Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Late Stage Venture,Seed

Cyriac Roeding is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur (co-founder, former CEO of shopkick, acquired for $250M in cash) who invests in and works with startups and venture capitalists that drive change in the world at scale. Focus areas: consumer network effects, mobile, human-machine interfaces and AR, robotics, software meeting biology. Limited Partner in Founders Fund, Andreesen Horowitz, KPCB, IVP, ZhenFund (China), SV Angel, SVB. Direct investor and advisor in over a dozen startups, including Karma Science (acquired by Facebook), Cardspring (acquired by Twitter), Grofers, Curbside, Zumper, Brilliant. The World Economic Forum named Roeding a [Tech Pioneer 2013](http://www.weforum.org/videos/technology-pioneer-2013-cyriac-roeding-shopkick).

Previously, Cyriac co-founded and led shopkick, the shopping app that rewards users just for walking into retail stores, as CEO to over 20 million users and its $250M acquisition by SK Telecom/SK Planet (Fortune 100 from South Korea). Fast Company ranked it one of the world's [10 Most Innovative Companies In Retail](http://www.fastcompany.com/1738961/the-10-most-innovative-companies-in-retail) by Fast Company, along with Apple and Starbucks.

Previously, Cyriac founded and led CBS Mobile ([New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/business/media/05cbs.html)), the television network's (NYSE: CBS) mobile division, covering CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports, CBS News and The CW. He created the first location-based mobile ads in the U.S., and grew CBS Sports Mobile into one of the top ten highest traffic ad-supported mobile websites in the U.S.

Prior to CBS, Cyriac was the co-founder of 12snap, a European mobile marketing and entertainment company working with Coca-Cola, McDonald's, L'Oreal, adidas, Nokia, Vodafone and MTV Europe among others. Before that, he was at McKinsey & Company in the media, software and high-tech sector.

Cyriac co-authored the Harvard Business School Press book [Secrets of Software Success](http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Software-Success-Management-Insights/dp/1578511054).