Geoffrey Woo

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Geoffrey Woo
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  • Founder of Anti Fund
  • Founder of HVMN
  • Founder of Archive.com
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Website geoffreywoo.com

Geoffrey Woo is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who is the founder of HVMN, Archive, and Anti Fund, a venture capital firm he co-founded with Jake Paul. [1] [2] [3]

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Education and early life

Woo was born in and grew up in Los Angeles [4] and attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. [5] The minor planet 21714 Geoffreywoo is named after Woo for being a finalist in the 2006 Intel ISEF. USA Today named Woo to its All-USA High School Academic Team and Woo was recognized as a semi-finalist in the US Presidential Scholars Program in 2007. [6] [7] Woo graduated Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. [1] [8]

Career

Glassmap

Woo was co-founder and CEO of Glassmap, a realtime mobile location tracking application. He dropped out of Stanford's computer science graduate program with two Stanford engineers to start the company, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2011. [9] Groupon acquired the business in January 2013. [10]

H.V.M.N. (Health Via Modern Nutrition)

In 2014, Woo co-founded HVMN, a ketone drink company. [11] Andreessen Horowitz led the company's seed financing round in December 2015. At the time, the company was called Nootrobox. [12] [13] The company was featured on Shark Tank Season 8 in 2016. [14] Woo was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology in 2017 for his work with H.V.M.N. [15]

Archive

Woo is a co-founder and chairman of Archive, a technology company that manages user-generated content and online communities for brands. [2] In November 2021, Archive announced a $4 million seed funding round led by Stripe. [16] In March 2022, the company secured an additional $8 million in funding through a seed extension round co-led by Tiger Global and Human Capital. This funding round elevated the company's post-money valuation to $100 million, bringing the total funding to $12 million since its inception in March 2021. [2]

Anti Fund

Woo partnered with Jake Paul, an American YouTuber and professional boxer, to found Anti Fund, an early stage venture capital firm in March 2021. [3] [17] In August 2021, Anti Fund co-lead a $30M financing in sports gambling technology firm Simplebet. [18] In August 2022, Anti Fund invested in Anduril Industries, an American defense company specializing in autonomous systems. [19] In August 2022, Anti Fund incubated Betr, a sports gaming app that Jake Paul cofounded and where Woo is a Founding Partner and Board Director. [20] Anti Fund subsequently participated in a $50M Series A financing round. [21] In June 2023, Anti Fund invested in Betr's $35M Series A2. [22] In March 2024, Betr announced a $15M round that valued the company at $375M. [23]

Publications and patents

Woo has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles focusing mainly on ketones and their potential applications and benefits in human physiology and recovery. [24] He co-authored five US patents including inventions relating to consumer grouping systems and mobile device location determination. [25]

Personal interests

Woo is noted for undertaking various challenges and dietary practices, including a 7-day water-only fast, consecutive daily fitness challenges, [11] [26] and experimenting with different diets, including the carnivore and ketogenic diets. [1]

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