Jay Wallace — solo investor

I back the people building the tools everything else gets built with.

For founders, technology should feel invisible and capability should feel infinite. I write early checks into the dev tools, infrastructure, security, and craft that make that true — and I stay close after the wire clears.

01What I look for

I back builders making technology invisible and capability infinite. In practice that lands in four places.

Dev Tools

Tools that multiply what one engineer can ship — the difference between a weekend and a quarter.

Infrastructure

The plumbing the next internet runs on. Unglamorous, load-bearing, and impossible to rip out once it works.

Security

Safety nets for a permissionless world — least-privilege access for human, workload, and AI identities alike.

Craft

Software that simply feels good to use. Taste is a moat, and I pay for it.

02A few I'm proud of
03Also an LP in
04Something I host
Annual event

The Summer Startup

A summer gathering for getting from zero to one — the people, the push, and the permission to start.