Scott Belsky

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Early stage Venture,Seed

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.

Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).

Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."

Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
50
Scott Belsky has made 50 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 1, 2020, when Realtime raised $4M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Oct 12, 2022 Levity Seed $8.30M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Sep 29, 2022 Airplane Series B $32M Information Technology Detail
May 25, 2022 Meter Series B $38M Information Technology Detail
May 17, 2022 Coinshift Series A $15M Asset Management Detail
Apr 28, 2022 Adept AI Series A $65M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Apr 25, 2022 Mad Realities Seed $6M Blockchain Detail
Feb 22, 2022 Āut (former SkillWallet) Pre-seed $1.65M Blockchain Detail
Feb 17, 2022 Goldcast Seed $10M Enterprise Software Detail
Feb 10, 2022 KoBold Metals Series B $192.50M Machine Learning Detail
Jan 20, 2022 Oncyber Seed $6.70M 3D Technology Detail
Dec 31, 2021 Casa Series A $21M Bitcoin Detail
Dec 1, 2021 Printify Series A $5M E-Commerce Detail
Nov 15, 2021 Writer Series A $21M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Sep 23, 2021 Spotnana Technology Series A $34M Business Travel Detail
Sep 22, 2021 June Series B $27M Information Technology Detail
Sep 13, 2021 RECUR Series A $50M Blockchain Detail
Sep 1, 2021 Rarify Seed $2M Blockchain Detail
Aug 31, 2021 Syndicate Series A $20M Cryptocurrency Detail
Jun 9, 2021 Eight Sleep Angel Consumer Electronics Detail
May 27, 2021 Infinite Objects Seed $6M Blockchain Detail
May 5, 2021 XMTP Seed $5M Communications Infrastructure Detail
Apr 19, 2021 RTFKT Seed $8M Cryptocurrency Detail
Apr 1, 2021 Goody Series A $13.10M Consumer Detail
Mar 25, 2021 RECUR Seed $5M Blockchain Detail
Mar 18, 2021 OpenSea Series A $23M Bitcoin Detail
Jan 1, 2021 June Series A $13M Information Technology Detail
Dec 1, 2020 Realtime Seed $4M Social Media Detail
Oct 28, 2020 Lunchbox Technologies Series A $20M Apps Detail
Aug 20, 2020 Cobalt Series B $29M Cloud Security Detail
May 27, 2020 WorkOS Series A $15M Developer APIs Detail
Mar 2, 2020 Public.com Series B $15M Cryptocurrency Detail
Sep 26, 2019 Gatsby Series A $15M Internet Detail
May 15, 2019 Feather Series A $12.50M Furniture Detail
Mar 19, 2019 Gatsby Series A Internet Detail
Dec 19, 2018 Northstar Seed $2.53M Employee Benefits Detail
Dec 17, 2018 Set Labs Seed $2M Blockchain Detail
May 23, 2018 TruStory Seed $3M Blockchain Detail
Dec 19, 2017 dYdX Seed $2M Blockchain Detail
Dec 5, 2017 Pilotworks Series A $13M Communities Detail
Jul 31, 2017 Reddit Series C $200M Content Detail
Jul 17, 2017 Airtable Series B Collaboration Detail
Aug 11, 2014 Managed by Q Angel $775K Enterprise Software Detail
Jul 9, 2014 Amino Apps Seed $1.65M Communities Detail
Jun 23, 2014 Formstack Series Unknown Cloud Data Services Detail
Apr 1, 2014 Flexport Series A $6.90M Freight Service Detail
Mar 6, 2014 Splash Seed $1.50M Event Management Detail
Aug 23, 2013 Uber Series C $363M Logistics Detail
Dec 7, 2011 Uber Series B $37M Logistics Detail
Oct 15, 2010 Uber Angel $1.25M Logistics Detail
Jan 1, 2010 Pinterest Angel $500K Internet Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
Scott Belsky has 2 current jobs including Member of the Advisory Board & Investor at Pinterest , Advisor at Uber and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Pinterest Member of the Advisory Board & Investor Jan 20, 2010 Detail
Uber Advisor Jan 1, 2010 Detail