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Elad Gil

Location: USA

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

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About Elad Gil

Number of Portfolio Companies 37
Location USA

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe. Previously, Elad was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search). He also spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and wasinvolved in all aspects of getting the team up and running. He was involved with 3 acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products. Prior to Google, Elad had product management and market seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies.Elad holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has degrees in mathematics and biology from UCSD.

Professional Experience

Startup Helper, Gil Capital (2008 – Present) Investor and advisor to numerous high-growth technology companies:

Portfolio includes leading companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gusto, Instacart, Navan, Notion, Opendoor, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Rippling, Samsara, Square, and Stripe
AI investment focus including Braintrust, Character.AI, Harvey, Perplexity, and Mistral
Cryptocurrency investments including Coinbase, Anchor, dYdX, and Bitwise
Served as strategic advisor to Twitter’s executive team through May 2013

Co-founder, Color (January 2013 – Present)

Served as CEO for initial three years (2013-2016)
Transitioned to board member role in Fall 2016
Led company through early growth and development phases

Vice President, Twitter (December 2009 – May 2012) Multiple leadership roles including:

Vice President, Corporate Strategy
- Member of executive Operating Committee
- Led initiatives in user growth, international expansion, API development
- Managed organizational scaling, M&A, and recruiting processes
Director, Geo Product
- Co-led cross-functional Geo Team
- Managed product, engineering, business development, and user experience
Director, Search Product
- Oversaw one of the world’s largest search engines (>1 billion daily queries)
- Led search infrastructure, quality, and user interface development

CEO and Co-Founder, Mixer Labs (November 2007 – December 2009)

Co-founded and led GeoAPI, an early developer-centric infrastructure platform
Successfully navigated acquisition by Twitter
Developed innovative location-based services and APIs

Product Management, Google (June 2004 – September 2007) Mobile Division:

Founded and launched Google’s mobile team
Served as original Product Manager for Google Mobile Maps and Mobile Gmail
Led due diligence and integration for three acquisitions, including Android team

Monetization:

Product Manager for AdSense products
Managed front-end development, machine learning/ads targeting
Oversaw ads infrastructure and analytics/reports development

Elad Gil Investments

NewLimit
- Deal Date: January 7, 2025
- Deal Type: Early Stage VC
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company Stage: Startup
Decagon
- Deal Date: December 23, 2024
- Industry: Business/Productivity Software
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Bluenote AI
- Deal Date: December 20, 2024
- Industry: Business/Productivity Software
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Rox AI
- Deal Date: November 15, 2024
- Industry: Business/Productivity Software
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Pacific Fusion
- Deal Date: October 25, 2024
- Industry: Alternative Energy Equipment
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Socket
- Deal Date: October 22, 2024
- Industry: Network Management Software
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Abridge
- Deal Date: October 11, 2024
- Industry: Managed Care
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Cove (Palo Alto)
- Deal Date: October 8, 2024
- Industry: Business/Productivity Software
- Company Stage: Generating Revenue
Arcade (San Francisco)
- Deal Date: September 25, 2024
- Deal Type: Later Stage VC
- Industry: Business/Productivity Software
- Company Stage: Product In Beta Test
Magic
- Deal Date: August 29, 2024
- Deal Type: Later Stage VC
- Industry: Software Development Applications
- Company Stage: Startup