We are committed to investing in companies from formation to pre IPO stages.
This includes writing checks for pre-revenue and pre-pitch deck companies, as well as reserving follow-on capital for Seed and Series A rounds.
BBQ Opportunities provides larger checks in mature companies, Series B onwards, and companies that don't fit the traditional venture capital fund model.
We continue to back our breakout portfolio companies from Pre-Seed and Early-Stage funds when they raise additional rounds
Nemanja is a General and Founding Partner of BBQ Capital.
He invests in companies from formation to pre-IPO stages and has backed over 80 companies at various stages, including space tech, agriculture tech, and robotics. His portfolio companies have collectively raised over $13.4B.
Before embarking on his investment career, Nemanja co-founded Catapult, an online marketplace backed by Stripe, and KBros Games, a video game publisher where he managed partnerships with tech giants such as Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
Prior to immigrating to the US, Nemanja co-founded KMD Works, a digital agency in South Africa, which serviced the Nedbank Group, the largest bank in Africa, by automating their investor acquisition pipeline.
Bobby joined BBQ Capital in 2023 to focus on early-stage investments and building out the firm.
Most recently, he was the youngest Partner to date on AngelList's in-house fund, the AngelList Access Fund. Prior to this, Bobby ran fund operations and the Private Capital Network at AngelList. Before joining AngelList to pursue venture investing, he was the Director of the enterprise side of AskWonder, a gig-economy research startup.
Based in New York City, Bobby has a degree in Neuroscience and Finance from the University of Richmond. In his free time, you can find him skating, biking, and generally chasing adrenaline.
Lisa Kleinsorge is a GTM leader, advisor and investor. Currently, she is heading up the ecosystem development at Puzzle, a B2B fintech startup.
In the last 15 years, she worked in executive roles at consumer flagships Spotify, Headspace and Twitter.
Lisa has been an Angel since 2018.
Buddy Shakhashir focuses on BBQ’s growth stage deals and opportunities fund.
He founded Platform Ventures in 2018, a growth stage capital advisory firm with investments such as Sweetgreen (IPO, 2021), Postmates (acq. By Uber Eats, 2021) and Reddit, deploying over $100M to date.
In addition, Buddy brings over 10 years experience in the technology industry both as an angel investor and a founder of 2 companies, the first of which was acquired in 2013.
Buddy now splits his time between San Francisco, London and Dubai.
Benjamin Sack joined BBQ Capital in 2021 and focuses on the firm's investments in early-stage companies.
Most recently, Ben led strategic partnerships at Upwork and previously he was an early employee at a biotech aggregator. Ben started his career with Silicon Valley Bank's Global Fund Banking Group in San Francisco where he underwrote over $100M in venture debt deals.
Ben received a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Tufts University and is currently pursuing an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross. In his free time, Ben enjoys running, playing poker, and trying new cuisines.
Jigney joined BBQ Capital in 2023 to focus on early-stage investments and building out the firm.
Most recently, he was an analyst at LAUNCH, an early-stage venture firm that’s backed companies like Robinhood and Calm. Before joining LAUNCH, Jigney worked at Inside, a digital media startup backed by Mark Cuban and Sequoia Capital. Prior to this, he worked at Salesforce as a business development associate.
Jigney graduated in 2019 with a BBA from York University and is based in Toronto. In his free time, he likes to read, exercise and is an avid sports fan.
Nebo Radovic is an experienced mobile marketing professional, with leadership experience in the entertainment and technology industries.
He currently holds the position of director of performance marketing at top-grossing mobile game developer Zynga. Prior to Zynga, he was working at N3TWORK, MZ, and Nordeus, highly successful mobile developers, and helped them drive 100s of millions of installs.
The apps from Nordeus and MZ were among the top 10 grossing apps in more than 100 markets worldwide on both Android and iOS. Nebojsa holds a Master of International Marketing degree from Hult International Business school in San Francisco, as well as a Bachelor of Computer Science from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia.
Hadar is a Product Lead at Shopify. He spent the past decade leading product teams at Facebook, Lyft, Postmates (acquired by Uber), Kiva.org, and other startups.
Hadar enjoys helping founders and PMs think through product strategy, growth, marketplaces, regulatory compliance, and technical platforms.
