Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Lists including Chi-Hua
Investments
Stash
Total Funding: $470M
Monzo
Total Funding: $1.7B
Facily
Total Funding: $500M
Stori
Total Funding: $220M
Jerry
Total Funding: $220M
IRL
Total Funding: $200M
Rise Science
Total Funding: $10M
Photomath
Total Funding: $29M
TIER Mobility
Total Funding: $550M
Citizen
Total Funding: $110M
Work Experience
2014
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2014
Goodwater is the world’s largest consumer-tech focused venture capital firm, managing over $4B of assets and an early + venture growth stage portfolio of 80 companies in 19 countries around the world. Our seed program serves an additional 700 portfolio companies in 51 countries. The mission of Goodwater is to empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. Our global family of companies provide innovative technology products that address the daily needs of consumers — housing, health care, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment. We believe consumer technology is the most powerful force on earth, shaping global culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. We are devoted to entrepreneurs who are furiously building products and platforms that consumers love.
2016
Early Stage Investor & Board Member
2016
Led the initial Series A pre-revenue investment round into Weee! and worked closely with the company as it pivoted from a 3P marketplace business into a 1P grocery delivery company. Weee! has grown to serve millions of customers per year across more than 25 US cities, and is now the largest ethnic eGrocer in the country.
2016
Early Stage Investor & Board Member
2016
Led a seed round into Stash when the company had 12K accounts and <$150K annualized revenue. Subsequently joined the Board and led the company's Series A financing. The company has since grown to >$100M revenue, >6M accounts, and >$3B AUM.
2017
Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor
2017
Led a venture funding round into Monzo when the company had 300K pre-paid debit card users with <£5M in revenue and negative gross margins. Monzo has since grown to over 8M current accounts and $1B+ in revenue, becoming the largest and most successful neobank in the UK.
2016
Early Stage Investor & Advisor
2016
Co-led an early stage funding round into musically (before it became TikTok) when the company had 7M active users and no revenue. The company was eventually acquired by ByteDance, which rebranded the musically product "TikTok" which has gone on to serve over 1B active users and generate over $10B of annual revenue.
2013
Board Member
2013
2023
Board of Trustees
2023
2011
Venture Growth Stage Investor & Advisor
2011
Led a growth stage funding round into Spotify before it entered the US market. At the time Spotify had <500K subscribers in Europe only and $75M in revenue.
2010
Venture Growth Stage Investor
2010
Co-led a growth investment round into Twitter when it had 50M active users but no proven revenue model outside of data licensing deals to large search providers. The company eventually grew to become a public company and was taken private by Elon Musk in a 2022 acquisition valued at $44B.
2008
Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor
2008
Led a venture funding round into Chegg when it had ~$3M of revenue in its college textbook rentals business. It has grown to over $750M revenues, 8M subscribers, and the largest publicly traded ed tech company in North America.