Investing Profile

Rob Hayes

VCInvestor

Partner at First Round Capital

firstround.com/person/rob-hay...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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University of California, Berkeley Network

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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

Current Fund Size

$738M

Rob Hayes is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Rob Hayes's Investments On Record (24)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
ShareWell	Pre SeedFeb 2023$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Adrian Aoun, Charlie Cheever, Kyle Vogt
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), Alex Adelman, Scott Belsky, Nick Caldwell, Trevor McFedries, Reggie James, Adar Zango
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: Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Crystal English Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Jarrod Dicker (TCG (The Chernin Group)), 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	SeedApr 2021$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Suzy Ryoo (Cross Culture Ventures), Lex Sokolin (Generative Ventures), Ryan Biggs (Franklin Templeton Investments), Troy Carter
Odeko	Series AAug 2020$12M SeedJun 2019$8M Pre SeedMar 2019$6M	$300M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Sami Ahmad (B Capital Group), Lachy Groom (LGF), Robin Li (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Lee Fixel (Addition), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Dan Abelon (Two Sigma Ventures), Brad Svrluga (Primary Venture Partners), Christer Andersson (Sommet AB), Sahin Boydas, Louis Beryl, Mark Goines, Ilya Golubovich, Tim Griffin