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Max Kolysh

General Partner at Alloy Fund

New York, New York

Overview 

Max Kolysh is the Founder and CEO of Dover, having previously held positions as General Partner at Alloy Fund and COO at Zinc. He has invested in various companies at different stages and sectors, including dNovo Bio, OpenLattice, and Headstart, showcasing his strong leadership and investment acumen in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and CEO

    2019 - Current

    Dover is the ultimate recruiting solution for startups. Any business leader can run a data-driven hiring process, create an incredible candidate experience, and hire the right talent fast with Dover's embedded recruiters and automation platform. Stripe, Scale AI, OpenSea, Benchling, Vanta, AngelList, and 1200+ other startups have used Dover to supercharge their recruiting. Get our free hiring tools at https://www.dover.com.

Dover is your one-stop shop for recruiting. Dover is a modern suite of tools and services to help companies attract and hire top talent.

Raised $22,800,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Abstract and Bradley Horowitz.

  • General Partner

    2021

Early stage VC firm, investing in big ideas and breakthrough discoveries

  • Board Member

    2018

  • Founder and COO

    2014 - 2018

    Zinc is the secret backbone of e-commerce. We have built software that manages listing creation, inventory management, repricing, and order fulfillment for tens of thousands of the top Amazon and eBay sellers. We power the product catalog for dozens of US and international e-commerce sites. Our founders and lead engineers hail from MIT and have worked at top-tier Silicon Valley companies including Palantir, Stripe, Dropbox, Nest, and Optimizely. Our software powers small businesses, public companies, resellers, and brands, for whom we process over $250 million in sales per year.

  • Senior Venture Partner

    2017 - 2022

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    2013 - 2013

Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.

Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.

  • Software Engineer

    2012 - 2012

    Created a frontend heavy Rails application to facilitate bug report communication from customer service to developers.

Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.

Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.

  • Financial Services Consultant

    2012 - 2012

    Improved usability, accuracy, and efficiency of Access-based model used by over 20 OW teams annually to estimate proceeds and fees for investment banks in equity and debt capital markets.

CAVOK is a technical consulting firm that supports the development of manual systems and processes.

  • Technical Instructor

    2011 - 2011

    Developed curriculum and lectured 30+ Masters students on Python, Django, and Google App Engine

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