Adam Foroughi
CEO, Co-Founder @ AppLovin
San Francisco, United States
Adam Foroughi is a seed investor at AppLovin in San Francisco focused on Software and Gaming. Adam Foroughi is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of AppLovin. Adam Foroughi has received Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Adam Foroughi invests in
Stages Adam Foroughi invests in
Countries Adam Foroughi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- Gaming 2 (25%)
- Video Games 2 (25%)
- Audio 1 (13%)
- EdTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Corporate Round 2 (25%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 7 (88%)
- Belarus 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Neon offers Buy Now Pay Later for essential bills | $3.7M / Seed / Oct 01, 2021 | ||
| Redemption Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games. It offers hundreds of thousands of games in the app store and to be able to rise to the top requires a unique combination of skill and effort, from how the game is designed to how its marketed and operated as a live service. The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in Carlsbad, California. | Corporate Round / May 04, 2020 | ||
| Their mission is to bring joy and fun to millions of people throughout the world. That is why we create great, enjoyable and most challenging games that please and delight more than 40mln people all over the world. Belka Games is a social and mobile games development company from Belarus. | Corporate Round / May 05, 2019 | ||
| Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive. It develops interactive audio games that are non-distracting and voice-driven gameplay, enabling users to play hands-free games while driving the car. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4M / Seed / Nov 07, 2018 | ||
| SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16M / Series A / Apr 19, 2017 | ||
| Merit’s Software with a Service (SwaS) transforms large-scale government programs in weeks rather than years, contributing to a 95% customer satisfaction score. Our combined approach of technology and boots-on- the-ground support simplifies life-saving emergency response and recovery, initiatives to revitalize the workforce and connect people toquality jobs, and eligibility qualification for direct-to-beneficiary programs, including multi-million-dollar education grants in over 20 states. The Merit platform provides secure access and real-time verification for licenses, credentials, and eligibility status. Merit, a proud GovTech 100 company, is venture-backed by firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, corporations including Experian, and family investors. merits.com | $4.3M / Seed / Jan 20, 2017 | ||
| tote is a beautiful social shopping app that is entirely curated by people - notably stylists and fashion bloggers. Bloggers and stylists use tote's publishing platform to curate collections that can be shopped by their clients and followers. From a publishing perspective, tote is a bit like Medium built for fashion blogging. Some stylists atbig retailers are using it for clienteling. | Angel / Feb 15, 2015 | ||
| Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without anytechnical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars. | $1M / Seed / Aug 01, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About AppLovin
AppLovin’s leading marketing software provides mobile app developers a powerful, integrated set of solutions to grow their businesses. AppLovin’s technology platform enables developers to market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps. The company’s first-party content includes over 200+ popular, engaging apps and its technology brings thatcontent to millions of users around the world. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally.
AppLovin Contacts
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Herald Chen
President and CFO
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Adam Foroughi
CEO, Co-Founder
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Andrew Karam
Co-Founder and VP Product
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Barry Dilouya
VP of Global Business Operations
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John Krystynak
Founder & CTO
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FAQ
What does Adam Foroughi invest in?
Adam Foroughi invests primarily in Software, Gaming and Video Games startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Adam Foroughi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Adam Foroughi closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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