Benjamin Orthlieb

Benjamin (Ben) Orthlieb is co-founder and General Partner of Blue Moon VC, an AI-native seed fund (formerly 2.12 Angels / 2|Twelve) based in San Francisco. He spent over a decade at LinkedIn, most recently as VP and Head of Corporate Development for M&A and Investments, before turning a side scout practice with Emergence Capital into a quantitative seed firm that screens roughly 9,000 founding teams a year and graduates portfolio companies to Series A at nearly triple the market rate.