Christian Rudder

Director

2023

Imbue develops AI systems optimized for reasoning, aiming to create practical AI agents that can accomplish larger goals and safely work for us in the real world. I joined the board to advise on their $200M Series B, closed in September 2023.

Director

2023

Musubi is a revolutionary, AI-based approach to content moderation, supercharging your team's capabilities. Specifically designed for social platforms and marketplaces, Musubi’s AiModerator gives you infinite copies of your best moderator with impeccable attention to detail.

Founding Venture Partner

2014

Corazon is a leading Chicago-based venture fund. We deliver a rare blend of investing experience and operating expertise, and Corazon provides unusually pragmatic, actionable counsel to the entrepreneurs it supports.

Co-Founder & CEO

2020 - 2023

Archean Biologics developed an influenza-A-based delivery vector for anti-cancer immunotherapies. The company's first drug targeted advanced melanoma, and while we made significant progress in cargo delivery and expression, we were ultimately unable to achieve the safety profile necessary to advance to clinical trials. The company had outlicensed relevant IP from NYU Langone and Mt Sinai and developed significant proprietary IP in the areas of microRNA-based gene silencing and viral packaging signal composition. Archean raised a Seed Round of $4.5M and employed 6 research scientists.

Advisory Board Member

2020 - 2022

As part of the group that bought Grindr from Kunlun in 2020, I helped the company build their product team and improve their user discovery and monetization models in preparation for their successful 2022 IPO.

Co-Founder & CEO

2003 - 2015

In the early days of OkCupid, I designed product, wrote content, and coded some very, very dank javascript. From 2009 - 2011, I led the data science team, where I focused on growth through product- and content-marketing. I published many of our findings on user behavior on the company blog, and later I adapted this work into the New York Times bestseller, "Dataclysm". After our acquisition by Match/IAC, I ran OkCupid. OkC's revenue 5x'd in that period, from 2012 - 2014, and the playbook we developed became the Match Group's freemium monetization model, later used at Tinder and PlentyOfFish.

Creative Director

1999 - 2002