Brian Ma
General Partner at Iterative Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, General Partner
2018 - Current
Iterative invests in early stage companies and runs an accelerator focused on Southeast Asia. Our mission is to fund and build the next unicorns in the region. We saw a giant gap in the lack of founder friendly resources and community in the region and decided to change that. Iterative is operator-led and focuses specifically in making good founders, great founders. We look at every sector: AI, fintech, real estate, marketplaces, saas, crypto, healthcare, etc. Find out more at: iterative.vc. If you're a startup advancing the region, please apply. If you're an investor that wants to help up-level the region, lets connect.
Founder
2016
Former CEO, now board member. Divvy allows customers to build equity credits as they rent. Our mission is to close the housing affordability gap by providing trusted, transparent, and simple homeownership products for families. Divvy was incubated in Max Levchin’s startup studio HVF and is backed by a16z, GIC, Caffeinated Capital, and Tiger Global. See more: www.divvyhomes.com
Divvy Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases.
Raised $1,225,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, GIC, Moore Capital, Caffeinated Capital and Notable Capital.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2016 - 2018
HVF is Max Levchin's startup studio that birthed Affirm, Yelp, and Glow. Spent time at HVF (thx Max!) to birth Divvy Homes.
HVF Labs is a company creation lab, founded by Max Levchin. We build companies with the teams that will operate them.
Founder, CEO
2013 - 2018
Weave is an mobile app that helps you meet interesting professionals near you. Whenever you are open to connecting, you can use Weave to review interesting professionals nearby. If they also want to meet you, Weave will connect you both.
Angel Investor/Advisor
2011 - 2018
I enjoy meeting smart people and helping other entrepreneurs change the world. Have made 70+ investments. 3 unicorns and many soon-to-be unicorns. :)
Founder
2009 - 2013
- Started company out of basement on top-ramen and costco pizza. - Raised Series A to build out current elite team on a mission to bring transparency and efficiency to ecommerce pricing. - Established culture of rapid experimentation and learning - Day-to-day: program management, metrics/analytics, and customer support - Major projects: Alpha prototype for fundraising, Deals site, Beta launch in 3 cats, Freemium, Customer Support, Growth team experiments, Analytics infrastructure and KPIs, User Research. - Get updates on our progress at @decide
Founder, CEO
2008 - 2009
Company founded on the idea that data-mining and analyzing resumes will help people figure out the best next moves, skills, and connections necessary to improve their careers. - Core team of 4. Basement, pizza, top ramen - no heat, no salary. Fun times. - In a small startup, everyone does almost everything.
Real Estate Agent, Investor, and Junkie
2006 - 2009
- I love real estate. - I buy, sell, and invest in real estate for fun. - My dream is to one day build a skyscraper... that flies.
Real Property Associates is a residential and commercial real estate brokerage and property management company.
Program Manager
2005 - 2008
- Managed a bunch of projects for the V1 release of Zillow. - Major projects included: Zestimator, Credit Cards, Community, Neighborhood data and pages, Profiles, Admin, Customer Support, API, Forums, Professional Directory, Reputation, Blog, Digs, and more. - Beat people at Guitar Hero and Ping Pong
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages.
Raised $96,627,980.00 from TCV and TCV.
Program Manager
2004 - 2005
- 3 consecutive summer PM internships working on various internal msn projects - Microsoft ambassador to the University of Washington
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Education
Summer 2014
2014 - 2014
BS
2002 - 2005