Ravi Grover
Investor at Startups
Ravi Grover
Investor at Startups
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
Backing great founders in data tech!
We back exceptional data technology founders.
Angel Investor
2015
Portfolio: angel.co/grover
Mentor
2019
Mentoring great startups in the Seattle area.
Venture Out supports pre-seed, aspiring entrepreneurs with strong domain expertise from large tech companies to launch startups.
Raised $1,204,375.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Flying Fish Partners, Founders' Co-op, Liquid 2 Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures.
Solutions Architect
2020 - 2021
Unblocked issues across the organization as a generalist.
Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Raised $25,120,000.00 from Notable Capital, Base10 Partners and Coatue.
Product Engineer
2019 - 2020
Built a best-in-class Commuter Benefits product while exploring the potential to open a new Seattle office.
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
Raised $746,100,000.00 from Partner Ventures.
Growth Data Consultant
2018 - 2019
Put proper data tracking processes in place for product, data, and engineering to have accurate, actionable growth data. Enabled successful pivot. Acquired by Nike.
Product Engineer
2018 - 2019
Built and released a new optimized Poppy (childcare provider) request flow before the company unfortunately was shut down. Poppy was a consumer software company vetting the best childcare caregivers in every community. (YC W16). React, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails
CTO
2015 - 2018
We built a team-hiring platform. Turned into more of an agency, and made the difficult decision to shut down and move on.
Elevator is the world's first team-based hiring platform. Now you can get 'acqui-hired' even if you work at a big company.
Advisor
2011 - 2015
Used what I learned building FB's first data tools to advise Chart.io. Acquired by Atlassian.
Chartio helps businesses analyze and track their critical data through an intutive interface.
Raised $6,770,000.00 from Avalon Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Data Scientist, Growth Engineer, Partner Engineer
2007 - 2015
Built the internal data platform “Argus” that informed FB’s growth early on and to this day. Worked cross-functionally and with partners to ensure quality releases of a variety of platform products at annual f8 conferences. Routinely fixed difficult bugs across the FB ecosystem including in news feed, ads, events, etc, often involving time zone issues, internal vs. platform interaction, or UI/UX. Projects included: User Growth (new user experience optimization, e.g. add-a-friend dialog instead of a page, disabled ads for new users --> better long-term user retention and revenue) FB Japan Growth: on-site in Tokyo, found millions of users in the seat cushions, basically :) Social Plugins (e.g. improvements to Like button, Comments plugin) Groups - initial launch Graph API - initial launch Internal Analytics Tools (still used widely!) External Analytics Tools (FB Insights, Analytics for Apps) Partner Engineering (worked with Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, etc.)
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.