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Alex Mittal
Founder of FundersClub
San Francisco, California
Overview
Alex Mittal is the Co-Founder & CEO of FundersClub, a venture capital firm in San Francisco, California. With a background in entrepreneurship and venture capital, Mittal has successfully led FundersClub and invested in notable companies like PopSQL and Govly.
His career highlights include co-founding and leading FundersClub, as well as being involved in the acquisition of Innova Dynamics by TPK Holdings Co. Ltd., showcasing his expertise in start-ups, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2012 - Current
Online VC. Brought startup investing to the Internet in the US. Inspired an industry — $0/yr in 2012 to $B's/yr. FC has seeded 26 companies that hit $B scale & distributed ~$1B to our investors. YC S12. We are first partners to renegade founders building enduring, category-defining technology companies. Public companies we partnered with since Seed: Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB), and more. Private companies we partnered with since Seed: Rippling, Webflow, EquipmentShare, Rappi, Gecko Robotics, Eight Sleep, Flexport, Human Interest, ShipBob, Solugen, Headout, Aircall, Go1, Homelight, Zum, Wonderschool, Chainalysis, EasyPost, Biorender, ClearTax, Screenhero (acquired by Slack/Salesforce, NYSE: CRM), Rickshaw (acquired by DoorDash, NASDAQ:DASH), Caper AI (acquired by Instacart, NASDAQ:CART), Statuspage (acquired by Atlassian, NASDAQ:TEAM), SecondMeasure (acquired by Bloomberg), Pop Up Archive (acquired by Apple, NASDAQ: AAPL), Supr Daily (acquired by Swiggy), and more.
FundersClub is an online venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and early stage investments.
Raised $6,500,000.00 from Zynik Capital Corp. and DTRIBE Capital.
Director, Board of Directors
2012 - 2016
Acquired in 2016 by TPK (TWSE: 3673), a major partner to Apple, Samsung, and others. Electronic materials tech developed at the University of Pennsylvania to enable foldable touchscreens.
Innova Dynamics is an electronic materials company serving consumer electronics markets with touch screen and display applications.
Raised $1,115,170.00 from BASF Venture Capital, MentorTech Ventures and Rho Ventures.
Co-Founder & CEO
2008 - 2011
Acquired in 2016 by TPK (TWSE: 3673), a major partner to Apple, Samsung, and others. Electronic materials tech developed at the University of Pennsylvania to enable foldable touchscreens.
Innova Dynamics is an electronic materials company serving consumer electronics markets with touch screen and display applications.
Raised $1,115,170.00 from BASF Venture Capital, MentorTech Ventures and Rho Ventures.
Research Scientist
2001 - 2003
Extended and generalized the work of the Ned Seeman group (DNA nanotechnology) to non-natural, artificial "DNA" (PNA, peptide nucleic acid). While in high school.
Education
BS (Economics)
2003 - 2007
BS (Engineering)
2003 - 2007