Raj Kapoor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

2021 - Current

Co-founded Climactic - an early stage Venture Capital firm to solve the biggest planetary challenges using technology - including climate change, resource sustainability, and the circular economy.

Member Board Of Directors & Investor

2022

Enara has created the most effective health platform for Medical Weight Management targeting Obesity and utilizing a digital platform combined with your own multi-displinary care team of doctors, dietitians, exercise specialists, and behavioral group therapy. Enara is a membership paid mostly by insurance, delivered by the top medical clinics (e.g. cardiology clinics) and results in sustained average 15% weight loss for its members.

Advisor

2016

Angaza created an innovative Pay As You Go system integrated with mobile phones allowing micro grids in the form of clean energy appliances to be easily and cost effectively used by underserved communities in Africa, India, etc. (e.g. solar lights and phone charging systems). I advise on all aspects of the business.

Investor

2017

Strategic Advisor

2021 - 2021

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Business, Self Driving

2016 - 2021

I was the Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft for 4 1/2 years. First, I explored new businesses to launch internationally - which morphed into expanding Lyft into a full Mobility As A Service Provider (MaaS) including Transit (a team which I created). Then, I focused most of my time on transforming Lyft from a human driver network of gas powered vehicles to an electric, shared, self driving fleet - to solve congestion, emissions, safety, and affordability. I led the business of Self Driving which included 400+ people developing self driving technology in Palo Alto and a team running our Open Platform where we partnered with the best self driving companies (e.g. Waymo, Motional, more to be announced). I also helped on the Executive Team level on overall and line of business strategy. Milestones include having the largest paid self driving ride program with over 100k rides (pre covid), signing the first long term deployment partnership in the AV industry with Motional, and helping orchestrate the successful sale of our self driving development division (Level 5) for $550M to Toyota's Woven Planet - which reduced $100M in expense, created new revenue streams, and will bring in our profitability date. Here's a post with the "Why" on this exciting new journey: https://medium.com/@rajilkapoor/my-new-journey-663224c3c0c7#.1jr1pz3t7 It was full circle as I was the first VC investor and on the board of Zimride (now Lyft) back in 2011!

Investor

2013 - 2021

Personal investor in the worlds largest platform for change with over 157M people worldwide taking action.

Advisor

2015 - 2021

I have moved from full time to advisor at ClassPass where i help the board and leadership team with strategy, financing, and more.

head of international & new supply / Investor

2015 - 2015

ClassPass is the worlds largest fitness marketplace. I cofounder and was CEO at fitmob which joined forces with ClassPass in May 2015. I joined the management team to integrate fitmob, lead our international expansion and help uncover new supply beyond studios such as trainer services - which was the original area of fitmob's focus. We launched Australia successfully and I helped manage the high growth of London.

Board Member

2009 - 2021

Dosomething is the largest nonprofit that empowers youth to rock social causes around the globe. Helped transform the org from a media company to a tech company. We are now 5 million members strong globally and received funding from Omidyar Network, Google.org, and Reid Hoffman.

Co-Founder

2020 - 2021

Worldwithoutcovid.org is a nonprofit public health initiative I conceived and cofounded with vc backed startup Clara Health and Vijay Chattha to match and enroll covid positive, negative and untested individuals to urgent clinical research trials to stop the pandemic It is free to all participants and has grown to over 1200 global trials requiring over 858,000 volunteers for interventional trials and over 20m neeeed for observational trials It fills the need of patient recruitment as over 85 percent of clinical trials are delayed due to this issue

Venture Advisor

2012 - 2019

Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund - a leading silicon valley early stage venture capital firm with over $3B under management. I am currently sourcing and selectively leading new deals in internet, software, climate, e-commerce tools/adtech, and interactive media.

Managing Director

2005 - 2012

Successful Managing Director at at Mayfield Fund - a leading silicon valley early stage venture capital firm with over $3B under management. Sourced, co-led, and/or led 15 investments over 7 years resulting in ~10x return for Mayfield. My focus was on internet/mobile, marketplaces, consumer/B2B software, e-commerce tools, and interactive media. I led investments in mostly early stage companies - including Lyft, Qunar, Rubicon Project, Fivestars, Red Beacon, and sourced Moat. I moved to a venture advisor role in 2012 as I had an itch to go back to the operator side (I then started cofounder.co followed by fitmob which is now part of ClassPass).