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Yahya Mokhtarzada
Founder of Rocket Money
New York, New York
Overview
Yahya Mokhtarzada is the Founder of Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) in New York, known for his expertise in internet strategy, online advertising, and SaaS. With a background including roles as Founder and CEO of Rocket Money, as well as experience at Nanigans as VP of Business Development, his career highlights include leading successful companies and mentoring at 500 Startups.
Yahya Mokhtarzada's career has seen him successfully found and lead Rocket Money, as well as mentor at 500 Startups, showcasing his entrepreneurial skills and expertise in business development and online advertising.
Work Experience
Founder, Chief Revenue Officer
2018 - Current
Truebill is an automated financial assistant that tracks spending, automatically fixes inefficiencies, and ultimately puts money back in your pocket. Truebill is a backed by YCombinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, and Eldridge Industries.
Founder, CEO
2015 - 2018
Truebill is an automated financial assistant that tracks spending, automatically fixes inefficiencies, and ultimately puts money back in your pocket.
Mentor
2015 - 2019
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
VP, Business Development, Head of West Coast Sales
2010 - 2015
Since 2010, Nanigans has been chosen by the world’s largest ecommerce, gaming, and other internet companies such as eBay, Wayfair, and Wooga. Offered through a SaaS model, Nanigans software features sophisticated tools for cross-channel ROI, predictive optimization, real-time business intelligence, end-to-end workflow automation, and unified data activation.
Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams.
Raised $32,850,000.00 from Wellington Management, Cheetah Mobile and Avalon Ventures.
Director, Business Development & Social Strategy
2009 - 2010
appssavvy is, first and foremost, in the business of understanding what people are doing and why. Social activity across the web takes on many forms. Your friend sends you an e-vite. You check-in at a location using your smartphone. You pick up a virtual good in a social game. Each of these micro-transactions represents a larger social activity that can be leveraged by brands to yield real world results. We've developed technologies that allow us to track and analyze these transactions.
Business Development
2008 - 2009
At SGN we're constantly pushing the boundaries of social game play. Our console-quality iPhone and iPod Touch games feature live multiplayer action in stunning 3-D environments, and our early Facebook and MySpace games are established classics. To date, SGN games have been downloaded on mobile devices more than 17 million times and featured on "favorites" lists from The New York Times and the like. Connectivity is key, and by bringing gamers and developers together, SGN leads the way toward a more meaningful and socially-engaging future.
Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Raised $652,000,000.00 from Netmarble, Kabam, Fortress Investment Group, JP Morgan Chase, CIT Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Silicon Valley Bank and Netmarble.
Business Development
2006 - 2008
At Webs, Inc., we combined our website building savvy with our affinity for small businesses to create the most popular website building and hosting solution for entrepreneurs.
Webs is a website creation service enabling users to create sites with blogs, photo albums, video galleries and discussion forums.
Raised $11,000,000.00 from Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Amidzad Partners, Signatures Capital and Felicis.
Summer Associate
2005 - 2005
Education
Investments
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