Avichal Garg
Managing Partner at Electric Capital
Stanford, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
One of the largest global VC firms focused on distributed systems, cryptography, applications of blockchain, privacy preserving technologies.
Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on the cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces industries.
Angel Investor
2014
Investor to great companies including Airtable, Cruise, Color Genomics, Boom Supersonic, Deel, Figma, Notion, Newfront Insurance, Bitwise, Anchorage, dYdX, Cryptokitties/Dapper, and many more.
Part Time Partner
2017 - 2018
Helping YC portfolio companies with product strategy, scaling, fundraising, etc.
Director of Product Management
2012 - 2016
Lead product for the Local organization (at the time ~$3.5B in revenue) which includes Pages, Location Infra, Entities, Events, Local Search, and more
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
CEO & Co-Founder
2010 - 2012
Spool was a personal Internet recorder powered by a virtualized crawlers (patent: US 9298827). We could capture any article/video/webpage, save it for you on any device, and let you consume it any time (even offline!). Acquired by Facebook in 2012.
CTO & Co-Founder
2001 - 2010
We built the first online adaptive learning and testing engine to help students learn more efficiently. We offered reading, writing, math, and science courses used by tens of thousands of students in districts and charter schools across the US. We bootstrapped the company as a side project for a few years before raising a series A and grew our adaptive learning platform to include academic subjects. Acquired by Hobson's, the education subsidiary of The Daily Mail Group (LON:DMGT).
PrepMe is an adaptive learning platform that provides online courses and tutoring for standardized assessment tests.
Product Manager
2005 - 2007
Worked on search quality, ads quality, and started Google Transit (now a part of Google Maps).
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.