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Kevin Hartz

Kevin Hartz is the Co-Founder & CEO of Eventbrite and an early-stage investor. He was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing remittance services to over 40 countries worldwide. Xoom’s investors include Sequoia Capital, NEA, Fidelity Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank Capital, Stanford University, and Peter Thiel.

Kevin previously Co-Founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry that was acquired in 1998 by LodgeNet (LNET). Kevin has also worked in venture capital as an associate at Outlook Ventures and as a product manager at SGI.

Kevin has been an early-stage investor and advisor to numerous startups, including PayPal, Geni, Friendster, TripIt, Flixster, Adnectar, Yammer, TokBox, iControl, Boku, Flexilis, Anonymizer, and Trulia. Kevin is a partner with Youniversity Ventures, a fund launched by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. He is also a Special Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital, and an LP at The Founders Fund, and NEA. You can learn more about kevin at www.kevinhartz.com.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Eventbrite 12/08Debt$1.5M11
Milo 11/08Seed$950k7
AdNectar 8/08Seed5
DotBlu 2007Angel$250k3
Eventbrite 11/06Series A$250k1

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