Investing Profile

Ev Williams

VCCEOFounderInvestor
CEO at Medium | Investor at Obvious Ventures
ev.medium.comSan Francisco Bay Area
Photo of Ev Williams, Partner at Obvious Ventures
Your Intro Paths to Ev Williams

Signal uses Gmail to reveal intro paths. Email content is never read.

Sign in with Google →
Networks Ev is a member of
Google Network
312 CONNECTIONS
Twitter Network
41 CONNECTIONS
Twitter Network
41 CONNECTIONS

Find Ev Williams on

cb
Current Investing Position
Obvious Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $4.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
16
Current Fund Size
$272M

Ev Williams is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Ev Williams's Investments On Record (16)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sanity
Series AOct 2020$9.3M
$150M
Co-investors: Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Christian Bach, Edvard Engesæth, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Evan Williams, Adam Gross, Guillermo Rauch
Coda
Series CJul 2020$5M
$250M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), Evan Williams, Bradley Horowitz
Highly
SeedJul 2017
Co-investors: Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Evan Williams
Din
Funding RoundN/A
$3M
Co-investors: Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Jose Marin (FJ Labs), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures)
Typekit
Funding RoundN/A
Blue Bottle Coffee
Funding RoundN/A
$120M
Co-investors: Noah Glass (Founder Collective), Tony Conrad (True Ventures), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Michael Arrieta (Garden City Companies), Caterina Fake (Yes VC), Carter Reum (M13), Tony Hawk, Jared Leto, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Mike Krieger, Paul Hewson (Bono), Bryan Meehan
AirHelp
Funding RoundN/A
$18M
Co-investors: Nordic Eye (Nordic Eye), Rouven Dresselhaus (Cavalry Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Marco Valta (Ambridge Capital), Greg Kidd, Wayne Chang, Martin Ott, Saad AlSogair, Badr Al-Rumaih
Blippy
Funding RoundN/A

Ev Williams's Experience

CEO MediumPresent
Co-Founder Obvious Ventures2014 - Present
Board Member Twitter2007 - Present
Founder Obvious2006 - Present
Co-Founder & CEO Twitter2007 - 2010
CEO Odeo2005 - 2006
Program Manager, Blogger Google2003 - 2004
Co-Founder, CEO Pyra Labs1999 - 2003
Marketing Coordinator O'Reilly Media1997 - 1997

Ev Williams's Education

University of Nebraska-Lincoln