QS

Quinn Slack

CEO at Sourcegraph

San Francisco, California

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Python
Programming
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Software Engineering
Linux
Web Applications
Ruby on Rails
Software Development
Dogs
Home Lending
Ruby

Education

Lists including Quinn

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AK
AM
BR

Ex-Palantir employees who invest

44 people

AH
AE
AF
AJ

Based in SF

3078 people

AM
AT
AS
AR

All Seed Investors

19695 people

AT
AE
AE
AL

All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

PS
PS
PC
PM

Pre-seed Investors in San Francisco

994 people

AS
BF
DP
JF

Ex-Palantir Investors

44 people

NF
DG
MK
GR

Top Operator Angels

64 people

Investments

Mintlify

Seed

Total Funding: $22M

Stateful

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Wander

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $29M

CodeSandbox

Seed

Total Funding: $15M

Coder

Seed

Total Funding: $83M

Work Experience

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Sourcegraph

2013

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2013

    Universal code AI & code search for every developer and every company.

HC
Hack Club

2015

  • Board Member

    2015

    Hack Club is building a national nonprofit that brings coding clubs to high schools nationwide. Students who love music can join band; students who love sports can join an athletic team; but students who want to code have had to go home and do it alone – until now.

BL
Blend Labs

2012 - 2013

  • Co-founder

    2012 - 2013

    Blend Labs is building modern technology for an industry with old problems, transforming massive, disparate datasets and operational inefficiencies into solutions that positively impact millions of homeowners.

PT
Palantir Technologies

2011 - 2012

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    2011 - 2012

    Developed products and strategies to avoid foreclosures for two of the top five U.S. banks in the home lending space. Created technology platform to automate and improve decision processes and worked with senior execs and end users to develop and deploy the system to thousands of internal users.

SU
Stanford University, Computer Science Department

2009 - 2011

  • Computer Science Researcher

    2010 - 2011

    * Worked on Tcpcrypt (opportunistic transport-layer encryption) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpcrypt) * Created implementations of Web mutual authentication (TLS-SRP), including patches to curl, Apache, NSS, Chromium, Firefox, and Python3

  • Elections Commissioner

    2009 - 2010

    * Planned and executed a successful university-wide elections and funding process with 120 candidates, $2M in student activities funding requests, and 7,500 voters * Cut budget by 50% by designing more effective processes, developing a web-based elections platform, and not spending student government money on beer kegs

TS
The Stanford Review

2007 - 2011

  • Various (Opinion Editor, Webmaster, etc.)

    2007 - 2011

SQS Apps

2008 - 2010

  • Owner

    2008 - 2010

    While at Stanford, I developed paid and free apps with 3.5M downloads, including a #1 app in the US store (Fake Text) and the first instant-searching Chinese-English dictionary.

YOBO

2008 - 2008

  • Developer

    2008 - 2008

    Created the first music streaming iPhone app for the domestic Chinese market

BR
Bleacher Report

2007 - 2007

  • Lead Developer

    2007 - 2007

    First employee. Developed the initial version of what is now at bleacherreport.com.