Cofounder & CEO

Mint Songs creates open and permissionless tools for music artists in web3. Our V1 Toolkit launched on Polygon in July 2021 which over 1.6k music artists have used to create over 75k music NFTs. Our mission is to increase the GDP of web3 music by providing the best-in-class tooling & protocols to music artists looking to have full control over their creative in web3. Our world class team previously spent time at companies like Spotify, Pandora, Apple, UnitedMasters, Crunchyroll, and Hims. We’re backed by some of the leading venture capitalists in the space including Freestyle VC, Castle Island VC, North Island VC, Coinbase Ventures, Polygon Studios, Baller VC (Dapper Labs VC arm), Goodwater Capital, EastWest VC (Jaeson Ma), AAF VC, Michael Lazerow (Velvet Sea VC), and Ian Simon (CEO @ Strangeloop Studios).

Investment Associate

Arlington, VA

AAF Management Ltd is an early stage venture capital firm focused on Seed/Series A investment opportunities with companies that have international expansion potential. Our goal as a strategic investment firm is to provide unprecedented access to brilliant entrepreneurs seeking to enter the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), larger Middle East & North Africa (MENA), and Western Asia markets. Our general partners, limited partners, and advisors are comprised of former diplomats, international business and trade development executives, international investment fund managers, family office investors, and c-suite level executives with connectivity in a plethora of diversified business verticals. We leverage our experience and clout within the key markets of the GCC and larger MENA region to help start ups and our world class entrepreneurs succeed. -Created AAF’s internal cryptocurrency and non-fungible token hedge fund -Screened 5,000+ seed stage startups in various sectors -Due diligenced and created investment memorandums for more than 100 tier-1-VC-backed startups -Due diligenced and created investment memorandums for more than 18 LP positions -Created data room documents that were sent out to LPs and potential LPs (family offices, institutions, etc.) -Built out tools to track deal flow, portfolio companies, and VC contacts on Airtable -Investor side of 5 Y Combinator demo day batches (YC S17, YC W18, YC S18, YC W19, YC S19, YC W20) -Created and manage Medium blog publication for AAF -Created VC source matrix where we actively track 200+ VCs and their early stage deals arabangel.vc

Videographer

Producer of short films and adventure videos. Previously worked with Moonrise Music Festival, Dreamscape Music Festival, Rezz, Louis the Child, Arius, Bonnie X Clyde, graves, and NOTD. -Adobe Premiere Pro -Adobe After Effects -Final Cut Pro -Experienced with DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, and DJI drones