Description: We're a stage agnostic, data-driven family office helping entrepreneurs build meaningful organizations. Our mission is to influence the flow of capital into companies that improve society & push culture forward.
Thistle makes eating nutritious, organic, and local foods incredibly convenient and accessible by delivering prepared, plant-forward meals on a subscription basis. [Founded]
Alap Shah is an investor and entrepreneur who relishes combining the two roles. He was previously the CEO and Chairman of Sentieo, a financial data platform he co-founded for hedge funds, mutual funds, investment banks, corporates and active individual investors. With fifteen years of professional investment experience, his expertise spans large global equity portfolios at two of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds (Viking Global and Citadel) to LBO and growth equity investments (Castanea Pa
Johnny Hwin is an artist and entrepreneur previously featured in a New Yorker article on San Francisco’s creative culture. He is a co-founder at Thistle and the songwriter/producer of Cathedrals , an indie-electronic pop duo The New York Times describes as “R&B with 1980s rock swagger.” He has a BA in social psychology and an MS in technology entrepreneurship from Stanford University, where he launched his first company from the Stanford Facebook App Class . By night, he runs the San Francisco-based creativ