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Ben Mccann

Investor at C3 Ventures

Mountain View, California

Overview 

Ben McCann is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor based in Mountain View, California, known for his expertise in start-ups, product development, and entrepreneurship. With a background that includes roles at LinkedIn, Google, and as the co-founder and CTO of Connectifier, Ben currently serves as an Investor and Advisor at C3 Ventures, focusing on seed and pre-seed investments in sectors such as TransportationTech and SaaS in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Investor and Advisor

    2014 - Current

    Seed-stage investor in multiple unicorns Recent companies include: Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, Polymath Robotics, Living Carbon, Momentus Space, Memora Health, Pegasus Solar, Curebase, Ubits, Sable, VenoStent, Varos, Zingbus, Perceptive

  • Head of Hire Matching

    2016 - 2019

    Led the engineering teams building LinkedIn's AI-powered matching used by recruiters and hiring managers

Find Jobs, Internships, and volunteer openings for teen students!

  • Co-founder, CTO

    2011 - 2016

    Connecting people and jobs is fundamental to our economy and lives. Connectifier's industry-leading machine learning-based searching and matching technology are now available in LinkedIn Recruiter and Microsoft Bing.

Connectifier helps recruiters discover, qualify, and connect with exceptional job candidates at roughly twice the rate of other solutions.

Raised $11,699,999.00 from Sean Ellis, True Ventures, James Hong, Okapi Venture Capital, Andrew Chen, Goldcrest Investments and Jonathan Downey.

  • Software Engineer

    2008 - 2011

    Launched Realtime Google Analytics, which is one of the world's largest scale production systems giving insights to webmasters in realtime for sites comprising about half the world's internet traffic. Led Accounts+ effort enabling corporate accounts to be used with Google Analytics. Received prestigious Operating Committee Honorable Mention Award from senior executives and four peer bonuses. Led company-wide effort to correct and minimize project dependencies with over 500 engineers participating globally. Reduced build times and binary sizes by as much as 90%. Received Ads Citizenship Award for work on improving Analytics scalability, uptime, and data integrity. Interviewed over 50 candidates for hire. 20% time: Created the Google Spreadsheets formula bar and formula highlighting.

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.

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