Alireza Masrour
General Partner at Plug and Play Tech Center
Alireza Masrour
General Partner at Plug and Play Tech Center
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2019 - Current
- Founding General Partner of PnP Scale Fund ( 91 Portfolio, 15 Unicorns) - Founding Partner of PnP Startup Camp ( 92 Portfolio, 4 first check Unicorns) - Founding Partner of PnP GVA Fund I ( 211 Portfolio, 8 Unicorns) $B Portfolio Club: 1.N26 2. Kustomer (Series A, acq by FaceBook), 3.BigID (Seed), 4.FiscalNote (First Check, IPO 2022) 5. Shippo ( First Check) 6. Trulioo 7. Flyr (First Check), 8. CloudWalk (First Check), 9.F...V(Series A7), 10. Owkin (Series A), 11. TrueBill (Seed Round and acq for $1.3B by RocketCo) 12. VisbyMedical 13. Animoca via PixOWL (Seed), 14. Netskope via Kloudless (First Check, Pre-Seed) $100Million - $ Billion Plus Club: 1.CreditSesame, 2.Kepler Communications , 3.FundersClub, 4.BookingPal, 5.AiFi 6. Payactiv , 7.Paysend, 8.Beyond Pricing, 9.OWL Technologies, 10. Caresyntax, 11. IDnow 12. Jerry 13. ixLayer, 14. Iterative Scope Exits: Aarki ( acq by Skillz), Kustomer ( acq by FaceBook), Avail ( acq by Realtor.com) Matcha and TueoHealth (acq: Apple),GNS3 (Acq: Solarwinds), Neumob (acquired: Cloudflare), NetSil ( Acu: Nutanix), ReplicaLabs( acq: Occipital), PiCloud (Acquired: DropBox),TrustGo(Acq: Baidu),Kamcord (Acq: Lyft), Virool(acq: Turgo), URX (Acq: Pinterest), Vessel (acq: Marketo), Viewics (acq: Roche), LoungeBuddy (Acq by AMEX), Stack (Acq: CreditSesame), TrueBill ( Acq: RocketCo)
Managing Partner
2008
Alireza is Managing Partner at Plug & Play Investment Arm a place where he led more than 250 investments for the firm since 2008. • Founding Partner of PnP Startup Camp • Founding Partner of PnP GVA Fund I Infrastructure & Software: FiscalNote,OmniScience, Kloudless, JoinedApp, Snip2Code, , ngData, UberCloud, Back4App, Riffyn, Stowk, Estimated, BigStream, Nfware FinTech and InsurTech: CreditSesame, CardFlight, Qwil, CriskCo, Priv8Pay, SwayPay, Token, Boltzmann, Shrimpy, Stack, CarIQ, Paysend, TrueBill, ClearAccessIP, CloudWalk, Grain, Dot, UnifiMoney, OWL, EveryDay Life, Room8, Security: PasswordBox (Acq: Intel),NoPassword, Trulioo, Kiana Analytics, BigID Media: Aarki, Fanplayr, PixOWL, DabKick, AlikeAudience, Lumyer HealthTech/Food: HealthPocket, HealthSherpa, TrueCare24, InsightRx, BloomLife, Gyant, Thryve, Asimily, Click Diagnostic, Owkin,ImpriMed, PrellisBio, IterativeScope, Telesense,Vara, VastBioMe Mobility/IOT/HardwareTech: ImprintEnergy, ActvContent, Kepler Communications, NGD Systems,Zadar, mpathy, Adapt, Carfit Travel: BookingPal, Flyr, Mozio, ABL, UnicoBag, Axle, BeyondPricing, Sharing Economy: YourMechanic, EdenTech.Co, JuneHomes, DesignerInc, SupplyChain and RetailTech: Aisle411, ShoppinPal, Mercaux, CloudWalk, Vela, PathOver, AiFi, Markable, b8ta, Sinay, MixMove Judge: •Princeton 2012-17 •Harvard 2012-19 Biz Plan •CMU 2012-18 •Cal 2011-19 •Stanford 2013-19 •Duke 2014-19 •Notre Dame 2013-19
VP of Technology Investments
2011 - 2013
• In charge of Investment and due diligence for Plug & Play Ventures. •Either a Plug and Play representative or works closely with the management teams of PiCloud (backed by Andreessen –Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Lightspeed), Retailigence (backed by Quest, DFJ), Credit Sesame (backed by Inventus, Menlo Venture and Globespan Capital , Infoaxe (backed by DFJ and Angels),Vivu (backed by DFJ and acquired by Polycom), YourMechanic, Aarki (backed by Walden Capital), GetGoing, SourceNinja (backed by Interwest Capital), Mindsumo (Backed by Voyager Capital), PixOWL, Kloudless (Backed by DFJ and GlobalBrain), Virool ( Distributes advertisers videos through a network of publishers), Parallocity (Backed by Accel), FormaFina (Home decor for Latin America), and SkyTree (Big Data Analytics, Backed by Javelin ,USVP and UPS), ngData, Mozio, HealthPocket. • Founding Partner of Plug and Play Startup Camp where he is investing, advising and helping over 50 start ups from US universities to Silicon Valley startups: Aarki, ActiveBuzz, Alii.tv, Aisle411, Decisyon, eyeIO, Fanplayr, Intentionis, Matcha, ImprintEnergy, Mobspire (Acquhired by Aarki), Indigio, Mozio, PiCloud, Kloudless, Skypaz, SpotFodo, Kidzloop, MerryMarry, Zuli, Reachli, Second Funnel, TimeX, Global Trek, Bonica, Kermdinger, ShoppinPal, ProVital, CrowdSync, Globial, Glan.se, SEM+, CityBlis, Symynd, Sha-Sha Entertainment, Intentionis, TrustGo, SplitP, Zappo.TV, PasswordBox, FiscalNote, Hubskip, Edfolio, Mercaux, Mangero, Cinpost, OpenSilo, Podo, Traffio, Cordata, ... •Princeton 2012-13 TigerLaunch Startup Challenge - Judge •Harvard 2012-13 Business Plan Contest - Judge •Carnegie Mellon University 2012-13 Cross- Campus Competition - Judge •UC Berkeley 2011-13 BPlan Competition - Judge •Stanford 2013 eChallenge- Judge
Funding Manager
2008 - 2011
• Start up Chile- Judge • Stanford BASES 2011 E-Challenge - Judge • UC Berkeley 2011 BPlan Competition - Judge •2010 Start up Betting list: AegisMobility, Alii tv, Credit Sesame, EmClient, Fflick, Infoaxe, Mingleverse, MobiBucks, Mooral, Parkvu, PiCloud, Retailigence, TapMap, Trulioo, TrustHop,Twocents, VuFind, WebGreek, Zapon, Zettar •Judging Intel Challenge Regional Final 2010 (Western Europe and Latin America) • In charge of Investment and due diligence for Plug and Play’s Venture where he is responsible for supporting the firm’s investment and venture capital partners • Responsible for screening, analyzing and coaching • Led due diligence for our investment Arm where he is sourcing the firm's investment and its VC partners • Managing our Portfolio companies • Assisted portfolio companies with executive recruiting, strategic partnerships, product strategies, customer and partner introductions and fund raising
VP Engineering
2010 - 2021
• Conducts research for the company • Develop supply chain strategy and road map • Standardize and Optimize process Will analyze and evaluate clients’ current water treatment processes and systems for the treatment and reuse of waste water and provide recommendations for equipment, products, high tech technologies (Enterprise Software and Distribution Suits) to optimize operations
Engineer
2008 - 2010
• Responsible for developing business strategy and sales • Responsible for consultation and subsequent sales of customized water treatment solutions to businesses, industries, municipalities, and institution worldwide.
Founder/CEO
2007 - 2008
Founder and CEO at NekaTel, one of largest Internet Airtime Distribution Network with over 800 agencies and several million subscribers with revenue from $0 to over $45M in under 2 years
Founder
2006 - 2007
portable pre paid pin number virtual distribution terminal with built in financial services, pin pay and community phone capability is the worlds leading low cost / high spec answer to the challenge of acquiring storing, distribution and administration of high value pins. The technology acquired in 2007.
Managing Director
2002 - 2007
- Building Bam ICT Center Building with Bam Education Department, Unicef and Swiss Development and other local organization Support who came to Bam after the earthquake - Improving Visually Impaired People Network for the them to use Internet and learn in spite the fact of their disability - Mobilizing Kahrizak Rehabilitation Center with computer site for disabled students to use computer - Improving Hearing Impaired People Network for them to use Internet to learn beside their sign language - Connecting local schools to use each other resources to improve education from top schools in Tehran to schools in Bam and others cities -
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