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Alex Gurevich
Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Alex Gurevich is a Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners in Los Angeles, California, with a strong background in venture capital and entrepreneurship. He has made strategic investments in notable companies like Stensul, Pair Eyewear, and Resemble AI, contributing to their growth and success.
Gurevich's career highlights include serving on the boards of MasterClass and Mythical Games, showcasing his expertise in guiding high-growth startups and making impactful decisions in the tech and venture capital industries.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2011 - Current
Early stage, high tech venture capital investing. Primarily focused on Series A. Led Javelin's investments in Thumbtack, MasterClass, Mythical Games, Pair Eyewear, Stensul, Resemble AI, Sequel.io, Wethos, Charma (acquired by The Predictive Index), Rinse, Engrade (acquired by McGraw-Hill), and KopoKopo.
Javelin Venture Partners invests in and partners closely with early-stage, software-enabled technology companies.
Board Member
2014
Led Series A for MasterClass, an online education company democratizing access to genius. Investment was made pre-product, pre-revenue.
MasterClass is a provider of an online education platform designed to offer video based vocational courses.
Raised $461,400,000.00 from Vershina Capital and Bracket Capital.
Board Member
2021
Sourced and led Series A for Pair Eyewear, which aims to be the biggest and most iconic global brand in the eyewear category, through their innovative business model, manufacturing process, and form factor, enabling customization and self-expression on a scale not possible before.
Pair Eyewear is an eyewear brand designed and made specifically for children.
Raised $149,500,000.00 from Christian McCaffrey, New Enterprise Associates, Prysm Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Blue Falcon Capital.
Board Observer
2011
Sourced, negotiated, and led Javelin's Series A investment in Thumbtack, one of the world's largest marketplaces connecting consumers with local professionals for any project. Company was pre-revenue, pre-business model at the time of investment.
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers.
Raised $773,200,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank and Hercules Capital.
Board Member
2017
Led the Series A for Stensul, a company transforming the way enterprise marketers work.
Stensul is an email creation platform that gives enterprise marketers the power to generate custom emails while ensuring brand governance.
Raised $57,500,000.00 from Edith Harbaugh, U.S. Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and Sageview Capital.
Board Member
2018
Invested in the Series A and led the Series A-1 for a next generation gaming company bringing true digital ownership and player owned economies to gamers with the power of blockchain and NFTs.
Mythical Games is a video game engine for player-owned economies.
Raised $297,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, WestCap, Signum Growth Capital, PROOF, Stanford Athletics, ARK Investment Management, Gaingels, Andreessen Horowitz, Scytale Digital and Animoca Brands.
Board Member
2023
Led Series A for Resemble.AI, the leading company for safe and ethical deployment of generative AI synthetic voice technology.
Board Member
2016
Rinse provides garment care services. Its services include dry cleaning, launder and press.
Raised $23,500,000.00 from Accelerator Ventures, Asymmetry Ventures and Unanimous Capital.
Board Member
2021
Co-led seed round for Wethos, a comprehensive platform for freelance knowledge workers to run their businesses with easy-to-use software for plans, proposals, project management and financial products. The platform serves over 50,000 freelancers today.
Board Member
2022
Led Series A for Sequel.io, a SaaS platform that enables organizations and communities to host online video conferencing experiences natively within their own websites with no-code easy embed features such as chat, polls, and networking hubs.
Sequel.io is a no-code/low-code solution that allows brands to host events right on their website.
Raised $10,700,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Struck Capital, v1.vc, Growth Warrior Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Mike Montero, Julius Genachowski, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Marco Zappacosta and Social Leverage.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2009 - 2011
M.S.
2005 - 2006
B.S.
2001 - 2005
B.A.
2001 - 2005