Original Capital
Go for Broke
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Portfolio Companies
Some of the exceptional companies we've backed on their journey to build remarkable businesses.
Our Approach
Partner Early
We want to be your first believers. Many of our partnerships, like Aven and Fireworks, started before the founders had incorporated.
Collaborative
Building a company is hard. We'll take lower ownership in return for helping you assemble the best cap table for your long-term success.
Focus
We primarily invest in founders building in vertical software and fintech.
Founder Aligned
We have been in the trenches with founders through good and bad. By not taking board seats we can be your first call at all times.
Who We Are
Sumeet Gajri
I grew up in the Scottish countryside, raised by working-class parents from India and Kenya.
I first came to the U.S. to attend NYU, and started my career at Insight Partners, where I helped source Series A investments in Thycotic (18x return) and EquipmentShare (now valued at $3.75B).
Later, I joined Carta as Chief Strategy Officer and helped scale the company from under $5M to over $100M in ARR in under four years. Along the way, I made early investments in Ramp, Aven, Front, Qualia, and Instabase.
At any hour of the day, you'll probably find me helping founders think through their hardest problems.
I live in Miami with my wife and our four kids.
Ramnik Arora
I grew up in Amritsar, India, and came to the U.S. after graduating from IIT Kanpur to pursue a PhD at NYU.
I dropped out and began my career at a high-frequency trading firm before moving to Palo Alto to join Meta, where I led teams across Core Ads and was one of the earliest recruits to Libra, Meta's first crypto initiative.
In 2020, I joined FTX as Head of Product. We were a small team working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. I helped scale the exchange from $15M to over $1B in revenue and led FTX Ventures, where I backed Anthropic's $500M Series B, Cursor's seed round, and a $50M investment into Solana tokens (would be worth $8B+ today) — a portfolio that ultimately played a major role in helping the bankruptcy estate make customers whole.
I'm a tinkerer by nature and spend most of my time building and testing software. I love helping founders think through product and assemble world-class technical teams.
I live in Berkeley with my wife and daughter.
Venture Partners
James McGillicuddy
I'm from Worcester, MA, and first came to the Bay Area to attend Stanford, where I was a starting offensive lineman on the football team alongside Andrew Luck.
I began my career at Summit Partners before moving into senior operating roles at RelateIQ, Sourcegraph, and Carta. Today, I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of BRM Software, an Original Capital portfolio company.
I love working with founders on go-to-market and distribution strategy. I've also made personal investments in companies like Flock Safety, Ramp, and OpenGov.
I live in Menlo Park with my wife and son.
Kais Khimji
I grew up in Vancouver, B.C., raised by parents from East Africa.
I came to the U.S. to attend Harvard and started my career at Insight Partners, where I sourced early investments in Armis and Project44.
In 2019, I joined Sequoia Capital and worked on investments in Grafana Labs, Cresta, and Benchling. I later left to found Blockit — Original Capital was our first investor.
I love working with founders on product and strategy. My personal investments include Rogo and Assort Health.
I live in San Francisco with my fiancée.
Ryan Snow
I grew up in rural New Hampshire.
Before joining Original, I spent time at Index Ventures, Carta, and HarbourVest. Today, I oversee finance at the firm — making sure K-1s arrive on time and wires land where they're supposed to.
I live in Chicago with my wife and two children.