• About Me
  • Intelligence
  • Early-Stage Funding
  • Library
  • Tasks
    • Firms
    • Cap Table
Recents
  1. About Me
  1. About Me
Sortive
  1. About Me
  1. About Me

Hi, I'm Asif

I've spent my whole career thinking about, investing in, and working alongside early-stage startups. Most recently I was a Principal at Las Olas VC, backing B2B software companies at Seed and Series A. Now I'm spending time building with AI and talking to operators and developers. Brooklyn-based, born and raised in (long) NYC 🍎

Projects

Market Memo
Skills
Research-first market model to IC-ready visual PDF
MCP Forge
Skills
Production MCP server design, hardening, deployment, and eval workflow
Superhuman
Plugins
Email drafting, scheduling, and inbox workflow automation
Sapling
Apps
Local-first macOS notes app with Codex chat, semantic search, Quick Look, and CLI automation
Backdoor
Apps
Mobile-first NYC subway utility with live arrivals, saved places, Leave By, and map foundations
Grepview
Apps
Native macOS Quick Look app for inspecting folders and archives directly from Finder
NoAppleMusic
Apps
Quiet macOS background agent that keeps Music/iTunes closed and routes media keys to Spotify
Search MCP
MCP Servers
Web-intelligence MCP server for search, URL reading, crawling, interaction, and content retrieval
LinkedIn MCP
MCP Servers
Local browser-backed LinkedIn tools for profile, people, and job research workflows
iMessage MCP
MCP Servers
Local Messages database search, inbox queueing, and supervised outbound replies over MCP
of10results/ page

Featured

Sapling

MacOS-native notes app built with Tauri (React, Rust) that stores notes as plain markdown files. Includes a WYSIWYG editor built on TipTap, Rust-driven full-text search, native Finder Quick Look previews, a built-in Codex assistant, and a companion "sap" CLI for agents to work with notes via the terminal

Venture

A workspace for fund research, portfolio tracking, and investor-facing notes.