Elad Gil

Elad Gil

Angel Investor

About

Role

Angel Investor

Type

Solo capitalist

Bio

Entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Coinbase, Flexport, Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, Optimizely, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, Wish. Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search). Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company I was co-founder and CEO of. Spent many years at Google, where I started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting the team up and running. Involved with 3 acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products. Also worked at McKinsey & Co. Received Ph.D. from MIT and have degrees in Mathematics and Biology from UCSD.

About Investments

Elad invests in all industries. Elad often invests in:

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed

Check Range

$100K-$10M

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

Yes

Industries

Investment Highlights

Airbnb, Coinbase, Figma, Gusto, Instcart, Notion, Pinterest, Square, Stripe

Get in touch

How they work

Elad does not invest in China.

Contact Links

Please review this investor’s areas of interest, check size, and geographic constraints before making contact: you will have a much higher chance of success if your outreach is targeted.

Disclaimers and footnotes

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