Neel Murthy

Senior Director, Growth

2025

Venture Partner

2025

Advisor

2024

Investment Partner

2017

Founding SVP of Pioneer Fund. Former Visiting General Partner. We’re top decile VC investors and are the most active YC Investors.

Chief Growth Officer

2019 - 2024

Led best in class teams including organic growth, paid growth, lifecycle growth, partner growth, product & data science, which all together delivered >15X revenue growth during my tenure. Alongside our CEO, led fundraising efforts to secure $100M in capital.

Head of Product

2018 - 2019

Chief Innovation Officer

2017 - 2018

Acquired Swapbox in 2017. Joined the team to help transition the product and finalize the acquisition while providing solutions on how Swabpox and other new technologies could help innovate their suite of offerings to customers and clients.

CEO & Co-Founder

2012 - 2017

ACQUIRED IN AUGUST 2017 By SDBIC! YC W13 - http://gigaom.com/2013/03/26/yc-winter-2013-demo-day-five-startups-to-watch-afternoon-edition/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/y-combinator-company-swapbox-launches-and-aims-to-pick-up-where-bufferbox-left-off/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/swapbox-knew-that-google-would-eventually-come-to-the-bay-area-with-bufferbox-remains-focused/

W13 Batch

2013 - 2013

Joined YC as a W13 company with Swapbox.

Student

2006 - 2012

M.S. in Computer Science / MBA Candidate (dropped out to start Swapbox & join YC) B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Human Biology

Product Manager (former Engineering Intern)

2011 - 2011

PM on Words With Friends for Facebook - Created specs and launched new features for WWF on Facebook, including the popular game board screen shot feature that allowed users to share the cool/exciting words they played with their friends - Managed statistical analysis (post-mortem and expected numbers) for my own features as well as already existing ones Initially worked as a software engineer on Scramble With Friends and built a sizable portion of the game