Build. Back.
Compound.
Ali Sina is an operator-investor — founder, builder, and capital partner across creative, tech, AI, design, finance, and consumer protection. Operator-led capital for the founders who ship.
What I back.
Full thesisCreative + Brand
Studios, agencies, identity systems, and brand-led companies operating at the intersection of culture and product.
AI + Frontier Tech
Applied AI tools, agent workflows, custom GPTs, and infrastructure for the next computing layer.
Media + Entertainment
Films, music labels, podcasts, NFT galleries, and creator-owned content businesses with audience-first economics.
Consumer Protection
Practices and platforms that get real people out of financial traps — predatory loans, hidden contracts, and beyond.
Finance + Capital
Fintech, capital funds, alternative-asset platforms, and tools that make capital flow to builders who deserve it.
Real Estate + Property Tech
Real estate operations, proptech platforms, and the financial and operational infrastructure behind owning + scaling property.
Built & backing.
A living portfolio of companies I've built, advised, and capitalized — spanning creative, tech, AI, design, music, film, finance, consumer protection, real estate, and beyond.
STEALTH
Holding Co · NVIDIA Partner
Holding company and AI-first venture studio backing 600+ startups across every industry. Award-winning incubator. NVIDIA partnership.
VCTR
Street Soccer · Sport
Street-soccer apparel brand designed by players, for players. Performance gear rooted in the global game.
The Agency
Creative · Tech · AI
Full-service creative, technical, and AI partner. 9 Lab disciplines, 8 strategic packages. Embedded teams under one roof.
BAM
Business Athlete Mode
Performance philosophy + lifestyle brand + content franchise. The 9 Cheat Codes for elite operators. Apparel, show, book.
FASCIA
Frontier AI Lab
Custom GPT lab building 70+ specialized AI tools across professional and creative verticals. Applied agents at scale.
Rise Capital
Capital · Real Estate
Investment fund focused on operator-led capital across real estate, tech, and small-cap acquisitions.
Olly Olly Oxen Free
Film + Production
Independent film and production studio. Feature films, music videos, brand campaigns, and original IP. RAGE, MADSON, and a growing slate.
C3POE
Immersive Poetry · Audio Label
Audio + immersive poetry label. Original spoken-word artists, scoring work, and sonic identity systems built for the listening room.
Hard Shiver
Book Imprint
Independent book imprint publishing under the nastradamus mark. Home of BAM — Business Athlete Mode and the full Ali Sina catalog.
Protagonist Art
NFT + Digital Gallery
Premier NFT and digital art gallery — over 1,000 originally minted pieces across animated GIFs and digital stills.
ContractScan
AI Contract Analysis
AI-powered contract scanner. Reads any consumer contract in 60 seconds, flags 12 predatory clause patterns, quotes source language, and cites the applicable statute. $20 per scan.
Total Recall
Recall Intelligence
Live tracker of every FDA, USDA, and CPSC recall — food, drug, device, meat, consumer product. Localized by ZIP and the stores you shop at.
Pickup Sports
Local Discovery
Real-time pickup game finder powered by Google Places. Search any city, surface actual courts nearby, and share game links with friends.
GAMBIT
Game Theory · Prediction Markets
The ultimate game theory app. Real algorithm — Nash, Bayes, Schelling — with probability bands, custom scenarios, and Kalshi/Polymarket integration. Fork any prediction, earn as it resolves.
Read the playbook.
Long-form work from the operator's desk. Published through Hard Shiver / nastradamus. Available on Apple Books.
BAM | Business Athlete Mode
Performance philosophy · 9 Cheat Codes
The 9 Cheat Codes elite athletes use, re-applied to elite professionals — programmers, artists, chefs, founders. Hack yourself.
BC-234
Fiction · Original IP
BC-234 — original fiction from Ali Sina, available on Apple Books. A reading-room title that asks bigger questions.
Break the Simulation
Manifesto · Operating philosophy
Break the Simulation — Ali's manifesto on stepping outside the default script. How to think, build, and operate above the default settings.
Startup X
Founder operating playbook
The Startup X book — the operating playbook behind Startup X Academy. How to build a startup from idea to first 1,000 users.
25 portfolio. 600+ in the lab.
A working list of the projects, IP, prototypes, and concepts Ali has incubated or is actively exploring. Some shipped. Some stealth. Some asleep until the right partner shows up.
A living list · Open to operators & co-builders
From pitch to partner.
If you're building something I'd want to use, run, or fund — bring it. Three-stage flow, honest answer fast.
Pitch
Share the deck or just the story. I read every founder submission within five business days. No warm-intro required.
Diligence
If there's a fit, we go deep — market, team, ops, capital stack. I treat diligence like the work itself: useful even if we don't move forward.
Partner
Capital, operating support, the Agency network, or strategic alignment — whatever the founder actually needs. Long-horizon by default.
Bring the next company.
The fastest way to get my attention is a one-page brief that's honest about the company, the market, and what you actually need. I'll come back within five business days.