Hari Raghavan
Founder of Autograph
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
Building a People Intelligence Platform to give HR teams & organizational leaders analytical superpowers.
Co-Founder & Chairman
2023
Co-Founder & CEO
2019 - 2023
AbstractOps provides the operator and the operating system to help manage corporate functions.
General Partner
2021
https://autopilot.fund Our investments include AngelList, Caplight, Copilot Money, Form Kitchens, Meow.co, Neo.Tax, Pulley, Puzzle.io, Sacra, Wispr.ai and many more.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Fellow - ODF1 & ODS1
2019 - 2021
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Member
2019 - 2020
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
Angel Investor
2015 - 2020
- Investor in 100+ companies, both at Seed-Series A (Notion, Mercury, Rippling, On Deck) and late-stage / secondary (Slack, Spotify, Robinhood, Cohesity, Looker, Rubrik) - LP at a few early-stage VC firms (SignalFire, Ravikant Capital, Uncorrelated, Footwork, Base10, South Park Commons, 8-Bit, Todd/Rahul Fund) Related: While I'm not professionally active in the secondary market, I love helping and advising folks on all things startup equity.
Advisor
2018 - 2019
COO
2017 - 2018
Employee #1 and COO. Spearheaded much of Equidate's business during a period of hypergrowth: - oversaw nearly $1B in transactions - 100+xed (~4x YoY) metrics for 3+ years - managed the P&L to robust profitability - efforts culimated in a Series B / ~$200M+ valuation in 2018 (~20x from when I joined) * Led Business Operations functions -- business/market strategy; corporate development and strategic partnerships; FP&A and strategic planning, thought leadership, content & analysis. * Led or co-led Revenue functions: deal structuring and execution; (financial) product development and branding; client relationship management; business development. * Influenced Product functions: design and implementation of internal tools; developing and launching public-facing content, data, and discovery tools. * Co-led or influenced Corporate functions: hiring; HR and compensation policies; branding; compliance; risk management; vendor relationships; contract negotiation; and PR.
Hobo (… Head of Biz Ops)
2016 - 2017
VP Operations
2015 - 2016
Forge is a global private securities marketplace creating an accessible, liquid, and transparent private market.
Raised $357,000,000.00 from Temasek Holdings, Adit Ventures and ION.
Consultant
2012 - 2014
19 Growth and operations strategy projects in industrial goods, aerospace, consumer goods, and banking. Advised clients on market expansion, capital/resource allocation, improving sales performance, streamlining costs, and M&A (/post-merger) activities. Investigated effect of increasing automation on re-shoring industrial manufacturing to the US, under BCG's Made in America project. Cited in the President's State of the Union Address, and instrumental in redirecting client investment to US manufacturing in subsequent projects. Core member of recruiting team: interviewed 100+ candidates for full-time and summer, attended 50+ events across 7 schools, and led Chicago recruiting efforts at Stanford. Core member of Excel Cadre: conducted training sessions for 200+ Consultants/Associates in their early years at BCG.
Associate
2010 - 2012
BCG Securities focuses on wealth management with high net worth individuals.
Frontline Crew Member
2006 - 2006
Learned how to make delicious smoothies, a skill that is useful to this day. Strawberry Nirvana was my favorite.
Jamba Juice is a healthy lifestyle brand that inspires and simplifies healthful living through freshly blended whole fruit and juices.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Mistral Equity Partners.
Education
Master's Degree
2009 - 2010
Bachelor's Degree
2005 - 2009