First Round Capital

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We believe great companies are built by radical entrepreneurs, not venture capitalists.  We exist to support founders and help turn their vision into great product and category killing businesses.

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  Oren Jacob

  Co-Founder and CEO

  ToyTalk

  Before co-founding ToyTalk as CEO, Oren was an Entrepreneur in Residence at August Capital. A filmmaker and...

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  Aaron Gotwalt

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Seesaw

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  Alex Hawkinson

  CEO

  SmartThings

  Alex Hawkinson is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the emerging “Internet of Things” space. Hawkinson...

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  Ankur Pansari

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Artillery Games

  I was Facebook's first Partner Engineer and roughly 80th engineer. I worked on all of the partner facing products...

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  Brandon Ramsey

  Founder and CEO

  Fanhood

  Brandon Ramsey is the Founder and CEO of Fanhood which develops social applications on Facebook and Mobile that make...

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  Cheyenne Ehrlich

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Perceptual Networks

  Cheyenne J. Ehrlich is a founder of Perceptual Networks. He is responsible for the strategic growth of the company,...

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  Cory Booker

  Co-Founder

  #Waywire

  A native of northern New Jersey, Cory Booker's passion for politics and justice was instilled at an early age by a...

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  Hayley Barna

  Co-Founder and Co-CEO

  Birchbox

  Hayley has come a long way from her low-maintenance beauty roots. During the early days of Birchbox she served as the...

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  Hesky Kutscher

  CEO and Founder

  MotherKnows

  Hesky is co-founder and CEO of MotherKnows and the proud father of two young children. Hesky has always been an...

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  Jason Heidema

  Co-Founder and CEO

  TalentBin

  Jason is co-founder of TalentBin. Previous to founding Honestly.com with Pete Kazanjy, Jason held a variety of roles at...

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  Jesse Engle

  Co-Founder

  Seesaw

  He is also the co-founder and former CEO of CoTweet, another First Round portfolio company, that was acquired by...

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  Keith Rabois

  Chief Operating Officer

  Square

  An accomplished executive, entrepreneur and angel investor, Keith has held leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide...

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  Kyle Sollenberger

  Co-Founder

  Seesaw

  Ideas need architects to translate them into the real world. Kyle knows about spaces, people, pixels, and building...

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  Noah Breslow

  CEO

  On Deck Capital

  Breslow brings substantial experience in launching and scaling venture-backed software companies to On Deck. Prior to...

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  Bill Gross

  Founder and CEO

  UberMedia

  Bill Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur and proponent of solar power. While still in college, Mr. Gross founded Solar...

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  Brian OKelley

  CEO

  AppNexus

  As CEO of AppNexus, the world leader in real-time advertising technology, Brian and his team are building the company...

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  Dave Morin

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Path

  Dave is an entrepreneur. Today, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Path, the modern journal that helps you stay connected...

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  David Friedberg

  CEO

  The Climate Corporation

  Prior to founding The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill) in 2006, David was with Google, where he joined as one...

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  Doug Mack

  CEO

  One Kings Lane

  As CEO, Doug is helping to create one of the most exciting online brands today. An e-commerce and consumer-industry...

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  Eric Koger

  CEO and Founder

  ModCloth

  Eric Koger co- founded and is CEO of Modcloth, the leading vintage and indie clothes site. His high school girlfriend,...

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  Eric Vishria

  Co-Founder and CEO

  RockMelt

  Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Science and a...

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  Jason Goldberg

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Fab

  Jason Goldberg is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at fab.com. Prior to founding fab, Jason was Chief Product...

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  Jose Ferreira

  CEO

  Knewton

  Jose Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Knewton, the world's leading adaptive learning company. Knewton's cloud-based...

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  Joshua Reich

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Simple

  Joshua Reich has a passion for big data and firmly believes that proprietary research requires custom techniques and...

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  Katia Beauchamp

  Co-Founder and Co-CEO

  Birchbox

  Katia’s beauty motto: “I’ll try anything twice.” She’s not kidding—in the short...

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  Leah Busque

  Founder and CEO

  TaskRabbit

  A true visionary, Leah Busque (@labusque) is the founder and chief executive officer of TaskRabbit.com, an online...

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  Lucas Carlson

  Founder and CEO

  AppFog

  I am an entrepreneur and professional programmer who specializes in web development. I have authored over a dozen Ruby...

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  Nikhil Sethi

  Co-Founder

  Adaptly

  Nikhil Sethi is the Co-Founder of Adaptly, a social media advertising technology company. As an electrical engineering...

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  Sahil Lavingia

  Founder and CEO

  Gumroad

  Sahil is the designer/founder/CEO of Gumroad. Previously, he was early at Pinterest, and maker of turntable for...

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  Sam Shank

  Co-Founder and CEO

  HotelTonight

  Sam Shank is a serial entrepreneur focused on comparison shopping, mobile, online travel and ecommerce. Sam is...

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  Travis Kalanick

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Uber

  Travis Kalanick is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of transportation, consumer Internet, p2p, and enterprise...

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  Craig Palmer

  CEO

  Wikia

  Craig Palmer is leading the web’s largest network of collaboratively-published entertainment, gaming, and...

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  Adora Cheung

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Adora previously led product for some of the top social applications at Slide. Before that, she was on her way to...

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  Alex Baydin

  Founder and CEO

  PerformLine

  Alex is a seasoned digital media executive with a depth of experience in new product vision/development, go-to-market...

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  Alex Mittal

  Founder and CEO

  Funders Club

  Alex was the founding CEO of Innova Dynamics, a touch screen hardware company backed by Rho Ventures, leading the...

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  Alex Mooradian

  CEO

  Readyforce

  Focused on improving businesses and changing traditional industries using operational process, technology and creative...

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  Amit Shah

  CEO and Co-founder

  Jirafe

  Amit R. Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Jirafe. Prior to Jirafe Amit ran sales and business development worldwide for...

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  Andreas Sundquist

  Co-Founder and CEO

  DNAnexus

  Andreas is an expert on the analysis of ultra high-throughput DNA sequence data and has published methods in...

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  Andrew Greenawalt

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Continuity Control

  Andy has been dubbed a “technology guru” for his innovative thinking and uncanny ability to simplify...

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  Andrew Nibley

  CEO

  Yieldex

  Andy has been a CEO in five different media industries – news, Internet, film, music and advertising. He has...

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  Angus Davis

  Founder and CEO

  Swipely

  I began my entrepreneurial career taking my grandmother's magazines, clipping articles, stapling them together into new...

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  Ari Jacoby

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Solve Media

  Ari has extensive experience growing businesses. He co-founded VoiceStar after serving as a senior consultant in the...

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  Ari Mir

  CEO

  Pocket Change

  Ari brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience to Pocket Change. He is best known for...

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  Billy Chasen

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Turntable.fm

  Billy Chasen is the Co-founder of Turntable.fm. Before Turntable.fm., Billy Chasen was the Founder and CEO...

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  Bradford Shellhammer

  Founder

  Fab

  Named one of the ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’ by Fast Company and coined the ‘King of...

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  Brent Handler

  Founder and CEO

  Inspirato

  Brent pioneered the destination club industry when he and his brother Brad founded Exclusive Resorts in 2002. Brent...

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  Alumnus

  Brett Hurt

  CEO and Founder

  Bazaarvoice

  Brett has extensive experience in the online marketing arena, especially as it pertains to the eCommerce industry. He...

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  Bruce Bower

  CEO

  Plastic Jungle

  Bruce was first introduced to Plastic Jungle in December 2008, joined as President in April 2009, and assumed the CEO...

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  Bryan Birch

  CEO

  Truveris

  Bryan Birch is currently the Chairman, President, and CEO at Truveris and brings over 20 years of experience in the...

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  Chantel Waterbury

  Founder and CEO

  chloe + isabel

  Chantel is Founder and CEO of Chloe + Isabel. In 2011, she created and launched her own socially innovative jewelry...

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  Charles Thornburgh

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Civitas Learning

  Charles discovered a passion for education while teaching high school students on the weekends during his undergraduate...

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  Chet Kanojia

  Founder and CEO

  Aereo

  Chet Kanojia is the founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., a groundbreaking online TV platform. Backed by a group of premiere...

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  Craig Danuloff

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Rewind.me

  Serial entrepreneur with a track record of early entry into important software and internet technology markets. Founded...

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  Dave Baszucki

  Founder and CEO

  ROBLOX

  David is the founder, co-creator and CEO of ROBLOX. Prior to founding ROBLOX, David was a private investor. Previously,...

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  Dave Girouard

  Founder and CEO

  Upstart

  Dave is founder and CEO of Upstart, a crowdfunding platform that lets soon-to-be college grads raise capital in...

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  Dave Jakubowski

  CEO

  Aggregate Knowledge

  David Jakubowski is a seasoned executive who brought Microsoft’s Search platform (adCenter) to market and helped...

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  David Brussin

  Founder and CEO

  Monetate

  David is an entrepreneur and technical innovator. Most recently David co-founded TurnTide, which created the...

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  David Feller

  Founder and CEO

  Yummly

  Dave has been cooking for 25 years and hates mustard. He was an early member of Half.com in Philly, running Marketing...

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  David Gilboa

  Founder

  Warby Parker

  Like a Viking from his Swedish homeland, Dave spends his free time seeking adventure. His two most recent conquests...

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  David Rochon

  Founder and CEO

  SavingStar

  Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Rochon brings 25 years of industry experience and proven leadership to...

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  David Roth

  Co-Founder and CEO

  AppFirst

  David brings more than 20 years of experience leading organizations and leveraging partnerships for building successful...

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  Deena Varshavskaya

  Founder and CEO

  Wanelo

  Founder and CEO Wanelo.com - a site for bookmarking and sharing your favorite products. Founder and CEO of Dynamik...

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  Desiree Wrigley

  Co-Founder

  GiveForward

  Half Costa Rican half Kansas Citian, Desiree graduated from Yale University with B.A. in Latin American Studies in...

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  Elan Dekel

  Founder and CEO

  Medico.com

  Elan Dekel, CEO and Founder - Before founding Medico.com, Elan was at Google, where he was responsible for...

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  Eric Frenkiel

  Founder and CEO

  MemSQL

  Before MemSQL, Eric worked at Facebook on partnership development. He has worked in various engineering and sales...

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  Eric Wheeler

  Co-Founder and CEO

  33Across

  Eric Wheeler is the CEO of social ad network 33Across. Prior to 33Across, Eric was the CEO of Neo@Ogilvy and Executive...

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  Euwyn Poon

  Co-Founder and CEO

  Opzi

  Euwyn is a startup founder, software engineer and designer. He is the founder of Opzi, a Y Combinator company....

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  Evan Reece

  Co-Founder and CEO