Angel investing · Pre-seed & seed

Backing people who
make building better.

I’m Jovi, a software engineer and open-source maintainer. I invest in founders building AI products, tools, and infrastructure that help other people create. The kind of software I’d want to use, contribute to, and see succeed.

Tell me what you’re building

Where I spend my time

Close to the craft.

My perspective comes from building software and maintaining projects like Preact, urql, and GQL.tada. These are the areas where I can bring useful context and ask better questions.

AI
AI products that solve real problems, and the tools and infrastructure that make them possible. I’m interested in what people can build when new capabilities become useful, reliable software.
Developer tools
Tools that make the path from an idea to working software shorter. Better workflows, useful abstractions, and fewer things getting in the way.
Infrastructure
The foundations behind fast, reliable software. APIs, data, and platforms that make difficult engineering problems easier to reason about.
Open source
Products that earn trust by working in the open. I care about the relationship between a project, its contributors, and the business built around it.

Working together

An engineer in your corner.

I like getting into the details. Beyond capital, these are the conversations I’m most useful in.

Product & engineering

Talking through architecture, performance, API design, and the trade-offs that matter at your stage.

Developer experience

Trying the product, questioning the abstractions, and giving direct feedback on what it feels like to build with it.

Open-source perspective

Thinking through maintainer workflows, community, and how to build a product developers can trust.

A sounding board

Working through a hard decision together, with honest feedback and a bias towards finding the next useful step.

People I’ve backed.

Guildguild.hostAngel investment

Let’s talk

What are you building?

If you’re raising a pre-seed or seed round and think we’d work well together, I’d like to hear from you. A short introduction, a product link or deck, and what you’re figuring out is a good place to start.

Start a conversation jovi@resynapse.dev