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Founding Year
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
SaaS
Funding State
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Exited
Total Funding Amount
$141.12M
Funds that Investested
Elad Gil
Elad Gil is an active angel investor and was the co-founder of Color Genomics and former vice president of Twitter.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
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Sequoia Capital
Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Liquid 2 Ventures
Led by investors including Joe Montana, Liquid 2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Quiet Capital
Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Zillionize
Zillionize is a low friction startup investor with a portfolio of over 100 fast growing startups.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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SVA
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
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Y Combinator
Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
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Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is the former CEO of GitHub. He has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
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Investors that Investested
Daniel Gross
, Pioneer
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Nat Friedman
Angel Investor, Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business. Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Elad Gil
Angel Investor, Elad Gil
Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, OpenSea, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Bryan Schreier
Partner, Sequoia Capital
I look for audacious authenticity. The audacious part is that it has to be a big idea that will truly make a difference in the world. But to me, authenticity is most important. Someone who understands a problem space better than anyone else will be the absolute best steward for their company. They’re never going to give up on their idea, and no one can compete with their instincts and commitment. My goal is to be a founder’s first call. That’s not something you can add to a term sheet. It has to be earned—through trust, delivery and being there when things are messy and hard. Real company-building is not glamorous work. I thrive on partnering with people who will make a dent in tomorrow—and on being there with whatever they need to maximize that dent.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Cindy Bi
General Partner, CapitalX
Enterprise focused early-stage VC with $100k-$500k checks via CapitalX.vc. Also invest in later stage via SPVs for $250k $2m or more. Since 2011, I’ve invested in over 100 startups with High Hit Rate including 12 x Unicorns. In addition, I've also invested in more than 10 VC funds. I know what it takes to build a high-impact company at different stages, as a long-time executive and operator, a former founder, and consultant at Accenture. Founders also love working with me for being an empathetic executive coach, cheerleader for the early team, and ambassador for their brand and community.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Vibhor Khanna
Vice President, Coatue
Vibhor helps lead Venture Investing at Coatue, where he has invested in the following companies: Board: Aurora Solar, Fonoa, RunwayML, Latch Bio, Kurtosis, Unsupervised Investor: Notion, Hugging Face, Supabase, Weights & Biases, Clickhouse, Repl.it, Airbyte, Retool, Starburst Data, Kubecost, Tackle.io, Cove Tool, Bigeye, Lightning AI, Orbit, Edge Impulse, Gantry, Commerce Layer, Coursedog
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Paul Graham
Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Michael Seibel
Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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