Ron Pragides

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel

Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.

CV:

• Senior Vice President of Engineering at Trustly. Leading a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards.

• Vice President of Engineering at Carta responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team of Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.

• Vice President of Engineering at AppDirect. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.

• Senior Vice President of Engineering at BigCommerce. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.

• Director of Engineering at Twitter from 2012 thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.

• In 2004, joined pre-IPO Salesforce when team was ~36 in Engineering. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Ron Pragides has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Feb 16, 2021, when Truv raised $3.50M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Feb 16, 2021 Truv Seed $3.50M Data Integration Detail
Mar 4, 2018 HackerNoon Equity Crowdfunding $1.06M Cryptocurrency Detail