Mr Max Levchin

Recent investment activity


KANDO id: 287988

Bio

An angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of PayPal, Max Levchin currently serves as Founder & CEO of Affirm, a company founded with a goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. In addition to Affirm, Max is president of HVF Labs, chairman of Glow, and an advisory board member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He was an early investor in Yelp, a local-search service powered by crowd-sourced review forum and served on the Board of Yahoo, prior to it’s acquisition.


Career


Affirm Inc - founder

Provider of consumer loans.

SignalFire


PayPal Inc - founder

Web-based payment services.
N/A (past)

Slide Inc - founder

N/A (past)

Education

Investment preferences
Stage focus
Top investment portfolio themes
fintech (4)  
YCW17 (2)  
banking (2)  
YCS09 (1)  
B2B (1)  
analytics (1)  
unicorn (1)  

Actual initial investment stage
N/A (2)

Selected investments

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Profile Country Date Funding
Raptr Inc Seed
Slide Inc N/A
AdRoll Inc Online social advertising network Series A
Brex Inc Corporate credit card company focused on startups. Series B
Brex Inc Corporate credit card company focused on startups. Series A
Mixpanel Inc Real-time web app analytics services N/A Initial investment
Pinterest Inc Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. Series A
Returnly Provider of digital return experiences for direct-to-consumer brands. Series B Initial investment
TransferWise Ltd Money transfer platform. Seed
X1 Card N/A Initial investment
Yammer Inc Series E Initial investment