The people behind Xina
Former CTOs, founding engineers, repeat founders, and research scientists — united by a shared mission to back the most ambitious technical founders in the world. Our team has collectively built companies worth $100B+.
Operators building for operators
80+
Years Combined Experience
5
PhDs on the Team
1,200+
Executive Network
18
Countries Covered
Partners
The investment decision-makers and board members driving our portfolio strategy.
Sarah Chen
Managing Partner
Stanford CS • ex-Salesforce CTO • ex-Google
Former CTO at Salesforce, where she led the engineering organization through the $27B acquisition of Slack. 18 years of operating experience building enterprise software platforms at scale. Sarah has personally invested in 40+ companies including Vercel, Datadog, Linear, and Supabase.
David Amara
General Partner
Wharton MBA • 2x Founder • ex-JP Morgan
Serial entrepreneur who co-founded and sold two fintech companies — one to Stripe ($180M) and one to Visa ($420M). Deep expertise in payments infrastructure, financial data, and embedded finance. David led our investments in Stripe and Plaid.
Priya Nair
General Partner
MIT PhD • ex-Cloudflare VP Eng • ex-AWS
PhD in Computer Science from MIT, specializing in distributed systems. Former VP of Engineering at Cloudflare, where she led the Workers edge compute platform from inception to 3M+ developers. Priya leads our cloud infrastructure and database investments.
Marcus Lee
Partner
Carnegie Mellon • ex-GitHub • ex-Figma
Former VP of Product at GitHub during the Microsoft acquisition era, then founding Head of Product at Figma's platform division. Marcus brings deep product intuition and developer ecosystem expertise. He leads our developer tools and AI investments.
Amelia Torres
General Partner
Oxford DPhil • ex-DeepMind • ex-Meta AI
Former Chief Scientist at DeepMind, where she led research on large language model alignment and safety. Transitioned to venture in 2020 to back the next wave of AI companies. Led our investments in OpenAI and Anthropic at their earliest stages.
Investment & Platform Team
The team working alongside our partners to source, evaluate, and support portfolio companies.
Elena Rodriguez
Principal
Berkeley EECS • ex-a16z • ex-Datadog
Covers AI infrastructure and developer tools. Previously a principal at Andreessen Horowitz covering enterprise software. Before that, she was a senior engineer at Datadog building their APM product line.
James Okafor
Principal
Georgia Tech CS • ex-AWS • ex-MongoDB
Focuses on cloud infrastructure and database technologies. Former staff engineer at AWS leading DynamoDB's global tables feature. Has deep technical knowledge that helps founders solve their hardest architecture decisions.
Anika Patel
Vice President
Harvard MBA • ex-Tiger Global • ex-Goldman
Generalist covering fintech and data infrastructure. Previously at Tiger Global where she sourced and executed 15+ growth-stage investments. Brings a strong quantitative lens to market sizing and competitive analysis.
Tom Reeves
Head of Platform
ex-Notion • ex-McKinsey
Leads talent acquisition, go-to-market coaching, CFO services, and operational support across all 120+ portfolio companies. Previously ran business operations at Notion through their Series C. Manages our network of 1,200+ executive advisors.
Maya Kim
Associate
MIT CS • ex-Vercel
Covers developer tools and open-source software. Former software engineer at Vercel working on Next.js core. Brings a practitioner's perspective to evaluating developer experience and technical moats.
Ricardo Santos
Associate
Stanford AI Lab • YC alum
Focuses on AI applications and vertical SaaS. Previously a founding engineer at a YC-backed AI startup that reached $10M ARR in 18 months. Strong technical evaluation skills across ML/AI stack.
Sophie Laurent
Head of Marketing & Communications
ex-Linear • ex-Stripe
Leads brand, content, events, and LP communications. Previously VP of Marketing at Linear, where she built their iconic developer brand. Before that, led developer marketing at Stripe.
Daniel Park
CFO & Head of Fund Operations
CPA • ex-SVB Capital • ex-Sequoia
Oversees fund accounting, legal, compliance, and LP reporting across all four funds. 15 years of experience in venture fund administration. Previously at SVB Capital and Sequoia Capital's finance team.
Founder Advisory Board
Portfolio founders who actively advise our team and mentor the next generation of companies.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Patrick Collison
CEO, Stripe
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
Dylan Field
CEO, Figma
Karri Saarinen
CEO, Linear
Paul Copplestone
CEO, Supabase
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