Ravi Grover
Investor at Startups
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2025 - Current
General Partner
2021
Backing great founders in data tech!
We back exceptional data technology founders.
Angel Investor
2015
Portfolio: angel.co/grover
Mentor
2019
Mentoring great startups in the Seattle area.
Venture Out supports pre-seed, aspiring entrepreneurs with strong domain expertise from large tech companies to launch startups.
Raised $1,204,375.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Flying Fish Partners, Founders' Co-op, Liquid 2 Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures.
Solutions Architect
2020 - 2021
Unblocked issues across the organization as a generalist.
Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Raised $25,120,000.00 from Notable Capital, Base10 Partners and Coatue.
Product Engineer
2019 - 2020
Built a best-in-class Commuter Benefits product while exploring the potential to open a new Seattle office.
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
Raised $746,100,000.00 from Partner Ventures.
Growth Data Consultant
2018 - 2019
Put proper data tracking processes in place for product, data, and engineering to have accurate, actionable growth data. Enabled successful pivot. Acquired by Nike.
Product Engineer
2018 - 2019
Built and released a new optimized Poppy (childcare provider) request flow before the company unfortunately was shut down. Poppy was a consumer software company vetting the best childcare caregivers in every community. (YC W16). React, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails
CTO
2015 - 2018
We built a team-hiring platform. Turned into more of an agency, and made the difficult decision to shut down and move on.
Elevator is the world's first team-based hiring platform. Now you can get 'acqui-hired' even if you work at a big company.
Advisor
2011 - 2015
Used what I learned building FB's first data tools to advise Chart.io. Acquired by Atlassian.
Chartio helps businesses analyze and track their critical data through an intutive interface.
Raised $6,770,000.00 from Avalon Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital.