Ivan Kirigin Email & Phone Number

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We back early stage startups focused on AI/ML, automation and robotics. Fund I backed 46 companies, now on to Fund II. These include Albedo, Almanac, BotBuilt, Buoyant Aero, Callin, Charge Robotics, Climate Robotics, Clone, DeepSource, Depict.ai, Documatic, Dolphyn, Edia, Eto.ai, Faction, Fathom Computing, Fibo.finance, Finish Robotics, Freshpaint, Greenwork, Heywear, Hydra, Hypotenuse.ai, Impossible Metals, Instant Domains, Lightly.ai, Locomation, Mach9 Robotics, Mezli, Mythos, Nira, Orca Mobility, Pallet, Parthean, Phykos, Quartz, Red Leader Tech, Rhetoric, SixWheel, Slai, Stoke Space, Strong Compute, Teleo, Vici Robotics, Zensors, Zitara

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lyft acquired my startup YesGraph, and we continued our work building referral recommendations within the growth team. I then lead a team automating all of acquisition, using machine learning to efficiently deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. I then moved back to my robotics roots to Level 5, Lyft's self-driving division in Palo Alto. Our mission is to build the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Together, with electric vehicles and Lyft Shared rides, autonomous vehicles will save millions of lives globally, eliminate congestion, reduce emissions, and allow us to rebuild cities around people and not cars.

YesGraph helps your business grow by recommending exactly who a user should invite.YesGraph was acquired by Lyft.

San Francisco, California, Us

Growth Hacker, helped the company grow 12X in 2 years.

Engineering lead with the commerce team. I built the first games dashboard and FB Credits payment flows.

Tipjoy powered simple social micropayments. My design focused cofounder and I took my idea from design to implementation to market. Funded by YC in Winter 2008, and raised a small Series A from Ron Bouganim, Chris Sacca, Dave Shen, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Local Globe, and Betaworks.

Bedford, Massachusetts, Us

I helped win multiple military research grants. I focused on image and sensor processing, with projects about super resolution, tracking, and obstacle avoidance. Working with iRobot's PackBot is great, but I had the most fun with iRobot's entry in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge automated driving competition.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

I was a research assistant while studying towards my MS in robotics. I lead multiple projects in computer vision, including feature tracking and localization for highly dynamic legged robots.

Ms, Robotics

Ba, Computer Science