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Sahil Lavingia

InvestorFounder

Founder at Gumroad · Former Founder at SHL Capital

Portland, Oregon

Writes $100K – $250K checks · typically $125K

FoundedGumroad

30 Under 30 2014 · Enterprise Technology

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About

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform that has paid out more than $350 million to creators and raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, First Round, Naval Ravikant, and Chris Sacca in 2011 and 2012. He began his career in Silicon Valley as Pinterest's second employee, and writes essays alongside a Twitter following of roughly 160,000. As an angel investor, he has backed about 30 startups, including Figma, Notion, Vercel, Clubhouse, Lambda School, HelloSign, and Movable Ink, after pausing investing between 2012 and 2016 to concentrate on Gumroad.

Invests in

Crypto & Web3Future of WorkSaaS

Founder at Gumroad

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Gumroad's investors · 5

Collaborative FundNew York · $500K – $1M checksFirst Round CapitalSan Francisco · $100K – $20M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksRepublic CryptoNew YorkTuesday CapitalSan Francisco

Experience

  1. Internal Revenue ServiceInformation Technology Specialistcurrent2025 — present
  2. SHL CapitalInvestor2020 — 2025
  3. The Minimalist EntrepreneurAuthor2019 — 2025
  4. GumroadFounder & CEO2011 — 2025San Francisco, CA
  5. PinterestSoftware Engineer and Designer2010 — 2011Palo Alto, CA

Skills & more

design14front-end12Front-end11Entrepreneurship35Mobile Applications34User Experience13Web Design8Web Development13Web Applications27Venture Capital15Back-end7iOS development9
+8 morepythonHTML 5MongoDBRubyJavaScriptPythonRuby on RailsiOS

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Ed Walters
General Partner at Allegory

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Sahil Lavingia?
Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform that has paid out more than $350 million to creators and raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, First Round, Naval Ravikant, and Chris Sacca in 2011 and 2012. He began his career in Silicon Valley as Pinterest's second employee, and writes essays alongside a Twitter following of roughly 160,000. As an angel investor, he has backed about 30 startups, including Figma, Notion, Vercel, Clubhouse, Lambda School, HelloSign, and Movable Ink, after pausing investing between 2012 and 2016 to concentrate on Gumroad.
Where does Sahil Lavingia work?
Sahil Lavingia is Founder of Gumroad.
What does Sahil Lavingia invest in?
Sahil Lavingia invests in Crypto & Web3, Future of Work, SaaS.
What check size does Sahil Lavingia write?
Sahil Lavingia typically writes checks of $100K – $250K.
What companies did Sahil Lavingia found?
Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad.
What companies has Sahil Lavingia invested in?
Investments tracked here include Acquire.com, Airwork, BackerKit, Branch, Brave Care, Capsule, Causal, Circle, Clubhouse, Conductor, Cowrywise, Eight Sleep, and 46 more.

Founder mafias

SHL Capital mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Stuart LaceyFounder & DirectorFounded Trunomi +1

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