Investing Profile

Ev Williams

VCCEOFounderInvestor
CEO at Medium | Investor at Obvious Ventures
ev.medium.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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Google Network
307 CONNECTIONS
Twitter Network
41 CONNECTIONS
Twitter Network
41 CONNECTIONS
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$250K - $4.0M
$1.5M
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$272M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sanity
Series AOct 2020$9.3M
$62M
Co-investors: Jesse Robbins (Heavybit), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Adam Gross, Evan Williams, Christian Bach, Edvard Engesæth, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Guillermo Rauch
Coda
Series CJul 2020$5M
$250M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners), Jordan Fliegel (Techstars), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Evan Williams, Bradley Horowitz
Highly
SeedJul 2017
Co-investors: Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Evan Williams
AngelList
Funding RoundN/A
$70M
Co-investors: Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Haley Bryant (Hustle Fund), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Drew Austin (Red Beard Ventures), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Ed Roman (Hack VC), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Jonathan Abrams (8-Bit Capital), Chris Arsenault (iNovia Capital), Nicolai Wadstrom (BootstrapLabs), Peter Boboff (Transmedia Capital), Michael Tanne (End Partners), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), Safa Rashtchy (Think + Ventures), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital), Philipp Stauffer (Fyrefly VC), Ben Levy (BootstrapLabs), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Clark Landry, James Hong, Erik Moore, Vishal Rao, Greg Kidd
Artform
Funding RoundN/A
Beyond Meat
Funding RoundN/A
$210M
Co-investors: Jungju (Jay) Kim (Collaborative Fund (Collab Fund)), Don Thompson (Cleveland Avenue), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Ning Sung, Bill Gates, Biz Stone, Seth Goldman, Kai Tse
Blippy
Funding RoundN/A
AirHelp
Funding RoundN/A
$18M
Co-investors: Marco Valta (Ambridge Capital), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Rouven Dresselhaus (Cavalry Ventures), Nordic Eye (Nordic Eye), Wayne Chang, Martin Ott, Badr Al-Rumaih, Saad AlSogair, Greg Kidd
CEO MediumPresent
Co-Founder Obvious Ventures2014 - Present
Board Member Twitter2007 - Present
Founder Obvious2006 - Present
Co-Founder & CEO Twitter2007 - 2010
CEO Odeo2005 - 2006
Program Manager, Blogger Google2003 - 2004
Co-Founder, CEO Pyra Labs1999 - 2003
Marketing Coordinator O'Reilly Media1997 - 1997
University of Nebraska-Lincoln