I am a managing partner and co-founder of CoVenture, a firm that builds software for equity in startups.  We invest $30,000 worth of software into preseed tech startups and help them raise their first round of financing.  Before that I did consulting for a government, a couple international companies and a couple of NYC based ones.  I've spoken on a couple panels about privacy and government policy that fosters entrepreneurship and am a mentor to Startup Labs Syracuse and LaunchPad.io.   I'm also a student at Cornell where I am a co-founder of the PopShop, Cornell's student-run co-working space.