John Edgar was born in Canada and raised in Scotland. He spent over 15 years in NYC advising founders at Netlify, Anthropic, and SF Compute, and was on DigitalOcean's founding team.
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Maple VC writes $1M to $3M checks, larger than 83% of firms in the atlas.
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- DigitalOcean · Chief Technology Evangelist & SVP of Strategy
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Who is John Edgar?
John Edgar was born in Canada and raised in Scotland. He spent over 15 years in NYC advising founders at Netlify, Anthropic, and SF Compute, and was on DigitalOcean's founding team.
How much does John Edgar invest?
John Edgar invests through Maple VC, which writes checks of $1M to $3M at pre-seed, seed.
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Email [email protected], the firm's inbox for founders, and name John in the subject. A warm intro from a founder Maple VC backed works better.
What did John Edgar do before Maple VC?
Chief Technology Evangelist & SVP of Strategy at DigitalOcean.
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