Ed Roman serves as a Special Advisor and co-founder at Hack VC, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. See sector focus and contact routes.
Ed Roman serves as a Special Advisor and co-founder at Hack VC, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, after spending over a decade as an angel-operator and seed investor with more than 250 early-stage investments. His investment thesis targets pre-seed and seed stages in B2B software, marketplaces, AI/ML, crypto/blockchain, and developer tools, primarily within the United States. Roman typically writes checks ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 and often leads or co-leads rounds rather than following passively. Notable portfolio companies include Alto Pharmacy, Canva, Ripple Labs, and Movement, with the firm backing several multi-billion-dollar blockchain protocols. He distinguishes his approach by writing small initial checks to build ownership over time across a diversified portfolio, aiming to make venture capital a more predictable asset class. Roman also founded hack.summit(), the world’s largest programmer conference with over 80,000 attendees, and authored a best-selling book on Java before his venture career.
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