Hunter Walk

Homebrew

Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies

Investments include ShieldAI, Plaid, Gusto, Chime, Cruise, Bowery Farming and other FinTech, SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew

Partner, Co-Founder

Screendoor

Helping the Screendoor team fund and support amazing emerging managers who are changing the face(s) of venture capital

Co-Founder

Google

2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change.
2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies.
2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication
2003-06: AdSense

Director, Product Management

Linden Lab

Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users.

Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun.

Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team)

Mattel

Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments:

1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team

2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company

3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company)

Corporate Strategy and New Product Development

Deloitte Consulting

strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

Management Consultant

Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Funding Startups via Homebrew and new VCs via Screendoor LP

Started Homebrew to back startups in their earliest days. Such as Chime, Plaid, Gusto, ShieldAI, Finix, Noyo, Adonis, Cruise and other fintech, SaaS, machine learning, AI, computer vision businesses.

Started Screendoor LP to back the most exciting new VC firms who are building differentiated strategies based on their identities, networks and lived experiences. Such as ex/ante, sunflower, voyager, and many more. 

Previously built products which earn > $1b in annual revenue and generate over a billion daily pageviews. Scale!

East Coast born, West Coast rooted. One wife, one baby, one dog

Partner

"When I look around, I see hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on hardware – GPUs, data centers, and power stations. What I don’t see are people waving large checks at ML infrastructure engineers like me and my team."

via Pete Warden

Open article: I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭 by petewarden.com

I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭

Sidoti & Company, LLC

Analyst, Equity Research

Supporting SMID-cap coverage across Industrials, Technology, Healthcare.

Senior Associate, Equity Research

Supporting SMID-cap coverage across Industrials, Technology, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Financials, REITs, Consumer Discretionary, Transportation, Crypto.

Associate, Equity Research

ANH Management LLC

As a consultant, Alex helped companies like Covera Health (Series C), Uno Health (Series A), and Spiritune (pre-seed) with finance, operations, recruiting, OKR, M&A, and strategic initiatives. 

As an investor, Alex invested in Ness (healthcare+fintech), Pilotly (marketing), a pre-seed/seed venture fund, a real estate fund, short term rentals, art, crypto, and public equities. He also became a member of Hustle Fund’s Angel Squad, where he sourced deals and shadowed investment team members. 

As an advisor, Alex served as a mentor for Techstars NY and LA, as well as WeWork’s Ready to Raise program and at healthcare hackathons. Some of his work continued into advising relationships with companies such as Debbie (fintech), Vitract (healthcare), and SageSurfer (behavioral health).

Consultant

Parsley Health

Venture-backed ($40m+) startup that combines medicine, nutrition, and health coaching in a direct-to-consumer membership model. Scaled from 15 to more than 100 employees.

Director, Business Operations

Spreemo Health

Private equity-backed ($20m+) B2B healthtech startup that used data science to predict and prevent medical errors in radiology. Scaled from 30 employees to 200 before being acquired in August 2017.

Manager, Strategy & Operations

Team Leader, Operations Improvement & Quality Assurance

Founding Analyst, Operations Improvement

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Summer Research Associate, Molecular Imaging Lab

Alex is an equity research analyst based in NYC, where he focuses on healthcare, technology, and industrial companies. Alex began his career following his engineering studies in healthcare and technology as an analyst at the startup company Spreemo Health (acquired), where he worked on sales, operations, and finance initiatives.

Prior to working as an equity research associate, Alex served as a consultant and advisor to early and growth-stage startup companies, helping them raise more than $50M in capital, structure multiple M&A processes, prepare strategic materials for board and management meetings, build teams (70+ hires), and create scalable and efficient processes across finance, operations, HR, legal, and IT functions. Previously, he was the Director of Business Operations at Parsley Health where he served on the management team. 

During his focus on startup companies, Alex also sourced multiple investments, including one eventual unicorn, and served as a mentor and advisor to dozens of startups through Techstars, Mount Sinai, and WeWork, making introductions to investors, hires, and customers. He also managed three teams. 

Alex earned his BS with honors in Bioengineering from SUNY Binghamton University. While in school, he conducted research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was a recipient of the SUNY Association of Council Members and Trustees scholarship. He was born and raised in Westchester, NY and has traveled to 14 countries across 4 continents. In his free time, he enjoys playing sports such as tennis and skiing, trying new recipes and cuisines, and practicing meditation and martial arts.

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