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A rallying cry for local restaurants
Talks about Nonprofit, Covid-19 and Restaurants
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Ryan Sarver
Venture Partner at Redpoint Ventures
Amsterdam, North Holland
Overview
Ryan Sarver is an investor and operator with a background at Redpoint Ventures and Twitter, currently based in Amsterdam. He has successfully invested in companies like Gigster and SmartThings, while also co-founding Frontline Foods.
Ryan Sarver is a seasoned investor with a successful track record at Redpoint Ventures and Twitter, known for his investments in companies like Gigster and SmartThings. He is currently based in Amsterdam, where he continues to make impactful investments and co-founded Frontline Foods.
Work Experience
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.
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
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.
Frontline Foods is a grassroots organization that provides food from local restaurants
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.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Director of Consumer Products
2006 - 2009
Managing the development and evangelism of all things at the crossroads of location and the web
Skyhook is a worldwide leader in location, powering location and context for apps, adtech and devices.
Raised $16,800,000.00 from RRE Ventures, CVP Management, Intel and Bain Capital Ventures.
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