Paul Sethi
Managing Partner at Trajectory Capital Management
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Trajectory Capital is an enterprise technology fund focused mainly on sub-$10M ARR companies. We make both minority and control investments, including founder-controlled businesses, corporate divestitures of non-core assets, and emerging Application AI ventures.
Investing and collaborating to accelerate growth trajectory
Co-Founder and Fund 1 Managing Partner
2018
Invested at Seed and Pre-Seed stages - in entrepreneurs building technology companies of the future - across sectors. Co-manage the Fund 1 portfolio, led by a rare breed of next level founders.
2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven venture capital firm.
Seed / Angel Investor
2006
Earliest-stage investments in 50+ tech companies and venture funds.
Behind the Scenes (Co-founding Partner)
2016
OpenFortune is a growing media platform that places national and regional advertisers inside of 100 Million+ fortune cookies distributed to its network of 21,000+ restaurants nationwide.
www.openfortunemedia.com
Advisory Board (and Earliest Seed)
2014
Co-Founder
2014 - 2022
Robuzz pushed real-time news alerts on People, Companies and Topics - powering users with customized triggers. SIIA CODiE Award Winner - Best Service Using Aggregated Content.
RoBuzz was designed for trend spotters who can smell high potential from a mile away, but like to strike at a short distance.
CEO
2011 - 2018
REDBOOKS was the premier sales intelligence product for the advertising/agency world - a lead generation and competitive intelligence tool used by Sales/BD Teams within Media, Agencies, Mar-Tech and Marketers globally. SIIA CODiE Award Winner - Best Lead Generation Solution. Formerly a division of LexisNexis, REDBOOKS was spun out in November 2010, and merged with Winmo/List Partners in May 2018.
Director
2001 - 2017
Focus on sales and operations strategy of enterprise (B2B) couture fashion company. Factories in Asia.
Partner / Analyst
2001 - 2006
Long / short - focused on small cap investments across broad technology.
Field Sales
1996 - 1997
Sold the best kitchen knives ever. Stand by them to this day!