R9 Team is a group of Kayak.com technology leaders who have come together as an angel investor group. R9 Team Paul English, original CTO/Cofounder Giorgos Zacharia, early Chief Scientist, then CTO then President Bill O'Donnell, original Chief Architect and Head of Mobile Iolanthe (Chronis) Stronger, early Director of Engineering, then Dropbox and Stripe Pete Kruskall, early engineer, then CTO/Cofounder of Kensho Raman Tenneti, engineer, now at Google, previously InfoSeek and Netscape Vinayak Ranade, early Director of Engineering, then CEO/Founder of Drafted We typically write checks up to $100k, but sometimes up to $1M. We're interested in seed stage software companies in any vertical. If you want to send us a pitch, please fill out this simple form and then email hello@r9team.com. The phrase "R9" stands for "Runway Nine", which is just a random code name that Paul came up with when we were first incorporating the company that would become Kayak.