Who we are
Pablo
Pablo is currently building the future of self-driving vehicles as a Group PM leading a team at Waymo. Prior to Waymo, Pablo co-founded and served as the CEO of Muvr, a digital recovery platform, including wearables, that helps guide surgical patients through the episode of care. He successfully sold Muvr to Exactech in 2020.
As a founder, Pablo knows firsthand the responsibilities that come with trying to build a product, raise money, hire a team, and onboard users. His biggest piece of advice for first-time founders is to be maniacal about execution and ruthlessly prioritize doing a few things well. The biggest advantage an investor can give you is access to an expert network that helps you hone in on the right strategies for a variety of business problems that others have successfully navigated, so that you don’t have to do it all on your own. Too often, founders pride themselves on figuring everything out and while this is critical to launching a new product, it is not necessary when it comes to a host of other operating processes that are table stakes to building a company. Thanks to his past experience, Pablo advises founders on how to create a compelling vision, grow a world-class team, execute on product, and raise capital.
Judy
Judy is a business and marketing leader with 15+ years of experience in tech. She runs Abad Capital full-time while also advising several startups. Prior, she was the VP, Head of GTM and Operations at Tome leading the business from seed to Series A. She also served as the Senior Director of Strategy & Operations at TripActions. Judy started her career at Facebook where she was one of the first Mid-Market Sales Executives, eventually opening up their HQ in APAC and leading the team. After, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Chief Revenue Officer and helped lead monetization at Instagram. Judy also led the product marketing and international marketing teams at Slack. Most recently, prior to TripActions, Judy led the global launch of WhatsApp’s monetization products for businesses, marking the first time ever the world’s largest messaging platform started to charge businesses to send messages to people.
She has a long history of launching new products successfully at high-growth companies and has a passion for helping founders uncover product-market fit. She prides herself on helping founders create their first pitch deck, design messaging frameworks, and grow their customer base.
Bailey
Bailey is not on the investment team, but he loves all people and startups. He is the chief advocate for any founder and will follow you around if you have a treat for him. He puts the fun in fund.