Max Levchin

Bio

An angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of PayPal, Max Levchin currently serves as Founder & CEO of Affirm, a company founded with a goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. In addition to Affirm, Max is president of HVF Labs, chairman of Glow, and an advisory board member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He was an early investor in Yelp, a local-search service powered by crowd-sourced review forum and served on the Board of Yahoo, prior to it’s acquisition.

Career

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	Affirm Inc - founder
	PayPal Inc - founder
	Slide Inc - founder
	SignalFire

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	Raptr Inc		United States	1 Jun 2007	Angel
	Slide Inc		United States		N/A
	AdRoll Inc	Online social advertising network	United States	1 Sep 2008	Series A
	Brex Inc		United States	1 Apr 2017	Series A
	Brex Inc		United States	19 Jun 2018	Series B
	Mixpanel Inc	Real-time web app analytics services			N/A
	Pinterest Inc	Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.	United States	7 May 2011	Series A
	TransferWise Ltd	Money transfer platform.	United Kingdom	17 Apr 2012	Seed
	X1 Card			14 Jan 2021	N/A Initial investment
	Yammer Inc		United States	29 Feb 2012	Series E