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17 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Josh Elman, and 14 other investors on Signal.

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Investment Range
$10K - $50K
Sweet Spot
$20K
Investments On Record
9

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Darius Contractor's Investments On Record (8)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Zero
Pre SeedDec 2024$3M
$7M
Co-investors: Tony Conrad (True Ventures), Harry Stebbings (20VC), Dan McCormick (Antler), Julien Codorniou (Felix Capital), Philipp Moehring (AngelList Syndicator), Stefan Jeschonnek, Jan Deepen, Jeremy Yap, Shane Neman
Loops
SeedNov 2022$10M
$16M
Co-investors: Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Jon Dishotsky (Giant Ventures), Max Altman (Saga), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Thomas Palm (CapitalG), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Gonzalo Martinez De Azagra (Cardumen Capital), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Arash Ferdowsi
MadKudu
Series ANov 2022$18M
$18M
Co-investors: Niki Pezeshki (Felicis Ventures)
The.com
SeedJan 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: James Currier (NFX), Stan Chudnovsky (NFX), Harry Stebbings (20VC), Vijay Chattha (VSC Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Drew Koven
Omneky
SeedSep 2021$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Grant Gittlin (MediaLink), Richard Socher (AIX Ventures), Aniq Kassam (FAST — by GETTYLAB), Bruno Faviero (Alloy Fund), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Tien Tzuo, Charlie Feng, Naguib Sawiris
Zesty
SeedMar 2014$4M
Seed RoundMar 2014$3.7M
$16M
Co-investors: Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Charlie Pinto (Bling Capital), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), Christina Brodbeck (Rivet Ventures), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Cameron McLain (Giant Ventures), Jude Gomila (Jude Gomila Rolling Fund), David Waroquier (Mangrove Capital Partners), Jonathan Swanson, David Rowan, Sumon Sadhu, Jeremy Yap, Kulveer Taggar, Naveen Jain, Jugoslav Petkovic, Joshua Reeves
Calm
SeedFeb 2013$470K
$220M
Co-investors: Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Matt Cheng (Cherubic Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Tabreez Verjee (Uprising), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Tommy Stadlen (Giant Ventures), Cameron McLain (Giant Ventures), Jeff Cantalupo (Listen ), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), David Langer (Lionheart Ventures), Serik Kaldykulov (Elefund), Oleg Tscheltzoff, Darran Garnham, Kirill Makharinsky, Joe Greenstein, Michael Birch, Raj Luhar, Marc Benioff, Pete Moore, Saki Georgiadis
SimpleGeo
Debt FinancingNov 2009$200K
$9.2M
Co-investors: Ron Conway (SV Angel), Scott Raney (Redpoint Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Rob Hayes (First Round Capital), David Lee (SLVC), Gary Vaynerchuk (Vayner RSE), David Lee (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Tim Ferriss, Joshua Schachter

Darius Contractor's Experience

Engineering Manager, Growth Dropbox2014 - Present
CTO, Head of Growth FWD.us2013 - 2014
VP of Growth, Product and Engineering Bebo / People Networks / AOL2006 - 2010
Head of Product & Engineering, Ringo.com Monster Worldwide2004 - 2006
Product Engineer Tickle2002 - 2004

Darius Contractor's Education

Stanford University BS Computer Science