name

Geoff Ralston

HQ Location: USA

RANK #384

Geoff Ralston serves as president of Y Combinator. Mr. Ralston is the co-founder of Imagine K12. He is an advisor at Accredible. He is also a partner at Y Combinator. He is an advisor at RaiseMe. He was an advisor and board member of Iris Automation. From 2007-2009, he was CEO at Lala Media, an innovative cloud music startup in Palo Alto that was acquired by Apple in December 2009. He was a member of the board of directors at Educents. He also worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2006 after its 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11, he was vice president of engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail's predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Communications Business Unit before becoming the company's chief product officer. He is an advisor at Kodable. He is also an angel investor.

Numbers of Unicorns

3

538

Rank (Xs)

#384

Investments

70

Exits

38

Numbers of Unicorns

3

538

Rank (Xs)

#384

Investments

70

Exits

38

All Unicorns

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Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

Front

Front

Series A

$11.6M

147

$1700M

Weave

Weave

Series B

$46.5M

32

$1510M

Embark Trucks

Embark Trucks

Seed

$450M

12

$5200M

All $100M+

Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

6363

Zeal

$5M

131

$655M

3565

Nervana Systems

$5.9M

69

$408M

4878

Securly

Series A

$6.5M

36

$231M

2571

inDinero

Series A

$12M

9

$104.27M

4010

Panorama Education

Series AA

$15M

47

$700M

2376

Hint

Series A

$20M

26

$525M

6007

Virool

Series AA

$22.1M

5

$119.95M

2862

Lala Media

Series A

$25.35M

10

$243.67M

6115

Weave

$34.4M

7

$228M

3335

Meter (IT Consulting and Outsourcing)

Series A

$40M

6

$238M

5735

TripleByte

$50M

3

$135M

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