Dylan Ferrara

Investor · FinTech · Operator

Building at the intersection of frontier graphics technology and agentic payments protocols. Deal sourcing across on-device edge processing, AI infrastructure, and unique financial applications.

InvestorFinTechOperator

Experience

Career trajectory

2024–Present

Advisor & Deal Sourcing

Close advisor to a founder building a novel assessment platform/marketplace. Sourcing/forwarding deep tech opportunities to leading VC firms.

Technologist
2022–2024

Business Development & Corp Dev

Early business development and consistent institutional investor relations with banks and fund managers. Developed a custom Multi-country payments model, assisted with post-acquisition integration and joint payments/custody GTM.

Fintech/Crypto
2021–2022

Equity Research & Enterprise Sales

Enterprise Account Management and Partnerships for secure financial messaging software across Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Asset Managers.

Fintech
Ongoing

Angel Activities

Active family angel portfolio. LP at Story Ventures. Research across biotech, precious metals, tech infrastructure.

Investing
2020

Analyst

Fundamental company research across technology sectors, mapping out key growth vectors, analyzing financial performance, and extrapolating performance based on historical trends in tandem with management execution.

Equity Research

Private Family Investments

Watching

Positions & Companies of Interest

Subsea 7
SUBC
Energy Infrastructure
Deepwater capex titan, ongoing merger, provider of mission-critical infrastructure
Agnico Eagle
AEM
Precious Metals
Tier-1 (low-cost) gold producer, operating leverage to gold price upside
Petrobras
PBR
Energy
Brazilian State-owned oil company, Deepwater specialist (pre-salt) asymmetric dividend yield
CRISPR Therapeutics
CRSP
Biotech
Gene-editing platform play, Casgevy commercial rollout, strong pipeline + balance sheet

Reading

What I'm consuming

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

Book
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The Alignment Problem

Brian Christian

Book
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Silver May Break $125/oz in 2026

Kitco News

Article
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Year in Review 2025

Andrej Karpathy

Article
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Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Google

Article
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D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions

Deepmind

Article
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Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

KIMI

Article
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Anthropic Economic Index Understanding AI’s effects on the economy

Anthropic

Article
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Leaderboard

LMArena

Article
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The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

Book

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