Raj Kapoor

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Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Climactic - VC fund focused on climate tech, Strategic Advisor at Lyft, , former CEO/cofounder of Snapfish and fitmob (now ClassPass), and former Managing Director at Mayfield Fund @ Climactic
About Raj Kapoor

Studied Mech Eng/Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, helped create first interactive networked media applications at Bell Atlantic in early 90s (including VOD and interactive TV), joined @Home when it was a startup and ended managing e-commerce product and sales for the public company Excite@Home. Cofounded and ran Snapfish as CEO from 1999-2005. It's now one of the largest online photo services in the world with over 80M members & peaked over $300M revenue. The company was profitable and growing faster than the market. We sold Snapfish to HP in April 2005 for $300M.Became a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund in August 2005 - a top silicon valley venture capital fund with over $3B under management. I invested in 14 companies over 7 years in consumer internet/mobile, e-commerce, SMB, online adtech, social, and marketplaces - including early rounds in Lyft, Rubicon Project, Qunar, Fivestars, and Red Beacon. I also sourced Moat.In 2012, I started a new vehicle to cofound companies alongside awesome founders (cofounder.co) and then started and ran one of the companies in 2013 - fitmob - which grew into one of the largest fitness networks in the US in 8 cities. Fitmob joined forces with market leader ClassPass in May 2015 to create the worlds largest fitness marketplace and subscription service operating across 40 cities and 4 countries - I ran international and new supply. I then was a Board Advisor at ClassPass and Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund. In 2016, I joined Lyft as Chief Strategy Officer. I was responsible for evaluating new business areas outside of the core including our expansion into a Mobility As A Service provider and thenspent most of my time leading the business of Autonomous (self driving) - moving us from a human, gas powered network of cars to a self driving, electric shared fleet. Created the largest self driving service in terms of paid rides, the most partnerships with leaders in the industry, and culminated my tenure with the sale of our self driving R&D division to Toyota for $550M.Now I have created a stealth VC fund focused entirely on addressing planetary challenges including climate change, resource sustainability and a more circular economy.Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Product Management, Venture Capital investing, General Management, Financing, Marketing, Business Development, & Financial Analysis.

Raj Kapoor's Current Company Details
Climactic

Climactic

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Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Climactic - VC fund focused on climate tech, Strategic Advisor at Lyft, , former CEO/cofounder of Snapfish and fitmob (now ClassPass), and former Managing Director at Mayfield Fund
Raj Kapoor Work Experience Details
  • Climactic
    Co-Founder And Managing Partner
    Climactic Apr 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Co-founded Climactic - an early stage Venture Capital firm to solve the biggest planetary challenges using technology - including climate change, resource sustainability, and the circular economy.
  • Enara Health
    Member Board Of Directors & Investor
    Enara Health Jan 2022 - Present
    Enara has created the most effective health platform for Medical Weight Management targeting Obesity and utilizing a digital platform combined with your own multi-displinary care team of doctors, dietitians, exercise specialists, and behavioral group therapy. Enara is a membership paid mostly by insurance, delivered by the top medical clinics (e.g. cardiology clinics) and results in sustained average 15% weight loss for its members.
  • Angaza Design
    Advisor
    Angaza Design Jun 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Angaza created an innovative Pay As You Go system integrated with mobile phones allowing micro grids in the form of clean energy appliances to be easily and cost effectively used by underserved communities in Africa, India, etc. (e.g. solar lights and phone charging systems). I advise on all aspects of the business.
  • Moneytap
    Investor
    Moneytap Jan 2017 - Present
    Bangalore, Karnataka, In
  • Lyft
    Strategic Advisor
    Lyft Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Lyft
    Chief Strategy Officer & Head Of Business, Self Driving
    Lyft Oct 2016 - Apr 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    I was the Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft for 4 1/2 years. First, I explored new businesses to launch internationally - which morphed into expanding Lyft into a full Mobility As A Service Provider (MaaS) including Transit (a team which I created). Then, I focused most of my time on transforming Lyft from a human driver network of gas powered vehicles to an electric, shared, self driving fleet - to solve congestion, emissions, safety, and affordability. I led the business of Self Driving which included 400+ people developing self driving technology in Palo Alto and a team running our Open Platform where we partnered with the best self driving companies (e.g. Waymo, Motional, more to be announced). I also helped on the Executive Team level on overall and line of business strategy. Milestones include having the largest paid self driving ride program with over 100k rides (pre covid), signing the first long term deployment partnership in the AV industry with Motional, and helping orchestrate the successful sale of our self driving development division (Level 5) for $550M to Toyota's Woven Planet - which reduced $100M in expense, created new revenue streams, and will bring in our profitability date. Here's a post with the "Why" on this exciting new journey: https://medium.com/@rajilkapoor/my-new-journey-663224c3c0c7#.1jr1pz3t7It was full circle as I was the first VC investor and on the board of Zimride (now Lyft) back in 2011!
  • Change.Org
    Investor
    Change.Org Apr 2013 - Dec 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Personal investor in the worlds largest platform for change with over 157M people worldwide taking action.
  • Classpass
    Advisor
    Classpass Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
    New York, Ny, Us
    I have moved from full time to advisor at ClassPass where i help the board and leadership team with strategy, financing, and more.
  • Classpass
    Head Of International & New Supply / Investor
    Classpass May 2015 - Nov 2015
    New York, Ny, Us
    ClassPass is the worlds largest fitness marketplace. I cofounder and was CEO at fitmob which joined forces with ClassPass in May 2015. I joined the management team to integrate fitmob, lead our international expansion and help uncover new supply beyond studios such as trainer services - which was the original area of fitmob's focus. We launched Australia successfully and I helped manage the high growth of London.
  • Dosomething
    Board Member
    Dosomething Oct 2009 - Nov 2021
    New York, Ny, Us
    Dosomething is the largest nonprofit that empowers youth to rock social causes around the globe. Helped transform the org from a media company to a tech company. We are now 5 million members strong globally and received funding from Omidyar Network, Google.org, and Reid Hoffman.
  • World Without Covid
    Co-Founder
    World Without Covid Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
    Worldwithoutcovid.org is a nonprofit public health initiative I conceived and cofounded with vc backed startup Clara Health and Vijay Chattha to match and enroll covid positive, negative and untested individuals to urgent clinical research trials to stop the pandemic It is free to all participants and has grown to over 1200 global trials requiring over 858,000 volunteers for interventional trials and over 20m neeeed for observational trials It fills the need of patient recruitment as over 85 percent of clinical trials are delayed due to this issue
  • Mayfield Fund
    Venture Advisor
    Mayfield Fund Oct 2012 - Dec 2019
    Us
    Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund - a leading silicon valley early stage venture capital firm with over $3B under management. I am currently sourcing and selectively leading new deals in internet, software, climate, e-commerce tools/adtech, and interactive media.
  • Mayfield Fund
    Managing Director
    Mayfield Fund Jan 2005 - Oct 2012
    Us
    Successful Managing Director at at Mayfield Fund - a leading silicon valley early stage venture capital firm with over $3B under management. Sourced, co-led, and/or led 15 investments over 7 years resulting in ~10x return for Mayfield. My focus was on internet/mobile, marketplaces, consumer/B2B software, e-commerce tools, and interactive media. I led investments in mostly early stage companies - including Lyft, Qunar, Rubicon Project, Fivestars, Red Beacon, and sourced Moat. I moved to a venture advisor role in 2012 as I had an itch to go back to the operator side (I then started cofounder.co followed by fitmob which is now part of ClassPass).
  • Moat
    Investor
    Moat Apr 2012 - Apr 2017
    New York, New York , Us
    Sourced this Series B investment for Mayfield Fund before leaving to start fitmob. Moat is the leader in real-time, multi-platform actionable analytics for advertisers - started by the industry leaders including the founders of Right Media. Sold in a successful outcome to Oracle in April 2017 (price undisclosed but re/code believes it was over $800M)
  • If(We)
    Investor & Board Member
    If(We) Jan 2006 - Apr 2017
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Co-led Series A for if(we) while at Mayfield - formerly know as Tagged. Its one of the largest and profitable social discovery networks with over 300M registered users. Sold in a successful acquisition to public company meetme (Nasdaq: MEET) to create the market leader.
  • Nfx Guild
    Fellow & Advisor
    Nfx Guild Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    I was a part time Fellow advising NFX Guild portfolio companies in all aspects of their business. NFX Guild is the premiere accelerator and seed fund for network effect and marketplace companies. I worked with the top tier team of James Currier, Stan Chudnovsky, Pete Flint, and Gigi Levy Weiss.
  • Fitmob
    Ceo & Cofounder
    Fitmob Jun 2013 - May 2015
    fitmob created one of the largest fitness networks where consumers have access to unlimited fitness from the best studios, gyms and trainers in your city. It was launched in january 2014 and grew revenue 10x from Nov to March and expanded to 8 cities when we joined forces with market leader ClassPass to create the largest global fitness marketplace.We raised over $12M from Mayfield and a number of other prominent investors.
  • Lyft
    Board Member & Investor
    Lyft Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Board member and Series A lead investor in this disruptive leader in on demand ride sharing valued over $15B as of July 2018. Spent a day a week at the company when we transitioned from zimride to lyft - helped pivot from Zimride to Lyft - creating one of the first peer to peer ridesharing services. Lyft has raised over $4B and operates successfully in the US & Canada.
  • The Rubicon Project
    Investor & Board Member
    The Rubicon Project Jan 2008 - Dec 2013
    Playa Vista, Ca, Us
    I led the Series B investment for Mayfield Fund (when there was no revenue and a waiting list of beta customers). It's now the leading automation platform for online advertising with more audience reach than google. Rubicon Project is a publicly traded company valued over $650M as of July 2016.
  • Cofounder.Co
    Founder & Managing Partner
    Cofounder.Co Oct 2012 - Jun 2013
    I put cofounder.co on indefinite hold after nine months as I fell in love with one of my cofounder companies and became CEO/cofounder of fitmob.Started cofounder.co as an innovative partnership to help startups and entrepreneurs reach their full potential in the Bay Area. We would work closely with a few tech startups mostly in the internet and mobile for consumer/small business/enterprise sector that either reside in the Bay Area or want to relocate there. A partner joins the company as a cofounder at the earliest stages (either at founding or sometime before funding) and spends the equivalent of one day a week (so they only partner with 4-5 startups at any time) helping in all areas of the company including financing, recruiting, strategy, product development, and mentoring the CEO. As a minority cofounder shareholder in the company, we bring commitment and importantly - valuable experience that high potential entrepreneurs may be missing - either if its their first time being an entrepreneur or because they are seasoned but entering a new sector. The goal is to help the entrepreneur in all key decisions in the company's life - a true cofounder along the way.
  • Fivestars
    Investor
    Fivestars Apr 2011 - Feb 2013
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Leading local loyalty mobile service. I was a seed investor via Mayfield Fund. Acquired by SumUp for $317M.
  • Redbeacon
    Board Member
    Redbeacon Aug 2010 - Jan 2012
    Led Series A Mayfield investment in Redbeacon, which is a local services marketplace connecting consumers to the best service providers for their everyday needs. Sold to Home Depot for ~$100M.
  • Qunar.Com
    Board Observer And Investor
    Qunar.Com Jan 2007 - Jan 2012
    Beijing, Beijing, Cn
    Largest travel site in China in terms of users. Pioneer of travel search engine model in China. Led the series A investment at Mayfield fund alongside GSR Ventures. Publicly traded multi billion dollar company (valued over $4B as of July 2016).
  • Snapfish
    Ceo & Co-Founder
    Snapfish Oct 1999 - Apr 2005
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Started and ran Snapfish - one of the largest photo online services in the world with over 100M registered users globally and peak revenue of $300M with hundreds of people on the team. We pioneered online photo services in direct to consumer, mobile, international, and b2b. Sold to HP in April 2005 for $300M.
  • Excite@Home
    Senior Director
    Excite@Home 1996 - 1999
    Excite@Home was the leader in broadband online services via the cable industry. Joined @Home at the startup stage (less than 50 people) and experienced hyper growth as it went public and later merged with Excite. Performed product management and biz dev for e-commerce, music, and entertainment services. Later ran product and sales for the 50 person, $50M e-commerce business division when we merged to create Excite@Home. Departed in 1999 to start Snapfish with a fellow cofounder from Excite@Home.
  • Bell Atlantic Video Services
    Manager, Business Development
    Bell Atlantic Video Services 1992 - 1994
    Early pioneer in VOD services. I came in thru a selective executive development program - although I made way too many powerpoints, i was exposed to the power of interactive media early on!Helped create business plans for VOD, music on demand via ISDN phone lines, and a fax on demand information service with Inc. for small businesses.

Raj Kapoor Skills

Start Ups Entrepreneurship Venture Capital E Commerce Product Management Strategic Partnerships Business Development Strategy Mobile Devices Product Development Business Strategy Online Advertising Management Leadership Marketing Finance Product Marketing Sales Enterprise Software Analytics Digital Media Saas Social Media Angel Investing Web Analytics Product User Experience Social Networking Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning Online Marketing Social Media Marketing Mobile Applications Non Profits Monetization B2b Corporate Development Growth Capital Early Stage Companies Executive Management Financial Analysis Mergers New Business Development Recruiting Go To Market Strategy Mobile Marketing Private Equity Digital Strategy Seo Venture Financing

Raj Kapoor Education Details

  • Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School
    General
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Mechanical Engrg & Robotics

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