Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000,000.00Target Investment:
$10,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
Lists including Anish
Investments
EarnBetter
Total Funding: $5M
Silo
Total Funding: $72M
Method Financial
Total Funding: $22M
The Coterie
Total Funding: $40M
PayAll Payment Systems
Total Funding: $10M
Keep Financial
Total Funding: $9M
Deel
Total Funding: $680M
Reforge
Total Funding: $81M
Party Round
Total Funding: $7M
Mosaic
Total Funding: $80M
Work Experience
2019
General Partner
2019
Announced investments: Series B investments: Titan: https://a16z.com/2021/07/20/investing-in-titan/ Series A investments: Silo: https://a16z.com/2020/09/24/investing-in-silo/ Mosaic: https://a16z.com/2020/09/02/investing-in-mosaic/ Deel: https://a16z.com/2020/05/21/investing-in-deel/ Seed investments: Carbonated: https://www.carbonated.com/ Runway: https://a16z.com/2020/06/25/investing-in-runway/ Arc Boats: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1420891974081544192 Partyround: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1461390728580382724?s=21
2015 - 2019
GM, Core Product
2017 - 2019
VP, Product Management
2017 - 2019
GM, U.S. Card
2016 - 2017
Senior Director, Product Management
2015 - 2017
Credit Karma is the largest consumer internet company focused on helping users with their finances, with over 75MM users and over $500MM in 2016 revenue. Owner of all consumer facing experiences, including the website & apps.
2014 - 2015
Founder & CEO
2014 - 2015
Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Credit Karma. Founded Snowball as an effort to reimagine the mobile operating system by re-defining the core system experiences, beginning with messaging and notifications. The first product was a unified messaging app and our second product was a smart inbox for notifications, both launched to industry acclaim. Snowball also broke new technical ground by pioneering the ability to extend the Android OS from an app in the Play Store. Snowball raised $2.3MM from Google Ventures, First Round, Felicis etc.
2010 - 2014
Entrepreneur in Residence
2014 - 2014
Moved into Entrepreneur In Residence role in support of building a new company (Snowball). Raised $2.3MM in a round led by First Round & Google Ventures to spin Snowball out of GV.
Partner
2012 - 2014
Joined Google Ventures as an investing partner with an external focus on gaming + consumer internet. Led and supported deals across marketplaces, messaging, mid-core gaming, and ad-tech. Restructured organization to streamline all aspects of operations.
Lead Product Manager, Social
2010 - 2012
Built & led early mobile teams for Google+ including iOS, Android, platform and more. Promoted multiple times to eventually run all mobile efforts for Google Social.
2008 - 2010
Founder & CEO
2008 - 2010
Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Google. Grew network to over 2MM players and 10 games on a single institutional round, 5X exit for investors. Founded SocialDeck as a social platform and publisher for mobile games, connecting a network of players across devices and platforms. SocialDeck pioneered many of the now-standard industry concepts, such as use of address book for virality / graph, cross-device gameplay, and discovery outside of the AppStore.
2004 - 2008
Software Development Engineer
2004 - 2008
Developer on the Distributed System Engineering and Checkout By Amazon teams. Promoted to SDE-II after successful work in the effort to migrate Amazon to a service oriented architecture.
2000 - 2000
Software Development Intern
2000 - 2000