AI

Alex Iskold

Founder | Investor | Partner 2048 Ventures

New York, New York

Work Experience

  • Founder and Partner

    2018

    2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. We are the first-check, high conviction, lead investor backing founders who are building businesses differentiated through technology. We are based in NYC, and invest across North America. Pitch us: https://2048.vc/pitch First check investor in: GlossGenius, Vitally, soona, AirspaceLink, nomic.bio, Aerodome and many other incredible companies.

  • Founder

    2022

    The mission of The $1K Project Ukraine is to help sponsors around the world to directly send $1k to families in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees. Sponsor a family: 1kproject.org/sponsor Make a large donation: 1kproject.org/donate Місія The $1K Project Ukraine полягає в тому, щоб допомогти спонсорам у Сполучених Штатах, Європі та всьому світі напряму надсилати гроші сім’ям в Україні та українським біженцям.

  • Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence

    2020

    Holding regular office hours and working with the Harvard Business School students as a coach and VC in Residence.

  • Blogger

    2014

    I write one of the top blogs for startups featuring detailed advice on Fundraising, Metrics, GTM, Product, Growth and much more. http://startuphacks.vc

2020 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2021

    Helped raise more than $3 Million for over 1,000 families to help with pandemic relief. Visit http://1kproject.org for more info: #1kproject - Inspired by the immense needs felt by families in the pandemic, we came together to connect families in crisis with direct support of $1k each month for 3 months from a sponsor family. Within a few tweets, a team of entrepreneurial, tech and design talent came together to start The $1k Project. We use personal networks to directly match a family impacted by the pandemic with a family committed to giving them $1k for 3 months.

2013 - 2018

  • Managing Director, NYC

    2013 - 2018

    Helping create next generation of amazing startups & valuable companies in New York City. Invested in 100 startups. First check in: GlossGenius, Gorgias, Narmi, Vitally, DataCamp, Stream, Mantl, BentoBox, Healthie, Scopenow, PathSpot and may others.

2010 - 2013

  • Founder/CEO

    2010 - 2013

    Created and ran social TV/second screen network called GetGlue.

2007 - 2010

  • Founder/CEO

    2007 - 2010

    Envisioned and built innovative semantic web browsing technologies.

2006 - 2009

  • Feature Writer

    2006 - 2009

    Moonlighted writing about trends and analysis posts for one of the best tech blogs.

  • Chief Architect, VP

    2005 - 2007

    Built distributed computing software.