Ankur Pansari

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Mr. Ankur Pansari is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Divide by Zero. Mr. Pansari served as Managing Partner at Brighton Angel Partners. His portfolio includes Carta, Philz Coffee, Wealthfront, Periscope Data (acquired), Lever, Memsql, Pillow (acquired), and dozens more. During his career, he has founded numerous companies: Including an angel investment fund. A real estate business with properties featured on national television (and more in development). Artillery, an unsuccessful gaming platform where he raised over $11m and sold part of the company to a top 5 Internet company. An importing company called Favo that he sold in 2010. A social networking company in 2003 that was obliterated by Facebook. There's probably some more also. Earlier in his career, He spent four years at Facebook working on partnerships where he preloaded Facebook on 100m devices. Before that, He worked at Google on Google Toolbar where as an engineer, his team distributed 900m Toolbars and won Google's OC Award, its second-highest honor. He has a BS in Applied Math, a BS in Optical Engineering, and a minor in Physics from the University of Rochester. At the time, Stanford did not give him financial aid; however, they did not give him admission either. He spends his free time with his wife, walking his dog, and arbitraging Magic the Gathering cards.