Profile

Felix Shpilman

Location: USA

Felix Spielman serves as President, CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Emerging Travel Group. Mr. Spielman is also the General Partner of the Start Fund, an early-stage fund that he co-founded with Yuri Milner.

NUMBER

#78

Xs

283

Investments

58

Exits

27
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Overview
About Felix Shpilman
Number of Portfolio Companies 26
Location USA

Felix Spielman serves as President, CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Emerging Travel Group. Mr. Spielman is also the General Partner of the Start Fund, an early-stage fund that he co-founded with Yuri Milner. Mr. Felix has been president and CEO of Emerging Travel Group (ETG) since January 2017. After joining the company as Vice President of Strategy in April 2013, Mr. Felix was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2014 and oversaw all commercial, operational and financial business functions during his tenure as Chief Operating Officer. Since his appointment as CEO, Mr. Felix has led major Eastern European markets to profitability, expanded international operations into 30+ markets and increased the company’s gross bookings to more than $1 billion. Prior to Emerging Travel, Mr. Felix was a general partner of Start Fund, a San Francisco-based early-stage investment fund founded by Yuri Milner (DST Global). The fund has invested in 400+ startups. Mr. Felix’s notable investments include Uber, Gusto, Parse, Coinbase, Instacart, Dr. Chrono, AngelList and Doordash. Prior to Start Fund, Mr. Felix was an employee of DST Global and DST Russia (later renamed Mail.ru Group). At DST Global, Felix was part of a small investment team that invested in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb and Spotify. At DST Russia, Felix was responsible for managing the fund’s investments in VK (a leading Russian social network) and Qiwi (the largest payment network in Eastern Europe, which went public on the Nasdaq exchange).

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Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Coinbase
Seed
$10M
6500
$65 000M
DoorDash
SAFE
$8M
4875
$39 000M
Instacart
Seed
$8M
4767,75
$38 142M
Fivetran
Seed
$4M
1400
$5 600M
Benchling
Seed
$5M
1220
$6 100M
GOAT
Seed
$7M
528,57
$3 700M
Gusto
Seed
$19,4M
515,46
$10 000M
Zapier
Seed
$8M
500
$4 000M
Amplitude
Seed
$10M
460
$4 600M
GoCardless
Seed
$6M
375
$2 250M
Matterport
Seed
$7M
328,57
$2 300M
Apollo (Software Development Applications)
Seed
$5M
306
$1 530M
6 Sense
Seed
$7M
303,57
$2 125M
Webflow
Seed
$7M
301
$2 107M
Segment
$12M
250
$3 000M
Uber
Seria B
$330M
229,42
$75 710M
Heap Analytics
Seed
$6M
175
$1 050M
Sift Science
Seed
$6M
174,17
$1 045M
SingleStore
Seed
$11M
120
$1 320M
Goldbely
Seed
$10M
115
$1 150M
Square
Series B
$35M
89,71
$3 140M
Playco
Seed
$12M
87,92
$1 055M
EasyPost
Seed
$20M
77,5
$1 550M
Evernote
Series A
$20M
61,5
$1 230M
AngelList
Series B
$176M
23,3
$4 100M
Block
Series B
$201,17M
14,66
$2 950M

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