Profile

Garry Tan

Location: USA

Garry is a designer/engineer turned early stage investor. He was a partner at Y Combinator for nearly five years where he advised and funded over 600 companies and more than a thousand founders.

NUMBER

#82

Xs

613

Investments

119

Exits

66
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Overview
About Garry Tan
Number of Portfolio Companies 8
Location USA

Garry is a designer/engineer turned early stage investor. He was a partner at Y Combinator for nearly five years where he advised and funded over 600 companies and more than a thousand founders. He was cofounder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (Top 200 Quantcast site, acquired by Twitter in 2012).
Before that he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir’s financial analysis product, and also designed Palantir’s logo. He has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford.

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Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Instacart
Series A
$50M
900
$45 000M
Patreon
Seed
$5,9M
720,34
$4 250M
Front
Series A
$11,6M
146,55
$1 700M
Flexport
$75,16M
106,44
$8 000M
Phantom
Series A
$50M
24
$1 200M
Coinbase
Seed
$1 600M
4,94
$7 900M
Envoy
Seed
$1 289M
1,09
$1 400M
Opendoor
Series A
$3 500M
1,66
$5 800M

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