John Melas-Kyriazi
Founder of Standard Metrics
John Melas-Kyriazi
Founder of Standard Metrics
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2020 - Current
Standard Metrics automates portfolio reporting for VC teams and their portfolio companies. Learn more at standardmetrics.io
Angel Investor
2019
Angel investments: - Numeric (numeric.io) - Onebrief (onebrief.com) - Hone (honehealth.com) - Seso (sesolabor.com) - Clipboard Health (clipboardhealth.com) - Ello (ello.com) - Vartana (vartana.com) - Nuvocargo (nuvocargo.com) - MainStreet (mainstreet.com) - Auxilius (auxili.us) - Mundi (mundi.io) - Multiply (withmultiply.com) - Distill (distill.fyi) - Provenance (provenance.co) - Pilot (getpilot.ai) - Puck (careerpuck.com) - Eco (eco.com) - withco (with.co) - Archie (witharchie.com) - Clora (clora.com) - Heyday (heyday.xyz) - Climax Foods (climaxfoods.com) - Mezcal Rosaluna (mezcalrosaluna.com) - Prima (prima.co) - gtxn (gtxn.co) - Realm (realmalliance.com) - Poised (poised.com) — acquired by Deepgram - Legalpad (legalpad.io) — acquired by Deel Later-stage investments alongside VC friends: - Flexport (flexport.com) - Shield AI (shield.ai) - Oxide (oxide.computer) - True Anomaly (trueanomaly.space) - Route (route.com) - nTop (ntop.com) - AtoB (atob.us)
Advisor
2020
8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies.
Angel Track
2023
Member of First Round Capital's Fall 2023 Angel Track cohort.
Investor
2014 - 2020
Investments I led: - Clipboard Health (Series A) - Wildtype (seed, board member) - Full Harvest (Series A, board member) - Clora (seed, board member) Investments I sourced: - Andela (Series A, board observer) - Capella Space (Series A, board observer) - Allstripes (Series A) — acquired by PicnicHealth - Freight Farms (Series A, board observer) - Sidewire (seed, board observer) Other: - SoundHouse (seed, co-founded/incubated) — acquired by HarbourView (https://www.billboard.com/pro/harbourview-acquires-soundhouse-biggest-acquisition-to-date/)
CFO & Head of Business Development
2012 - 2014
StartX is a community of entrepreneurs affiliated with Stanford University.
Applied Physics Researcher
2009 - 2012
My research at Stanford focused on the materials science and device physics of solar cells and photo-electrochemical devices. Publications: http://bit.ly/3SxdYto
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Spark’s investment in Full Harvest
Talks about We Invest, New Portfolio Company and Venture Capital