Arnav Kapur started his career on Wall Street in New York: first working for Bank of America’s derivatives trading group, then Jefferies’ investment banking group covering high growth tech and biotech clients. In pursuit of developing a valuable founder network, Arnav started a consumer-tech events business in 2021 (scaling to mid 6 figures in revenue). In 2022, Arnav started originating transactions with the new founders and investors in his network, and closed his first originated deal in May 2022, securing a $100mm asset-backed warehouse line for Parker (fintech). He saw an opportunity to continue developing his skillset within the startups / venture capital ecosystem, and in 2023 he helped launch Parker’s partnership customer engine, and subsequently helped launch Atlas (Fintech), With Coverage (Insur-Tech), and Numeral (DTC SaaS) into market. In 2024 Arnav started working with multi-family offices and began opportunistically syndicating deals for AI companies. He launched Astro to build a leading capital allocator, native to the AI age. In his free time, Arnav likes to spend time with his four year old australian shepherd. He studied at UCLA and is originally from Connecticut. He is now based between New York and San Francisco.

Brendan McCaffrey attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a dual degree between Computer Science in the Engineering School, and Finance in the Wharton School. In his time at University, Brendan developed experience as an Analyst for a multi-family office venture capital firm based out of San Fransisco, and as a quantitative developer for an early stage cryptocurrency investment management platform. In 2020, Brendan co-founded Pagame with two Wharton colleagues, aimed to deliver a FinTech platform in the country of Bolivia. As CTO, he led and scaled a team of 8 developers, including Cornell PhDs and Harvard undergrads. After exiting that business, he spent the next few years working for Jeff Lo’s family office, working as an operator, engineer, investor, and trader covering both the crypto and startup markets, handling execution, sourcing, and all operations. In 2024, Brendan co-founded Unit Protocol, a decentralized asset tokenization platform built permissionlessly on Hyperliquid’s L1. Unit enables deposits, withdrawals, and trading for a variety of assets, starting with Spot BTC as its first native asset. Unit achieved ~$1b of trading volume in its first month. In his free time, Brendan likes to ski, play football, and code. He is based in New York.