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Milan Griffes
Principal at Lionheart Ventures
Portland, Oregon
Overview
Milan Griffes is currently the Principal at Lionheart Ventures in Portland, Oregon. With a background in higher education, research, grant writing, and volunteer management, Milan has excelled in roles such as Head of Risk at Sendwave and Research Analyst at GiveWell.
Work Experience
Principal
2022 - Current
Lionheart Ventures is a global, seed-stage venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk.
Board Observer
2023
Strategic Advisor
2021
Co-founder
2018 - 2021
https://atmanretreat.com Acquired by Odyssey (Q1 2024)
Head of Risk
2016 - 2018
Remittance business unit sold to WorldRemit for $500M (Q1 2020) Wave last valued at $1.7B (Q3 2021)
Sendwave is an app-based remittance company with the mission of sending money as easy as sending a text.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Ribbit Capital, Founders Fund, Partech, Sequoia Heritage and Sam Altman.
Research Analyst
2014 - 2016