San Francisco, California
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(2008 - 2013)
2022
2022
Decibel is an independent venture firm, based in Silicon Valley. We back technical founders and help them find product-market fit and accelerate their business. We invest in Seed, Series A, and Series B stage software companies, with a special focus on Developer Platforms, Open Source, Cybersecurity, and ML and AI Infrastructure and Applications. We’ve built a large and growing network of early adopters and buyers of new technology products and connect them to our portfolio companies. We also help them define and run their marketing and sales playbooks by connecting them with best practices and our rich network of advisors who include successful founders and executives from our community.
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024
NextGen Partners' mission is to facilitate professional development, knowledge sharing and network strengthening of emerging venture capital investors as they build their careers. Founded in 2001, NextGen Partners has a membership base of over 3500 pre-partner professionals representing over 200 firms.
2018 - 2022
2021 - 2022
Leading Seed and Series A rounds; I focus on infrastructure software, dev tools, and security. Companies we partnered with include Panther Labs, Bigeye, Cube.dev, DeepSource, Launchable, Oort, and more. I also lead product development for 645 Voyager, our internal software platform. Can't get away from product too much :) 645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. We invest in four main areas: The Engineering Value Chain Revolution, SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, and Personalized Consumer Applications. You can read more here: https://645ventures.com/focus 645 Ventures has $200m+ in AUM and is growing fast with backing from leading institutional investors, including university endowments, funds of funds, and pension funds. We have over 35 active companies in our portfolio in the areas of enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, and consumer technology. Several of our portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Expedia, and private equity firms.
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2018
2017 - 2018
2017 - 2018
Worked with multiple high profile clients to develop an array of products ranging from classic eCommerce solutions to C2C marketplaces.
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
- Scaled from 300,000 to 1 million users. - Worked on messaging system architecture to handle up to 50k requests/hour at peak. - Led development on multiple products ranging from business intelligence tools to our Messenger bots. - Created and launched web presence for a campaign with Dr. Pepper, providing scholarships to latinx college students.
2013 - 2017
2013 - 2017
Helped >100M people/month understand their favorite music. Main responsibilities: - Writing, reviewing and editing of thousands of annotations across multiple artists. - Onboarding and training of new editors - Creating content for our SportsGenius platform http://genius.com/fanahova
2014 - 2016
2014 - 2016
Smart Torvy is a open source home automation ecosystem. We designed the PCB boards, the 3D casing for them and the software that connected everything together. Showcased at Maker Faire Rome in 2014 and 2016.
2013 - 2016
2013 - 2016
We work on various projects from Internet of Things solutions like Smart Torvy (http://smarttorvy.me/) to smart medical equipment. We're currently working with Gemelli Hospital in Rome to build a set of tools to make vital signs tracking easier.
2014 - 2016
2014 - 2016
Freelance development of small web apps/startups MVPs. Technologies used include Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Ember.js, Python, Arduino, static frontend development with HTML/CSS/Js. APIs and services used include Twitter, Stripe, PayPal, NBA.com, KeenIO, ESPN, TrueID.
2013 - 2014
2013 - 2014
Designed our digital content, pitch decks for investors and sponsors, websites, and social media presence.