
Cory Moelis is a founding partner of Ground Up Ventures, the New York-based pre-seed and seed firm he started with David Stark in 2016. Ground Up writes $500K–$1.5M checks into startups in the US and Israel, and its portfolio includes EliseAI, BuildOps, Triple Whale, Komodor, Postscript and Starcloud. Before Ground Up he was head of product at Derby Games, worked in research and analytics for the Los Angeles Kings, and began his career as an analyst at Moelis & Company in New York.
Cory Moelis is a founding partner of Ground Up Ventures, the New York-based pre-seed and seed firm he started with David Stark in 2016. Ground Up writes $500K–$1.5M checks into startups in the US and Israel, and its portfolio includes EliseAI, BuildOps, Triple Whale, Komodor, Postscript and Starcloud. Before Ground Up he was head of product at Derby Games, worked in research and analytics for the Los Angeles Kings, and began his career as an analyst at Moelis & Company in New York.
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Cory and the Ground Up team understood what we were building before it was obvious. They moved quickly, leaned in early







