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Ilya Volodarsky

Co-Founder at Wildfires.org (prev. Segment)

Sedona, Arizona

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022

    Wildfires.org is a non-profit R&D team working to mitigate catastrophic wildfires in the Western U.S, by measuring & scaling hazardous fuel treatments. We assist federal and state agencies in developing technologies aiming to make fuel treatment planning and implementation easier, faster, and cheaper. We pair fuel treatment professionals with technologists, to develop software and hardware to drive those efficiencies.

  • Partner

    2022

    Early stage investors to support entrepreneurs building solutions to our growing wildfire crisis

2011 - 2020

  • Co-Founder & President

    2011 - 2020

    Segment is the world's leading customer data platform (CDP). With my co-founders and an amazing team, we grew to over 600 people and several hundred million in revenue. Segment was bought by Twilio for $3.2B in 2020.

2010 - 2010

  • Program Manager Intern

    2010 - 2010

    Visual Studio Tools for Applications, Developer Division

2008 - 2010

  • Software Developer

    2008 - 2010

    Worked on Vevo's video ingestion pipeline. Working on server performance and scalability tools for IIS7 / Windows Server. - ScaleUp Reliable Transfer Client - Sentinel IIS Monitoring and Analytics Engine

2009 - 2009

  • Researcher

    2009 - 2009

    Worked on the Open Transaction Network, specifically Android client and a few apps for the Microsoft Surface for the Viral Communications Group.