Founder, CEO
Roham Gharegozlou
Founder @Axiom Zen & CEO @Dapper Labs @CryptoKitties. Seed investor @Intercom, @Tout, @ZenHub, @Routific, @Castle and 20+ more, 10 exits. Former VC x2.
Founder @Axiom Zen & CEO @Dapper Labs @CryptoKitties. Seed investor @Intercom, @Tout, @ZenHub, @Routific, @Castle and 20+ more, 10 exits. Former VC x2.
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Experience
Founder
Employee
Advisor
Projects
Dapper Labs: the Business of Play on the Blockchain
CryptoKitties raised another batch of funding. This time, its Samsung, Alphabet-backed GV, and Venrock.
Announcing our new blockchain: Flow
Now that Warner Music Group has mastered streaming, generating $2 billion in revenue from the technology, the music giant behind Cardi B, Ed Sheeran and… · More Bruno Mars has set its sights on blockchain, joining an $11.2 million investment in Dapper Labs, best known for making the viral blockchain game, CryptoKitties.
New round for NBA Top Shot and Flow blockchain
NBA star Andre Iguodala. Image: Wikipedia In brief CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs has raised a new $12 million investment round. Several NBA players… · More participated, alongside new and existing investment firms. The company is working on NBA Top Shot, Dr. Seuss crypto collectibles, and more.
ZenHub becomes the first-ever PM tool inside GitHub
GitHub is now popular enough for other companies to start building services around it. One of the latest projects that aims to make working with GitHub… · More faster and easier is ZenHub.
With ZenHub, teams get a project management service that is deeply integrated with GitHub and provides them with Trello-like drag-and-drop task boards, easy uploads for any type of file (GitHub’s interface only allows image file uploads by default) and +1 buttons for providing quick feedback about commits, pull requests, suggestions and comments.
With ZenHub, teams get a project management service that is deeply integrated with GitHub and provides them with Trello-like drag-and-drop task boards, easy uploads for any type of file (GitHub’s interface only allows image file uploads by default) and +1 buttons for providing quick feedback about commits, pull requests, suggestions and comments.
Changing the way that product ideas grow into companies
Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an “innovation studio,” is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators—organizations that support… · More entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern—than traditional businesses.
Education
About
Achievements
My biggest achievement is the group of people I brought together @AxiomZenTeam
In 6 years we built dozens of products and four independent businesses across enterprise B2B and consumer social – Routific (funded), ZenHub (bootstrapped), Fuel (acquired), and Dapper Labs, where I currently serve as CEO.
Dapper Labs is the world's leading blockchain entertainment company, funded by Andreessen Horowitz, USV, Venrock, and GV, among others.
Angel investor with 20+ seed checks including to winners like @Intercom and @Tout (acquired by Marketo). 10 exits and counting.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
Skills
What I'm Looking For
Product-focused founders building ambitious, forward-thinking teams that can make the world better.
I mainly invest in B2B SaaS or consumer social. I'm also interested in deep tech (AI/ML, blockchain) projects but am very selective and only back highly technical founders.
Describe what you're looking for in a company.
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
execution, made in america, hard thing about hard things, only the paranoid survive, antifragile, zero to one