Ash Rust — CEO
👉 Reach out at sterlingroad.com/apply. Please don't use LinkedIn DMs. Ash Rust is a first check investor and the Managing Partner of Sterling Road. His investments include Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV), Hydra Host and Starcloud. Before investing, he was co-founder and CEO of SendHub (acquired: Cameo Global, Y-Combinator W12), Director of Ranking at Klout (acquired: Lithium) and an Engineer at OneRiot (acquired: Walmart). He earned a Masters in Computer Science from Oxford, served as an Officer in the British Army, and currently resides in San Francisco. Sterling Road invests up to $150k in founders who are just getting started. More info at sterlingroad.com.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Social Media expert with strong entrepreneurial and technical skills.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 23 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Entrepreneurship
- Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Data Extraction
- Project Management
Career Highlights
- First check investor with successful startup exits.
- Led multi-million dollar revenue growth at SendHub.
- Expert in scaling algorithms and machine learning applications.
Work Experience
Sterling Road
Managing Partner (9 yrs 3 mos)
Bullpen Capital
Advisor (3 yrs)
Trinity Ventures
EIR (1 yr)
SendHub
Cofounder & CEO (4 yrs 11 mos)
Klout (Acquired by Lithium)
Product, Director of Ranking (1 yr 3 mos)
OneRiot (Acquired by Walmart)
Lead Relevance Engineer (9 mos)
Cuil
Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)
BeforeDawn
Founder & Managing Director (4 yrs 7 mos)
British Army
2nd Lieutenant, Troop Commander (1 yr)
Education
at Y Combinator
Dual MSc at University of Oxford
BSc at Durham University
