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Delian Asparouhov
Partner at Founders Fund
Miami, Florida
Overview
Delian Asparouhov is a co-founder of Varda Space Industries and a Partner at Founders Fund, with a background in investing in various sectors and stages, including Media/Content, Health IT, and Consumer Internet. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding Varda Space Industries and making investments in companies like Hextronics, Nominal, and PortalOne at different stages of their growth.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Principal
2019 - 2023
Primarily focused on fintech, healthcaretech, consumer hardware, influencer/media/apparel, real estate and aero/astro
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.
Co-Founder, President, Chairman
2020
Varda is a space manufacturing startup that creates products in microgravity and retrieves them for terrestrial use.
Raised $141,025,000.00 from Caffeinated Capital, Fifty Years, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Nitesh Banta, General Catalyst, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund and Sinai Capital Partners.
Principal
2018 - 2019
Primarily focused on fintech, healthcaretech, consumer hardware, and aero/astro
Chief Of Staff
2017 - 2018
Was Chief Of Staff to Keith Rabois, one of the general partners at Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance to entrepreneurs in AI, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, health and frontier technologies.
Raised $1,500,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
GM of Music and Entertainment
2017 - 2017
Ran the music and entertainment division
GM of Marketplace
2016 - 2016
Ran the online marketplace-driven sales
Teespring is a social commerce platform that allows people to retail consumer goods such as clothes, shoes, bags, and mobile cases.
CEO
2013 - 2016
YC Summer 14 Thiel Fellow class of 2013
Nightingale is the clinical decision support solution for evidence-based interventions.
Raised $780,000.00 from StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Y Combinator, Keith Rabois, Maverick Ventures, Jaan Tallinn, Y Combinator and Rough Draft Ventures.
Android Developer
2012 - 2012
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
Waffle Boy
2010 - 2010
I was a good frites and waffle-maker
Education
Investments
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