Neel Murthy

Senior Venture Partner

2017 - Current

Founding Senior Venture Partner of Pioneer Fund. Former Visiting General Partner. Providing help and funding for YC companies to fulfill their vision.

Advisor

2024

Head of Growth

2019 - 2024

VP of Product

2018 - 2019

Chief Innovation Officer

2017 - 2018

Acquired Swapbox in 2017. Joined the team to help transition the product and finalize the acquisition while providing solutions on how Swabpox and other new technologies could help innovate their suite of offerings to customers and clients.

CEO & Co-Founder

2012 - 2017

ACQUIRED IN AUGUST 2017 By SDBIC! YC W13 - http://gigaom.com/2013/03/26/yc-winter-2013-demo-day-five-startups-to-watch-afternoon-edition/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/y-combinator-company-swapbox-launches-and-aims-to-pick-up-where-bufferbox-left-off/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/swapbox-knew-that-google-would-eventually-come-to-the-bay-area-with-bufferbox-remains-focused/

W13 Batch

2013 - 2013

Joined YC as a W13 company with Swapbox.

Student

2006 - 2012

M.S. in Computer Science / MBA Candidate (dropped out to start Swapbox & join YC) B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Human Biology

Product Manager (former Engineering Intern)

2011 - 2011

PM on Words With Friends for Facebook - Created specs and launched new features for WWF on Facebook, including the popular game board screen shot feature that allowed users to share the cool/exciting words they played with their friends - Managed statistical analysis (post-mortem and expected numbers) for my own features as well as already existing ones Initially worked as a software engineer on Scramble With Friends and built a sizable portion of the game

Lead Developer

2010 - 2011

Joined that company once it was out of Stanford's StartX program, which was founded and financed by one of LinkedIn's Co-founders. Then after the lead developer left in early 2011, I took over that role. - mlp was a tool for power users of LinkedIn to use it better and was made under the guidance of Konstantin. - managed technical team (redmine for ror development) and worked on one of the core features of mlp, awards.

Founder

2009 - 2010

Managed technical development of videocrank (website and future iPhone application) Worked with BETA clients on optimizing website functionality: www.videocrank.com/soundhound Created data-based presentations for clients upon completion of the campaign