Hi, I'm Mattia!

I'm documenting the world's most extreme rituals, from fist fights in Bolivia to spirt mediums in Thailand. Stories that deserve to be told, way outside of our city bubbles. (sacratos.com)

I shoot on analog because I want to capture things raw, imperfect, and real.

I spent the past several years in tech, building, investing, and experimenting in San Francisco.

I worked on AI weather models to enable weather modification and control to increase rainfall and mitigate natural disasters. (spyroaero.com)

I raised and managed over $150M in venture capital and invested in companies like OpenAI, Anduril, SpaceX, SSI, xAI, Databricks, Plaid, Perplexity, and over 200 seed-stage YC startups. (1199capital.com)

A little further back, I co-founded a payments company (idospay.com), consulted for large public Italian firms (pwc.com), and ran a pickleball and tennis school, where I coached for a while.

You can reach me at mattiastori@gmail.com.

Mattia Astori