Sean Moran
Investor at Self Employed
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Early Stage Investor
2019 - Current
Seed investor in Protocol Labs, Equi, Allocate, Passthrough, and more. Fund investor in Haystack, Ubiquity Ventures, and more. Crypto investor since early 2013.
VP Product
2022 - 2022
Led the product and engineering teams through a period of significant transformation and downsizing, refocusing on a new strategy and roadmap
Director of Product, Startups
2022 - 2022
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Head of Investor Services / Product Strategy
2015 - 2019
Served as a key executive during a period of rapid growth, scaling the company from 30 to 750 people and $0 to $75M+ in recurring revenue. Built and led the team responsible for shareholders (portfolio), cap table access and sharing, and the paid investor product that we grew from $0 to $20M ARR in two years. This required a combination of team development, general management, product management, product marketing, operations, sales, and strategic planning. Carta is on a mission to create more owners. By building the global ownership management platform, we’re changing how companies, investors, law firms, and employees manage equity. Carta is backed by K9 Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Meritech, Tribe Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Raised $1,157,600,000.00 from 8090 Partners, Unanimous Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Vetamer, GS Growth, Step Ahead Capital, Massive, Silver Lake, Moonshots Capital and Launchbay Capital.
Product
2014 - 2014
Product management and product marketing - onboarding, engagement, and risk. Circle builds payments & treasury infrastructure for the internet, including the stablecoin USDC. Founded in 2013, Circle is backed by Accel Partners, General Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs.
Move $100k+ of crypto with our principal OTC desk.
Associate
2012 - 2013
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $10 billion of committed capital under management. Only Associate among U.S. investment team. Sourced, supported, and assisted in completion of investments.
Senior Financial Analyst
2011 - 2012
Selected by firm founders to join fundraising team and played a key role in closing a $675 million global fund (U.S., India, Israel) and a $168 million China fund.
Financial Analyst
2010 - 2011
Hired as first Financial Analyst in firm history, responsible for portfolio company monitoring and valuations; assisted with fund planning and strategy. Hired and managed successor.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Senior Associate
2008 - 2010
Ernst & Young is one of the top three largest global professional services firms. Managed concurrent teams on financial statement audits, investment performance reports, and transaction analysis. Assumed business development role, yielding three new clients worth over $1 million in recurring revenue. Earned CPA.
Associate
2006 - 2008
Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Intern
2005 - 2005
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.
Retail Salesperson, Men's Sportswear
2002 - 2004
Youngest salesperson in department history at company's flagship store