Christopher Golda is a former entrepreneur and operator turned early-stage investor. Chris founded Rogue Capital and invest in companies like Benchling, Coinbase, and 50+ more. Previously, he co–founded BackType, a SaaS analytics company that helped quantify the marketing value of social media, backed by Y Combinator, True Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and more. BackType was acquired by Twitter, where Chris became responsible for the Ads Center as revenue 10X’d to $1.4B. He also helped open source Apache Storm, a distributed realtime computation system developed at BackType.
| Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2021 |
Bigeye
|
Series A | $17M | Analytics | Detail |
| Dec 19, 2017 |
dYdX
|
Seed | $2M | Blockchain | Detail |
| Nov 1, 2017 |
X1
|
Seed | — | Credit Cards | Detail |