About Alastair (Alex) Rampell

Alastair (Alex) Rampell, Experience starting and building profitable consumer and B2B products and companies. Now on the investing side. Previously: Investor/advisor in numerous internet startups including Pinterest, CardSpring (acquired by Twitter), myVR, Hunch (acquired by eBay), Xapo, BillShrink/Truaxis (acquired by MasterCard), LookFlow (acquired by Yahoo), OrderAhead, Lefora (acquired by CrowdGather), MangoHealth, Bloomreach, Datalot, World Golf Tour, SiftScience, Wooga, UpNest, Twice, Zong (acquired by eBay), Sweet Labs (formerly known as OpenCandy), Restaurant.com, Guidebook, friend.ly (acquired by Facebook), AngelPad, etc. Currently (at a16z): Investor/board at Branch.co, Cross River Bank, Quantopian, PeerStreet, OpenInvest, Propel, Transferwise, OpenDoor, FlyHomes, Loft, Descript, HealthIQ, Point, Propel, EarnIn Alastair (Alex) Rampell co-founded a number of companies, including Affirm – a fintech company with a “buy now, pay later” service for online and in-store purchases that went public in 2021. Rampell currently serves as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on fintech investments. A noted serial entrepreneur, he cofounded many tech-driven financial companies including Affirm, one of the largest businesses in the rapidly growing ‘buy-now-pay-later’ space, which went public in early 2021. He also cofounded TrialPay, a transactional advertising and payments company serving some of the world’s largest digital goods and e-commerce clients, which was acquired by Visa in 2015. Most recently, Rampell has been an advocate of the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), forecasting that generative AI will usher in significant transformation and disruption in the financial services space. Alastair Rampell holds a 1999 - 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics @ Harvard University. With a robust skill set that includes Customer Acquisition, Online Advertising, PPC, Entrepreneurship, Web Analytics and more.