Dylan Ferrara
Investor · Advisor · Operator
Building 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
Advisor & Deal Sourcing
Close advisor to a founder building a novel assessment platform/marketplace.
TechnologistAngel Activities
Active angel investor; cultivating relationships across family offices, hedge funds, and venture investors.
InvestingBusiness & 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.
CryptoEnterprise 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
FintechAnalyst
Conducted fundamental research on leading public technology companies.
Equity ResearchFinancial Services (AML)
Partnered with bank compliance teams to identify vulnerabilities and streamline processes leveraging transaction monitoring systems.
ConsultingPrivate Family Investments
Hellbender
Edge AI DevicesPittsburgh-based specialist contract manufacturer in American-made computer vision, hardware, and edge perception systems.
Dawn Aerospace
AerospaceDeveloper of high-performance satellite propulsion and rapidly reusable supersonic spaceplanes for high-frequency sub-orbital missions.
ProteinQure
BiotechClinical-stage biotech, with a purpose-built computational platform to discover and design novel therapeutic peptides.
Reality Games
GamingPolish Gaming studio utilizing big data and real-world landmarks to create AR mobile games like "Monopoly World".
Watching
Positions & Companies of Interest
Deepwater capex titan, ongoing merger, provider of mission-critical infrastructure
Tier-1 (low-cost) gold producer, operating leverage to gold price upside
Brazilian State-owned oil company, Deepwater specialist (pre-salt) asymmetric dividend yield
Gene-editing platform play, Casgevy commercial rollout, strong pipeline + balance sheet
Reading
What I'm consuming
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions
Deepmind
Resources
Documents & files