Investing Profile

Ev Williams

VCCEOFounderInvestor

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

Ev Williams is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Human Capital/HRTech (Seed)Food and Beverage (Seed)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Seed)Consumer Health (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Future of Work (Seed)Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) (Seed)Wellness & Fitness (Seed)Supply Chain Tech (Seed)Digital Health (Seed)

Ev Williams's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Sanity	Series AOct 2020$9.3M	$150M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Adam Gross (The Operator Network), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Christian Bach (Intigral), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Edvard Engesæth, Guillermo Rauch
Coda	Series CJul 2020$5M	$940M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), 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 (Y Combinator)
Typekit	Funding RoundN/A
Blue Bottle Coffee	Funding RoundN/A	$120M
Co-investors: Tony Conrad (True Ventures), Noah Glass (Founder Collective), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), Caterina Fake (Yes VC), Bryan Meehan (Blue Bottle Coffee), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Carter Reum (M13), Paul Hewson (Bono) (Mount Auburn Hospital), Michael Arrieta (Garden City Companies), Tony Hawk (Unknown Ventures), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Jared Leto, Biz Stone
AirHelp	Funding RoundN/A	$18M
Co-investors: Wayne Chang (Techstars), Martin Ott (Taxfix), Rouven Dresselhaus (Cavalry Ventures), Badr Al-Rumaih (Isometry Capital), Greg Kidd (globaliD), Marco Valta (Hotmail), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Nordic Eye (Nordic Eye), Saad AlSogair
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

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