Chris Ovitz
Founder of Electric Ant
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2025 - Current
Co-Founder
2021
Electric Ant is an operator fund. We invest at the Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages.
Electric Ant is an investment firm that invests in crypto technology companies.
Head of Special Projects
2022 - 2023
OK Play was acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022
Co-Founder and President
2019 - 2022
Acquired by Dapper Labs. OK Play is an 'award winning' mobile app that empowers kids to create, play and share - using our homegrown digital tools for drawing, photography, video, sound recording, and augmented reality. Our community scaled to over 1M+ active kids prior to being acquired by Dapper Labs in 2022.
Venture Partner
2019 - 2021
Investments include Beyond Meat (pre-IPO secondary), Pinterest (pre-IPO secondary), NotCo, mmhmm, and Block Renovation.
Future Positive is a venture capital investment firm.
Vice President of Technology Partnerships
2018 - 2018
Workpop was acquired by Cornerstone
Founder and Co-CEO
2014 - 2018
Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) Streamlined hiring and HR for SMBs. Workpop supports smaller retail chains and well-known brands such as The Peninsula Hotels, Hillstone Restaurant Group, Tao Group, Sweetgreen and Jersey Mike’s Subs.
Workpop is a seamless hiring platform for small and medium businesses.
Raised $16,100,000.00 from Obvious Ventures, Thrive Capital, Ironfire Ventures, CoCoon Ignite Ventures, BoxGroup, Cornerstone OnDemand and Trinity Ventures.
Advisor
2013 - 2018
Code.org is a non-profit foundation focusing on developing computer programming education in the U.S.
Raised $57,900,000.00 from Pluralsight One, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Infosys Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Google, Infosys, Priscilla Chan, Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg.
Advisor
2013 - 2014
Member, Box Media & Entertainment Advisory Board
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Vice President of Business Development
2013 - 2013
Award winning interactive entertainment company and mobile games publisher.
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.