Max Levchin

Founder & CEO

2012 - Current

Our mission is simple: deliver honest financial products to improve lives. At Affirm, we believe the financial industry desperately needs reinvention. Not only is the core infrastructure built with technology from the 1970s, but a dwindling number of people can say "I trust my bank to look out for me." It doesn’t have to be this way. Affirm’s mission is to fix this problem. We are using modern technology to re-imagine and re-build core components of financial infrastructure from the ground up. We’re focusing on improving the lives of everyday consumers with less expensive, more transparent financial products.

Founder & General Partner

2017

Taking risks in the service of transforming science-fiction into reality.

Founder & President

2012

HVF Labs starts companies with the people that will operate them. HARD /härd/. Harness an exceptional technology. VALUABLE /ˈvaly(əw)əb(ə)l/. Solve significant problems. FUN /fən/. Operate with passion to help build the world we want to live in. Founders join us to play with, think deeply about, and work on hard problems. HVF creates companies, including Yelp, Affirm, and Glow. HARD TECH THAT SOLVES HARD PROBLEMS. HVF focuses on technology and data advantages that can solve substantial problems. We found a company after a compelling technology becomes broadly accessible. WORK TOGETHER, ON WHAT CAPTIVATES YOU. Our Entrepreneurs in Residence and core team work on proto-ideas of their choosing. Founding teams are forged by searching and working together. We draw from HVF's community of founders, friends, and Levchin portfolio companies. FOCUS ON 1-2 PROJECTS AT A TIME. Your ideas get our complete attention. Expect strategic advice, deep product and technical contributions, with a team of involved co-founders. WITH OUR FOUNDERS FOR THE LONG HAUL. We work alongside our Companies in Residence for 12-24 months. HVF remains deeply involved in the companies we start, and in our alumni.

Co-Founder & Chairman

2012

Glow is a data science company that empowers women and couples to take control of their sexual and reproductive health. We have already created the world's largest reproductive health data set, and our vision is to leverage this data to lower healthcare costs and improve health outcomes.

Member Board Of Directors

2017

Member Board Of Directors

2016

Advisory Board Member

2015 - 2018

The Consumer Advisory Board helps to strengthen the CFPB's charge to serve and protect consumers by ensuring that the Bureau receives a wide range of insight, expertise, analysis and information about consumer finance market trends and practices.

Member Board of Directors

2006 - 2016

Member Board of Directors

2012 - 2015

Chairman of the Board of Directors

2004 - 2015

First Investor in and Chairman of Yelp -- started from within my first startup lab, MRL.