A* Capital

A* Capital is co-founded by three operators with complementary track records: Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz (who took the company public), former Uber finance head Gautam Gupta, and ex-Coatue partner Bennett Siegel who backed companies like Peloton and DoorDash—an unusually operator-heavy founding team for an early-stage VC fund. The firm leads at seed stage then doubles down at Series A while also incubating companies from scratch, and deliberately raised Fund II exclusively from institutional LPs after launching Fund I with backing from iconic founders like Max Levchin and Peter Thiel.