John Gianakopoulos
Principal at Scale Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2022 - Current
Investments in Papaya Global, Socure, Scout RFP (acquired), Spot AI, Vantage, Lumos, AppOmni, Comet ML, Spruce (acquired), and others
Vice President
2021 - 2022
Senior Associate
2020 - 2021
Associate
2018 - 2020
Scale is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software.
Board Observer
2024
Lumos is a tech company that develops unified access platforms for IT and security teams to manage app and data access.
Raised $65,000,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Neo, Andreessen Horowitz and Harpoon.
Board Observer
2023
Vantage is a cloud cost management and optimization platform that allows developers to analyze, report on, and reduce cloud costs.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Matthew Prince, Harpoon, Scale Venture Partners and Glenn Solomon.
Board Observer
2021
Board Observer
2020
Papaya Global is a fintech platform that provides cloud-based payroll and payments solutions for global workforce management.
Raised $444,500,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Insight Partners, IVP, Access Industries, Group 11, Workday Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Greenoaks and Tiger Global Management.
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Growth and engagement PM. Managed notifications engine and dashboard for core PFM product
Personal Capital combines online financial tools with registered financial advisor expertise to enable people and grow their net worth.
Raised $265,300,000.00 from IGM Financial.
Product Manager II - QuickBooks Capital
2015 - 2017
Responsible for QuickBooks lending marketplace (used QuickBooks data to underwrite and offer SMBs financing). Built out Intuit's first QuickBooks-branded line of credit offering embedded within the product
Associate Product Manager - Rotational Development Program
2014 - 2015
PM on Intuit's internal "Plaid" product. Responsible for normalizing bank transaction data for Mint and QuickBooks
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Product Manager Intern
2013 - 2013
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Business Technology Analyst Summer Intern
2012 - 2012
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.