Alex Hofmann
Founding Partner at Progression Fund
Miami Beach, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
CEO & Co-Founder
2018 - Current
Building products that help people feel connected. series A company.
9count exists to create products that help and connect people
Raised $27,500,000.00 from Progression Fund, Signia, Grishin Robotics, Greycroft, Redpoint, I2BF Global Ventures, Waverley Capital, Notable Capital, Marat Kichikov and Progression Fund.
Board Member
2025
Fast-growing LGBTQ+ social app fostering community, expression, and connection. After acquiring the platform, I led its spinout and evolution into a vibrant, standalone company with a bold vision for queer digital spaces.
Investor and Member of Advisory Board
2023
Investor. girlgroup is the place for girls' girls to find their community. Making friends as an adult is hard, we want to change that. Members can use the app to find ...
Founding Partner
2020
Progression Fund is a pre-seed and seed stage consumer focused fund founded by musical.ly and Tik Tok alumni.
Investor
2025
Mozi is a private social network that helps you know where your people are and where they’re going to be, so you can see them soon(er).
Investor and Member of Advisory Board
2024
Bond is building the decentralized, open-source alternative to Facebook. If Bluesky is decentralized Twitter, Bond is decentralized Facebook—the future of social networks.
Investor
2025
Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
Raised $21,000,000.00 from Zeev Ventures, Aaron Applbaum and Sequoia Capital.
Investor and Member of Advisory Board
2021
spark human potential by bringing the transformative power of visualization and role-play into our everyday lives, fostering authentic, meaningful connections and personal growth in every individual's journey.
Member of the Board of Advisors
2018
Collab is a digital content studio & video creator development company building a new studio model. We believe creatively entertaining people around the world ...
Chief Executive Officer
2015 - 2018
As CEO of Musical.ly Inc. in the U.S., I spearheaded the platform’s expansion across Europe and North and South America, transforming it into the world’s fastest-growing entertainment social network. In my role, I oversaw all regional operations and led global initiatives in marketing, licensing, content, brand development, and partnerships with creators, musicians, and entertainment entities. Under my leadership, musical.ly achieved over 200 million users worldwide before its acquisition by ByteDance and subsequent rebrand to TikTok.
Musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos.
Raised $150,350,000.00 from Goodwater Capital, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), Legend Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, KUNLUN, DCM Ventures, GX Capital, Cheetah Mobile, Greylock and Morningside Group.