Invests in
Min Investment:
$1,000,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,500,000.00
Education
Lists including Avichal
Investments
Zeta Markets
Total Funding: $14M
Monad
Total Funding: $260M
Key
Total Funding: $13M
Magrathea
Total Funding: $10M
Soul Wallet
Total Funding: $3M
Integral Treasury
Total Funding: $9M
Pulley
Total Funding: $54M
Magic Eden
Total Funding: $160M
Sublime Finance
Total Funding: $3M
Clay
Total Funding: $58M
Work Experience
2018
Managing Partner
2018
One of the largest global VC firms focused on distributed systems, cryptography, applications of blockchain, privacy preserving technologies.
2014
Angel Investor
2014
Investor to great companies including Airtable, Cruise, Color Genomics, Boom Supersonic, Deel, Figma, Notion, Newfront Insurance, Bitwise, Anchorage, dYdX, Cryptokitties/Dapper, and many more.
2017 - 2018
Part Time Partner
2017 - 2018
Helping YC portfolio companies with product strategy, scaling, fundraising, etc.
2012 - 2016
Director of Product Management
2012 - 2016
Lead product for the Local organization (at the time ~$3.5B in revenue) which includes Pages, Location Infra, Entities, Events, Local Search, and more
2010 - 2012
CEO & Co-Founder
2010 - 2012
Spool was a personal Internet recorder powered by a virtualized crawlers (patent: US 9298827). We could capture any article/video/webpage, save it for you on any device, and let you consume it any time (even offline!). Acquired by Facebook in 2012.
2001 - 2010
CTO & Co-Founder
2001 - 2010
We built the first online adaptive learning and testing engine to help students learn more efficiently. We offered reading, writing, math, and science courses used by tens of thousands of students in districts and charter schools across the US. We bootstrapped the company as a side project for a few years before raising a series A and grew our adaptive learning platform to include academic subjects. Acquired by Hobson's, the education subsidiary of The Daily Mail Group (LON:DMGT).
2005 - 2007
Product Manager
2005 - 2007
Worked on search quality, ads quality, and started Google Transit (now a part of Google Maps).