Christopher Golda
Managing Partner at Rogue Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2014 - Current
Seed and Series A focused investments. Co-invested w/ A16Z, Accel, Benchmark, Index, Founders Fund, Kleiner, Sequoia, USV, etc. Portfolio includes Benchling, Coinbase, MindsDB, Stoke Space, Supabase and 100+ more.
Rogue Capital is focused on backing top 0.01% entrepreneurs at the earliest stage.
Venture Partner
2022 - 2022
Venture Advisor
2019 - 2020
Menlo Ventures provides capital for consumer, enterprise, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.
Product
2011 - 2014
Led product for the Ads Center (ads.twitter.com), which is used by all Twitter advertisers to buy advertising units and report on their performance (ads comprised the majority of Twitter’s revenue: $140mm in 2011 — $1.4b in 2014)
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Founder
2008 - 2011
BackType was an analytics company that was acquired by Twitter in 2011. Investors included Y Combinator, True Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and more. Apache Storm, a distributed realtime computation system developed at BackType, was declared a Top–Level Project by the Apache Software Foundation in 2014.