Investing Profile

Ev Williams

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CEO at Medium | Investor at Obvious Ventures
ev.medium.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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Current Investing Position
Obvious Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $4.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
16
Current Fund Size
$272M

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Ev Williams's Investments On Record (16)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sanity
Series AOct 2020$9.3M
$150M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Adam Gross, Edvard Engesæth, Christian Bach, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Guillermo Rauch
Coda
Series CJul 2020$5M
$940M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners)
Highly
SeedJul 2017
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures)
Din
Funding RoundN/A
$3M
Co-investors: Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Jose Marin (Serendipity Investments), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health)
Typekit
Funding RoundN/A
Blue Bottle Coffee
Funding RoundN/A
$120M
Co-investors: David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), Tony Conrad (True Ventures), Noah Glass (Founder Collective), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Caterina Fake (Yes VC), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Carter Reum (M13), Michael Arrieta (Garden City Companies), Bryan Meehan, Jared Leto, Biz Stone, Mike Krieger, Tony Hawk, Paul Hewson (Bono)
AirHelp
Funding RoundN/A
$18M
Co-investors: Wayne Chang (Techstars), Rouven Dresselhaus (Cavalry Ventures), Greg Kidd (globaliD), Marco Valta (Ambridge Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Nordic Eye (Nordic Eye), Saad AlSogair, Badr Al-Rumaih, Martin Ott
Blippy
Funding RoundN/A

Ev Williams's Experience

Co-Founder Obvious Ventures2014 - Present
Board Member Twitter2007 - Present
Founder Obvious2006 - Present
CEO MediumPresent
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