Alastair (Alex) Rampell
General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz
About Alastair (Alex)
Experience starting and building profitable consumer and B2B products and companies. Now on the investing side.
Previously: Investor/advisor in numerous internet startups including Pinterest, CardSpring (acquired by Twitter), myVR, Hunch (acquired by eBay), Xapo, BillShrink/Truaxis (acquired by MasterCard), LookFlow (acquired by Yahoo), OrderAhead, Lefora (acquired by CrowdGather), MangoHealth, Bloomreach, Datalot, World Golf Tour, SiftScience, Wooga, UpNest, Twice, Zong (acquired by eBay), Sweet Labs (formerly known as OpenCandy), Restaurant.com, Guidebook, friend.ly (acquired by Facebook), AngelPad, etc.
Currently (at a16z): Investor/board at Branch.co, Cross River Bank, Quantopian, PeerStreet, OpenInvest, Propel, Transferwise, OpenDoor, FlyHomes, Loft, Descript, HealthIQ, Point, Propel, EarnIn
Experience
- Board MemberFeb 2024 - Present · 1 yr 6 mosDetroit Metropolitan AreaCurrent
Steadman Philippon Research Institute · Full-time
- Board MemberSep 2020 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mosVail, Colorado, United StatesCurrent
- Board of DirectorsJan 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mosSão Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilCurrent
- Board MemberDec 2018 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mosBrooklyn, New York, United StatesCurrent
- Board MemberOct 2017 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mosSan Francisco Bay AreaCurrent
- Board of DirectorsJun 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 2 mosPalo Alto, CaliforniaCurrent
Very Good Security · Full-time
- Board MemberMay 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mosSan Francisco Bay AreaCurrent
- Member Board Of Directors2017 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mosLondon, Greater London, United KingdomCurrent
- General PartnerSep 2015 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mosMenlo Park, CACurrent
Investing in breakout companies in consumer, enterprise, and particularly financial services (fintech).
- ChairmanJan 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mosPalo Alto, CACurrent
Reinventing home ownership and creating a new asset class
- Co-founderJul 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 1 moSan Francisco Bay AreaCurrent
- SelfApr 2006 - Present · 19 yrs 4 mosCurrent
Investor/advisor to various early and late stage internet and technology companies.
- Board ObserverMay 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mosSan Francisco Bay Area
- Board MemberDec 2015 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 8 mosNew York City Metropolitan Area
KCG was acquired by Virtu for $1.4B in cash
- Chairman of the BoardSep 2014 - Dec 2014 · 4 mos
- Offers & LoyaltySep 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mosSan Francisco Bay Area
Joined Visa (offers meets payments) with the acquisition of TrialPay: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150227005724/en/Visa-Acquire-TrialPay#.VcVQqTBViko
- Chairman and Co-FounderAug 2014 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 1 moSan Francisco Bay Area
TXN is a leading transactional analytics company, providing customer insights to retailers from aggregated purchase data. TXN was acquired by Envestnet (NYSE: ENV) in August 2018.
- CEOOct 2013 - Jan 2014 · 4 mosMountain View, CA
Yub is the world's first offline affiliate network, allowing any online advertisement to be tracked to offline purchase. Yub was a spin-out of TrialPay (as of September 2013, fully independent company), and tracks offline purchases using regular credit cards. In January 2014, Yub was acquired by Coupons.com (NYSE: COUP)
- Member, Board of DirectorsDec 2011 - Aug 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mosPortland, Maine Metropolitan Area
CashStar is the leading e-gifting platform, allowing consumers and businesses to buy electronic gift cards (and incentives) from retailers like Starbucks, Home Depot, Dunkin' Donuts, BestBuy, Gap, etc. CashStar was acquired by Blackhawk for $175M in August 2017
- Member, Board of AdvisorsOct 2008 - Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo
Restaurant.com lets consumers buy discounted gift certificates from over 10,000 restaurants across the US, giving a great deal to consumers while helping improve profitability of participating restaurants.
- Co-Founder/CEO/Chairman2006 - 2015 · 9 yrs
Leading company in alternative payments/promotions and transactional marketing. TrialPay places relevant promotions around payments, and lets people "pay by trying something else." Together with my co-founders, started TrialPay from scratch; grew from $0 to over $300M in cumulative revenue over 8 years, 100+ people, and several successful spinouts. Raised $70M+ in capital from Battery, Index, Greylock, T Rowe Price, DAG, Atomico, Questmark, and other top tier investors. TrialPay was acquired by Visa in 2015 for $125M: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150227005724/en/Visa-Acquire-TrialPay#.VcVQqTBViko
Education
- Harvard UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science1999 - 2003
Activities and societies: Squash team, Teaching Assistant in Computer Science (CS51), Bok prize recipient for outstanding teaching, Russian (language citation), Japanese, Undergraduate Council, Kawamura Fellowship, graduate work in cryptography. Graduated cum laude.
- Phillips Academy1995 - 1999
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