Todd Gitlin
Managing Partner
at Safire Partners & Unmatched Ventures
Executive search and venture investing. We partner with emerging-stage companies — typically post-seed, taking on executive searches and investing at Series A/B. We offer discounted fees in exchange for warrants or discounted pro rata rights in the next round, and treat search as a form of diligence. We will work with later stage as well, but likely won’t invest.
Safire Partners (www.safirepartners.com) was founded in 2006, has a team of 30+ people and takes on ~200 VP+ searches per year for software, AI, healthtech, fintech, and consumer apps.
Unmtached (www.umv.vc) was founded in 2025 with the former Head of Talent @ SpaceX as a recruiting and investing platform built for hardware companies with a focus on aerospace, defense, robotics, and energy.
Articles by Todd Gitlin
How To Identify Key Product Metrics To Unlock Value For Product-Led Startups with David Jesse
In this Mucker Growth Session, David Jesse, Senior Product Advisor & Coach at Prodify with prior product leadership experience at DoorDash, Groupon, and eBay, focuses on aligning your product metrics...
Managing Complex B2B Sales Motions for Startup Founder-Led Sales with Luke Welch
In this Mucker Growth Session, Luke Welch, owner of Luke Welch GTM Consulting and former VP of Global Marketing Solution Sales at Salesforce, focuses on the challenges and best practices...
How to Kickstart Content Marketing at Early-Stage Companies with Dennis Shiao
In this Mucker Growth Session, Dennis Shiao, founder of marketing agency Attention Retention, walks through how to make an impact with content marketing even when you have limited budget and...
How to Improve Your Team’s Performance and Prevent Burnout with Glenn Gow
In this Mucker Growth Session, CEO coach Glenn Gow discusses improving your team’s performance and preventing burnout. PDF of Glenn’s presentation slides Right Now, Things are Hard On any given...
Finance 101 for Early Stage Startup Founders with Debbie Rosler
In this Mucker Growth Session, Debbie Rosler from Burkland dives into the fundamental financial best practices and infrastructure early -stage startups need to put in place. Finance 101: Why Should...
Engineering Customer & Product Feedback Loops with Holden Munson & Sofia Maravich
In this Mucker Growth session, Holden Munson and Sofia Maravich from Rethink Labs, explore how to develop a useful system of collecting customer data and integrating it into your team....