Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$400,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
- Uo
- i3
- YC
Lists including James
Investments
Proof of Play
Total Funding: $33M
Superblocks
Total Funding: $37M
Aside
Total Funding: $17M
Darkstore
Total Funding: $88M
Roboflow
Total Funding: $24M
Hasura
Total Funding: $140M
Golden
Total Funding: $60M
Fairy
Total Funding: $4M
Terminal49
Total Funding: $9M
SendMeHome.com
Total Funding: $50K
Work Experience
2018
Board Member
2018
Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm. We sequester carbon for millennia by taking biomass, turning it into bio-oil, and pumping it underground into old oil wells.
2020 - 2023
Co-Founder
2020 - 2023
501c3 that made COVID understandable with dashboards. Helped save X0,000s of lives by improving individual, business, and government decision-making.
2014 - 2017
Group Product Manager
2014 - 2017
Firebase was acquired by Google. I worked on making Firebase better using Google's resources.
2011 - 2017
Co-Founder & CEO
2011 - 2017
Tools and infrastructure powering >3,000,000 iOS, Android, and Web apps.
2008 - 2011
Co-Founder
2008 - 2011
I co-founded several startups before Firebase (all with the same co-founder) doing design, development, bizdev, marketing, taking out the trash, and everything in-between. Envolve: - Facebook-style chat for any website - Used by artists like Ricky Martin and startups like Genius.com - Shut down to focus on Firebase SendMeHome: - The world's first free lost and found tracking service - Voted #64 in PC Magazine's top 100 products of 2009 - Acquired by a larger competitor Keep Security: - We built a fingerprint sensor for the iPhone that authorized payments in 2008 - Failed; hardware is difficult