Ryan Sells
Founder of Dash Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
VP, Revenue
2024 - Current
First GTM hire. Backed by First Round Capital
Taking the hassle out of quote-to-cash, no matter how you price
First Round First Hires, GTM
2024
Part of the innagural cohort. First Hires is an invite-only group of early-stage operators who have been the first hire in their function—across GTM, Product, Engineering or Design—at more than one startup.
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Co-Founder & GP
2020
Backing the next wave of category-defining FinTech founders and companies. Dash has successfully raised and deployed ~$30m across two funds and 57 portfolio companies, including 3 unicorns (thus far).
Backing the next wave of category-defining FinTech founders and companies.
Head of Data Strategy & Partnerships, Office of the CTO
2021 - 2023
Joined Bloomberg's Office of the CTO as part of the Second Measure acquisition. Led new data acquisition to enable alternative data products, including the newly launched terminal function ALTD <GO>.
VP, Revenue
2020 - 2021
Employee No.8, first GTM hire. $0–> $5m arr. $2b valuation in 2021. Backed by Craft, Fika, Fin.
Pipe is a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams.
Raised $423,120,189.00 from Victory Park Capital.
Head of BD
2016 - 2020
Employee No.7, first GTM hire. $0--> $30m arr. Acquired by Bloomberg in 2020. Backed by Bessemer and Goldman Sachs.
Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
Raised $25,400,000.00 from Citi Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs.
Intern -> Analyst -> Associate -> VP
2008 - 2016
J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .