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Serik Kaldykulov

Managing Partner at Elefund

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Serik Kaldykulov is the Founder & Managing Partner at Elefund, with a focus on investments in seed and pre-seed stages in sectors like New York City. Notable career highlights include investments in companies like Robinhood and Calm, showcasing a strong track record in strategic partnerships and successful entrepreneurship ventures.

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.

  • 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.

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