Evan Tana

Partner

2023 - Current

The leading community and fund helping technologists and founders go from -1 to 0.

Founding General Partner

2017

Script Capital is a preseed venture capital firm focused on being a founding team's first lead check and closest partner from inception through the seed. We lead pre-seed rounds with $500K-$1M lead checks, we're on call 24/7 to support our founders and we're building tools to accelerate a founders' workflows so they can focus on what matters most - building something people want. We happily invest in teams headquartered anywhere. Read our Letter to Founders: https://script.capital/notes/founder-letter Companies in our portfolio include Audius ($AUDIO), Transcend, The Graph ($GRT), True North, Karat Financial, Material Security, Openphone, Verto Education, Sqreen (acquired by Datadog), Replenysh, RunTheWorld, Silk+Sonder, Collective, Swoop, Anvil, Passport, Anycart, Canary Technologies, Betty Labs (acquired by Spotify), Feature Labs (acquired by Alteryx), Sheltr (acquired by Hippo). See our portfolio here: https://script.capital

Advisor

2013

Empowering a new generation of content creators. $255M in funding from New Enterprise Associates, Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, DFJ Growth, Charles River Ventures and Freestyle Capital.

Advisor

2014 - 2020

Shift makes buying, owning, and selling cars delightful. Listed on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol SFT on October 15, 2020. Originally backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Highland Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, and BMW i Ventures.

Group Product Manager

2016 - 2018

Joined by way of our Sparks acquisition. Brought in to help lead new product exploration. Through lots of iteration, ultimately helped define and jumpstart the effort behind Dropbox Spaces, a new smart and collaborative workspace aka "The Shared Folder reimagined". I was also fortunate to lead a handful of product teams and got to work with some of the best people I've ever worked with. Also ate a lot of delicious food at the Tuckshop. - Led the teams that conceptualized Dropbox Spaces. - Led the Mobile product team. - Led the Ecosystem product team.

Advisor

2013 - 2017

A more fun and useful way to share location with friends. $33.7M in funding from Benchmark, Indivest, Xavier Niel, and Kima Ventures. (www.zen.ly). Acquired in 2017 by Snapchat for $213M.

Advisor

2013 - 2017

Life made simpler - a smart assistant for your phone. Funded by USVP and Mayfield.

Co-founder and CEO

2013 - 2016

Sparks is building a new way for us to express and discuss what we're into. We're funded by Greylock, Redpoint, CAA Ventures and a great group of angels. Acquired in 2016 by Dropbox. "Sparks aims to fire up mobile conversations" - Liz Gannes, re/code (http://ow.ly/wgt20) "We make memes and use gifs to express feelings in ways that words alone can’t capture." - Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch (http://ow.ly/yjuy7) "Finally, an App That Makes GIF- and Meme-Making Even Easier" - DJ Pangburn, Vice Magazine

Advisor

2012 - 2014

Treat yourself while shopping - transforming offline shopping. Funded by KPCB and Greylock. Acquired in 2014 by SK Planet for $250 million.

Vice President of Product Management

2009 - 2012

Founded in 2009 with investment from Kleiner Perkins, Reid Hoffman/Greylock and SV Angel, Shopkick aims to transform the way we shop in the offline world by rewarding shoppers along the entire purchase path from the couch to store. We launched the service in 2010 and grew to >20 million users, driving >$1.5B sales for retail and brand partners (e.g. Target, P&G, Macy’s, Disney, Unilever) per year. Shopkick became the most widely used retail app in the United States in 2012 (Nielsen Report) and was named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Retail by Fast Company. Acquired in 2014 by SK Planet for approximately $250 million. - Joined founder Cyriac Roeding on the founding team when shopkick was still incubating in the Kleiner Perkins offices. - Recruited much of shopkick's early technical team and hired a team that inspired me daily. We were responsible for product management, product design, content merchandising, QA and customer service. - Led the product development and launch of shopkick in August 2010, which then was named one of Fast Company's top 10 innovative retail apps (http://bit.ly/RfYxEW) - Led the design and launch of shopkick's Buy & Collect program with Visa and MasterCard, the very first integration with card networks to reward rewards in real-time for purchases at stores such as American Eagle, Crate & Barrel, and Toys"R"Us. - Led the re-imagining, design and launch of shopkick 3.0 in October 2012, a ground up redesign of the vision that aims to inspire shoppers before the visit with beautiful lookbooks and then delight them at the store with shopkick's innovative walk-in rewards, scan rewards and purchase rewards. (http://usat.ly/Tb7Q2J)

Entrepreneur In Residence

2013 - 2013