Investing Profile

Brian Acton

InvestorAngelVCFounder
Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo
signalfoundation.orgPalo Alto, California
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Yahoo Vice President
$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
DuckDuckGo
Secondary MarketDec 2020$100M
$110M
Co-investors: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Evan Feinberg (Tiger Global Management), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild), Scott Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Jacob Kerzner, Jim Young, Joshua Schachter, Freada Kapor Klein
Track N Tell
Series BJul 2019$5M
Series AJul 2016
$5M
Signal Foundation
Debt FinancingFeb 2018$50M
$50M
Builds Lego and plays ultimate frisbee.
Vice President of Engineering YahooPresent
Senior Director of Engineering - Yahoo Marketplace YahooPresent
Director of Engineering - Yahoo Shopping YahooPresent
Senior Software Engineer - Yahoo Operations YahooPresent
Senior Director of Engineering - Yahoo Search Marketing YahooPresent
Director of Engineering - Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Travel YahooPresent
Principal Software Engineer - Yahoo Shopping YahooPresent
Software Engineer - Yahoo Advertising and Data Processing YahooPresent
Systems Administrator HotmailPresent
Hardware Test Engineer ApplePresent
QA Engineer AdobePresent
Software Engineer ApplePresent
Cofounder WhatsAppPresent
Executive Chairman HotmailPresent
University of Central Florida Non Degree Seeking Engineering
University of Pennsylvania Economics Computer Science
Stanford University BS Computer Science