2018–Present
Leverage AI (acquired)
Founder
Agentic AI-powered supply chain visibility for global industrial manufacturers and distributors.
Founder, investor, and operator working across emerging technology, infrastructure, and regulated markets.
Experience
A career across startups, public service, finance, and frontier technology.
2025–2026
Inauguration Capital
Venture Partner
Venture investing focused on AI, infrastructure, and regulated markets.
2020
Project N95
Co-Founder & Executive Director
National COVID-19 rapid-response 501(c)(3) nonprofit securing critical medical supply chains with the White House, National Governors Association, and other mission-critical partners worldwide.
2017–2018
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Entrepreneur in Residence
Solving hard problems in new ways from within Global Technology and Operations.
2015–2016
White House Presidential Innovation Fellows
Deputy Director
Recruiting top tech talent to solve the nation's toughest challenges.
2014–2015
MegaBots
Co-Founder & COO
Giant fighting robots. International sports league.
2012–2014
CommonKey
Co-Founder & CEO
Team password management.
2013
Discovery Channel, The Big Brain Theory
Contestant
Reality TV engineering competition.
2009–2013
U.S. Department of Defense, The Pentagon
Subject Matter Expert
Advancing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense within JPEO-CBRND, spanning the Joint Strike Fighter, biosurveillance, and presidential executive orders.
Writing
Observations on technology, markets, policy, and the wider world.
Everyone's Inventing AI Ketchup
More people are writing than at any point in history, and somehow there is less to read. The reason is older than AI, and the fix is not the one most people reach for.
Read essayThe Agent Stack Is the New OS
Every conversation about agentic AI eventually lands on headcount reduction, because it is the one metric everyone in the room knows how to measure. That is an analogy problem, and the wrong analogy produces wrong decisions. The frame that fits is an operating system.
Read essaySuperhuman, Not Smaller
The dominant question in every operating conversation right now is how many roles an agent can absorb. I think the framing is wrong, and wrong in a way that leads operators into a mistake they cannot walk back.
Read essayAndrew Stroup is a serial entrepreneur and active investor working across emerging technology, infrastructure, and regulated markets.
His work has spanned defense, finance, public service, and frontier technology—from the Pentagon and White House to Bank of America and multiple venture-backed startups, with a detour into reality television on Discovery Channel’s The Big Brain Theory.