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Tom Tunguz

Venture Capitalist at Theory

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Tom Tunguz is a Venture Capitalist at Theory in San Francisco, California, with a background in entrepreneurship and expertise in areas such as online marketing, mobile internet, and SaaS. He has served as a General Partner at Theory Ventures and holds board positions in several companies, showcasing a strong track record in strategic partnerships and business development within the tech industry.

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

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