Investing Profile

Stephen Hays(680)

VCAngelInvestorFinance Operator

Managing Partner at What If Ventures

whatif.vcFrisco, Texas

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Stephen Hays's investing connections

28 Investors

Connected to Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Saar Gur (CRV), Arjun Arora (500 Global), and 25 other investors on Signal.

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University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

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Current Investing Position

What If Ventures Managing Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $25.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.0M

Investments On Record

Stephen Hays's Investments On Record (50)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Legacy	Series UnknownJul 2025$10M	$50M
Co-investors: Rick Heitzmann (FirstMark Capital), Khaled Jalanbo (Valia Ventures), Kingsley Advani (305 Ventures), Yumin Choi, Andy Coravos
Firehawk Aerospace	Series CJan 2025$60M	$79M
Co-investors: Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Carter Callaway (Ultratech Capital Partners)
Alto Pharmacy	Convertible NoteNov 2024	$320M
Co-investors: Craig Sherman (Meritech Capital Partners), Josh Breinlinger (Jackson Square Ventures), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Ed Roman (Hack VC), Sung ho Choi (Fubon VC), Justin Mateen, Marty Weiss, Travis VanderZanden, Daniel Kan, Tirto Adji
Terray Therapeutics	Series BOct 2024$120M	$200M
Co-investors: Geoffrey Smith (Digitalis Ventures), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Dusan Perovic (Two Sigma Ventures), Chris Picardo (Madrona Venture Group)
Slingshot AI	SeedAug 2024$30M	$120M
Co-investors: David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Vijay Pande (Andreessen Horowitz), Sundeep Peechu (Felicis Ventures), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Alex Macdonald (sequel), Michael Stoppelman (Self-employed), Sumeet Gajri (Original Capital), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Liu Jiang, Mei Z., Cory Levy
Levels	Series AAug 2024$10M	$68M
Co-investors: Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Vijay Pande (Andreessen Horowitz), Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Arielle Zuckerberg (Long Journey Ventures), Matthew Dellavedova (Athletico Ventures), Laurel Touby (Supernode Ventures), Martin Tobias (Incisive Ventures), Kevin Weatherman (Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Scott Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Michael Arrington (CrunchFund), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild), Conor Sharpe (Backed VC), Mario Gabriele (Hummingbird Ventures), Ben Gilbert (Pioneer Square Labs), Moshe Lifschitz (Basement Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Andrea Funsten (Basecamp Fund), David Rosenthal (Wave Capital), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), Omar Darwazah (AAF Management Ltd.), Brendan O'Driscoll, Matteo Franceschetti
Q Bio	Series UnknownJul 2024$27M	$84M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Vijay Pande (Andreessen Horowitz), Ling Wong (Highbury Group)
TMRW Life Sciences	Series DJul 2024$28M Series CJul 2021$110M	$130M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Frederique Dame (GV (Google Ventures)), Fabian Hansen (Presight Capital), Vinay Shah (Transformation Capital), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)