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Guillermo Rauch

InvestorUnicorn founder

Founder & CEO at Vercel

San Francisco, CA

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

FoundedVercel$9.3B

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32 people in our graph share verified history with Guillermo — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

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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.

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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

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Vercel's investors · 36

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 2021BlackRockMexico City · since 2025Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2021Cold Start VenturesNew York · since 2021Costanoa VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $8M checks · since 2018CRV (Charles River Ventures)Bay Area · $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 CapitalSilicon Valley · 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 2021Practical Venture CapitalSilicon Valley · since 2021Resolute VenturesSan Francisco · $1M checks · since 2021Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2021Stepstone GroupCharlotte · since 2025SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checks · since 2021Tiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2021Vintage Investment PartnersHerzliya · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Experience

  1. VercelCEOcurrent2020 — present

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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

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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Frequently asked questions

Who is Guillermo Rauch?
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.
Where does Guillermo Rauch work?
Guillermo Rauch is Founder & CEO of 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.
What companies has Guillermo Rauch invested in?
Investments tracked here include Agentcard, Armature, authzed, Bun, Capy, Cedalio, Coderhouse, Compose.ai, Context.dev, Design Arena, Flip, Frigade, and 32 more.
What awards has Guillermo Rauch received?
EY World Entrepreneur of the Year, Class of 2025, representing Argentina; Vercel's v0 won a 2025 Webby Award.
What podcasts and interviews feature Guillermo Rauch?
Tracked appearances include "Everyone's an engineer now: Inside v0's mission", "No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch", "Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To".

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