Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Board of Directors at Lookout
- Board Observer & Seed Investor at TokBox
- Board of Directors at Townhog
- Principal at Youniversity Ventures
- Founder & CEO at Eventbrite
- Member, Board of Directors & Founder at Xoom
- Past
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- Co-Founder & CEO at Xoom
- Principal at Outlook Ventures
- Co-Founder at Connect Group
- Product Manager at SGI
- Education
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- University of Oxford
- Stanford Universisty
- Connections
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500+
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Kevin Hartz’s Summary
Founder and CEO of Sequoia-backed, Eventbrite.
Internet entrepreneur and currently active angel investor.
http://www.kevinhartz.com
Investments/advisory start ups include: , Yammer, Milo, Adnectar, Lookout, TokBox, Trulia Flixster, Three Rings, Friendster, PayPal, iControl, Geni, Tripit, Demigo, Founders Fund (LP), Outlook Ventures (LP), Clarium Capital (LP).
I am an Special Technology Partner (STP) at Sequoia Capital.
Kevin Hartz’s Specialties:
Internet, online payments, consumer internet, venture capital, cloud, online ticketing
Kevin Hartz’s Experience
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Board of Directors
Lookout
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Mobile security funded by Khosla Ventures - www.mylookout.com
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Board Observer & Seed Investor
TokBox
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
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Board of Directors
Townhog
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
www.Townhog.com
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Principal
Youniversity Ventures
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years )
http://www.youniversityventures.com
We help talented teams with innovative products to take the next step. We provide mentorship, expertise, contacts and access to capital. -
Founder & CEO
Eventbrite
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
http://www.eventbrite.com
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Member, Board of Directors & Founder
Xoom
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
August 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
www.xoom.com
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Co-Founder & CEO
Xoom
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
August 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 3 months)
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Principal
Outlook Ventures
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 1999 — August 2001 (1 year 11 months)
Outlook Ventures is a San Francisco based venture fund with $150m under management focusing on early stage enterprise software startups.
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Co-Founder
Connect Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Connect Group provided high speed Internet access to the hotel industry. Acquired by Lodgenet (NASD: LNET) in Oct 99.
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Product Manager
SGI
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sgi; Computer Software industry)
November 1995 — November 1997 (2 years 1 month)
Software product manager for the Cosmo Player 1.0/2.0 multimedia browser plug-in.
Kevin Hartz’s Education
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University of Oxford
Mst , History , 1992 — 1993
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Stanford Universisty
BA / BS , History / AES , September 1988 — June 1992
