About
Ran Makavy is an entrepreneur in the Internet and Telecommunications industry with over 20 years of international executive leadership experience. His interests lie in building better ways to use technology to make our world better. He has built the growth team at San Francisco-based Lyft, guided the company through its IPO, and was then the companys chief product officer and head of the ridesharing line of business. Prior to this position, he founded and served as the CEO of Snaptu, a mobile application platform that ran on virtually every type of Internet-enabled mobile phones. The company, which was backed by Sequoia Capital and Viola Ventures, was acquired by Facebook in 2011. Following the acquisition, Ran spent his first three years on the growth team of Facebook, looking at mobile and emerging market. He grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data. Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Product Management of Followap, which was acquired by NeuStar in 2006.
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Q&A
- What is Ran Makavy's primary investment focus by stage?
- Ran Makavy primarily invests in Pre-Seed, Seed, and A Round stages.
- Which sectors does Ran Makavy focus on for investments?
- Ran Makavy shows a focus on Health Tech & Life Sciences and Business Software. He has invested in one company in each of these sectors.
- Can you name some of Ran Makavy's notable portfolio companies?
- Ran Makavy's portfolio includes Hello Heart, a heart health management company, and Placer.ai, which focuses on foot traffic analysis for location-based insights.
- What is Ran Makavy's background prior to becoming an angel investor?
- Ran Makavy has over 20 years of international executive leadership experience in the Internet and Telecommunications industry. He built the growth team at Lyft, guided the company through its IPO, and served as its Chief Product Officer. Earlier, he founded Snaptu, which was acquired by Facebook in 2011, and then spent three years on Facebook's growth team.
- What is the typical investment range for Ran Makavy?
- Ran Makavy's investment range is between $700K and $4M.
- When did Ran Makavy make his most recent recorded investments?
- Ran Makavy's most recent recorded investment activity includes a round in October 2018 and another in March 2015.
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| linkedin.com/in/rmakavy | |
| facebook.com/makavy |
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Patents
| EPO | 5 |
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