Greg Pass

Greg Pass

Greg Pass established his family office in New York to manage personal capital generated through his tenure as the first CTO of Twitter, and later as Cornell Tech's founding Chief Entrepreneurial Officer. The office operates without a public website or fund structure, reflecting a deliberate choice to write angel and pre-seed checks quietly alongside established Silicon Valley funds rather than marketing as an institutional platform. Pass's investment posture is concentrated on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in North America, with a nearly exclusive focus on workflow automation and media-and-entertainment infrastructure. This narrow, technically-informed mandate draws directly on his operator experience building Twitter's early engineering culture. His known portfolio includes companies disrupting content production pipelines and developer tooling—positions built through direct co-investments, SPVs, and startup equity. Geographic interest centers on New York and the Bay Area, where Pass's network is deepest. Team size and total deployment figures are not disclosed publicly. Pass maintains no known adjacent philanthropic vehicles or internal operating businesses separate from his direct investment entity. Unlike family offices structured as registered investment advisors or multi-family platforms, this office functions as a lean personal balance-sheet allocator. No recent structural changes or regulatory filings indicate a shift toward managing outside capital. The office's structural differentiator lies in Pass's dual identity. He is not a career allocator but a storied founding engineer turned institutional-academic technologist, now investing from personal capital with a founder's evaluation framework. This creates a sourcing model anchored in technical communities rather than banker-driven deal flow. The architecture is pure principal—no co-investor clubs, subscription products, or platforms layered on top.