Investing Profile

Ev Williams

VCCEOFounderInvestor

CEO at Medium | Investor at Obvious Ventures

ev.medium.comSan Francisco Bay Area

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Current Investing Position

Obvious Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $4.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$272M

Ev Williams is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Human Capital/HRTech (Seed)Food and Beverage (Seed)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Seed)Consumer Health (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Future of Work (Seed)Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) (Seed)Wellness & Fitness (Seed)Supply Chain Tech (Seed)Digital Health (Seed)

Ev Williams's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Sanity	Series AOct 2020$9.3M	$150M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Adam Gross, Edvard Engesæth, Christian Bach, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Guillermo Rauch
Coda	Series CJul 2020$5M	$940M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners)
Highly	SeedJul 2017
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures)
Din	Funding RoundN/A	$3M
Co-investors: Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Jose Marin (Serendipity Investments), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health)
Typekit	Funding RoundN/A
Blue Bottle Coffee	Funding RoundN/A	$120M
Co-investors: Tony Conrad (True Ventures), David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), Noah Glass (Founder Collective), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Caterina Fake (Yes VC), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Carter Reum (M13), Michael Arrieta (Garden City Companies), Tony Hawk (Unknown Ventures), Bryan Meehan, Jared Leto, Biz Stone, Mike Krieger, Paul Hewson (Bono)
AirHelp	Funding RoundN/A	$18M
Co-investors: Wayne Chang (Techstars), Rouven Dresselhaus (Cavalry Ventures), Badr Al-Rumaih (Isometry Capital), Greg Kidd (globaliD), Marco Valta (Hotmail), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Nordic Eye (Nordic Eye), Saad AlSogair, Martin Ott
Blippy	Funding RoundN/A