Spencer Rascoff

Visiting Professor

2019

I have taught entrepreneurship courses at Harvard for the last several years -- one year at Harvard Business School, and three years at Harvard College. In Spring 2023, I co-taught Engineering Sciences 94: Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In Fall 2024, I am teaching Engineering Sciences 134: Technology Ventures, From Idea to Exit.

Board Member

2024

Board of Directors at Match Group (MTCH), owner of Tinder, Hinge, Match, OK Cupid, and other dating apps.

Co-Founder

2023

HeyLibby is an AI sales assistant for small businesses and individuals which talks to your leads, qualifies them, and schedules them for you.

Board Member

2022

Varo is working hard to build a future that's more diverse and financially inclusive. As a new kind of bank, Varo is entirely digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured, and designed for the way customers live their lives. Varo is working with a team that uniquely and strategically combines banking veterans with technology experts. The banking experts provide decades of industry experience, and the tech experts can build a mobile app that offers everyone access to premium banking, including quicker access to your money, high-yield savings, and automatic saving tools.

Co-Founder, Chair of Board of Directors

2020

Co-Founder and Chairperson

2020

Queue is a new social way to save, share, and discuss what you want to watch and what you’re binging. On Queue, you can look up any movie or show, see where it’s streaming, and start binging. You can also keep track of everything you’ve watched and everything your friends recommend. The app, co-founded by Spencer Rascoff and Garrett Rothstein, provides real recommendations from real friends. Follow your closest friends and see what they’re watching, unlock fun badges, check out the Top 10 trending titles on your favorite services, and use the social sharing features to tell your friends about what you’re adding to your Queue.

Co-Founder

2020

Recon Food is a vertical social media app that will bring people together through a shared love of food. The app, which is co-founded by Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow and Hotwire, and his 16-year-old daughter, Sophia Rascoff, was developed in response to the need for a healthy space to connect with others away from the noise, toxicity and politics that often bombard mainstream social media apps. Recon Food is social media, but specific to food. Users can either take photos of their restaurant dishes and review them, or take photos of the dishes they make in their own kitchen for others to see. Users are able to take photos on-demand or let the innovative technology search their camera roll and upload any food-centric photos ever taken. The app then uses geolocation to identify the restaurants where you took the photos and allows you to recommend the dishes. Recon Food users can decide if they want to share their photos and reviews with their connections or with the larger community.

Co-Founder and General Partner

2021

75 & Sunny works with and mentors founders of companies in 75 & Sunny Ventures’ portfolio and takes an active role in launching new start-ups through 75 & Sunny Labs.

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman

2019 - 2024

dotLA is a media and events company which shines a light on the innovation in the Los Angeles tech community. I founded dotLA in 2019 and was Chair until 2024 when the company sold.

Board Member

2020 - 2022