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Guillermo Rauch

InvestorUnicorn founder

Investor at Notable Capital · Founder & CEO at Vercel

San Francisco, CA

Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $25K

FoundedVercel$9.3B

About

Guillermo Rauch created Next.js, the framework that powers much of the modern web, and founded Vercel — the 'AI cloud' that deploys it — worth $9.3 billion after its September 2025 Series F led by Accel and GIC. A self-taught programmer from Lanús, Argentina who joined the MooTools core team at 16 and wrote socket.io and Mongoose, he moved to San Francisco as a teenager, co-founded LearnBoost and Cloudup (acquired by Automattic in 2013), and started ZEIT — renamed Vercel — in 2015. He is one of tech's most prolific angels, with 700+ investments including Supabase, Replit, and Perplexity, and Vercel's v0 won a 2025 Webby.

Beyond investing

Founded
Founded ZEIT in November 2015, renamed Vercel in 2020; created and open-sourced Next.js in 2016. Co-founded LearnBoost and Cloudup as CTO; Automattic acquired the team in 2013 and he worked on WordPress.com products.
Communities
Joined the MooTools core team as a teenager in Argentina, leading its Forge package repository.
Awards
EY World Entrepreneur of the Year, Class of 2025, representing Argentina; Vercel's v0 won a 2025 Webby Award.
Family
Born in Lanús, Buenos Aires; began coding around age 10 on a neighbor's discarded computer and moved to San Francisco at 18.
More
Author of socket.io, the de-facto realtime standard for Node.js, and Mongoose, the leading MongoDB ODM — plus Hyper, SWR, and ms. One of tech's most prolific angels: 700+ investments including Supabase, Replit, Warp, Convex, and Perplexity.

From Guillermo's own website — common ground for a warm intro.

Founder & CEO at Vercel

Intro paths

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In turn, Guillermo can intro founders to Vercel's investors below.

Vercel's investors · 32

8VCAustin · $100K – $50M checks · since 2021AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2021Adams Street PartnersChicago · $150M – $750M checks · since 2025BedrockLos Angeles · $5M – $30M checks · since 2021Bedrock CapitalNew York · since 2021Beyond CapitalSan Diego · since 2021BlackRockNew York · since 2025Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksCold Start VenturesNew York · since 2021CRV (Charles River Ventures)San Francisco · $250K – $5M checks · since 2021Everybody Ventures$100K checks · since 2021Firebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcPalo Alto · since 2021FirstMark CapitalNew York · $500K – $8M checks · since 2021Flex Capital PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checks · since 2021Founders Circle CapitalSan Francisco · since 2021General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2021Geodesic CapitalFoster City · since 2021GICSingapore · since 2021GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2021GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2021Inflection VenturesNew York · since 2021IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checks · since 2021Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2025Mech VenturesLas Vegas · since 2021Notable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checks · since 2021NXTPBuenos Aires · $500K – $5M checks · since 2021Operator CollectivePalo Alto · $500K – $1.5M checks · since 2021Resolute VenturesSan Francisco · $1M checks · since 2021Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2021SV AngelSan Francisco · since 2021Tiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2021Vintage Investment PartnersHerzliya Pituach · since 2021

Experience

  1. VercelCEOcurrent2020 — present

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Guillermo Rauch

Everyone's an engineer now: Inside v0's mission

Lenny's Podcast · lennysnewsletter.com

No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch

No Priors

Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To

20VC · thetwentyminutevc.com

Colleagues at Notable Capital

Aaron Schwartz
Scout at GGV Capital
Adam Markowitz
Investor at GGV Capital
Al Ghous
Investor at Notable Capital
Alice Xu
Investor at Notable Capital
Bailey Dickey
Investor at Notable Capital
Ben Zabel
Investor at Notable Capital
Burkay Gur
Investor at GGV Capital
Cami Katz
Investor at Notable Capital

Network20

Elad GilScout
Solo general partner investing through Gil Capital
Chase ColemanScout
Founder & Partner of Tiger Global Management
Daniel GrossScout
Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG and Safe Superintelligence
Ashton KutcherScout
Co-founder of Sound Ventures; launching a new deep-tech venture firm with Morgan Beller
Arash FerdowsiScout
Co-founder of Dropbox
Fei-Fei LiScout
Co-founder & CEO of World Labs; Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
Adam D'AngeloScout
Angel
Adam GrossScout
Investor at Zenda
Akash GargScout
Advisor at Electric Capital
Alex BouazizScout
Partner at Sarona Ventures
Baris AkisScout
Co-Founder, President, and Managing Partner at Human Capital
Ben BlumenroseScout
Co-founder, Managing Partner at Designer Fund
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Brianne Kimmel · scoutCem Sertoglu · scoutChip Hazard · scoutDan Moskowitz · scoutDiogo Mónica · scoutEric Acher · scoutEric Kim · scoutGokul Rajaram · scout

Investors connected to Guillermo in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Guillermo Rauch work?
Guillermo Rauch is at Notable Capital and Founder & CEO at Vercel.
What check size does Guillermo Rauch write?
Guillermo Rauch typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
What companies did Guillermo Rauch found?
Guillermo Rauch founded Vercel.

Paths to reach Guillermo

People who overlapped with Guillermo at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.

Together at VercelGuillermo: Founder & CEO

Geoff Lewis2020–2026Founder & Managing Partner at BedrockQueen's UniversityReid Christian2017–2026General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures)Bates College · Nanjing Normal UniversityDaniel Levine2018–2026Investor at AccelYale UniversitySangeen Zeb2022–2026Investor at GV (Google Ventures)The Wharton School · Westside High SchoolDan Cahana2021–2026Principal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, focused on Cloud Infrastructure & AIThe Wharton SchoolGlenn Solomon2021–2026Investor at GGV CapitalStanford University Graduate School of Business

Together at Notable Capital

Jenny LeeSenior Managing Partner at Granite AsiaCornell University · Northwestern University - Kellogg School of ManagementHans TungManaging Partner at Notable CapitalPalos Verdes High SchoolDario AmodeiCo-founder & CEO of AnthropicCaltechDaniela AmodeiCo-founder & President of AnthropicUniversity of California, Santa CruzChelcie TaylorInvestor at GGV CapitalPrinceton UniversityDan CahanaPrincipal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, focused on Cloud Infrastructure & AIThe Wharton School

Founder mafias

Notable Capital mafia10

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Dario AmodeiFounded AnthropicDaniela AmodeiFounded AnthropicWeb SmithScoutFounded Mizzen+Main +1Aaron SchwartzScoutFounded OritaGarrett LordFounded HandshakeBurkay GurFounded fal

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Shared employers

Also worked at Vercel29

Sangeen ZebInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Dan CahanaPrincipal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, focused on Cloud Infrastructure & AIGlenn SolomonInvestor at GGV CapitalOren YungerInvestor at GGV CapitalGeoff LewisFounder & Managing Partner at BedrockAaron BrownSecurity Advisor at Modern Technical

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