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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
8

Darius Contractor is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Darius Contractor's Investments On Record (7)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
MadKudu
Series ANov 2022$18M
$18M
Co-investors: Niki Pezeshki (Felicis Ventures)
Loops
SeedNov 2022$10M
$16M
Co-investors: Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), 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), Jon Dishotsky (Giant Ventures), Arash Ferdowsi
The.com
SeedJan 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: James Currier (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), Naguib Sawiris, Tien Tzuo, Charlie Feng
Zesty
Seed RoundMar 2014$3.7M
SeedMar 2014$4M
$16M
Co-investors: Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Charlie Pinto (Bling Capital), Cameron McLain (Giant Ventures), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Christina Brodbeck (Rivet Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Jude Gomila (Jude Gomila Rolling Fund), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), David Waroquier (Mangrove Capital Partners), Jugoslav Petkovic, Joshua Reeves, Sumon Sadhu, Jonathan Swanson, David Rowan, Jeremy Yap, Kulveer Taggar, Naveen Jain
Calm
SeedFeb 2013$470K
$220M
Co-investors: Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matt Cheng (Cherubic Ventures), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), David Langer (Lionheart Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Serik Kaldykulov (Elefund), Tommy Stadlen (Giant Ventures), Cameron McLain (Giant Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Jeff Cantalupo (Listen ), Tabreez Verjee (Uprising), Joe Greenstein, Pete Moore, Michael Birch, Raj Luhar, Saki Georgiadis, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Marc Benioff, Darran Garnham, Kirill Makharinsky
SimpleGeo
Debt FinancingNov 2009$200K
$9.2M
Co-investors: David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), Scott Raney (Redpoint Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Rob Hayes (First Round Capital), David Lee (Samsung NEXT Ventures), David Lee (SLVC), Gary Vaynerchuk (Vayner RSE), 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