Serik Kaldykulov
Managing Partner at Elefund
Serik Kaldykulov
Managing Partner at Elefund
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
Elefund is a value-oriented, research-driven VC firm. We invest in early stage technology companies with the right ingredients for success and a course set for long-term sustainable growth. Central to our presence is our modified take of classic value investing principles and long-term commitment to our portfolio companies.
Elefund is a thesis-driven, micro venture capital focused on investments in early-stage technology companies.
Seed Investor
2013
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.
Seed Investor
2013
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.
Investor
2022
Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Raised $362,550,552.00 from SGH CAPITAL.
Seed Investor
2015
The modern travel platform for booking and managing business trips
Raised $221,000,000.00 from Permira.
Seed Investor
2013
Calm offers a global health and wellness brand application designed to help its users meditate and relax.
Raised $218,043,000.00 from BluePointe Ventures.
Founding Investor
2017
Pie Insurance is an insurance company specializing in small business.
Raised $621,000,000.00 from Greycroft, White Mountains Insurance Group, Allianz X, Gallatin Point Capital, Acrew Capital and Centerbridge Partners.
Investor
2021
Talos is an end-to-end crypto trading platform that provides digital asset trading technology for lenders, brokers, and investors.
Raised $145,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Notation Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, PayPal Ventures, SCB 10X, General Atlantic, BNY, Citi and Voyager.
Investor
2021
Seed Investor
2016
Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions.
Raised $753,499,998.00 from PWV/RedwoodJS, Uncorrelated Ventures, Refactor, Jeff Dean, Trinity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Haystack, SV Angel, Fidelity and Y Combinator.
Education
Bachelor's degree
2006 - 2010