Navid Zolfaghari
Investor at W Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
Head of GTM
2023 - 2024
Usage-Based Billing Platform Metronome enables teams to launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline quote-to-cash workflows–all without engineering effort. Metronome has raised $78M from top-tier VC firms such as A16Z, NEA, and General Catalyst, and powers billing for the fastest-growing startups and enterprises, including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Databricks.
Metronome is a usage-based billing platform that helps companies to implement new business models and launch products faster.
Raised $78,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Charles Zedlewski, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Advisor
2022
Autonomous Discovery Platform PerceptivePanda leverages artificial intelligence to gather first party data from prospects and customers at every lifecycle stage. Equipped with discovery information from key moments of intent, go-to-market teams make their next interaction more effective, resulting in better conversion rates and customer experiences.
Investor
2021
Investing in early stage SaaS startups Team ➝ Market ➝ Traction
VP, Global Sales
2017 - 2023
Mobile Linking & Measurement Branch provides the industry's leading mobile linking and measurement platforms, unifying user experience and attribution across devices and channels. Branch has been selected by over 100,000 apps including Adobe, Spotify, Burger King and many more, improving experiences for more than 3 billion monthly users across the globe. • Grew revenue from less than $1M to over $100M ARR during 6 year tenure (172% CAGR) • Managed a global team of 125 talented individuals across various functions: Account Executives, Sales Development Representatives, Partnerships, Sales Engineering, Value Engineering, Strategy, and Enablement • Built a high-performance culture emphasizing initiative, ownership, and a sense of urgency
Director, Partner Growth
2017 - 2017
Goal was to figure out how to make $
Branch helps companies drive seamless mobile experiences through its linking infrastructure powering thousands of today's top brands.
Raised $667,050,000.00 from KSV Global, New Enterprise Associates and The K Fund.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Revenue Intelligence Platform BoostUp arms revenue teams with complete visibility and transparency into their business, identifying risks and opportunities in the pipeline, while improving forecasting rigor and accuracy. Provides irrefutability by unifying CRM and rep activity data on a single platform. Advised from Seed to Series B and beyond.
BoostUp helps companies achieve predictability and scaleable growth through accurate forecasting.
Raised $56,750,000.00 from Canaan Partners, NGP Capital, Twilio and Emergent Ventures.
Advisor
2013 - 2020
Worked with portfolio companies (Batch 7-27) with a primary focus on building and scaling GTM
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
Head of Strategic Accounts
2016 - 2017
Dynamic Pricing Engine Boomerang Commerce (acquired by Lowe's in May 2019) equipped the world's top retailers with a dynamic pricing and assortment engine that enabled them to implement intelligent pricing and assortment strategies at scale.
Boomerang Commerce platform empowers profitable growth through data driven merchandising decisions.
Raised $20,500,000.00 from Madrona, Shasta Ventures and Trinity Ventures.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2015
Online-to-Offline (O2O) Data Platform Pinpoint helped advertisers with offline mobile ad attribution and retargeting. By leveraging beacons and magnetic positioning, we transformed physical points of interest into offline tracking pixels giving marketers insights into whether their mobile ads are impacting walk-in traffic.
Sr. Account Executive & Sales Manager
2010 - 2014
Social Media Marketing Software Wildfire Interactive (acquired by Google in August 2012) enabled businesses to create, optimize, and measure their presence on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube. Joined Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) team post acquisition (August 2012-April 2014).
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Lecturer
2012 - 2013
Created and taught top-rated CSP course ‘Social Media Marketing Strategies’ (BUS121)