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Ran Makavy

Investor and advisor

New York, New York

Overview 

Ran Makavy is an experienced investor and advisor based in New York, with a strong background in product management and strategy. Notable highlights include serving as EVP and Chief Product Officer at Lyft and Director of Product Management at Facebook, showcasing a successful career in leading product development for tech giants.

Work Experience 

Self

  • Investor and advisor

    2013 - Current

    Investor or advisor to Carbon Health, Netlify, Placer.ai, TrueAccord, Anyroad, Hello Heart, Honeybook, Snappy, A.Team, Passport, and many others

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A.Team

  • Board Member

    2022

A.Team is a distributed, on-demand team formation platform that allows members to team up and build things.

Raised $60,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Cyril Berdugo, Spruce Capital Partners, FJ Labs, Arrive, Adam Grant, NFX and Marco Mahrus.

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Homesome

  • Board Member

    2021

Homesome is an e-commerce platform for grocery stores and supermarkets.

Raised $6,934,000.00 from Sebastian Mejia, Ran Makavy, Itai Tsiddon, Stephane Kurgan, Julien Codorniou and Simon Borrero.

gethomesome.com
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Zendrive

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2022

Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.

Raised $57,000,000.00 from XL Innovate, Hearst Ventures, SignalFire, Nyca Partners and ACME Capital.

zendrive.com
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Lyft

  • EVP, Strategic Initiatives

    2020 - 2020

  • EVP and Chief Product Officer

    2017 - 2020

  • VP of Growth

    2016 - 2018

Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.

lyft.com
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Facebook

  • Director of Product Management

    2011 - 2015

    Ran spent his first three years on the growth team, looking at mobile and emerging market. Grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com
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Snaptu

  • Founder & CEO

    2007 - 2011

    Sequoia Capital backed company, acquired by Facebook in 2011.

Followap / NeuStar NGM

  • Director of Product Management

    2005 - 2007

    Development of product strategy and positioning, product definition and marketing strategy. Followap was acquired by NeuStar in 2006

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BBC

  • Business Consultant - Self-Employed

    2004 - 2005

    Designing and negotiating technical and business process solutions between the BBC and a broadcast management system provider

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NHS, Havering Primary Care Trust, UK

  • Business Consultant - Self Employed

    2004 - 2004

    Redesigned business process for managing relationships with private health care providers

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