RD

Ryan Darnell

Managing Partner at Max Ventures

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    Early stage investor - currently investing out of our 3rd fund Invested in 75+ early stage companies and Co-founded 7 venture backed companies across 3 funds. Investors at Day Zero

  • Co-Founder & Board Member

    2021

    The Post is building the largest private membership club of former professional and college athletes that are excelling in business. The company is led by Christian Ponder and Jason LaRose and backed by world class VCs including Will Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Maveron, FJ Labs, Pareto, and several others.

  • Co-Founder & Investor

    2022

    Elion is the leading independent and authoritative digital health solutions marketplace. We're the trusted source for healthcare builders to discover, evaluate and select the software and services they need to run their businesses. Elion is backed by NEA, 8VC, AlleyCorp, Floating Point, Charge and Max Ventures

  • Co-Founder & Board Member

    2020

    Tertulia is building a better way to discover books. By pulling in conversations from across social media, podcasts, and the web, Tertulia delivers superior book recommendations from vetted voices and incorporates seamless purchasing. Tertulia is run by veteran Co-founders Sebastian Cwilich, Lynda Hammes, and Robert Lenne. The company has raised over $6M from AlleyCorp, Max Ventures, Ingram FJ Labs, Addition, Canvas, and several others.

  • Seed Investor

    2015

    Founded in 2014, GrubMarket has become the largest private food tech company in the U.S. by revenue. The company is on a multi-billion dollar revenue run rate and currently valued at $3.5 Billion.

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    Etched recently launched Sohu, the world’s first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformers. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs.

  • Seed Investor & Board Member

    2024

    Unity AI is building software that automates throughput within care delivery settings.

  • Seed Investor

    2016

    K Health is using artificial intelligence to increase access to care while delivering the care at a lower cost.

  • Seed Investor

    2018

    Sana is one of the fastest growing AI companies in Europe

  • Seed Investor & Board Observer

    2020

    Vori Health was founded by a veteran health care team that deeply understands the inefficiencies in treating musculoskeletal issues. Vori is building a non-operative fully integrated solution that drastically improves results for patients and lowers the cost of delivering care (with less surgeries).

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