Profile

Tikhon Bernstam

Location: USA

Tikhon Bernstam is the co-founder of Scribd (Y Combinator '06) and former CEO of Parse (Y Combinator '11). He is an active angel investor.

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#57

Xs

256

Investments

68

Exits

34
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About Tikhon Bernstam
Number of Portfolio Companies 11
Location USA

Tikhon Bernstam is the co-founder of Scribd (Y Combinator ’06) and former CEO of Parse (Y Combinator ’11). He is an active angel investor.
Parse is the platform powering the next generation of mobile apps. Facebook recently acquired Parse for $85 million
Scribd (sometimes called the “Youtube for Documents”) is the world’s largest document sharing site with over 90 million unique visitors a month.
Tikhon is also an active angel investor in over 15 companies, including Optimizely, Crowdtilt, and Zenpayroll.
After graduating from Dartmouth in the top 2 percent of his class, Tikhon went into the Y-Combinator program in 2006 and started Scribd with Trip Adler and Jared Friedman. He was the top student in several Computer Science classes at Dartmouth like CS 25 Algorithms
Tikhon is also an active developer. He wrote a lot of code at Scribd and Parse, as well as handling much of the operations, including several years on “pager duty.” He has contributed to such open source projects as parse-ruby-client. He is credited in the very popular book “Rails Tutorial” in the acknowledgements as one of a long list of Rubyists who have taught and inspired [the author] over the years.
Tikhon is also featured in Randall Stross’s book on Y-Combinator, “The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups.”

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ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Snyk
Series 1
$6,9M
1072,46
$7 400M
Cruise
Pre-seed
$67,58M
443,92
$30 000M
Razorpay
Series A
$20M
390
$7 800M
Forge Global
Series AA
$10M
200
$2 000M
Checkr
Series A
$25M
184
$4 600M
Mercury
$10M
160
$1 600M
Front
Series A
$11,6M
146,55
$1 700M
Reddit
Series B
$450M
33,33
$15 000M
Flexe
Series A
$50M
22
$1 100M
Embark Trucks
Seed
$450M
11,56
$5 200M
One Medical
Series G
$538,4M
7,24
$3 900M

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