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Ray Ko

Investor at to companies

United States

Overview 

Ray Ko is a seasoned advisor and investor with a background in financial modeling, venture capital, and product management. He has held key roles at prominent companies such as Facebook and Yahoo!, and has made investments in startups like SOTE at the seed stage. Ray Ko's career highlights include serving as a board partner at Social Capital and as a director of growth & analytics at Facebook, showcasing his expertise in scaling businesses and driving strategic growth initiatives. His investment focus on sectors like local services, hardware, and AI, along with his educational background from Stanford University, further solidify his reputation as a successful advisor and investor in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

to companies

  • Advisor + Investor

    2013 - Current

    help teams at earliest stages, mostly around growth, retention, engagement, & analytics. companies include: slack, intercom, brilliant, remind, instawork, wave, and others. seed investor in truv, equals, transform (acquired by dbt), among others.

SC

Social Capital

  • board partner

    2023

    left SC in 2023. still sit on a few boards.

  • partner

    2013 - 2023

We make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

socialcapital.com
F

Facebook

  • director, growth & analytics

    2008 - 2013

    oversaw analytics that drove adoption, growth, and engagement of facebook from <100M to 1B+ users globally. led to formation of broader analytics and data science team that expanded responsibilities beyond user growth to include: mobile, messaging, feed, timeline, search, location, photos, platform, and privacy.

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

staynalive.com
Y

Yahoo!

  • director, search bizops

    2004 - 2008

    joined one of (arguably) first bizops teams in tech. jv foosball.

Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.

yahoo.com
SR

Swiss Re Capital Partners

  • analyst

    2001 - 2004

    analyst for swiss re’s venture fund & private/public equity investments.

Education 

Investments 

SOTE

Seed

Total funding: $8.2M

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