Chris DiBona Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Investments
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6
- Portfolio
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2
- Exits
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3
Chris DiBona General Information
Description
Mr. Chris DiBona serves as Advisor at Metabiota. He served as Senior Director, Open Source at Alphabet. He also served as Advisor at GV. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, Chris looks after Google Moderator and Google Elections. Chris is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and theThis Week in Google podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on a number of technical advisory boards. Before joining Google, Chris was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org. Additionally, he co-edited the award-winning essay compilations Open Sourcesand Open Sources 2.0.
Business Details
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- 535 Mission Street
- 14th Floor
- San Francisco, CA 94105
- United States
Chris DiBona Investments (6)
| Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blumio | 01-Mar-2017 | Grant | Monitoring Equipment | Generating Revenue | ||
| Blumio | 15-May-2016 | 0000 00000 | 00000 | Monitoring Equipment | Generating Revenue | 00000 000000 |
| Glowforge | 20-May-2015 | 00000 00000 | 000 | Computers, Parts and Peripherals | Generating Revenue | 00000 000000 |
| Sandstorm.io | 15-Jan-2015 | 0000 00000 | 00.000 | Software Development Applications | Generating Revenue | 00000 000000 |
| Glowforge | 17-Nov-2014 | Angel (individual) | 000 | Computers, Parts and Peripherals | Generating Revenue | 00000 000000 |
| 3DR | 03-Oct-2013 | Early Stage VC | 0000 | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | 00000 000000 |
Chris DiBona Exits (3)
| Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blumio | 15-Nov-2022 | Merger/Acquisition | |
| 3DR | 11-Jun-2021 | 000000000000 |
Chris DiBona Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Investments by Industry
Investments by Year
Investments by Region
Chris DiBona Team (1)
| Name | Title | Deals | Funds | Boards | Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris DiBona | Angel Investor | 0 | San Francisco, CA |
Chris DiBona FAQs
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Who is Chris DiBona?
Chris DiBona is an angel Investor who has made 6 investments.
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What kind of investor is Chris DiBona?
Chris DiBona is an angel investor.
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What does Chris DiBona do?
As an angel investor, Chris DiBona invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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What has Chris DiBona invested in?
Chris DiBona has made numerous investments in companies like Blumio, Glowforge, and Sandstorm.io within the Monitoring Equipment, Computers, Parts and Peripherals, and Software Development Applications industries.
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What has Chris DiBona invested in recently?
Chris DiBona's latest investment was on 01-Mar-2017 in Blumio, a company within the Monitoring Equipment industry.
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