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Brian Ma

Partner at Iterative Capital | Founder at Divvy Homes

San Francisco, California

Skills

Product Management
E-commerce
Product Development
Entrepreneurship
SEO
Fundraising
Start-ups
Web Analytics
Strategic Planning
Google Analytics
Business Strategy
Startup Mentorship
Program Management
Online Marketing
Cloud Computing
Market Research
Google Adwords
SEM
Development Testing
Analytics

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder, General Partner

    2018

    Iterative invests in early stage companies and runs an accelerator focused on Southeast Asia. Our mission is to fund and build the next unicorns in the region. We saw a giant gap in the lack of founder friendly resources and community in the region and decided to change that. Iterative is operator-led and focuses specifically in making good founders, great founders. We look at every sector: AI, fintech, real estate, marketplaces, saas, crypto, healthcare, etc. Find out more at: iterative.vc. If you're a startup advancing the region, please apply. If you're an investor that wants to help up-level the region, lets connect.

  • Founder

    2016

    Former CEO, now board member. Divvy allows customers to build equity credits as they rent. Our mission is to close the housing affordability gap by providing trusted, transparent, and simple homeownership products for families. Divvy was incubated in Max Levchin’s startup studio HVF and is backed by a16z, GIC, Caffeinated Capital, and Tiger Global. See more: www.divvyhomes.com

2016 - 2018

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2016 - 2018

    HVF is Max Levchin's startup studio that birthed Affirm, Yelp, and Glow. Spent time at HVF (thx Max!) to birth Divvy Homes.

2013 - 2018

  • Founder, CEO

    2013 - 2018

    Weave is an mobile app that helps you meet interesting professionals near you. Whenever you are open to connecting, you can use Weave to review interesting professionals nearby. If they also want to meet you, Weave will connect you both.

Various Startups

2011 - 2018

  • Angel Investor/Advisor

    2011 - 2018

    I enjoy meeting smart people and helping other entrepreneurs change the world. Have made 70+ investments. 3 unicorns and many soon-to-be unicorns. :)

  • Founder

    2009 - 2013

    - Started company out of basement on top-ramen and costco pizza. - Raised Series A to build out current elite team on a mission to bring transparency and efficiency to ecommerce pricing. - Established culture of rapid experimentation and learning - Day-to-day: program management, metrics/analytics, and customer support - Major projects: Alpha prototype for fundraising, Deals site, Beta launch in 3 cats, Freemium, Customer Support, Growth team experiments, Analytics infrastructure and KPIs, User Research. - Get updates on our progress at @decide

2008 - 2009

  • Founder, CEO

    2008 - 2009

    Company founded on the idea that data-mining and analyzing resumes will help people figure out the best next moves, skills, and connections necessary to improve their careers. - Core team of 4. Basement, pizza, top ramen - no heat, no salary. Fun times. - In a small startup, everyone does almost everything.

  • Real Estate Agent, Investor, and Junkie

    2006 - 2009

    - I love real estate. - I buy, sell, and invest in real estate for fun. - My dream is to one day build a skyscraper... that flies.

2005 - 2008

  • Program Manager

    2005 - 2008

    - Managed a bunch of projects for the V1 release of Zillow. - Major projects included: Zestimator, Credit Cards, Community, Neighborhood data and pages, Profiles, Admin, Customer Support, API, Forums, Professional Directory, Reputation, Blog, Digs, and more. - Beat people at Guitar Hero and Ping Pong

2004 - 2005

  • Program Manager

    2004 - 2005

    - 3 consecutive summer PM internships working on various internal msn projects - Microsoft ambassador to the University of Washington