Evan Williams Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Professionals
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1
- Investments
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38
- Portfolio
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18
- Exits
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16
Evan Williams General Information
Description
Mr. Evan Williams is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Medium. He also served as Advisor at Neighborland. In January 1999 he co-founded Pyra Labs, which created the blog-publishing service Blogger (and coined the term "blogger"), which was acquired by Google in early 2003. He then co-founded Odeo and Obvious Corp, which gave birth to Twitter in 2006. He was Twitter's co-founder, lead investor, and former CEO. Twitter has become one of the most used sites on the Internet, with over 280 million people logging into the service each month and sending half a billion tweets each day. In 2011, along with Obvious Ventures advisors, Biz Stone, and Jason Goldman, he restarted Obvious Corp and began a mix of start-up investing and incubation. He has invested in Branch (acquired by Facebook), mobile life coach service Lift, plant-based protein maker Beyond Meat, and household device maker Nest (acquired by Google). He is also an Angel Investor.
Contact Information
- San Francisco, CA
- United States
Evan Williams Investments (38)
| Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voltus | 01-Dec-2021 | PIPE | Other Energy Services | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 | |
| Opencomp | 30-Nov-2021 | 0000 00000 | 00.00 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| Sudowrite | 19-Nov-2021 | 0000 00000 | 000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| Checkin | 28-May-2021 | 00000 00000 | Social/Platform Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 | |
| The Browser Company | 25-May-2021 | 00000 00000 | 000.00 | Internet Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| HoneyBook | 04-May-2021 | 00000 00000 | 00000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| Descript | 12-Jan-2021 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Multimedia and Design Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| Along (Multimedia and Design Software) | 01-Jan-2021 | 0000 00000 | 000 | Multimedia and Design Software | Out of Business | 0000 00000000 |
| Sanity | 14-Oct-2020 | Early Stage VC | 00.00 | Multimedia and Design Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
| Coda (Business/Productivity Software) | 17-Sep-2020 | Later Stage VC | 0000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000 00000000 |
Evan Williams Exits (16)
| Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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| Along (Multimedia and Design Software) | 31-Jan-2023 | Out of Business | |
| EVERFI | 31-Dec-2021 | 000000000000000000 | 00000 |
| Neighborland | 16-Sep-2019 | 000000000000000000 | |
| Beyond Meat | 02-May-2019 | 000 | 00000 |
| Highly | 19-Apr-2019 | 000000000000000000 | |
| Workpop | 12-Sep-2018 | 000000000000000000 | 000.00 |
| Meetup | 28-Nov-2017 | 000000000000000000 | 00000 |
| Blue Bottle Coffee | 14-Sep-2017 | 000000000000000000 | 00000 |
| Jelly Industries | 08-Mar-2017 | Merger/Acquisition | |
| Faraday Bicycles | 01-Jan-2017 | Merger/Acquisition |
Evan Williams Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Investments by Industry
Investments by Year
Investments by Region
Evan Williams Team (1)
| Name | Title | Deals | Funds | Boards | Office |
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| Evan Williams | Angel Investor | 00 | 0 | 0 | San Francisco, CA |
Evan Williams Co-Investors (149)
| Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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| Naval Ravikant | 2 | 0 |
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| Rahul Vohra | 0 | 0 |
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| Reid Hoffman | 0 | 0 |
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| Battery Ventures | 0 | 0 |
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| General Catalyst | 0 | 0 |
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