Andrew Trader
Special Advisor at Bullpen Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Portfolio Impact
2024 - Current
Supporting the extraordinary founders and portfolio at TVC.
TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Founder Coaching
2017
Helped 30+ companies raise more than $1B in follow on financing. Coaching the best portfolio companies from YC, a16z, CRV, Craft, First Round, Bonfire, Bullpen, and Sequoia. Companies include Mercury, Suger.io, Aeropay, Reactiv, OneRail, Rei do Pitaco, Swish Analytics and more.
Founding Partner
2016
Seed stage venture capital investing in extraordinary entrepreneurs, including Mercury!
Special Advisor
2023 - 2025
Operating Partner and Head of Platform
2018 - 2023
Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests in post-seed capital into early-stage companies.
Co-Founder
2013 - 2015
Madison Reed (www.madison-reed.com) is revolutionizing every aspect of the home hair care market.
Madison Reed is a beauty company that offers hair coloring products online.
Raised $273,711,245.00 from Runway Growth Capital.
Venture Partner
2010 - 2013
Helping great entrepreneurs build huge consumer technology companies.
Founding Team
2007 - 2010
Acquired by Take-Two for $12.7B
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
CEO
2006 - 2007
Acquired by Cisco.
Co-founder
1999 - 2001
Acquired by IBM for $377m.