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