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Chris Ovitz

Entrepreneur / Team Builder / Investor

Los Angeles County, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    Electric Ant is an operator fund founded by Chris Ovitz, Chase Feiger, and Ryan Junee. We invest at the Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages. Investments include Layer Zero, Stargate, Rye.com, Atropos Health, Certify OS, Maximus Health, Mountaintop Studios, and Stan.

2022 - 2023

  • Head of Special Projects

    2022 - 2023

    OK Play was acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022

2019 - 2022

  • Co-Founder and President

    2019 - 2022

    Acquired by Dapper Labs. OK Play is an 'award winning' mobile app that empowers kids to create, play and share - using our homegrown digital tools for drawing, photography, video, sound recording, and augmented reality. Our community scaled to over 1M+ active kids prior to being acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022.

2019 - 2021

  • Venture Partner

    2019 - 2021

    Investments include Beyond Meat (pre-IPO secondary), Pinterest (pre-IPO secondary), NotCo, mmhmm, and Block Renovation.

2018 - 2018

  • Vice President of Technology Partnerships

    2018 - 2018

    Workpop was acquired by Cornerstone

2014 - 2018

  • Founder and Co-CEO

    2014 - 2018

    Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) Streamlined hiring and HR for SMBs. Workpop supports smaller retail chains and well-known brands such as The Peninsula Hotels, Hillstone Restaurant Group, Tao Group, Sweetgreen and Jersey Mike’s Subs.

2013 - 2018

  • Advisor

    2013 - 2018

2013 - 2014

  • Advisor

    2013 - 2014

    Member, Box Media & Entertainment Advisory Board

2013 - 2013

  • Vice President of Business Development

    2013 - 2013

    Award winning interactive entertainment company and mobile games publisher.

2011 - 2013

  • Co-founder

    2011 - 2013

    Acquired by Fullscreen, Inc. Viddy was a venture backed social mobile video platform, which in just over a year, grew to 50 million users, earned the #1 ranking in the App Store in 49 countries and later sold to Fullscreen. In this role, I oversaw strategy, marketing and product partnerships. Viddy was backed by NEA, Khosla Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Allen & Company.