Neel Murthy
Advisor at Cravd
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
SVP
2017 - Current
Founding Investment Partner of Pioneer Fund. Former Visiting General Partner. We’re top decile VC investors and are the most active YC Investors.
Venture Partner
2025
Palm Drive Capital is built on the fundamental belief that innovators are everywhere.
Advisor
2024
Chief Growth Officer
2019 - 2024
Led best in class teams including organic growth, paid growth, lifecycle growth, partner growth, product & data science, which all together delivered >15X revenue growth during my tenure. Alongside our CEO, led fundraising efforts to secure $100M in capital.
Head of Product
2018 - 2019
Goldbelly is an online delivery platform for specialty food makers and artisans.
Raised $133,120,000.00 from Spectrum Equity and Intel Capital.
Chief Innovation Officer
2017 - 2018
Acquired Swapbox in 2017. Joined the team to help transition the product and finalize the acquisition while providing solutions on how Swabpox and other new technologies could help innovate their suite of offerings to customers and clients.
SDBIC is a proprietary insurance company that safeguards the contents of safe deposit boxes.
Raised $400,000.00 from Advantage Capital and Advantage Capital.
CEO & Co-Founder
2012 - 2017
ACQUIRED IN AUGUST 2017 By SDBIC! YC W13 - http://gigaom.com/2013/03/26/yc-winter-2013-demo-day-five-startups-to-watch-afternoon-edition/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/y-combinator-company-swapbox-launches-and-aims-to-pick-up-where-bufferbox-left-off/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/swapbox-knew-that-google-would-eventually-come-to-the-bay-area-with-bufferbox-remains-focused/
W13 Batch
2013 - 2013
Joined YC as a W13 company with Swapbox.
Student
2006 - 2012
M.S. in Computer Science / MBA Candidate (dropped out to start Swapbox & join YC) B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Human Biology
Product Manager (former Engineering Intern)
2011 - 2011
PM on Words With Friends for Facebook - Created specs and launched new features for WWF on Facebook, including the popular game board screen shot feature that allowed users to share the cool/exciting words they played with their friends - Managed statistical analysis (post-mortem and expected numbers) for my own features as well as already existing ones Initially worked as a software engineer on Scramble With Friends and built a sizable portion of the game
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.
Lead Developer
2010 - 2011
Joined that company once it was out of Stanford's StartX program, which was founded and financed by one of LinkedIn's Co-founders. Then after the lead developer left in early 2011, I took over that role. - mlp was a tool for power users of LinkedIn to use it better and was made under the guidance of Konstantin. - managed technical team (redmine for ror development) and worked on one of the core features of mlp, awards.
Education
Master of Science - MS, MBA
2010 - 2012
Bachelor of Science - BS
2006 - 2010