Raymond Tonsing

Raymond Tonsing

Caffeinated Capital

About

Role

General Partner

Type

Multi-stage VC

Bio

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based technology investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing partner of Caffeinated Capital, a technology investment firm with a portfolio that includes Affirm, Airtable, Brex, Color, dYdX, Opendoor, Virta, and Wish. Previously, Mr. Tonsing was a partner at Akkadian Ventures, a secondary fund focused on providing liquidity to founders, early employees, and angel investors of private, high-growth technology companies. Before that, Mr. Tonsing helped develop and manage Energy Central and Rigzone, two market-leading technology platforms that provide information on the energy industry. Mr. Tonsing received his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

About Investments

We believe there are certain people in this world who are truly extraordinary. People with transformative ideas and the determination to make it happen. Caffeinated exists to find these rare individuals and catalyze their success.We typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company. We're aggressively open-minded and strive to be your most impactful investor.

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond

Check Range

$1M-$5M

Geography

Africa, East Asia, Europe, Israel, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, Oceania, South Asia, Southeast Asia, US/Canada

Leads Rounds

Prefers to

Investment Highlights

Affirm, Airtable, Boom Supersonic, Brex, Divvy Homes, Mighty, Opendoor, Varda Space, Virta, dYdX

Get in touch

How they work

We go big and we go long.

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Disclaimers and footnotes

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