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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.

Our Portfolio Companies

Avocarrot

Drafted

Nurse-1-1

RateElert

URX

Anthropic

Arbor

Baukunst

Beam Finance

BusRight

BuyNothing

Deets

Epic Games

Folia Health

General Radar

Goodpath

Groq

HD Insurance

The Hedgehog Company

InHouse

Insurify

Joyful Health

Juicer

Keragon

Kismet

Matterbeam

OpenAI

OpenBay

Perplexity

Pikkit

PitPro

Polimorphic

Rodeo

Scape Carbon

TrueTickets

Unlisted

Varda

Wappier

Wombo