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Drew Uher

Founder/CEO at HomeLight

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Investments
Venture Capital
Corporate Development
Private Equity
Strategic Partnerships
Financial Modeling
Mergers
Strategy
Product Management
Angel Investing
Business Development
Business Strategy
Due Diligence
Digital Media
Ruby on Rails
Finance
Online Advertising
Mergers & Acquisitions

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder/CEO

    2012

    HomeLight’s software powers the business of top real estate agents and enables them to deliver game changing results for their clients. We've grown to 500+ team members and a $1.7bn valuation. HomeLight has won several awards for company culture and traction including Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces and Fortune Magazine as a Real Estate Company to Watch. We're proud to facilitate billions of real estate transactions on our platform each year. Our team breaks barriers everyday while staying committed to HomeLight's goals and core values, which is a crucial element to our success. Please apply at HomeLight through our careers page at: https://www.homelight.com/careers.

1984 Ventures

2017

  • Venture Partner

    2017

2015

  • Angel Investor

    2015

    I'm an active angel investor, including the following companies: Turntide - Developing the world's most efficient electric motor Shasqi - Curing cancer Firebolt - Snowflake, but 100x faster withco - Helping small businesses own, not rent, their property House RX - Enabling clinics to dispense specialty medication directly to patients EasyKnock - Helping homeowners sell without leaving their home Pano - Ending wildfire destruction

2009 - 2010

  • Co-Founder

    2009 - 2010

    Gameyola is a distribution and monetization platform for casual Flash games. We help Flash game developers acquire users through social channels and sell virtual goods in their games. We grew the site to 250,000 daily active users and millions of total users. Gameyola is funded and incubated by the fbFund. www.fbfund.com

2008 - 2008

  • Business Development

    2008 - 2008

    PubMatic is an online advertising optimization startup. The company's technology helps web publishers maximize their ad revenue by routing traffic to the highest paying ad networks. During the summer of 2008, I led the company's strategic partnership efforts. I also had the chance to wear many hats, helping to build key products to propel the company's growth and leading the company's first major revenue transaction.

2004 - 2007

  • Associate

    2004 - 2007

    As a member of Morgan Stanley’s credit strategy team, I founded and led the firm’s US hybrid capital research effort. Before focusing on hybrid securities, I covered banks and mortgage companies for the fixed income research group from both the New York and London offices.

Q Investments, L.P.

2002 - 2004

  • Investment Analyst

    2002 - 2004

    Q Investments is a multi-strategy hedge fund located in Fort Worth, Texas. At Q, I had the opportunity to manage a large Treasury portfolio to hedge the interest rate risk of the firm. I also oversaw the firm’s financing activity, traded repo positions, and monitored risk levels of all firm portfolios.

2001 - 2001

  • Summer Analyst

    2001 - 2001