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Hashtags in the Sky
Talks about Twitter alternatives, Mastodon and Bluesky
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Chris Messina
General Partner at Ride Home Fund
Emeryville, California
Overview
Chris Messina is a Product Leader based in Emeryville, California, currently serving as a General Partner at Ride Home Fund, Llc and Product Lead at Republic. Notable highlights include creating courses at On Deck and co-founding Molly, with investments in companies like VMind AI and Babylist.
Work Experience
General Partner
2023 - Current
Product Lead
2022 - 2022
Responsible for the Founder Experience on Republic, I lead efforts to migrate internal processes from spreadsheets to a robust Airtable database, and to migrate from the Pipedrive CMS to Salesforce. I lead the design, development, and launch of Teaser Pages, the fastest way to start raising with Republic.
Head of West Coast Business Development
2021 - 2022
Charged with expanding the presence of equity crowdfunding platform Republic on the West Coast and throughout Silicon Valley.
Republic Crypto offers a compliant and inclusive blockchain financing and investment platform for investors seeking high growth potential.
Community Developers Council (CDC) Member
2021 - 2022
As an elected representative of the Rally Creator Ecosystem, I advocated for Creator Coin utilization by the broader Rally developer ecosystem by building a grant in-take system, and provided guidance and feedback on marketing efforts, and worked with the other members of the Community Developer Council to deploy 1 million $RLY per quarter to grant applicants.
Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Raised $57,000,000.00 from Blockchain.com Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and California Technology Ventures.
Course Creator Fellow
2021 - 2021
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Product Therapist
2020 - 2021
Providing product design, product strategy, marketing, and launch guidance for the world's top makers, entrepreneurs, and internet innovators.
Fellow
2020 - 2020
Participating as a fellow in the On Deck Cohort 4. Learn more about the program here: beondeck.com
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Product Design Consultant
2019 - 2020
Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Raised $8,620,000.00 from Talis Capital, Forerunner and Y Combinator.
Consultant
2018 - 2018
Alter is an open-source platform that consists of a 3D avatar system and motion capture for web3.
Raised $4,480,000.00 from Ambridge Capital, Cem Kozinoglu, Play Ventures, Spacecadet Ventures, X (formerly Twitter), Jas Purewal, Rupert Loman, Abe Burns, Chris Lee and Aream & Co.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
Executed branding, product and UI design (iOS, desktop and mobile web), product and launch strategy, onboarding the first 200 influencers, and building the initial community, and growing Molly's subscriber base to 20K members.
Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Raised $7,120,000.00 from Marcy Venture Partners and Halogen Ventures.
Organizer
2016 - 2017
Education
BFA
1999 - 2003
Accelerator
2017 - 2018
Investments
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