Nuno Gonçalves Pedro

Managing Partner at Chamaeleon

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Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the founder and managing partner of Chamaeleon, an early-stage VC firm with a unique operating model that uses quant & tech augmentation for all its core activities, based in the San Francisco Bay Area and with offices in Europe, as well. This new Firm focuses on early stage investments - series Seed and Series A - and he is particularly focused on consumer and consumer-like start-ups, e.g. gaming, social, as well as horizontal AI-first SaaS start-ups.

Before this, he founded and was the managing partner of Strive Capital, the first ever quant early-stage VC firm in the Bay area, focused on consumer and enterprise software, with investments in App Annie, Gusto, Rubrik, Enish (IPO), Virta Health, DraftKings (IPO), RobinHood (IPO), among others. He is the co-founder and co-host of decipheredshow.com, a top 3% podcast globally, and the creator of the “Rejection & Adversity as a path to Growth” methodology.

Nuno has served and continues serving as a board member, advisor and coach to various start-ups, corporations and non-profits in the US, Europe and Asia. He is an alum of Stanford, London Business School and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering. He is a guest lecturer at Stanford, Berkeley-Haas and Wharton.