Simon Pastor

Hi, I'm Simon an early-stage investor at RTP Global.

I'm currently meeting the most-exciting Europeans in tech across the United States and hosting events with some of them in New York, San Francisco and Palo Alto. Previous guests include Alexis Lê-Quôc (Datadog), Severin Hacker (Duolingo), Romain Huet (OpenAI), Maxime Coutte-Peroumal (The Impossible Company) and more. Sign up to our newsletter, to hear about our next events.

Before joining RTP, I was Entrepreneur First's first investor in the US where I launched cohorts in New York and San Francisco, met 2000+ founders and builders in North America and worked with dozens of founders and early-stage companies.

I also co-founded Delph a platform enabling citizens to support political campaigns and nonprofits through NFTs.

Some of the things I'm thinking about:

• The Talent Agent model, a new model for talent investing

Portfolio

Companies/founders I've sourced and work with include:

• Icarus Robotics, the robotic labor force for space [seed, Soma]
• DualEntry, the #1 AI-native ERP [series A, Lightspeed, Khosla, Google Ventures]
• Zero Entropy, the engine for human-level search [seed, Initialized Capital]
• Upside Robotics, autonomous robots matching fertilizer to crop needs [seed, Moxxie Ventures]
• Clarity Care AI, healthcare back office automation [seed, Firstminute capital]
• Peripheral, next evolution of media [seed, tba]
• Tetsuwan, building AI Scientists [seed, 2048 ventures]
• Womp Labs, training data optimization [seed, AI Grant]
• Telepathic Technologies, augmenting human capabilities by transforming thought into seamless action
• Stealth [pre-seed]

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Library

I'm currently reading Winning in the US: The Founder’s Guide to Building a Global Company from Europe, Index Press

Previous reads:

• Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, Chaney - 4/5
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership, Walsh - 4/5
• More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, Mallaby - 5/5
• What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Schwarzman - 4/5
• Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son, Barber - 5/5
• The Last of the President's Man, Woodward - 4/5
• On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, Silver - 4/5

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