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Shervin Pishevar

Founder of Telly

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

Overview 

Shervin Pishevar is a VC and Venture Studio founder known for his involvement in starting the Hyperloop industry and contributing to the growth of On Demand, Cloud Kitchen, Sharing Economy, and New Cities/Network States industries. He has served as a lead investor and strategic advisor at Uber, Executive Chairman at Telly, and has made significant investments in companies like Limit Break and NUE Life Health. Pishevar's career highlights include his role in the development of innovative industries such as Hyperloop, On Demand, and Cloud Kitchen, as well as his strategic investments in various successful companies like Uber and Telly.

Work Experience 

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Uber

  • Lead Investor, Strategic Advisor & former Board Observer

    2011 - Current

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

uber.com
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Telly

  • Executive Chairman & Co-Founder

    2021

Sofreh Capital (family office)

  • Co-Founder and Managing Director

    2017

Hyperloop One

  • Investor, Co-Founder, Former Executive Chairman and Board Member

    2014

    Co-founder and recruited founding board and with fellow Co-Chairman David Sacks, Joe Lonsdale of Formation8, Jim Messina of the Messina Group and Peter Diamandis of X-Prize, CEO Rob Lloyd and Strategic Advisor Emily White. Helped scale the team to over 300 employees, recruited leadership like former CEO Rob LLoyd (former President of Cisco) and others.

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DiDi

  • Investor

    2016

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Postmates Inc.

  • Investor

    2012

Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.

serve.postmates.com
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Lyft

  • Investor (Cherry now Lyft)

    2012

Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.

lyft.com
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Airbnb

  • Investor

    2014

Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.

airbnb.com
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Slack

  • Investor

    2016

Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.

Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.

slack.com
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Snap Inc.

  • Investor (Scan, Inc. former board member, now Snap)

    2012

Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.

Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.

snap.com

Education 

Investments 

Limit Break

Series Unknown

Total funding: $200M

NUE Life Health

Seed

Total funding: $26M

Pipe

Seed Round

Total funding: $580M

Alchemy

Series A

Total funding: $550M

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