Hi! I’m Chris. I'm an investor and founder currently working on Stack Shift, the network for top tech talent in Africa. We're based in Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬 .

Looking for talent and open to UTC +1 as a time zone? Email me: Chris (at) stackshift.com or book an intro call here. I'll try to be as helpful as possible and refer anyone I know for free, directly on the call.

Writings

Background

• 💰 7 years in hardware VC at Bolt. First hire. Invested three funds ($3M → $32M → $82M) in ~70 early stage startups.
• 📚 Left VC in 2019 to take a ~1.5 year long learning sabbatical and return to emerging market entrepreneurship.

Offers

• Fundraising strategy + investor intros. I don't know that many angels but can help you think through how to fundraise and might be able to help you meet pre-seed / seed funds.
• Cap table modeling. Putting a funding round together and confused about convertible notes or safe terms? Lmk!

Asks

• Remote recruiting. Looking for talent and open to UTC +1 as a time zone? Email me: Chris (at) stackshift.com or book an intro call here. I'll try to be as helpful as possible and refer anyone I know for free, directly on the call.

Love to talk and think about

• Development theory / effective altruism. Here's a video I made on global inequality. Here's my basic theory of development along with some notes from books I've read. I’m excited about evidence-based interventions that reduce inequality and suffering like GiveDirectly and GiveWell.
• Self-directed education. Here’s a site I made on “Learning Sabbaticals”. Here’s the curriculum I created for my own learning sabbatical.

Contact me

https://notion-ga.astrocket.vercel.app/collect?tid=UA-12234903-1&host=chrisquintero.com&page=homepage