— Sebastian Jorna
Founder, investor, reader, builder.
From banker, to VC to serial entrepreneur.
From reader, to meditator to artist.
Life rewards action.
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curriculum vitae
Perimenopause platform. #1-ranked in its category on the App Store, 50k+ downloads, 40%+ D7 retention.
2025 — now
LLM Ops. Raised $1.7m from Gradient Ventures. Gave LLMs tool-use; pivoted when MCPs went open source. Featured on TechCrunch.
2023 — 25
Convexity Ventures — Investment Manager / LP
Started a private fund with nine other LPs — founders, developers, lawyers.
2021 — 26
Early-stage VC, deeptech & B2B SaaS. Helped structure a €120m fund. Invested in ReaQta, Oqton, Kaizo, D2X
2020 — 23
inSided — Board Observer
Acquired by Gainsight & Vista Equity Partners.
2020 — 22
Morgan Stanley — Analyst, Tech M&A
$2.2bn TeamViewer IPO (largest software IPO to date). $1.1bn Delivery Hero ⇄ Takeaway.com sell-side.
2018 — 20
Education & credentials
MIT — ASP Fellow, AI & Neuroscience
2017 — 18
Frankfurt School — MSc Finance
Top 5% of class
2015 — 17
CFA Charterholder
Passed all three levels in 18 months, the shortest time possible
2015 — 17
NUS — Exchange, Banking & Finance
2015
Maastricht University — BSc Economics
Top 6% of class
2012 — 15
Oxford — Summer School, Economics
2012
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writing
My essays on Medium
Dec 23, 2025
Dec 27, 2024
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Dec 19, 2023
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Dec 17, 2022
Dec 15, 2022
Dec 2, 2022
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projects
Selection of things built on the side
Turns notes into spaced-repetition cards. Closes the loop between reading and remembering.
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A curated directory of venues and vendors across North Carolina.
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A personal trainer for your home gym.
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A gentle testament & will creator.
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An AI copilot that drafts police reports.
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My own instrument exploiting four market anomalies. Listed in Stuttgart — ISIN DE000LS9KGG8.
2015 — 17
Featured on the Stocktwits “Must-Follow List” for market commentary and strategy.
2015 — 17
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books
~40 a year. The whole shelf is on Goodreads.
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art
Expressions through paint, movement, and ecstatic dance DJ sets
Dreams from the Anthropocene
Imagery from the seam where humans, machines and nature meet.
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meditation
Traveling Sangha NC
Host of a meditation community in North Carolina.
10d-day silent meditation retreats
Attended several 10d vipassana meditation retreats in addition to a multi-year daily practice. (2023, 2026)
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digital brain
A decade of notes, books and ideas, linked up in Obsidian. The thinking behind it: Fruits from My Digital Knowledge Tree.
screen recording of my Obsidian graph