Shabih Rizvi
Founder of Cymbal
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2022 - Current
Building a Human Readable Block Explorer
Cymbal is a blockchain technology company.
Raised $18,500,000.00 from Patron, Acrew Capital, Google Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Shima Capital, First Round Capital, Solana Ventures, Roham Gharegozlou and CAA Connect.
Director - New Product Experimentation Investments Team
2020 - 2022
Helped to build out and lead early stage investments for the New Product Experimentation team at Meta.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Business Development
2019 - 2020
Business Development & Partnerships for Google One: https://one.google.com/about
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Advisor
2019 - 2019
Founding Partner
2017 - 2019
Gradient Ventures is Google’s new AI-focused venture fund, which will invest in and connect early stage startups with Google’s resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. Early stage investing is about the people. Proud to work with and support: Anjney Midha & Ankit Kumar - Founders of Ubiquity6 (Co-led Seed) [Acquired by Discord] George Khasin - Founder of Pine Park Health (Co-led Seed) Manu Sharma, Daniel Rasmuson & Brian Rieger - Founders of LabelBox (Seed & Series A Lead) Tobenna Arodiogbu & Usman Ghani - Founders of Scotty Labs (Seed) [Acquired by DoorDash] Sahil Sahni & Ankit Somani - Founders of Allyo (Series A) [Acquired by HireVue] Bart Macdonald & Andy Crebar - Founders of Sapling HR (Seed Lead) [Acquired by Kallidus Group] Stephen and Michael Balaban - Founders of Lambda Labs (Lead for Seed Round)
Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.
Partner
2014 - 2017
Seed: Bulletin, Bad Panda Inc. Series A: Atrium, Mobcrush (Board Observer), Ujet, Veem Series C: TrueCaller (Board Observer) Board Observer & Adviser: Flipagram (Acquired by Toutiao / ByteDance), Victorious (Acquired by Headspace)
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Google Play Apps Business Development
2012 - 2014
Mobile Apps Lab - TalkBin
2011 - 2012
Business Development & Client Support Manager
2009 - 2011
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Partner Management & Operational Excellence
2008 - 2009
ORDP Analyst
2006 - 2008
Genentech specializes in genetic testing and personalized medicine.
Associate
2003 - 2006
Forecasting Analyst
2004 - 2005
Education
BS
2002 - 2006