Christina (phillips) Melas-kyriazi
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Investing in early stage startups. If you're building something new, let's chat!
Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Angel Investor
2016
Passionate about fintech, health, marketplaces, SaaS, Ecomm enablement and consumer. Investor in Carrot Fertility, Imprint (fintech), Habi (proptech), Seso (labor marketplace), Fractional (proptech), Fragment (fintech), Catch (fintech), Eco (crypto/ fintech), Welcome (HR SaaS), Commonstock (fintech), EcoCart (POS carbon offsets), Sanctuary (new age spirituality), Open (meditation/ wellness), Pulsar, Needed (CPG), Mezcal Rosaluna, Surge (AI), Rex (consumer), Ello (AI), Zitti (fintech), Kudos (fintech), Ganymede (infra), Ava finance (fintech) and others
Scout
2020 - 2021
early stage investments (pre-seed, seed, series A)
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Head of Product - Consumer Foundations
2019 - 2021
Lead a team of product managers focused on core products across the customer journey (identity, membership, fraud, trust & safety, authentication, repayment, user portal, account management, customer care, and internal tools). Also led a team on our core Buy Now Pay Later product, launching new API's and driving merchant growth and engagement for enterprise (working with Wayfair, Target, Samsung) and SMB merchants.
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.
Senior Product Manager
2016 - 2019
Focused on bringing GoFundMe to new markets. Led the strategy, design, and implementation of our charity fundraising efforts, team fundraising product and internationalization efforts. Worked on GoFundMe's acquisition of CrowdRise.
GoFundMe is the world’s largest fundraising platform, helping people, causes, and charities raise money fast and efficiently.
Advisor
2014 - 2016
Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars.
Raised $504,000,000.00 from SoftBank Capital.
Senior Associate, Product Business Operations
2013 - 2014
Cross-functional work with product leadership, executive team, finance and marketing. I focus on LinkedIn's core consumer products that help you best represent your professional identity, and find and connect with others. I work on user growth and engagement forecasting, performance management, product strategy, strategic partnerships, analytics and market research. Extensive SQL experience.
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Analyst, Investment Banking
2011 - 2013
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.