Founder & CEO at Wefunder. Reformed MBA that picked up some coding and design skills. Learned about securities laws after spending $1M+ too.
We're a team of 47 founders who built startups worth $B
Collectively, we've invested in startups now valued at over $100 million.
Our goal is to fund 20,000 new founders by 2029.
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Nick Tommarello
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher
Starsky Robotics, Forbes 30 Under 30. Y-Combinator S16.
Laks Srini
Founded and grew Zenefits to $2 billion valuation. Raised over $500 million. Now starting ZeroDown.
Daniel Ha
Co-founder and CEO of Disqus (YC S07). Grew to over $20 million of revenues and 75+ employees before acquisition.
Shruti Shah
Born in India and moved to America when 11 months old. Joined Teach for America in Baltimore, then moved to Silicon Valley to start Moveloot.
Chris Smoak
Co-founder & CTO Atrium (raised $65M). Y Combinator W06 & W16. Worked at Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft. Studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jahanzeb Sherwani
CEO of Screenhero (acq. by Slack).
At Slack, added voice, video and screen sharing. PhD at Carnegie Mellon: voice applications for low-literate users.
Mahbod Moghadam
Cofounder of Everipedia (raised $30M+ to date), previously cofounder of Genius (aka "Rap Genius") (raised $70M in funding). Graduated from Stanford Law School and Yale University.
Antony Evans
Founder and CEO of TAXA which provides genetic engineering of plants as a service. Previously raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing Plants. MBA from INSEAD
Cindy Wu
Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. I also drink beer and do science.
Colin Barceloux
Founder of Techmate which provided on demand tech support. Previously founded BookRenter.com (raised $60M+ and $100M+ revenue) that invented online textbook rentals and Axius acquired).
Paul Sawaya
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Human Interest. We're looking for great people: humaninterest.com/careers
Edward Damiano
Invented bionic pancreas. Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Robert Attorri
Cofounder @ Light Table and Eve. Molecular & cellular biologist turned dev tools devotee.
Wen Sang
Holds an PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
Sohail Prasad
Founder, CEO @Equidate. @YCombinator alum. Once: PM @Zynga, @hiptype, @Google, @CarnegieMellon, @Chartboost. Investor @Coin, @Zenefits.
Travis Deyle
MIT Tech Review "35 Under 35" Award Winner (MIT TR35). PhD in Robotics & RFID. Formerly at Google[x] Life Sciences (now Verily). Currently, founder & CEO of Cobalt Robotics.
Ryan Witt
healthcare, startups, investments, cancer, community building, public policy
Tim Suzman
Founder of Fearless. YC alum (S11)
Brent Goldman
Early engineer at Facebook. Founder and CTO Standard Treasury (YC S13). Now Senior Engineering Manager, Self-Driving at Uber.
Lev Popov
Founder ShortCircuit • Worked at @Facebook (Mobile, Location), @Google (Maps) • Studied at @Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karthik Balakrishnan
PhD from Stanford in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Cofounder and CTO of Coin (YC W13), acquired by Fitbit. Now at Airbus A^3. Worked at NASA Ames Research Center.
Tanmayi Sai
Product @ Zynga, currently working on launching a new game.
Shawn Tsao
Co-founder of Caviar (acq. by Square). Founding Partner Beluga Capital, The Halal Guys, and Umai Hospitality.
Samvit Ramadurgam
Founder at Equidate. Founding Partner at S2 Capital. Previously Co-Founder at Streem (Acquired by Box) Angel in 20+ Companies. Formerly: Asana, Berkeley EECS
Michael Witz
Co-founder and CEO of @Redemption Games Founder @Mob Science, which was acquired by @SGN where I built Cookie Jam, Top 10 Mobile Game. Y Combinator Alum.
Greg Belote
All-around lover of software and startups. Big fan of JFDI and getting stuff done.
Drew Tulchin
VP, Investments & Capital at Meow Wolf (current valuation ~$100M). Previously, founded UpSpring.
Chiu Chau
Engineer by training. Several Biotech startup in Blood banking, Life Science. Co-founder of Opentrons. Expert in Hardware, Sourcing.
James Richards
Co-founder & CEO, Teleborder.
Chris Maddox
Startup advisor, founder, writer, philosopher, engineer
Daniel Ha
Co-founder and CEO of Disqus (YC S07). Grew to over $20 million of revenues and 75+ employees before acquisition.
Ricky Yean
I am Co-Founder and CEO of UpbeatPR.com, where we offer PR on demand. Hundreds of businesses use Upbeat to help handle their media outreach. We make it simple to go from idea to pitch to coverage in l
James Li
Co-Founder of Mighty Health (YC S19). Previously founded Encore (500 Startups B14, acq.by Meltwater) and wrote speeches at White House.
Leonardo Ferreira
Molecular immunologist. Human genome engineer. Deconstructing the immune system to achieve tolerance in type 1 diabetes and transplantation.
Sasha Targ
SF Bay Area-based MD-PhD student in bioinformatics and human/medical genetics @UCSF, MIT '09-'12 with background in immunology and community health. I am excited about mathematical biology, functional
Jiwon Moon
Founding Partner at XX
Gadi Borovich
Founding Partner at XX
Peter Zakin
Co-founder at usemacro.com. Previously co-founder of Hyper Travel which was sold to Tradeshift in 2016, and PM/Engineer at Venmo.
Kieran Ryan
Head of Lead Investors at XX. Fundraising Team at Wefunder. Haas School of Business alum.
2,069 startups have raised $887,778,482 on Wefunder
Wefunder supports three different federal laws that allow startups to raise money legally. To comply with the law, Wefunder Advisors LLC and Wefunder Portal LLC (both owned by Wefunder Inc) also list startups depending on the regulation used.
Regulation Crowdfunding
Wefunder Portal LLC
$704,887,320
for 1691 startups
Regulation D
Wefunder Advisors LLC
$171,021,070
for 494 startups
Regulation A+
Wefunder Inc
$9,651,658
for 3 startups
Some fine print:
1) These numbers include startups currently live on Wefunder if they pass their minimum target.
2) Some startups use two different laws at the same time (i.e., Regulation D and Regulation Crowdfunding).
1) These numbers include startups currently live on Wefunder if they pass their minimum target.
2) Some startups use two different laws at the same time (i.e., Regulation D and Regulation Crowdfunding).
