Investing Profile

Evan Williams

Investor

Co-Founder at Obvious Ventures

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Newcastle Dive Center Network

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Current Investing Position

Obvious Ventures Partner

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$272M

Evan Williams's Investments On Record (23)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Arcade	SeedSep 2024$17M	$91M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Jay Po (Bessemer Venture Partners), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Laura Chau (Canaan Partners), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Lauren Stephanian (Saison Capital / Bessemer Ventures (Intern) / Pantera Capital), Chris Sang (Saltwater Fund), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Shonk (R360), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Mathilde Collin, Marissa Mayer, Jonathan Widawski, Jeffrey Wilke
Pie	Series ASep 2024$12M	$13M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Pieter Kemps (Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA))
Particle.News	Series AJun 2024$11M SeedFeb 2024$4M	$15M
Co-investors: Scott Belsky (A24), Max Mullen (Instacart), Michael Mignano (Spotify), Faraz Fatemi (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Vijaya Gadde (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Shane Mac (Ephemeral Tattoo)
EverFleet	Series AApr 2023$31M	$31M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Mark Pincus
OpenComp	SeedMar 2021$5M	$5M
Descript	Series BFeb 2021$30M	$80M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), John Lilly (Greylock), Bharat Mediratta (Coinbase Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel LLC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Daniel Gross (Various), Jean-Denis Greze (ASDF Ventures), Casey Neistat (Unknown Ventures), Jay Simons (Bond), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Shishir Mehrotra, Tobias Lutke
Sanity	Series AOct 2020$9.3M Series AOct 2020$9M	$150M
Co-investors: Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Christian Bach (Intigral), Adam Gross (The Operator Network), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges Venture Partners), Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Edvard Engesæth
Coda	Series CAug 2020$80M	$940M
Co-investors: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Roseanne Wincek (IVP), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Michael Mignano (Spotify), Meka Asonye (Prist Capital)

Evan Williams's Experience

Cofounder & Chairman Mozi2023 - Present

Chairman Medium2022 - Present

Co-Founder Obvious Ventures2014 - Present

Board Member XPresent

CEO XPresent

CEO Pyra Labs (Blogger)Present

Co-Founder, CEO Robyn FrankelPresent

Co-Founder, CEO Newcastle Dive CenterPresent

CEO Medium2012 - 2022

Board Member Twitter2007 - 2019

CEO Obvious Ventures2011 - 2012

CEO The Obvious Corporation2011 - 2012

CEO Twitter2008 - 2010

CEO Odeo Inc2005 - 2006

Program Manager, Blogger Google2003 - 2004

Co-Founder, CEO Pyra Labs (Blogger)1999 - 2003

Co-Founder, CEO Cellutions1999 - 2003

Marketing Coordinator O'Reilly Media1997 - 1997

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