Fundraising Fox
Chris Golda
InvestorFounderFounder + Managing Partner at Rogue Capital · General Partner at Y Combinator · Founder at Backtype
United States
FoundedBacktype · YC
Find your path to Chris
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Chris
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to Chris. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
About
Co-founder and CEO of BackType (acquired by Twitter) and launched Twitter's Ad Center. Did YC S08.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Chris Golda co-founded BackType (YC S08), a data infrastructure and analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011.
- Education
- Studied at University of Toronto (BASc, Electrical Engineering)
- More
- Chris Golda helped open source Apache Storm, an early distributed real-time computation system.
From Chris's own website — common ground for a warm intro.
Founder at BacktypeYC S08
Intro paths
Chris went through Y Combinator (Summer 2008) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Chris can intro founders to Backtype's investors below.
Backtype's investors · 8
Co-founders at Backtype
Investments
Per curated public sources.
Network2
Investors connected to Chris in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Chris Golda?
- Co-founder and CEO of BackType (acquired by Twitter) and launched Twitter's Ad Center. Did YC S08.
- Where does Chris Golda work?
- Chris Golda is Founder of Backtype and Founder + Managing Partner at Rogue Capital and General Partner at Y Combinator.
- What companies did Chris Golda found?
- Chris Golda founded Backtype.
- What companies has Chris Golda invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Benchling, Coinbase, Stoke, Supabase.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,635
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Menlo Ventures mafia17
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Svix mafia3
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
About this profile. Compiled from public sources — Rogue Capital's own website and public professional profiles — and summarised by Fundraising Fox; every fact is kept with where it came from. Spotted an error, or would rather not be listed? Email privacy@fundraisingfox.com · How we build profiles · Your rights