Weston Moyer
General Partner at MVP Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and General Partner
2020 - Current
We founded MVP Ventures in 2020 with the mission to deliver the Most-Value-Per-dollar on our companies’ cap table. We invest in early-stage companies led by elite teams building differentiated and defensible technology across software and hardware DeepTech. - We find companies via our proprietary data-driven sourcing software. - We win allocation via our suite of value-add. - We invest as the 2nd largest check in the round. - We deliver the most value-per-dollar on the cap table. Click below to hear directly from Founders on how we partner to build meaningful businesses. Let's connect: weston@mvp-vc.com MVP Investments include: Anduril, Dataminr, Turing, Deliverr, Gecko Robotics, Collaborative Robotics, Stoke Space, Neon Database, Magic Eden, Loft Orbital, Odeko, Frore Systems, Graphiant, EdgeQ, Hayden AI, Joy, Loyal, LayerZero, Arris Composites, Yassir and others
Series A Investor
2023
Invested in Cobot's Series A alongside lead investor Sequoia.
Collaborative Robotics is building robots that help in indoor and outdoor tasks alongside humans.
Raised $140,000,000.00 from Industry Ventures, Mayo Clinic, Sequoia Capital, 1984 Ventures, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, MVP Ventures, Bison Ventures and General Catalyst.
Seed Investor
2020
Invested in Turing's first round of financing alongside lead investor Foundation Capital.
Seed Investor
2020
Invested in Yassir's YC round in 2020.
Series A Investor
2020
Invested in Frore's Series A alongside Mayfield Fund.
Frore Systems is a developer of thermal technology for consumer devices.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Fidelity, Clear Ventures, StepStone Group, Qualcomm Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, MVP Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Clear Ventures.
Investor
2019 - 2022
Acq. by Shopify (SHOP) in 2022 @ over 100% IRR.
Deliverr is a fulfillment service that facilitates shipping services for e-commerce businesses.
Raised $490,949,991.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Activant Capital, GLP, 8VC, Alumni Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Brookfield Growth and Coatue.
Investor
2020 - 2021
Acq. by Crowdstrike (CRWD) in 2020 at over 250% IRR.
Principal
2019 - 2020
Investments I led while at Spike include: Deliverr (Acq. Shopify - >100% Realized IRR) Humio (Acq. CRWD - >250% Realized IRR) Turing (Seed -> Unicorn) Yassir (Seed -> Unicorn) Frore Systems (Series A - multiple up rounds) Loft Orbital (Series A - multiple up rounds) Odeko (Series A - multiple up rounds) Alfred (Series B — multiple up rounds) Arris Composites (Series B - multiple up rounds) Lunchclub (Seed - up round) Linear Labs (Seed - up round) Aquabyte (Series A - up round) True Link Financial (Series B)
Investor @ Spike Ventures
2019 - 2020
Vice President of Growth
2018 - 2019
I joined AVG as employee 11 and the first business hire under the CMO. I launched or led the marketing and sales channels accounting for over 90% of community growth and customer acquisition as we went from: - $10M --> $350M of AUM - 1 fund --> 20 funds - 5000 --> 500k members in our alumni and investor communities.
Head of the Venture Fellow Program
2016 - 2019
The Venture Fellow Program is the premier on-ramp to VC for candidates of all backgrounds. I took on leadership of the program in 2016 with three active fellows. During my tenure, we scaled to 300 active fellows, with over 75% of participants from underrepresented groups in the industry. 50% of graduates transitioned to full-time roles in the venture capital industry at firms including Bessemer, Unusual Ventures, Eniac Ventures, NewView Capital, and ARCH Venture Partners.
Director of Growth
2016 - 2017
Also Venture Partner @ Blue Ivy Ventures.
Growth Team
2016 - 2016
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Director of Corporate Strategy
2014 - 2016
EDC Consulting is a management consulting firm specializing in tech services for the Department of Defense and Federal Government. I worked with the President of EDC to expand the company's efforts in marketing and corporate strategy.
Associate, Corporate Strategy
2013 - 2014
EDC Consulting is an information technology and services company.