Investing Profile

Rob Hayes

VCInvestor
Partner at First Round Capital
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University of California, Berkeley Network
246 CONNECTIONS
Columbia Business School Network
63 CONNECTIONS
First Round Capital Network
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Current Investing Position
First Round Capital Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
48
Current Fund Size
$175M

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Rob Hayes's Investments On Record (24)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
ShareWell
Pre SeedFeb 2023$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Kyle Vogt, Charlie Cheever, Adrian Aoun
Mad Realities
SeedApr 2022$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Rex Woodbury (Index Ventures), Shawn Xu (Lowercarbon Capital), Chris Ovitz (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Alexia Bonatsos (Dream Machine), Reggie James, Trevor McFedries, Nick Caldwell, Alex Adelman, Adar Zango, Scott Belsky
Ark Biotech
Pre SeedDec 2021$3M
$3M
Co-investors: David Barber (Astanor Ventures), Alexis Houssou (Hardware Club), Kevin Carter (Night Capital)
Solo Technologies
SeedAug 2021$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Salle Yoo (January Ventures), Jeffrey Wilke
Happs
Series AJun 2021$5M
Pre SeedJan 2019
$5M
Co-investors: Ann Lai (Bullpen Capital), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), Phil Schwarz (Corazon Capital), Steve Farsht (Corazon Capital), Bangaly Kaba
Kinema
SeedMay 2021$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Crystal English Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health), Dan Teran (Gutter Capital), Jonah Goodhart (WGI Group), Rich Greenfield (LightShed Ventures), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Diego Berdakin, Joe Proto, Kevin Lin, Josh Elman
Lobus
Series UnknownApr 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Lex Sokolin (Generative Ventures), Suzy Ryoo (Cross Culture Ventures), Ryan Biggs (Franklin Templeton Investments), Troy Carter
Odeko
Series AAug 2020$12M
SeedJun 2019$8M
Pre SeedMar 2019$6M
$150M
Co-investors: Robin Li (GGV Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Hans Tung (GGV Capital), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Sami Ahmad (B Capital Group), Lachy Groom (LGF), Lee Fixel (Addition), Dan Abelon (Two Sigma Ventures), Brad Svrluga (Primary Venture Partners), Christer Andersson (Sommet AB), Mark Goines, Ilya Golubovich, Louis Beryl, Tim Griffin

Rob Hayes's Experience

Localization GO CorporationPresent
Product Manager GeoworksPresent
Partner First Round Capital2006 - Present
Director Omidyar Network2004 - 2006
Senior Director, Business Development PalmSource2001 - 2003
Director, Palm Ventures Palm, Inc.1999 - 2001

Rob Hayes's Education

Columbia Business School MBA
University of California, Berkeley BA