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Philipp Stauffer

Managing Partner at FYRFLY Venture Partners

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Philipp Stauffer is a seasoned company-builder, founder mentor, and investor based in San Francisco, California. With an MBA from The Wharton School and a background in microeconomics, he has successfully co-founded FYRFLY Venture Partners and made impactful investments in numerous startups like rready and Altoida, contributing to their growth and success. Stauffer's expertise in strategy, entrepreneurship, and business development has led him to play key roles in various companies and has made him a sought-after figure in the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2015 - Current

    Early stage technology venture firm with a focus on entrepreneurs who build their competitive advantage through data & intelligence. The coming ten years will present unprecedented opportunity in data driven computing driven by computing power laws, deep tech, AI, edge computing and blockchain. The increased interplay of these drivers will transform many industries and drive the next wave of value chain entrepreneurs.

FYRFLY Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence.

  • Board Member & Investor

    2023

    Accelerating the next generation of the internet. With more locations than anyone, Edgevana provides the software to deploy highly performant validators globally.

Edgevana is a global marketplace for automating data centre procurement process.

  • Lead Seed Investor

    2016

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2023

    Digitize Your Frontline & Supercharge Your Business

  • Early Stage Investor

    2015

    Building the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world.

Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.

Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.

  • Seed Investor

    2013

    Provides investors and innovators with the tools to grow.

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.

  • Board Member & Seed Investor

    2020

    Leading Automation Platform for Gmail.

  • Board Member & Seed Investor

    2021

    Innovate from within by empowering your people with their smartest ideas. Innovation management as a service.

  • Lead Seed Investor

    2016

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2020

    Creating a New Gold Standard in Brain Health With Precision Neurology.

Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology.

Raised $24,749,815.00 from M Ventures, VI Partners, Alpana Ventures, b2venture, Whitecap Venture Partners, FYRFLY Venture Partners, Hikma Ventures and HonorHealth.

  • Seed Investor

    2019

    Solving seemingly intractable human problems across industries.

Mobi Systems provides technologies enhance web and mobile products for companies in the mobility.

Raised $26,466,061.00 from FYRFLY Venture Partners.

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    Enabling developers to easily replace their current web2 video solutions with a native web3 video service at a fraction of the cost.

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