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.