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Shervin Pishevar

http://www.shervin.com/

Last activity: 11.05.2015

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Dec 5, 2014	Early Uber Investors Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford Raising $250M For SherpaEverest Fund	Early Uber investors Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar are looking to raise another big fund, presumably to do follow-on investments in growth companies they had previously invested in. According to an SEC filing, they are seeking $250 mi...
Jul 16, 2014	Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford’s SherpaVentures Closes $150 Million For Its First Fund	SherpaVentures, the venture firm founded by former Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and former Goldman Sachs banker Scott Stanford, is finally ready to be less vague about what it’s doing. After a year of raising money and simultaneo...
Jul 1, 2013	Shervin Pishevar, Scott Stanford raising $150M for Sherpa Ventures Fund	Sherpa is raising a $150 million called the Sherpa Ventures Fund that will take a new approach to early-stage startup investments. Sherpa is the project of two Silicon Valley heavyweights — Menlo Ventures parter Shervin Pishevar and Scott S...
Jul 1, 2013	Shervin Pishevar, Scott Stanford raising $150M for Sherpa Ventures Fund	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Sherpa is raising a $150 million called the Sherp...
Jul 1, 2013	Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford’s New Startup Studio Sherpa Is Raising $150 Million For New Fund	As reported earlier this year, Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford left their day jobs to build a new, company-building venture and VC fund called Sherpa. According to an SEC filing rel...
Jul 23, 2012	TaskRabbit Gets $13M From Founders Fund And Others To “Revolutionize The World’s Labor Force”	Labor-marketplace TaskRabbit is today announcing a $13 million C-round of funding, led by Founders Fund. The C-round will bring the collaborative consumption startup’s total funding to $38 million. As part of the round, Founders Fund partne...
Jan 14, 2012	A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur	Editor’s note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here. On stage at last month’s Le Web conference Shervin Pishevar, a Man...
Nov 7, 2011	With $1.5 million investment Google Ventures thinks Milk will make a splash	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million into mobile application development studio Milk, the new project from Digg co-founder Kevin R...
Nov 7, 2011	With $1.5 million investment Google Ventures thinks Milk will make a splash	Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million into mobile application development studio Milk, the new project from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose. The investment is both strategic and pragmatic, and will help the startup to build out its team with...
Sep 13, 2011	Shervin Pishevar Announces $20 Million Menlo Ventures “Talent Fund”	Here onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, newly minted VC Shervin Pishevar has just announced that Menlo Ventures has launched a $20 million early stage fund, Menlo Talent Fund. Keith Rabois and Troy Carter have joined the Talent Fund’s “Jedi Cou...
Feb 23, 2011	Green Goose Wows the Crowd & Raises $100K On Launch Conference Stage	Imagine getting points in an online game each time you drink more water, floss your teeth or take a step toward some other healthy lifestyle goal. That’s the promise of Green Goose, a company that uses tiny sensors and accelerometers on sti...
Feb 10, 2011	Quora’s Traffic May Be Catching Up With Its Hype	Question and answer site Quora gets talked about a whole lot in the tech press, for a variety of reasons, but are everyday people using the site? Traffic analysts Hitwise ran some numbers today and put up a blog post showing that the servic...
Jan 28, 2011	3 Projects to Create a Government-less Internet	In Cory Doctorow’s young adult novel Little Brother, the protagonist starts a wireless ad-hoc network, called X-Net, in response to a government crack-down on civil liberties. The characters use gaming systems with mesh networking equipment...
Oct 21, 2009	Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement	Anyone familiar with internet startup culture knows how little capital it takes to start a tech company these days. With hardware and software costs practically nonexistent for most new companies, the main determinant of whether a promising...

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What has the press written about Shervin Pishevar?

Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Shervin Pishevar, among them “Early Uber Investors Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford Raising $250M For SherpaEverest Fund” (Dec 5, 2014) and “Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford’s SherpaVentures Closes $150 Million For Its First Fund” (Jul 16, 2014).

Is Shervin Pishevar still active?

Yes, Shervin Pishevar is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 11, 2015.