Ivan Kirigin
Investor at Tango.vc
Ivan Kirigin
Investor at Tango.vc
Redwood City, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder CEO
2023 - Current
AI for messaging
Investor
2019
We back early stage startups focused on AI/ML, automation and robotics. Fund I backed 46 companies, now on to Fund II. These include Albedo, Almanac, BotBuilt, Buoyant Aero, Callin, Charge Robotics, Climate Robotics, Clone, DeepSource, Depict.ai, Documatic, Dolphyn, Edia, Eto.ai, Faction, Fathom Computing, Fibo.finance, Finish Robotics, Freshpaint, Greenwork, Heywear, Hydra, Hypotenuse.ai, Impossible Metals, Instant Domains, Lightly.ai, Locomation, Mach9 Robotics, Mezli, Mythos, Nira, Orca Mobility, Pallet, Parthean, Phykos, Quartz, Red Leader Tech, Rhetoric, SixWheel, Slai, Stoke Space, Strong Compute, Teleo, Vici Robotics, Zensors, Zitara
PM at Level 5
2017 - 2019
Lyft acquired my startup YesGraph, and we continued our work building referral recommendations within the growth team. I then lead a team automating all of acquisition, using machine learning to efficiently deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. I then moved back to my robotics roots to Level 5, Lyft's self-driving division in Palo Alto. Our mission is to build the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Together, with electric vehicles and Lyft Shared rides, autonomous vehicles will save millions of lives globally, eliminate congestion, reduce emissions, and allow us to rebuild cities around people and not cars.
CEO
2012 - 2017
YesGraph helps your business grow by recommending exactly who a user should invite. YesGraph was acquired by Lyft.
Product Manager
2010 - 2012
Growth Hacker, helped the company grow 12X in 2 years.
Software Engineer
2009 - 2010
Engineering lead with the commerce team. I built the first games dashboard and FB Credits payment flows.
Cofounder and CTO
2008 - 2009
Tipjoy powered simple social micropayments. My design focused cofounder and I took my idea from design to implementation to market. Funded by YC in Winter 2008, and raised a small Series A from Ron Bouganim, Chris Sacca, Dave Shen, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Local Globe, and Betaworks.
Software Engineer
2006 - 2007
I helped win multiple military research grants. I focused on image and sensor processing, with projects about super resolution, tracking, and obstacle avoidance. Working with iRobot's PackBot is great, but I had the most fun with iRobot's entry in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge automated driving competition.
Research Assistant
2003 - 2005
I was a research assistant while studying towards my MS in robotics. I lead multiple projects in computer vision, including feature tracking and localization for highly dynamic legged robots.
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