2048 Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)

Sandra Pérez Baos is a Senior Associate at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, Sandra was part of the founding leadership team at Nucleate New York, served as a fellow with the Business Development team at NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures, and helped launch a therapeutics startup during her postdoctoral fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Alex Iskold is a Founder and a Partner at 2048 Ventures. Alex is a 5x founder, a software engineer, and an investor in over 150 startups. He writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks. Prior to founding 2048 Ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. Alex was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).

Julie Wolf is a Partner at 2048 Ventures, where she leads biotech and healthcare verticals. She is an investor in more than 50 startups and is interested in platform technologies and founders transforming human health. Before 2048 Ventures, Julie was Chief Science Officer and a member of the founding investment team at SOSV’s IndieBio New York.

Edward Jin is an Associate at 2048 Ventures. Prior to joining the firm, he invested in student-founded startups across the country at both Crescent Fund and Dorm Room Fund, and helped grow Discipulus Ventures, a hardtech fund in El Segundo. He also spent time at Spero Ventures, where he researched early-stage companies in energy, manufacturing, and robotics.

Zann Ali is a Partner at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, Zann was at Putnam Investments, where he worked with the Chief Investment and Operating Officers on investments and special projects. Before Putnam, Zann spent four years at Fidelity Investments, first with the company’s internal strategy team and then with Fidelity Health, an insure-tech startup that he helped launch.

Daniella Cohen is a Principal at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, she was a managing partner at Rough Draft Ventures where she invested in student founders across the country. She was a summer associate at Techstars NYC and joined the portfolio company, The Clear Cut (DTC diamond startup) as their Head of Content while the company grew over 100% year-over-year.