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Avichal Garg

Managing Partner at Electric Capital, serial entrepreneur, angel investor

Stanford, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2018

    One of the largest global VC firms focused on distributed systems, cryptography, applications of blockchain, privacy preserving technologies.

Startups

2014

  • Angel Investor

    2014

    Investor to great companies including Airtable, Cruise, Color Genomics, Boom Supersonic, Deel, Figma, Notion, Newfront Insurance, Bitwise, Anchorage, dYdX, Cryptokitties/Dapper, and many more.

2017 - 2018

  • Part Time Partner

    2017 - 2018

    Helping YC portfolio companies with product strategy, scaling, fundraising, etc.

2012 - 2016

  • Director of Product Management

    2012 - 2016

    Lead product for the Local organization (at the time ~$3.5B in revenue) which includes Pages, Location Infra, Entities, Events, Local Search, and more

Spool

2010 - 2012

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2010 - 2012

    Spool was a personal Internet recorder powered by a virtualized crawlers (patent: US 9298827). We could capture any article/video/webpage, save it for you on any device, and let you consume it any time (even offline!). Acquired by Facebook in 2012.

2001 - 2010

  • CTO & Co-Founder

    2001 - 2010

    We built the first online adaptive learning and testing engine to help students learn more efficiently. We offered reading, writing, math, and science courses used by tens of thousands of students in districts and charter schools across the US. We bootstrapped the company as a side project for a few years before raising a series A and grew our adaptive learning platform to include academic subjects. Acquired by Hobson's, the education subsidiary of The Daily Mail Group (LON:DMGT).

2005 - 2007

  • Product Manager

    2005 - 2007

    Worked on search quality, ads quality, and started Google Transit (now a part of Google Maps).