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Eytan Elbaz

Founder of Afterparty

Los Angeles, California

Overview 

Eytan Elbaz is the Co-founder of Afterparty, a successful venture he co-founded, showcasing his expertise in business development, fundraising, and product marketing. With a background that includes co-founding successful companies like Social Native and Scopely, Eytan has invested in numerous innovative startups, such as Emotive and FabFitFun, focusing on sectors like Games, Gaming/eSports, and Marketplaces.

Work Experience 

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Afterparty

  • Co-founder, Afterparty

    2021 - Current

    World's first NFT and Music Festival

Afterparty is a technology company that builds web3 platform for artists, musicians, collectors, and creators.

Raised $25,825,663.00 from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Vinny Lingham, Acrew Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Act One Ventures and Tamarack Global.

afterparty.com
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Social Native

  • Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer

    2015 - 2021

    Social Native is a technology company reinventing how brands conceptualize and create content. Our content engine connects brands with millions of epic content creators globally, to create high-performing, cost-effective branded content on demand. We raised $8M from Softbank and others to build our vision.

Social Native is a technology platform for creating high performing branded content.

Raised $8,000,000.00 from LFX Venture Partners.

socialnative.com
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Render Media

  • Co-founder

    2011 - 2018

    At peak, we were the 2nd fastest growing media company in the U.S.

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Scopely

  • Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

    2011 - 2015

    Producer of mobile games. $1B+ revenues annually.

Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.

Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.

scopely.com
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Google

  • Head of Domain Channel

    2003 - 2007

    I was responsible for driving AdSense for Domains revenue. I grew the channel from $13M to $600M annually over four and a half years.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

Applied Semantics

  • Founding Member & Vice President

    1999 - 2003

    At Applied Semantics, I conceived the ideas for applying the company's meaning-based technology towards domain name selection and monetization, and towards contextual targeting, launched as Oingo AdSense in 2000. AdSense generates $15B annually for Google. Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in April 2003 for $102M

Advanced Micro Devices

  • Technical Sales Engineer

    1996 - 1999

Education 

Investments 

Afterparty

Seed

Total funding: $12M

Emotive

Seed

Total funding: $79M

Globus.ai

Seed

Total funding: $1M

Duffl

Seed

Total funding: $13M

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