Investing Profile

Lenny Rachitsky

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Writing, Advising, Investing, Exploring at Self-employed
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Current Investing Position
Self-employed
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$1M
Investments On Record
83

Lenny Rachitsky is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lenny Rachitsky's Investments On Record (75)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Pilot Protocol
SeedJul 2026$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures)
Uniti AI
Series AJul 2026$12M
$16M
Co-investors: Courtney Cooper (Alate Partners), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
Monogram
SeedJun 2026$40M
$41M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Pete Flint (NFX), Othman Laraki (Frontier Medicines), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Karim Atiyeh, Charlie Songhurst
Ploy
SeedJun 2026$27M
$30M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Eoghan McCabe (Spark-Local, Inc), Charles Delingpole (ComplyAdvantage), Adam Cragg (Osney Capital)
Pogo
Series UnknownJun 2026
SeedJul 2022$12M
$12M
Co-investors: Jennifer “Jenny" Fleiss (Initialized Capital), Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Sam Lessin (Slow Ventures), Melissa Tan (Various Startups), Siqi Chen (Xtripe Angels), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Vindi Banga (Clayton Dubilier & Rice), Ryan Tedder (Freelancer.com), Jon Oringer (Shutterstock), Drew Taggart (Mantis VC), Julian Shapiro (Julian Capital), Alex Pall (Mantis VC), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Manik Gupta (Uber), Scott Belsky (A24), Mathilde Collin, George Ruan, Tyler Willis, Baron Davis, Claire Hughes Johnson
Viktor
Series AMay 2026$75M
$75M
Co-investors: Zhenya Loginov (Accel), Shaan Puri (The Milk Road), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Max Mullen (Instacart), Daniel Gross (Various), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Stewart Butterfield (Slack Technologies, Inc), Koen Bok (Festina), Nico Rosberg (Rosberg Ventures), Guillermo Rauch, Charlie Songhurst
LittleBird
SeedMar 2026$11M
$11M
Co-investors: Russ Heddleston (NewCo), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Justin Rosenstein
Crafting
SeedMar 2026$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Merrill Lutsky (Graphite Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox)

Lenny Rachitsky's Experience

Writing, Advising, Investing, Exploring Self-employed2019 - Present
Angel Investor Self EmployedPresent
Angel Investor Self Employed Present
Angel Investor Self employed Present
Web Developer LA.comPresent
Sr. Manager of Engineering Webmetrics/NeustarPresent
Co-Founder, CEO localmindPresent
Product Lead, Guest Conversion and Host Quality AirbnbPresent
Author, Lenny’s Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast Lenny's NewsletterPresent
Product Lead, Supply Growth Airbnb2016 - 2019
Co-Founder, CEO Localmind2010 - 2012
Engineer, Head of R&D Webmetrics/Neustar2009 - 2010
Lead Engineer Webmetrics2001 - 2004

Lenny Rachitsky's Education

UC San Diego BS in Computer Science Engineering
University of California San Diego BS in Computer Science Engineering

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