Investing Profile

Evan Williams

Investor

Co-Founder at Obvious Ventures

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Current Investing Position

Obvious Ventures

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), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Lauren Stephanian (Pantera Capital), Laura Chau (Canaan Partners), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Shonk (ATX Venture Partners), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Jay Po (Stage 2 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Terrence Rohan (Robinhood), Karlie Kloss (Klossy), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), Jeffrey Wilke, Mathilde Collin, Marissa Mayer, Jonathan Widawski
Pie	Series ASep 2024$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)
Particle.News	Series AJun 2024$11M SeedFeb 2024$4M	$15M
Co-investors: Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Scott Belsky (A24), Vijaya Gadde (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Shane Mac (Squared Away), Max Mullen
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), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Jay Simons (Bond), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel LLC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Casey Neistat, Shishir Mehrotra, Tobias Lutke
Sanity	Series AOct 2020$9.3M Series AOct 2020$9M	$150M
Co-investors: Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Joseph Ruscio (Heavybit), Ben Metcalfe (Monochrome Capital), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Peter Secor (Three Bridges), Guillermo Rauch, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Christian Bach, Adam Gross, Edvard Engesæth
Coda	Series CAug 2020$80M	$940M
Co-investors: AJ Malhotra (Insight Partners), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Roseanne Wincek (IVP), Ev Williams (Obvious Ventures), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Vinnie Lauria (Golden Gate Ventures), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins)