Chris Golda
InvestorFounderGeneral Partner at Y Combinator · Founder at Svix
About
Co-founder and CEO of BackType (acquired by Twitter), where he launched Twitter's Ad Center and grew revenue past $1B.
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 SvixYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Chris went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Svix's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Chris can intro founders to Svix's investors below.
Svix's investors · 5
Co-founders at Svix
TH
Tom HacohenFounder & CEO
Investments
Per curated public sources.
Colleagues at Y Combinator
Aaron Epstein
General Partner at Y Combinator
Andrew Miklas
General Partner at Y Combinator
Ankit Gupta
General Partner at Y Combinator
Brad Flora
Backing expeditions into the future
David Lieb
General Partner at Y Combinator
Diana Hu
General Partner at Y Combinator
Garry Tan
President & CEO of Y Combinator
Grey Baker
General Partner at Y Combinator
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Chris Golda?
- Co-founder and CEO of BackType (acquired by Twitter), where he launched Twitter's Ad Center and grew revenue past $1B.
- Where does Chris Golda work?
- Chris Golda is General Partner at Y Combinator.
- What companies has Chris Golda invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Benchling, Coinbase, Stoke, Supabase.