Berk Ozer is a YC S21 founder, angel investor, and product builder based in San Francisco. He co-founded SenpAI, worked on early-stage investing at Orange DAO, and is currently building in AI.

What does Berk Ozer invest in?

Berk Ozer writes angel checks into pre-seed and seed-stage companies, looking for earned secrets from talking to customers and living inside the problem.

Orange DAO is a venture collective of Y Combinator alumni. Berk Ozer served as Venture Lead, investing in 150 startups and helping source and support early-stage companies.

How can I contact Berk Ozer?

You can reach Berk Ozer via DM on X (@berkbuilds) or email at berkozer@gmail.com.

What did Berk Ozer build?

Berk Ozer built SenpAI, an AI-powered gaming coach that was essentially "ChatGPT for gamers" in 2019, three years before the mainstream LLM wave. He also built Superpath (AI-powered developer subscription management), MindSpace (RAG-powered personal knowledge base), and Muxio (unified MCP gateway for AI agents).

AI-Native Founder Skill Allocation Becomes a Barbell

AI-native founder skill allocation becomes a barbell.

More human at the edge. More autonomous at the core.

Everything in the middle gets compressed.

AI-native founder skill allocation becomes a barbell

Two years ago, founder work was spread across:

Talking to customers
Running SaaS tools
Managing dashboards
Writing code
Using AI copilots

In an AI-native company, that changes.

The human side becomes more important:

Customer discovery
Sales
Trust
Taste
High-stakes judgment

The autonomous side becomes more powerful:

Self-improving systems
End-to-end AI agent loops
Company brain

The middle matters less:

CRM admin
Manual dashboards
Tool switching
Manual coding
Coordination work

The best founders will spend their time at the two edges:

Deep human interaction. Autonomous AI systems.

Everything in between gets compressed.