Christina (Phillips) Melas-Kyriazi
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
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!
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)
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.
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.
Advisor
2014 - 2016
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.
Analyst, Investment Banking
2011 - 2013