Chris Ovitz
Founder of Electric Ant
Los Angeles County, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2021 - Current
Electric Ant is an operator fund founded by Chris Ovitz, Chase Feiger, and Ryan Junee. We invest at the Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages. Investments include Layer Zero, Stargate, Rye.com, Atropos Health, Certify OS, Maximus Health, Mountaintop Studios, and Stan.
Electric Ant is an investment firm that invests in crypto technology companies.
Head of Special Projects
2022 - 2023
OK Play was acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022
Co-Founder and President
2019 - 2022
Acquired by Dapper Labs. OK Play is an 'award winning' mobile app that empowers kids to create, play and share - using our homegrown digital tools for drawing, photography, video, sound recording, and augmented reality. Our community scaled to over 1M+ active kids prior to being acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022.
Venture Partner
2019 - 2021
Investments include Beyond Meat (pre-IPO secondary), Pinterest (pre-IPO secondary), NotCo, mmhmm, and Block Renovation.
Future Positive is a venture capital investment firm.
Vice President of Technology Partnerships
2018 - 2018
Workpop was acquired by Cornerstone
Founder and Co-CEO
2014 - 2018
Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) Streamlined hiring and HR for SMBs. Workpop supports smaller retail chains and well-known brands such as The Peninsula Hotels, Hillstone Restaurant Group, Tao Group, Sweetgreen and Jersey Mike’s Subs.
Workpop is a seamless hiring platform for small and medium businesses.
Raised $16,100,000.00 from Obvious Ventures, Thrive Capital, Ironfire Ventures, CoCoon Ignite Ventures, BoxGroup, Cornerstone OnDemand and Trinity Ventures.
Advisor
2013 - 2018
Code.org is a non-profit foundation focusing on developing computer programming education in the U.S.
Raised $57,900,000.00 from Pluralsight One, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Infosys Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Google, Infosys, Priscilla Chan, Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg.
Advisor
2013 - 2014
Member, Box Media & Entertainment Advisory Board
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Vice President of Business Development
2013 - 2013
Award winning interactive entertainment company and mobile games publisher.
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Co-founder
2011 - 2013
Acquired by Fullscreen, Inc. Viddy was a venture backed social mobile video platform, which in just over a year, grew to 50 million users, earned the #1 ranking in the App Store in 49 countries and later sold to Fullscreen. In this role, I oversaw strategy, marketing and product partnerships. Viddy was backed by NEA, Khosla Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Allen & Company.
Viddy is a video creation and life sharing mobile application that makes it easy for consumers.
Raised $2,861,832.00 from Oded David Kobo.