Rudy Gadre
General Partner, Fund III @ Founders' Co-op
Seattle, United States
Rudy Gadre is a seed investor at Founders' Co-op in Seattle focused on Software and Mobile. Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
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Industries Rudy Gadre invests in
Stages Rudy Gadre invests in
Countries Rudy Gadre invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $700k–$5M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.9M–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (23%)
- Mobile 8 (21%)
- E-Commerce 6 (15%)
- Analytics 5 (13%)
- SaaS 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (38%)
- Series A 9 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners, but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company. | $275K / Seed / Dec 03, 2021 | ||
| As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners, but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company. | $715K / Seed / Oct 18, 2020 | ||
| As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners, but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company. | $20K / Pre-Seed / Feb 03, 2020 | ||
| Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that builds companies from scratch. Madrona Venture Labs is based in Seattle and housed at Madrona Venture Group. The studio makes use of money from its funds to incubate concepts and recruit a management crew to ultimately run the enterprise.Founded in 2014, MVL has spun out greater than a dozen firms,together with some that had been later acquired by Nordstrom, Uber, and Mailchimp. | $11.3M / May 11, 2019 | ||
| A new media content company . | Seed / Dec 15, 2017 | ||
| Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs.Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobsevery year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. | $7.2M / Series B / Feb 06, 2017 | ||
| OMNI is a retail tech company that fixes today's broken browse-to-buy path for retailers, brands, and supply companies. Its Shopping Intelligence Platform empowers brand decision-makers with demand signals at the zip code and SKU level by uniting online and in-store shopping journey and purchase data with Full Visit Analytics. Market share,velocity, price elasticity, promotional response, price and inventory optimization data, etc. are only a click away using OMNI’s Demand Dashboards.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Wrench is an online fleet management and maintenance platform that provides auto repair services. It offers mobile mechanics service for all types of cars and trucks. Wrench offers services such as alternator replacement, battery replacement, brake caliper replacement, brake pad replacement, and other repairing services. The company was foundedin 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 21, 2016 | ||
| Ripl was launched in October 2015 with the mission of helping small businesses and influencers succeed in the realm of digital marketing. A key part of finding that success is having the ability to create compelling visual and social media content.The application allows users to integrate their own photos into professionally-designed templates tocreate animated video posts. With simple customization options for text, colors, and music, Ripl makes it easy for users to create engaging posts on the go.In January 2016 the company introduced Ripl PRO, a premium plan for small businesses and other social media power users. The monthly PRO subscription unlocks access to the full library of animated post layout design templates and additional features such as custom brand integration, music track overlays, and content post scheduling. In 2017 the company released its Android mobile app. In 2018 the company launched its Web application for use on laptops and desktop computers. | $1.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 03, 2016 | ||
| Ampd's enterprise Adtech platform is transforming how brand and commerce teams optimize media for the modern shopper journey. With agentic routing, closed-loop attribution, and commerce optimization, Ampd empowers fragmented teams to align and drive share growth at retail. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Founders' Co-op
Founders' Co-op is a seed-stage venture fund built by founders, for founders. Based in Seattle, they help the strongest entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest build companies that the best growth investors in the world choose to back. As the largest and longest-running seed-stage specialist fund in the region, they are a trusted partner toearly-stage founders and a trusted point of access to Pacific Northwest dealflow for out-of-region investors at the seed stage and beyond.
Founders' Co-op Contacts
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Aviel Ginzburg
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Rudy Gadre
General Partner, Fund III
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Andy Sack
Venture Partner
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Chris DeVore
Founding Managing Partner
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Chris DeVore
Founding Managing Partner
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What does Rudy Gadre invest in?
Rudy Gadre invests primarily in Software, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rudy Gadre's check size?
Rudy Gadre typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.5M at Seed, $700k–$5M at Series A and $1.9M–$2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rudy Gadre participates in.
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When did Rudy Gadre last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rudy Gadre closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 39 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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