Alex Iskold
Founder of The 1k Project Ukraine
Alex Iskold
Founder of The 1k Project Ukraine
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Partner
2018 - Current
2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. We are the first-check, high conviction, lead investor backing founders who are building businesses differentiated through technology. We are based in NYC, and invest across North America. Pitch us: https://2048.vc/pitch First check investor in: GlossGenius, Vitally, soona, AirspaceLink, nomic.bio, Aerodome and many other incredible companies.
2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven venture capital firm.
Founder
2022
The mission of The $1K Project Ukraine is to help sponsors around the world to directly send $1k to families in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees. Sponsor a family: 1kproject.org/sponsor Make a large donation: 1kproject.org/donate Місія The $1K Project Ukraine полягає в тому, щоб допомогти спонсорам у Сполучених Штатах, Європі та всьому світі напряму надсилати гроші сім’ям в Україні та українським біженцям.
Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence
2020
Holding regular office hours and working with the Harvard Business School students as a coach and VC in Residence.
Blogger
2014
I write one of the top blogs for startups featuring detailed advice on Fundraising, Metrics, GTM, Product, Growth and much more. http://startuphacks.vc
Co-Founder
2020 - 2021
Helped raise more than $3 Million for over 1,000 families to help with pandemic relief. Visit http://1kproject.org for more info: #1kproject - Inspired by the immense needs felt by families in the pandemic, we came together to connect families in crisis with direct support of $1k each month for 3 months from a sponsor family. Within a few tweets, a team of entrepreneurial, tech and design talent came together to start The $1k Project. We use personal networks to directly match a family impacted by the pandemic with a family committed to giving them $1k for 3 months.
Managing Director, NYC
2013 - 2018
Helping create next generation of amazing startups & valuable companies in New York City. Invested in 100 startups. First check in: GlossGenius, Gorgias, Narmi, Vitally, DataCamp, Stream, Mantl, BentoBox, Healthie, Scopenow, PathSpot and may others.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Founder/CEO
2010 - 2013
Created and ran social TV/second screen network called GetGlue.
Founder/CEO
2007 - 2010
Envisioned and built innovative semantic web browsing technologies.
Feature Writer
2006 - 2009
Moonlighted writing about trends and analysis posts for one of the best tech blogs.
Chief Architect, VP
2005 - 2007
Built distributed computing software.
Investments
Latest Articles
How YOU can directly help families impacted by the pandemic through The 1k Project
Talks about 1kproject, In This Together and The $1k Project
18 Mistakes Founders Make When Pitching Pre-Seed to VCs — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold
Talks about pre-seed fundraising, VC pitching mistakes and startup fundraising strategies