Tristan Pollock

Silicon Valley-based Tristan Pollock is a startup ecosystem builder, international entrepreneur-in-residence, and program manager for initiatives at Google and 500 Startups. He previously co-founded Storefront, a retail marketplace that raised more than $10 million in venture capital from notable investors including Gary Vaynerchuk and Nas, and founded SocialEarth, which was acquired by 3BL Media in 2012. As an early-stage investor, Pollock has backed approximately 250 technology startups, including unicorns such as Innovaccer, Aircall, and Printify, contributing to more than $1 billion in total enterprise value. His operational background includes scaling a global startup community to more than 1.2 million members and executing a marketing campaign at Best Buy that reached approximately 23 million recipients. Today, his primary professional focus centers on frontier-technology initiatives through The Shisharka Institute and early-stage climate investing via the Cool Climate Collective.