R9 Team

Team: founders, mini-bios, team size, and number of engineers.
Company stage: when you started and what has changed since.
Fundraising: amount raised and significant investors, if shareable.
Traction: active users, revenue, and growth rates where applicable.
Problem: the specific problem and who feels it most acutely.
Solution: what you have built, with screenshots, demo, or video if useful.

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
Matthias Keller, Chief Product Officer at KAYAK

We typically write checks up to $100k, but sometimes up to $1M. We're interested in seed stage software companies in any vertical.

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If you are looking for guidelines on what to include, a short deck that covers the points below is usually enough for us to understand the business and follow up intelligently.