Kristin McDonald
Partner
Eniac Ventures
Eniac Partner investing in vertical SaaS and applied AI across healthcare, supply chain, and sustainability.
Bio
Professional summary
Hadley Harris is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Eniac Ventures, where he focuses on AI-native companies across the agent layer, tooling, data infrastructure, and foundation-level technologies. Eniac’s profile also says he leads the firm’s strategic direction. Before venture capital, he helped build two VC-backed startups: Vlingo, where he worked across product, strategy, and marketing before its sale to Nuance, and Thumb, where he served as Chief Business Officer before its acquisition by YPulse. Earlier, he worked as a developer and engineering team lead at Pegasystems, a product manager at Microsoft, and a strategist at Samsung. He lives in New York City and holds an MBA from Wharton and an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
pre-seedseed0-to-1 company building
Sector
AI-native companiesagent layertoolingdata infrastructurefoundation-level technologies
Thesis
AI-native startupsAI agent layerdeveloper and AI toolingdata infrastructure
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with a technically specific AI-native thesis and explain where your company sits in the agent, tooling, data infrastructure, or foundation technology stack. Hadley’s operating background suggests he may respond well to founders who can connect deep technical insight with practical product and go-to-market execution.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference his stated focus on the AI agent layer, tooling, data infrastructure, and foundation-level technologies.
- 2Mention his operating experience at Vlingo if pitching voice, AI, or product-led technical teams.
- 3Connect the pitch to 0-to-1 product-market-fit work, which Eniac highlights as a team focus.
- 4His profile mentions yoga, meditation, mixing music, and tennis as personal interests.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Eniac’s team page links to a public item titled 'Hadley Harris: Building Eniac Ventures with 3 Friends / Investing in AI'.
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