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Chris Dixon

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Chris Dixon is a Partner at and co-founder of Founder Collective. He is also a contributing writer for TechCrunch.

He previously was the CEO and Co-founder of SiteAdvisor, which was acquired by McAfee, and Hunch, which was acquired by eBay. In addition to his work with Founder’s Collective, Chris is a personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including Skype, TrialPay, DocVerse, Invite Media, Gerson Lehrman Group, ScanScout, OMGPOP, BillShrink, Oddcast, Panjiva, Knewton, and a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode.

Recent Milestones

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  Chris Dixon invested in Kitchensurfing. (2/14/13)
  Posted 2/14/13 at 6:50pm via pandodaily.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in SmartThings. (12/4/12)
  Posted 12/4/12 at 8:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in 42Floors. (11/16/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 6:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Sift Science. (11/3/12)
  Posted 3/19/13 at 7:58am via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Picturelife. (11/2/12)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 11:45am via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon added a position as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. (11/1/12)
  Posted 11/19/12 at 5:32pm
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  Chris Dixon invested in RebelMouse. (10/26/12)
  Posted 10/28/12 at 7:55pm via pandodaily.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in FundersClub. (10/19/12)
  Posted 10/19/12 at 9:18am via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Oyster. (10/11/12)
  Posted 10/11/12 at 2:32am via pandodaily.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Silvercar. (10/10/12)
  Posted 10/11/12 at 2:05am via pandodaily.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in MyVR. (9/28/12)
  Posted 9/28/12 at 3:21am via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Stripe. (7/9/12)
  Posted 7/9/12 at 4:32pm via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Bondsy. (7/1/12)
  Posted 5/6/13 at 12:21pm via bondsy.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Meddik. (5/24/12)
  Posted 5/12/12 at 9:19am via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Behance. (5/14/12)
  Posted 5/14/12 at 5:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Chris Dixon invested in Voxer LLC. (4/11/12)
  Posted 4/11/12 at 6:40pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

Videos

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1. Private chef service Kitchensurfing grabs $1 million, expands beyond New York (pandodaily.com) [edit]
2. SmartThings Closes $3M Seed Round, Led By First Round Capital, Launches Competition To Grow Community Of Smart Object Developers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. 42Floors Raises $5M From Dave McClure, Alexis Ohanian, Others, Expands Office Search Site To New York (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science, A Fraud-Fighting System For Websites, Backed By $5.5M In Funding From Union Square, First Round, YC & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Paul Berry’s Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors (pandodaily.com) [edit]
7. To Turn The Crowd Into Venture Capitalists, FundersClub Raises $6M Seed Round -- Biggest In YC History (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Oyster raises $3 million from Founders Fund for “Spotify for books” (pandodaily.com) [edit]
9. Silvercar snags $11.5M to disrupt airport car rentals (pandodaily.com) [edit]
10. MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Sexy Payments Startup Stripe Swipes $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Thoughts on Leaving TechStars and a New Round of Financing (blog.bondsy.com) [edit]
13. Meddik Grabs $750K From Chris Dixon, Founder Collective & More To Build A Better WebMD (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Walkie Talkie App Voxer Goes Big, IVP And Intel Lead $30 Million Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
17. Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot’s New Startup Canvas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
19. Foursquare Closes $20 Million Series B From Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square, And O'Reilly (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
21. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. articles.businessinsider.com [edit]
23. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
24. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]