Geoff Donaker spent over a decade as Yelp's COO after joining as employee #10, helping grow the company from essentially zero to hundreds of millions in revenue through IPO, giving him an early-operator to public-company COO experience that's rare among venture investors. He built Burst Capital from his own angel investing before turning it into an early-stage fund, positioning himself as the call-us-when-it's-hard investor that founders can ask have you seen this before based on his experience living through nearly every startup stage.
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Burst Capital
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SaaS, Marketplaces, Fintech, Consumer, Future of Work
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Seed - Series A
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$100K - $2M
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Burst Capital is founded and led by former Yelp executives who scaled the company from $0 to $1B+ in revenue and through IPO, including founder Geoff Donaker (former COO), CFO Rob Krolik, BD/SVP Mike Ghaffary, and operator-leader Wendy Lim who all worked closely together before reassembling as an investing partnership. The fund specializes in marketplaces, SMB/SaaS, and "software and service" internet businesses, with partners who literally wrote playbooks on marketplace unit economics and sales, giving portfolio founders very specific marketplace know-how rather than generic early-stage advice.
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