Ran Makavy, Angel Investor

Ran has been a founder, operator, and investor in tech for 30 years. He started on the engineering side and shifted to product management and later ran all aspects of the business. He's very technical and savvy with data. In 2007, he started a company called Snaptu and sold it to Facebook in 2011. Led growth in emerging markets at Facebook, started internet.org, built the growth team at Lyft, then led the tech org and the ridesharing business, and took the company public in 2019. Ran invested in over sixty startup companies since 2013, been on the board of a few, and advised many. Many of his investments come from his close network of friends and colleagues who went on to start many companies. Ran tends to invest early in a company's life. Some notable investments include Carbon Health, Netlify, Placer.ai, TrueML, Anyroad, Hello Heart, Honeybook, Snappy, A.Team, and Passport.