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.
Portfolio
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- What is Ran Makavy's primary investment focus based on sector concentration?
- Ran Makavy's portfolio shows a concentration in Health Tech & Life Sciences and Business Software sectors, with one company in each.
- Can you name some notable companies in Ran Makavy's investment portfolio?
- Ran Makavy's portfolio includes investments in Hello Heart and Placer.ai. Hello Heart has raised $138M, and Placer.ai has raised $241M.
- What is Ran Makavy's historical investment range?
- Ran Makavy's investments have ranged from $700K to $4M per round.
- When did Ran Makavy make his first recorded investment?
- Ran Makavy's first recorded investment was in October 2014.
- Has Ran Makavy acted as a lead investor in any of his disclosed rounds?
- According to startupim data, Ran Makavy has not acted as a lead investor in any of his disclosed investment rounds.
- What stages of funding has Ran Makavy typically invested in?
- Ran Makavy has invested in Pre-Seed, Seed, and A Round funding stages.
- What was Ran Makavy's role at Lyft?
- Ran Makavy built the growth team at Lyft, guided the company through its IPO, and then served as its chief product officer and head of the ridesharing line of business.
- What was Ran Makavy's involvement with Snaptu?
- Ran Makavy founded and served as the CEO of Snaptu, which was acquired by Facebook in 2011. He grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users.
- What was Ran Makavy's role at Facebook after the Snaptu acquisition?
- Following the acquisition of Snaptu in 2011, Ran Makavy spent three years on Facebook's growth team, focusing on mobile and emerging markets, and later spent a year and a half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams.