Ryan Sarver

Investor

2020 - Current

Angel investor in Figma, Loom, Shield AI, Cradle Bio, Poolside.ai, Habi, CKBG/Komos Tequila, Modern Health, Juniper Square, dub, and more

Investor in Residence

2024

Working with the Techleap ecosystem of top startups to better connect them with world-class investors around the world. If you're a VC and interested in the Dutch ecosystem of startups, please reach out.

Advisor

2021 - 2024

Advisor to Techleap - a non-profit publicly funded organisation helping to build a thriving startup ecosystem in the Netherlands.

Venture Partner

2019

General Partner

2013 - 2019

General Partner on the Redpoint Ventures early stage team. Led investments in companies including Hims & Hers, FLEXE, NorthOne and numerous more across Seed to Series B.

Co-founding Organizer

2020 - 2020

Frontline Foods was a volunteer, non-profit with the mission of employing our ailing restaurant industry to provide healthy meals for our frontline heroes and the food-insecure during the depths of the COVID crisis. In the span of just a few months, starting right at the beginning of the lockdown, we organized nearly 900 volunteers across 55 cities in the US and raised and deployed $15,000,000 into our restaurant ecosystem and served nearly 1,000,000 meals to our frontline heroes and the food insecure. We were featured on Ellen, Jimmy Fallon, TODAY Show, Jimmy Kimmel, NY Times, Bloomberg, and many more. Frontline Foods was eventually folded into World Central Kitchen's operations.

Director, Platform

2009 - 2013

Joined Twitter as an early executive, building and leading the Twitter Platform. At times ran Business Development, Platform Partnerships, Twitter API, Twitter Firehose, Twitter Platform Products -- Tweet Button, Embedded Tweets, Follow Button, Twitter Partner Analytics and more. Sponsored a number of acquisitions including Mixer Labs, TweetDeck, Backtype, Cabana, Gnip and more. Organized and ran the first Twitter Developer Conference, Chirp.

Director of Consumer Products

2006 - 2009

Managing the development and evangelism of all things at the crossroads of location and the web

Chief Technology Officer

2002 - 2005

Xplana Learning is an educational software company that delivers solutions and products to the Education and Publishing markets. Xplana specializes in Learning Management Systems, Content Delivery Platforms and Learning Content Repositories.

Senior Software Engineer

2002 - 2002

A software developer specializing in COM development and VoiceXML application development. Eventually managed Philippine development office.

Director of Engineering

2000 - 2002

Software Engineer

2000 - 2000