MB

Marc Baghadjian

CEO at Hypercard, Forbes 30 Under 30

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Taste
Hunger
Humor
Foreign Languages
Leadership
Administration
Entrepreneurship
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Welding
Management
Customer Service
Sales
Microsoft Office
Marketing
Social Media
Strategic Planning
Marketing Strategy

Education

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2022

  • Angel Investor & Advisor

    2020

    Pre-Seed & Seed Investor: Lula, Babylon Bio, Wispr AI, Wombo, Superpower, Anja, Kadama, Crescent Health (acq. BetterUp), Simly, Valley, Fitted, Air.ai, additionally, a visiting judge/partner at Z-Fellows. Series A: Rogo.ai Advisory Board: Our Future (acq. Morning Brew), swsh.

2018 - 2022

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2018 - 2022

    Built a new type of dating app with great folks from Ron Conway's SV Angel to the ex-CEO of Apple, John Sculley. Skippit Inc. DBA Lolly Dating. Learn more at thelollyapp.com.

  • Lebanese Junior Men's Epee Team

    2017 - 2018

    I have competed on the Lebanese International Junior (19 & Under) Men’s Epee Team. This entails traveling around the world and participating in international tournaments (world championship, grand prix, asia cup). This circuit includes Olympic athletes from many countries.

  • Founder

    2016 - 2017

    I ran all operations for my startup. Started my own company based off of an idea that I fostered, drew, and built. Secured members for my company advisory board. Successfully raised capital, prototyped, and patented, the product in preparation for commercialization. I have successfully sold RapidFire and no longer have a position in the company.

  • Production Intern

    2017 - 2017

    Worked under the president of TNP meeting with strategic partners, putting decks together to develop partnerships for fortune 500 companies, shot and edited commercials for TNP partners.

2016 - 2016

  • Marketing-Sales Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Provide strategic insight and market data to the Levels Beyond team. This includes compiling market research into thorough documents in an attempt to increase ReachEngine's market share. Highly statistical work accompanied by general market research.

2015 - 2016

  • Strategic Intern

    2015 - 2016

    Provided strategic insight and helped the ModernGuild team plan how to best reach target demographics. Conducting focus groups to collect qualitative and quantitative data on the ModernGuild programs to test strengths and weaknesses of the program. Address questions from students about ModernGuild too spread awareness. Attend ModernGuild meetings to discuss future company operations.

  • Chemistry Research Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Researched methods of using singlet fission to produce higher efficiency solar cells under Professor Josef Michl and Thomas Magenera.