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Total Funding: $29M
Total Funding: $110M
Total Funding: $37M
Total Funding: $270M
Total Funding: $6M
Total Funding: $150M
Total Funding: $5M
Total Funding: $13M
Total Funding: $320M
Total Funding: $7.5M
2007
2007
I am focused on working with entrepreneurs to build world changing companies. I have been very lucky to be an early investor in world-changing companies such as Doordash (seed), Patreon (seed), Ring (seed), Classpass (series A), Mercury (series A), Bird, Oportun and others.
2012
2012
2006
Karma (acquired by Facebook), Flixster (sold to Warner Brothers), RockYou, Admob (Sold to Google), Xobni (Sold to Yahoo), Voicestar (sold to Marchex), Frengo (Sold to Opera), GreenPatch (Sold to Playdom/Disney), Snip.it (Sold to Yahoo), and others...
2006
2006
Helped found Brightroll and get it off the ground. Brightroll is the leading video ad platform. Acquired by Yahoo in 2014 for $640m in cash.
2006
2006
2007 - 2015
2007 - 2015
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014
2008 - 2013
2008 - 2013
Gave the team the first $250k to build a prototype. Then led their Series A shortly after the product launched. Sold the company to Rakuten in 2013.
2004 - 2006
2004 - 2006
• Joined Adteractive in its very “early days” to help scale the company. I have been a part of the management team that has helped grow the company to over 150 outstanding employees and $120 mm in revenues (2004 revenues are publicly disclosed in the SF Fastest Growing Company Awards). Exec responsibilities involve product, technology, and organizational development and strategy, and lot's of execution. • One of the three operating vice presidents accountable for the company P&L (over $120mm). • Oversee over $10mm in media spend per month across paid-search, CPM/Display, affiliate/performance, and other online media channels. • Directly responsible for 25+ employees including sales, business development, paid-search media buying, and CPM/display media buying. • Responsible for the acquisition of two companies and a few major advertiser relationships. • Champion for the business internally and with outside partners.
2003 - 2004
2003 - 2004
Raised approximately $12mm of equity capital with my business partner to acquire assets that we estimated would sell for $36mm within 3 years of purchase. We ended up selling the assets in less than 2 years for $34mm in cash (October 2005).