Where does Sam Odio work?

Sam Odio is Founder/CEO of Divvyshot and Husband, Father, and SPC Member at South Park Commons and Founder/CEO at Freshplum.

What companies did Sam Odio found?

Sam Odio founded Divvyshot, Freshplum.

What companies has Sam Odio invested in?

Investments tracked here include Armory.

Where did Sam Odio go to school?

Sam Odio studied at University of Virginia (MS, Accounting); University of Virginia (BS, Finance, Accounting, & Economics).

Sam Odio

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Husband, Father, and SPC Member at South Park Commons · Founder/CEO at Freshplum · Founder/CEO at Divvyshot

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedDivvyshot · YC Freshplum · YC

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About

Sam Odio is a two-time Y Combinator founder and current member at South Park Commons, with roughly ten years of experience as a product manager and CEO. His work has included leading a redesign of Facebook's desktup photos experience and building Facebook's machine-learning photo tag suggestions, founding Freshplum (a machine-learning retail price prediction tool later acquired by TellApart and Twitter), and helping pivot Fivestars, a 300-person company that raised $100M, toward acquisition and payments services for small businesses. He has also worked at Dropbox on AI and has experience building product, design, research, analytics, and engineering teams.

Founder/CEO at Freshplum YC S11

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Sam went through Y Combinator (Summer 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Freshplum's investors · 9

CRV (Charles River Ventures)Bay Area · $250K – $5M checks Crystal Towers CapitalMountain View DCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checks Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checks Start Capital SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2011

Co-founders at Freshplum

Nick AlexanderFounder/CTO

Founder/CEO at Divvyshot YC W09

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Sam went through Y Combinator (Winter 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Divvyshot's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Divvyshot

John DevorFounder/COO

Experience

AI Worth UsingShow Hostcurrent2026 — presentSF Bay Area
PlowFoundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
South Park CommonsHusband, Father, and SPC Membercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, CA
DropboxSenior Director of Product Management2021 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
FivestarsVice President, Head of Product2016 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
Freshplum (acquired by TellApart/Twitter)Co-founder & CEO2011 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
FacebookProduct Manager (Photos, Video and Photo ML products)2010 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
Divvyshot, Inc (acquired by Facebook)Founder & CEO2007 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Natural Language Processing (NLP)Applied Machine LearningProduct Management23Mobile Applications9Analytics1User Experience1Python9Product Leadership

XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning — Stanford University

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Armory

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Colleagues at South Park Commons

Aditya Agarwal

Partner at South Park Commons

Partner at South Park Commons

Finn Meeks

Partner at South Park Commons

Gary Thung

Engineer at Electric Capital

John Pattison

Advisor at Alwyn Capital

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sam Odio?: Sam Odio is a two-time Y Combinator founder and current member at South Park Commons, with roughly ten years of experience as a product manager and CEO. His work has included leading a redesign of Facebook's desktup photos experience and building Facebook's machine-learning photo tag suggestions, founding Freshplum (a machine-learning retail price prediction tool later acquired by TellApart and Twitter), and helping pivot Fivestars, a 300-person company that raised $100M, toward acquisition and payments services for small businesses. He has also worked at Dropbox on AI and has experience building product, design, research, analytics, and engineering teams.
Where does Sam Odio work?: Sam Odio is Founder/CEO of Divvyshot and Husband, Father, and SPC Member at South Park Commons and Founder/CEO at Freshplum.
What companies did Sam Odio found?: Sam Odio founded Divvyshot, Freshplum.
What companies has Sam Odio invested in?: Investments tracked here include Armory.
Where did Sam Odio go to school?: Sam Odio studied at University of Virginia (MS, Accounting); University of Virginia (BS, Finance, Accounting, & Economics).