JM

John Melas-Kyriazi

Co-Founder & CEO at Standard Metrics

San Francisco, California

CEO
Angel

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Series A

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Materials Science
Physics
Entrepreneurship
Photovoltaics
Business Development
Semiconductors
Renewable Energy
Research
Solar Cells
Venture Capital
Start-ups
Analysis
Solar Energy
Corporate Development
Product Development
Strategy
Product Management
Strategic Partnerships
Business Strategy

Education

Investments

Full Harvest

Series A

Total Funding: $34M

Full Harvest Technologies

Series A

Total Funding: $8.5M

Wildtype

Seed

Total Funding: $120M

Clora

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Work Experience

Standard Metrics

2020

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2020

    Standard Metrics automates portfolio reporting for VC teams and their portfolio companies. Learn more at standardmetrics.io

MK Investments

2019

  • Angel Investor

    2019

    Angel investments: - Numeric (numeric.io) - Onebrief (onebrief.com) - Hone (honehealth.com) - Seso (sesolabor.com) - Clipboard Health (clipboardhealth.com) - Ello (ello.com) - Vartana (vartana.com) - Nuvocargo (nuvocargo.com) - MainStreet (mainstreet.com) - Auxilius (auxili.us) - Mundi (mundi.io) - Multiply (withmultiply.com) - Distill (distill.fyi) - Provenance (provenance.co) - Pilot (getpilot.ai) - Puck (careerpuck.com) - Eco (eco.com) - withco (with.co) - Archie (witharchie.com) - Clora (clora.com) - Heyday (heyday.xyz) - Climax Foods (climaxfoods.com) - Mezcal Rosaluna (mezcalrosaluna.com) - Prima (prima.co) - gtxn (gtxn.co) - Realm (realmalliance.com) - Poised (poised.com) — acquired by Deepgram - Legalpad (legalpad.io) — acquired by Deel Later-stage investments alongside VC friends: - Flexport (flexport.com) - Shield AI (shield.ai) - Oxide (oxide.computer) - True Anomaly (trueanomaly.space) - Route (route.com) - nTop (ntop.com) - AtoB (atob.us)

8VC

2020

  • Advisor

    2020

    8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies.

First Round Capital

2023

  • Angel Track

    2023

    Member of First Round Capital's Fall 2023 Angel Track  cohort.

Spark Capital

2014 - 2020

  • Investor

    2014 - 2020

    Investments I led: - Clipboard Health (Series A) - Wildtype (seed, board member) - Full Harvest (Series A, board member) - Clora (seed, board member) Investments I sourced: - Andela (Series A, board observer) - Capella Space (Series A, board observer) - Allstripes (Series A) — acquired by PicnicHealth - Freight Farms (Series A, board observer) - Sidewire (seed, board observer) Other: - SoundHouse (seed, co-founded/incubated) — acquired by HarbourView (https://www.billboard.com/pro/harbourview-acquires-soundhouse-biggest-acquisition-to-date/)

StartX

2012 - 2014

  • CFO & Head of Business Development

    2012 - 2014

    StartX is a community of entrepreneurs affiliated with Stanford University.

Stanford University

2009 - 2012

  • Applied Physics Researcher

    2009 - 2012

    My research at Stanford focused on the materials science and device physics of solar cells and photo-electrochemical devices. Publications: http://bit.ly/3SxdYto