Josh Elman
Product Builder
San Francisco Bay Area
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$25,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$50,000.00
Skills
Education
- SU
Lists including Josh
Investments
Nova
Total Funding: $8M
Ladder
Total Funding: $320M
Kinema
Total Funding: $2M
Reface
Total Funding: $6M
Northstar
Total Funding: $34M
Jam
Total Funding: $15M
Hub
Total Funding: $23M
TruStory
Total Funding: $6M
Mammoth Media
Total Funding: $14M
Trimian
Total Funding: $3M
Work Experience
2020
Director of Product Management
2023
Product Management
2020 - 2023
2009
Angel Investor / Product Advisor
2009
I advise and/or have invested in several different early stage startups companies that are focused on reinventing media, social, crypto, and apps. I also frequently meet with entrepreneurs informally to discuss product, growth, and social strategy.
2011 - 2020
Board Partner
2018 - 2020
I continue to support investments I have made with Greylock including serving on the boards of Medium, Discord, and Mammoth Media.
General Partner
2013 - 2018
I have focused on investing in entrepreneurs building new consumer products and services. In particular, I have focused on new social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and marketplaces. I invested in Seed, Series A, and Series B. I led Greylock’s investments in and have served on the boards of Medium, Discord, Musical.ly (acquired by Bytedance, renamed to Tiktok), SmartThings (acquired by Samsung), Houseparty/Meerkat (acquired by Epic), Mammoth Media, and more.
Principal
2011 - 2013
2017 - 2020
Board Member
2017 - 2020
2016 - 2020
Board Member
2016 - 2020
2014 - 2020
Board Member
2014 - 2020
2018 - 2019
VP Product
2018 - 2019
Robinhood’s mission is to democratize access to financial markets. I oversaw marketing/growth, design, research, product management, and content (grew to ~50 people). In my time, we more than doubled customers and revenue.
2015 - 2019
Board Member
2015 - 2019
Houseparty / Life on Air was acquired by Epic Games in June 2019.
2013 - 2018
Investor / Board Observer
2013 - 2018
2015 - 2017
Board Observer / Investor
2015 - 2017
Musical.ly was acquired by Bytedance (makers of Toutiao) in December 2017. Musically is now known as Tiktok.