Investing Profile

Evan Williams

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Co-Founder at Obvious Ventures
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Current Investing Position
Obvious Ventures
Investments On Record
27
Current Fund Size
$272M

Evan Williams's Investments On Record (23)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Arcade
SeedSep 2024$17M
$76M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Laura Chau (Canaan Partners), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Terrence Rohan (Robinhood), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), Jay Po (Stage 2 Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Mathilde Collin, Marissa Mayer
Pie
Series ASep 2024$12M
$12M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)
Particle.News
Series AJun 2024$11M
SeedFeb 2024$4M
$15M
Co-investors: Scott Belsky (A24)
EverFleet
Series AApr 2023$31M
$31M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Mark Pincus
OpenComp
SeedMar 2021$5M
$5M
Descript
Series BFeb 2021$30M
$30M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), John Lilly (Greylock), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel LLC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Shishir Mehrotra
Sanity
Series AOct 2020$9.3M
Series AOct 2020$9M
$150M
Co-investors: Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Adam Gross
Coda
Series CAug 2020$80M
$940M
Co-investors: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Roseanne Wincek (IVP), AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures)

Evan Williams's Experience

Cofounder & Chairman Mozi2023 - Present
Chairman Medium2022 - Present
Co-Founder Obvious Ventures2014 - Present
Co-Founder, CEO Newcastle Dive CenterPresent
Co-Founder, CEO Robyn FrankelPresent
CEO Medium2012 - 2022
Board Member Twitter2007 - 2019
CEO The Obvious Corporation2011 - 2012
CEO Obvious Ventures2011 - 2012
CEO Twitter2008 - 2010
CEO Odeo Inc2005 - 2006
Program Manager, Blogger Google2003 - 2004
Co-Founder, CEO Cellutions1999 - 2003
Co-Founder, CEO Pyra Labs (Blogger)1999 - 2003
Marketing Coordinator O'Reilly Media1997 - 1997