Max Levchin
General Partner at SciFi VC
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
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.
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.
Founder & General Partner
2017
Taking risks in the service of transforming science-fiction into reality.
SciFi VC is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage companies.
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.
HVF Labs is a company creation lab, founded by Max Levchin. We build companies with the teams that will operate them.
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.
Glow is a fertility app that crunches and analyzes vast quantities of data to help users take control of their reproductive health.
Raised $23,000,000.00 from 9Yards Capital, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Slow Ventures and Formation 8.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Unity for Humanity Grant program offers funding, mentorship, and technical support for real-time 3D social impact projects.
Member Board Of Directors
2016
Mixpanel turns data into decisions with analytics that simplify insights, guide decisions, and measure product and marketing impact.
Raised $277,015,000.00 from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.
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
Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Raised $290,000,000.00 from Nikkei and Kortschak Investments L.P..
Member Board of Directors
2012 - 2015
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Chairman of the Board of Directors
2004 - 2015
First Investor in and Chairman of Yelp -- started from within my first startup lab, MRL.
Yelp is an online platform that connects people with great local businesses through user-generated reviews and recommendations.
Raised $56,000,000.00 from Elevation Partners.
Education
BS
1993 - 1997