Alireza Masrour

About Alireza Masrour

Alireza Masrour is the General Partner at Plug & Play. He has led more than 200 investments out of thousands of startups for the firm since 2008. Some unicorn investments led by him at Plug and Play are CloudWalk (first check), Flyr ( first check), FiscalNote (first check), Shippo (first check ), N26, Owkin, Trulioo, TrueBill, VisbyMedical, Groq, Tenstorrent, Zama and more to come,Some of portfolio exits are Groq by NVIDIA, FiscalNote (First check in June 2013 to IPO in August 2022), HealthPocket which acquired by Health Insurance Innovations, Matcha which acquired by Apple, PasswordBox which acquired by McAfee/Intel, TrustGo which acquired by Baidu, GNS3 which was acquired by Solarwind, Kustomer (unicorn) which was acquired by Facebook, and TrueBill (Unicorn) acquired by RocketCo, Kloudless which was acquired by Netskope. Alireza has been selected as a Silicon Valley 40 under 40 in 2018 as well as recognized by BusinessInsider as a 100 rising-star VC who represent the future of venture capital, and has had 16 unicorns portfolio so far.$B Portfolio Club: 1.N26 2. Kustomer (acq by FaceBook), 3.BigID, 4.FiscalNote (First Check) 5. Shippo ( First Check) 6. Trulioo 7. Flyr (First Check), 8. CloudWalk (First Check), 9.Flexiv(Series A7), 10. Owkin (Series A), 11. TrueBill (Seed Round and acq for $1.3B by RocketCo) 12. VisbyMedical 13. Animoca via PixOWL, 14. Netskope via Kloudless,15.AutoX, 16.Groq, 17. Tenstorrent He has been startup judge for the most of top universities in US like: Princeton, Harvard,Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame to name a few.Specialties: Being the first investor at the early stage companies and help them to be an unicorn, Saving startups time by sharing the best practices, Building Startup, Exceptional due diligence, research and analytical skills

Experience

1. General Partner

   Plug and Play

   Jan 2019 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Founding General Partner of PnP Scale Fund ( 91 Portfolio, 15 Unicorns)- Founding Partner of PnP Startup Camp ( 92 Portfolio, 4 first check Unicorns)- Founding Partner of PnP GVA Fund I ( 211 Portfolio, 8 Unicorns)$B Portfolio Club: 1.N26 2. Kustomer (Series A, acq by FaceBook), 3.BigID (Seed), 4.FiscalNote (First Check, IPO 2022) 5. Shippo ( First Check) 6. Trulioo 7. Flyr (First Check), 8. CloudWalk (First Check), 9.F.V(Series A7), 10. Owkin (Series A), 11. TrueBill (Seed Round and acq for $1.3B by RocketCo) 12. VisbyMedical 13. Animoca via PixOWL (Seed), 14. Netskope via Kloudless (First Check, Pre-Seed) 15. Zama (Pre-seed at $4m valuation), 16. Groq ( Acq for $20B by NVIDIA), 17. Autox (Series A), 18.Einride, 19.Tenstorrent.$100Million -$ Billion Plus Club: 1.CreditSesame, 2.Kepler Communications, 3.FundersClub, 4.BookingPal, 5.AiFi 6. Payactiv, 7.Paysend, 8.Beyond Pricing, 9.OWL Technologies, 10. Caresyntax, 11. IDnow 12. Jerry 13. ixLayer, 14. Iterative Scope, 15.One Imaging, 16.Scan.com, Exits: Aarki ( acq by Skillz), Kustomer ( acq by FaceBook), Avail ( acq by Realtor.com) Matcha and TueoHealth (acq: Apple),GNS3 (Acq: Solarwinds), Neumob (acquired: Cloudflare), NetSil ( Acu: Nutanix), ReplicaLabs( acq: Occipital), PiCloud (Acquired: DropBox),TrustGo(Acq: Baidu),Kamcord (Acq: Lyft), Virool(acq: Turgo), URX (Acq: Pinterest), Vessel (acq: Marketo), Viewics (acq: Roche), LoungeBuddy (Acq by AMEX), Stack (Acq: CreditSesame), TrueBill ( Acq: RocketCo)

Education

• Royal Roads University- Sharif University

  EBS Certification, MBA Program

  2006 — 2007

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Start-Ups
• Product Management
• Business Strategy
• Saas
• Investments
• Enterprise Software
• Business Planning
• Marketing
• Analytical Skills
• Management
• Venture Capital
• Due Diligence
• Finance