Tom Tunguz
Venture Capitalist at Theory
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Student of startups, author of tomtunguz.com, investor, & partner to founders.
Theory Ventures primarily invests in early-stage software companies.
Managing Director
2008 - 2022
Privileged to support the journey of early stage SaaS, data and infrastructure founders. Worked with Looker ($2.6b M&A), MotherDuck, Mysten Labs (SUI), Monte Carlo, Omni, Chorus ($575m to ZI), Expensify (IPO), ThredUp (IPO), Kustomer ($1b sale to META), & others.
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Co-Author
2016 - 2016
I co-authored Winning with Data with Looker CEO Frank Bien. Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future explores the cultural changes big data brings to business, and shows you how to adapt your organization to leverage data to maximum effect.
Product Manager
2005 - 2008
Managing AdSense for Social Networks including the $900M MySpace deal. Managed AdSense International including product launches in Greece, Israel, Thailand, Indonesia and Bulgaria
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Engineer
2004 - 2004
Architected, developed and deployed systems for the US Government serving DHS