April Underwood

Managing Director and Co-Founder

2023

We invest $500K-$5M in companies from pre-seed to Series A.

Co-Founder

2015

Board Director

2017

Board Director

2022

Founder and CEO

2020 - 2021

Raised $26M Seed and Series A from GV, Obvious, Redpoint, and bunch of wonderful angels who took a bet on us to make it easier to shop from the local retailers in your own community, online. A portion of the team was acquired by Twitter.

Chief Product Officer

2018 - 2019

Led product, platform, user research, and design organizations as business matured and company prepared to become a public company as Slack’s first CPO. During my tenure, we launched a lot: for example, Slack Platform, Enterprise Grid and associated capabilities for our largest customers, internationalization, emoji reactions, threads, and shared channels. My team of talented leaders included VPs, Senior Directors, and Directors whose teams were responsible for all aspects of the product as well as functional organizations including Design and Research.

Vice President of Product

2015 - 2018

Joined company at 150 employees to build and oversee the Slack Platform. In my first 6 months, I launched the Slack Fund, founded BD and Dev Rel teams, and we launched Slack Apps and the Slack Directory. In December or 2015, I stepped up to run all of product as Slack’s first VP of Product.

Director of Product

2010 - 2015

I joined Twitter in 2010 as a Product Manager on Platform / API when the company was around 150 employees. Over my 5 years there, I wore a number a number of hats. I was PM on the suite of platform capabilities which served publishers (e.g., Tweet Button, Follow Button, etc). I was a founding Director on the Business Development team where I ran a team of 5. I returned to Product roles and helped build the Ads Product suite from its earliest days, including building the Ads API and its ecosystem from 0->1. As a Director of Product, I grew into cross-functional leadership, managing Ads Product Marketing in addition to my Product Management team, on an interim basis in 2014. Finally, I ran the Data Products team which had joined us via the acquisition of Gnip. I built a wide variety of functional, managerial, and external comms skills while the company grew from 150->4000 people.

Product Manager, Travel

2009 - 2010

Joined company at 20 employees. Drove market assessment and product definition for a new consumer product aimed at helping travelers manage their weather-related risk. Launched in summer 2010 as raincheck.com and was later sunset in favor of agriculture product suite.

Senior Partner Technology Manager

2007 - 2009

Management of content acquisition and monetization programs for Google products including Product Search, Maps, News, Finance, Blogger, Book Search, Groups, and more. Contributed to strategy for Travel vertical which resulted in the acquisition of ITA Software.

MBA Intern

2006 - 2006