Tomasz Tunguz is a prominent venture capitalist and the Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures, a firm focused on early-stage enterprise AI, data, and blockchain companies. Previously, he spent 14 years as a Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, where he backed nine unicorns, including Looker and Expensify. He is also a prolific author and blogger, known for his insights on startups, data, and technology, with his blog driving millions of page views monthly.
Student of startups, author of tomtunguz.com, investor, & partner to founders.
Redpoint Ventures
Managing Director
May 2008 - Sep 2022
Responsibilities
Privileged to support the journey of early stage SaaS, data and infrastructure founders. Worked with Looker ($2.6b M&A), MotherDuck, Mysten Labs (SUI), Monte Carlo, Omni, Chorus ($575m to ZI), Expensify (IPO), ThredUp (IPO), Kustomer ($1b sale to META), & others.
Winning with Data
Co-Author
2016 - 2016
Responsibilities
I co-authored Winning with Data with Looker CEO Frank Bien. Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future explores the cultural changes big data brings to business, and shows you how to adapt your organization to leverage data to maximum effect.
Google, Inc.
Product Manager
Oct 2005 - May 2008
Responsibilities
Managing AdSense for Social Networks including the $900M MySpace deal.
Managed AdSense International including product launches in Greece, Israel, Thailand, Indonesia and Bulgaria
Appian Corporation
Engineer
Jan 2004 - Oct 2004
Responsibilities
Architected, developed and deployed systems for the US Government serving DHS
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