Paul is a serial entreprenuer turned venture investors, having founded an early stage startup accelerator and fund in San Francisco, i/o ventures and more recently Golden Gate Ventures and Bragiel Brothers. In his entreprenuerial career, Paul founded and served as the CEO of three companies including: Lefora, online forum community platform (sold 2010), Meetro, the first location based social network, and Paragon Five, a game development studio. He’s also actively involved as an investor or advisor in 30+ companies. In addition to his work at i/o, he often advises governments – including Brazil, Malaysia, Poland and Tanzania – on entrepreneurship and policy that encourages startup ecosystems.
Companies Paul has been involved in include:
US: doubledutch, crowdgather, graph science, Uber, Aksel, flingo, Yourmech, Openocean, Life360, Kapture, Scripted, skout, cc:betty
International: playfire, microtask, transfluent, 2mundos, segurar, applifier, intelliwise, vivid games, taringa
These companies have collectively raised billions of dollars in financing and have outsized impact on the world of tech.