Investments
Over the past decade-plus as a general partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), I oversaw the following investments:
- Abacus (acquired by Certify, 2018)
- Altspace (acquired by Microsoft, 2017)
- Ambition
- Amino
- Anchor (acquired by Spotify, 2019)
- Apptimize (acquired by Airship, 2019)
- Artifact
- Byte (acquired by Clash & Discord, 2021)
- Cambly
- Cameo
- Confide (acquired by IAC, 2021)
- Cosmos
- CTRL (acquired by Facebook, 2019)
- Datanyze (acquired by ZoomInfo, 2018)
- Digit (acquired by Oportun, 2021)
- Emissary
- Framed (acquired by Square, 2016)
- Giphy (acquired by Facebook, 2020)
- Gowalla
- Hodinkee
- Intercom
- Jaunt (acquired by Verizon, 2019)
- LaunchKit (acquired by Google, 2016)
- Loom (acquired by Dropbox, 2014)
- Managed by Q (acquired by WeWork, 2019)
- Matter
- Medium
- Packagd (acquired by Facebook, 2019)
- Pager
- Partiful
- Periscope (acquired by Twitter, 2015)
- Quettra (acquired by SimilarWeb, 2015)
- Reserve (acquired by Resy, 2018)
- Rise (acquired by One Medical, 2016)
- Scout (acquired by Workday, 2019)
- Secret (RIP, 2015)
- Slack (NYSE: WORK, 2019 — acquired by Salesforce, 2021)
- Snowball (acquired by Credit Karma, 2015)
- Spring (acquired by ShopRunner, 2018)
- Stripe
- Studio
- Teem (acquired by WeWork, 2018)
- The Players’ Tribune (acquired by Minute Media, 2019)
- TheSkimm
- Universe
- URX (acquired by Pinterest, 2016)
- Zest
Prior to that, I was a general partner at CrunchFund (now Tuesday Capital) where we invested in companies such as:
- Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB, 2020)
- Authy (acquired by Twilio, 2015)
- Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft, 2021)
- Highlight (acquired by Pinterest, 2016)
- Klout (acquired by Lithium 2014)
- Mailbox (acquired by Dropbox, 2013)
- Path (acquired by Kakao, 2015)
- Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN, 2017)
- Silvercar (acquired by Audi, 2017)
- SmartThings (acquired by Samsung, 2014)
- Square (NYSE: SQ, 2015)
- Stamped (acquired by Yahoo, 2012)
- Tilt (acquired by Airbnb, 2017)
- Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo, 2013)
- Uber (NYSE: UBER, 2019)
- Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST, 2020)
- Vine (acquired by Twitter, 2012)
- Voxer
- Wavii (acquired by Google, 2013)
- Yammer (acquired by Microsoft, 2012)
- Yext (NYSE: YEXT, 2017)
- Zumper
Alongside my wife, we are also (or were) personal investors in the following companies:
- Alta
- Gimlet (acquired by Spotify, 2019)
- Humaans
- Multiply
- Playspace (acquired by Google, 2021)
- Rover (acquired by Blackstone, 2024)
We also hold the following individual public stocks:
- Affirm
- Airbnb
- Amazon
- Apple
- Coinbase
- Disney
- Netflix
- Salesforce
- Snap
- Spotify
- Square
- Toast
- Uber
Lastly, we’re LPs in a few different VC funds, but have no control over their holdings. I also invest a lot of money in Apple products.
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