Mahesh Vellanki
Founder, CEO at YieldClub
United States
Invests in
Sectors:
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Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Education
Work Experience
2025
Founder & CEO
2025
High yield crypto savings for all
2021 - 2024
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2021 - 2024
Led the creation of a Rally-funded venture studio and managed growth and marketing for various consumer crypto incubations (such as https://www.unite.io/)
2018 - 2021
Co-Founder, Head of GTM
2018 - 2021
A permissionless, open toolkit for web3 mobile apps, featuring embedded wallets and gasless transactions. Previously launched Rally.io where we pioneered the “social token” category with 500 creators, $100M annualized txn volume, and a top 100 market cap token (RLY). I ran our creator GTM and wore many other hats across product, operations, and G&A.
2012 - 2018
Principal
2012 - 2018
Consumer investor for Redpoint's growth fund: DraftKings - Led Series B -> IPO (fund returner) Nubank - Series D -> IPO (fund returner) Guild Education - Led Series A -> unicorn Nextdoor - Led Series D -> IPO Bright Health - Series B -> IPO RaiseMe - Led Series A -> acq by CampusLogic
2010 - 2012
Investment Banking
2010 - 2012
Pushed buttons really fast in Excel and PowerPoint - M&A/IPOs for companies like Zillow, Groupon, Facebook, Equinix.