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Kevin Hartz

Founder of A*

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Kevin Hartz is the Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, known for his role as Co-Founder of Eventbrite, a publicly traded company on the NYSE. His career highlights include founding successful startups and making strategic investments in companies like Polymarket and Microverse.

Work Experience 

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A*

  • Co-Founder & GP

    2020 - Current

    A* is an early stage venture capital firm guiding outlier founders from idea to IPO.

A* Capital is a venture capital firm.

a-star.co
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Eventbrite

  • Co-Founder & Chairman

    2016 - 2024

  • Co-Founder CEO & Chairman

    2005 - 2016

Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.

Raised $557,250,000.00 from Francisco Partners.

eventbrite.com
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Founders Fund

  • Venture Partner

    2016 - 2018

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.

foundersfund.com
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Xoom

  • Member, Board of Directors & Founder

    2001 - 2015

    IPO 2013 (nasd: XOOM) Acquired by PayPal, 2015 ($1.1B)

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2001 - 2005

Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.

Raised $104,349,000.00 from Glynn Capital Management, Sequoia Capital, Keith Rabois, lilian samartino, Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Volition Capital, DAG Ventures, Glynn Capital Management and Northgate Capital.

xoom.com

Outlook Ventures

  • Principal

    1999 - 2001

    Outlook Ventures was a San Francisco based venture fund with $150m under management focusing on early stage enterprise software startups.

Connect Group

  • Co-Founder

    1998 - 1999

    Connect Group provided high speed Internet access to the hotel industry. Acquired by Lodgenet (NASD: LNET) in Oct 99.

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SGI

  • Product Manager

    1995 - 1997

    Product manager for Cosmo Player virtual reality browser.

Silicon Graphics provides workstations for conceptual design analysis and simulation of 3D objects.

sgi.com

Education 

Investments 

Polymarket

Series B

Total funding: $74M

Cape

Series B

Total funding: $60M

Paraform

Seed

Total funding: $5M

Socket

Seed

Total funding: $37M

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