TARA TAN

A designer and investor in the future of creativity and computing.
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Hacking & Hosting

Founder Mode

Built for the bold. Coming soon.
Hacking

Ghostwriter

Turning good ideas into great content.
Hacking

Strange Gatherings

demoscene party in Dec 2024
Hosting

Fire Your Agency

Coming soon
Hacking

Select Investments

Strange Ventures

Founding GP
Active

IDEO CoLab Ventures

Founding GP, Seed stage fund
2018

Archetype

AI for the physical world
Seed

EverArt

Creative platform for finetuning images
Seed

Stability AI

One of the largest open source foundational models used by over 200K developers
Series A

VideoDB

Platform to turn video into RAG-ready data
Seed

Near

Scalable, distributed protocol by Deepmind engineers
Seed

River Financial

The best bitcoin brokerage
Series A

Onbrand

The platform for brand partnerships
Seed

Moment

Platform for live fan experiences
Acquired

Latest Writings

Great UX unlocks insane user growth

OpenAI and Google's design tweaks that instantly drove millions in user growth.
Oct 2024

On code agents

Replit makes idea-to-deployment crazy easy — this could 30x their market size
Sep 2024

Is this Meta's smartphone moment?

This could redefine our digital existence as profoundly as smartphones did.
Sep 2024

Doom and the future of computing

How an indie game catalyzed two of the most valuable companies in the world today
Aug 2024

Black Myth: Wukong

The first breakout AAA game from China hits $600M in 3 days
Aug 2024

Work with Tara

First demos

Brainstorm & feedback for your first demo
Open

Pitch an investment

We write early checks in deeply technical software founders
Open

Design Partnership

Fractional design leadership & advisory for select few
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