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Dylan Weening

Founder & CEO at ASISE

San Diego, California

Overview 

Dylan Weening is a Private Markets Investor and Family Office professional based in San Diego, California, with expertise in leadership, entrepreneurship, venture capital, and business strategy. With a background in roles such as Senior Vice President at talipot*holding and Founder & CEO of ASISE, he has successfully navigated various sectors including AR/VR, Real Estate/PropTech, and Health IT, establishing himself as a key figure in the investment management landscape.

Work Experience 

  • Senior Vice President

    2021 - Current

    Global single-family investment enterprise and multinational conglomerate holding company. Head of Portfolio Management and Co-Investments for the Alternatives portfolio, specifically covering private credit, private equity, real estate, and venture capital. www.talipot.net

  • Senior Vice President, Alternatives

    2022 - 2024

    Multi-year effort to rebuild our private market LP positions.

  • Vice President / Consultant

    2021 - 2021

  • Advisor, Investor

    2022

    Bonsai provides vision-based automation and autonomous solutions to combat growers’ biggest challenge: the labor crisis. Bonsai partners with existing manufacturers enabling greater performance, efficiency, and insight than ever before. Advise the Co-Founder/CEO in capital markets and go-to-market.

Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.

Raised $10,500,000.00 from Matt Barnard, Andros, Serra Ventures, Lee Redden, SNR.vc, Travis Deyle, Acre Venture Partners, Fall Line Capital, The E14 Fund and Congruent Ventures.

  • Founder & CEO

    2018

    Advisory and investment firm supporting multinational corporates, family offices, startups, and several venture capital firms. Select projects include: • Structured a venture strategy (funds & directs) and investment due diligence for two family offices; • Fund formation, strategy, portfolio construction, and team composition for a SF-based venture capital firm; • Fund-of-fund strategy and venture fund portfolio construction for a multi-national financial institution; • Engaged on startup GTM strategy and partnership execution for several companies, including three that exited via M&A (i.e., Aumni, Lumonic & QuadPay). Began consulting in 2018. Incorporated in 2021.

  • Advisor, Investor

    2023 - 2025

    Lumonic is an institutional-scale, modern portfolio management platform built for private credit and private equity. The platform allows firm's to monitor borrower data from the source—across every covenant and facility, to better manage their portfolio. Advise the Co-Founder/CEO in private credit and go-to-market. As of March 2025, Morningstar acquired Lumonic for an undisclosed amount.

  • Advisor, Investor

    2021 - 2023

    GTM/Product Advisor to the President & Co-Founder of Aumni and product team. As of March 2023, the company was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM).

Aumni is an investment analytics platform that offers a solution that VC firms use for a competitive edge and operational efficiency.

Raised $63,000,000.00 from Zeno Partners, SVB Financial Group, Prelude Fund, Citadel Securities, First Trust Capital Partners, NEXT Frontier Capital, Kera Capital Partners, Kickstart, Pelion Venture Partners and DLA Piper.

  • 2021 Entrepreneur In Residence

    2020 - 2022

    Accelerate the commercialization of innovative technologies, while empowering a diverse entrepreneurial culture at the University.

  • Advisor, Investor

    2018 - 2021

    GTM Advisor for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider. As of June 2020, Zip Co (ASX:Z1P) acquired QuadPay for roughly $403m.

Buy Now. Pay Later. Anywhere.

Raised $9.00 from Five V Capital and Rudyard Partners LLC.

  • Senior Associate

    2019 - 2021

    IC Observer (2016-2021) & IC Member, Fintech (2020/21). Pre-Seed/Seed, A+B, Growth Equity, & Secondaries via thirty-two (32) co-investments and six (6) funds.

  • Associate

    2017 - 2018

  • Analyst

    2015 - 2016

  • Advisor

    2017 - 2021

    Advisor to Nex Cubed Digital Health Accelerator, an early-stage investment portfolio of 25+ Digital Healthcare companies. The accelerator was named one of the "Top Ten Global Digital Health Accelerators" & "The Best Accelerators & Incubators for FemTech Startups".

Nex Cubed FinTech specializes in accelerating transformative fintech solutions.

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