Adriel Bercow is a founding partner at K50 Ventures who uses venture capital as a "scalable platform" to tackle society-level problems, with his personal "North Star" focused on making life better for the global working class rather than just backing high-return founders. He brings an unusually full-stack perspective across the startup lifecycle—having been a founder, operator at an early VC-backed SaaS company, program staff at accelerator Dreamit, and investor at Flybridge—which gives him distinct empathy for founders and a nuanced understanding of what drives startup success and failure. Adriel Bercow is a founding partner at K50 Ventures who uses venture capital as a "scalable platform" to tackle society-level problems, with his personal "North Star" focused on making life better for the global working class rather than just backing high-return founders. He brings an unusually full-stack perspective across the startup lifecycle—having been a founder, operator at an early VC-backed SaaS company, program staff at accelerator Dreamit, and investor at Flybridge—which gives him distinct empathy for founders and a nuanced understanding of what drives startup success and failure.