustrations using public charging, and as a potential public charging provider. This is the future of metered parking.”

“Brian and team have evolved their product from a novel water cooler to a must-have appliance for water-stressed households. And they've gone all-in knocking on doors to sell it. Looking forward to seeing the next product evolutions as the team scales solutions to serve various target markets.”

“Building a childcare business model that is robust at providing quality care with schedule flexibility is parent-friendly innovation.”

“Vamo is profitably and sustainably solving a key issue with home delivery.”

“Jo had me at "physics scales, whereas chemistry does not"”

“Loved Nate's quote "we're actually building the right technologies that meet these teams where they are instead of actually meeting to teach them how to learn a new software. We hear very often that it's like we've gotten in their heads and that we've actually built exact workflows for them." And schools serve 10x the of meals that McDonalds does...”

“Meagan has nailed the regulatory risk reduction pathway and demonstrates a good understanding of industry dynamics. Changing medicine is hard, but there is great potential for rapid adoption when novel diagnostic tools like Baritone emerge that effectively solve unmet clinical needs.”

“This is a promising experiment that deserves to be scaled.”

“Solves a real-world problem for companies working towards sustainability by redirecting waste streams.”

“Tikal nails the Cradle to Cradle design philosophy”

“EV Match’s focus on scheduling and incentivizing shared use resolves a key facility rollout and end user adoption barrier. This was the earned insight behind ZipCar. Will be recommending the EV Match solution for a facility at which I serve on the board.”

“Three unexpected episodes of caregiving these past two years meant on-the-fly learning about mystifying aspects of our healthcare system. I love that RubyWell is providing training and finding compensation that recognizes the valuable role informal caregivers play and optimizes the economic impact they can have on systemic healthcare costs.”