Dylan Ferrara

Dylan Ferrara

Investor · Advisor · Operator

Strategic advisor to Assessment.com. Independently identifying opportunities at the intersection of frontier graphics technology and agentic payment protocols. Deal sourcing across specialty hardware devices, AI infrastructure, and unique financial applications.

Experience

Career trajectory

Ongoing

Advisor & Deal Sourcing

Close advisor to a founder building a novel assessment platform/marketplace.

Technologist
Ongoing

Angel Activities

Active angel investor; cultivating relationships across family offices, hedge funds, and venture investors.

Investing
2022–2024

Business & Corporate Development

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

Crypto
2021–2022

Enterprise Sales

Enterprise Account Management and Partnerships for secure financial messaging software across Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Asset Managers. Forged a Google Cloud deal with Deutsche Bank to securely integrate and onboard strategic GCP ecosystem partners

Fintech
2020-2021

Analyst

Conducted fundamental research on leading public technology companies.

Equity Research
2019-2020

Financial Services (AML)

Partnered with bank compliance teams to identify vulnerabilities and streamline processes leveraging transaction monitoring systems.

Consulting

Private Family Investments

viaPhoton

Connectivity

Advanced fiber connectivity infrastructure for data centers, 5G networks, and broadband.

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Hellbender

Edge AI Devices

Pittsburgh-based specialist contract manufacturer in American-made computer vision, hardware, and edge perception systems.

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Developer of high-performance satellite propulsion and rapidly reusable supersonic spaceplanes for high-frequency sub-orbital missions.

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Clinical-stage biotech, with a purpose-built computational platform to discover and design novel therapeutic peptides.

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Trilobio

Biotech

"Self-Driving" wet lab platform designed to reliably automate and standardize biological workflows at scale.

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Polish Gaming studio utilizing big data and real-world landmarks to create AR mobile games like "Monopoly World".

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Corca

Software

An intuitive, collaborative workspace for math creation that converts plain-text input into LaTeX and PDFs.

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Notable Private Companies

Companies I'm tracking

OneChronos

FinTech

ATS with cutting-edge combinatorial order-matching algorithms

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Decart

AI Infrastructure

Real-time generative AI video and multimodal models with 10x training efficiency

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Sapiom

AI infrastructure

Infrastructure bridging AI Agents and the API economy

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XBOW

Cybersecurity

AI-powered penetration testing — built by creators of GitHub Copilot

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Appcharge

Fintech

Full-stack payments infrastructure for gaming studios

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Substrate

Semiconductor Equipment

Semiconductor manufacturing company developing technology to help the U.S. produce advanced chips more efficiently and affordably

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Develops autonomous systems that transform construction equipment to operate independently, enabling around-the-clock jobsite operations

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Tempo

Blockchain/Payments

Blockchain built for payment transactions at scale, enabling fast and low-cost global stablecoin transfers

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Reading

What I'm consuming

Books

The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

Articles

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