Shervin Pishevar

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  University of California, Berkeley

• Full Name

  Shervin Kordary Pishevar

• Birth Date

  1974-03-24

• Birth Place

  Tehran, Iran

• Citizenship

  United States

• Notable Awards

  Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2016), Outstanding American by Choice (2012)

• Angel Investment Count

  Over 60 companies

Timeline

• Born in Tehran, Iran. (Source: Wikidata)

  1974-03-24

• Escaped the Iranian Revolution with family via Air France. (Source: Document f0213d0c-37fd-4bb7-9640-de0fb4f826f3)

  1979-01-01

• Published research in the Journal of the American Medical Association at age 20 while at UC Berkeley. (Source: Web Search (USCIS))

  1994-01-01

• Social Gaming Network (SGN), co-founded by Pishevar, raised $15 million in Series A funding. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2008-01-01

• Began a two-year term on the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2011-01-01

• Named an Outstanding American by Choice by the U.S. Government. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2012-01-01

• Appointed by President Barack Obama to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015-01-01

• Awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2016-01-01

Shervin Pishevar

Shervin Kordary Pishevar (Persian: شروین پیشه ور; born March 24, 1974) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One and a co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, a venture capital fund which has invested in companies including Airbnb, Uber, GoPuff, Cue Health, Slack, Robinhood, Munchery and Postmates. As an angel investor, Pishevar has seeded more than 60 companies. He was previously a managing director at Menlo Ventures, where he led investments in Warby Parker, Tumblr, Machine Zone, and Uber Series B. He is a strategic advisor to Uber, and served as a board observer to the company from 2011 to 2015. He founded and operated technology-enabled companies including webs.com, WebOS, SGN, HyperOffice. Beginning in 2011, he served a two-year term as a member of the 10 person UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. He was chosen by the U.S. Government as an Outstanding American by Choice in 2012, and in 2015 he was appointed by Barack Obama to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. As an American citizen of Iranian descent, Pishevar was awarded an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2016.

Web Search Results

• Shervin Pishevar - Wikipedia

  Shervin Kordary Pishevar (Persian: شروین پیشه ور; born March 24, 1974) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One and a co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, a venture capital fund which has invested in companies including Airbnb, Uber, GoPuff, Cue Health, Slack, Robinhood, Munchery and Postmates. [...] Pishevar co-founded and served as the CEO of the Social Gaming Network (SGN) which was spun out of Webs in 2008. That same year, the company raised $15 million in Series A funding from investors including Greylock Capital Management, Founders Fund, Bezos Expeditions, Columbia Capital and Novak Biddle Venture Partners and raised a total of $18 million in funding before being acquired by MindJolt in 2011. At the time of the acquisition, Pishevar served as an executive chairman of SGN. In 2010, he was appointed chief application officer and GM at Mozilla Corporation. [...] Protocol, the first set of international guidelines for documentation of torture.

• Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures, Menlo Park, CA

  Mr. Shervin Pishevar is Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, a venture capital fund with over $4 billion under management. Mr. Pishevar is a visionary technology entrepreneur, angel investor, published researcher, start-up advisor and incubation expert, and start-up visa activist. Mr. Pishevar has raised over $50 million in venture funding for his start-up ventures and invested in over 40 start-up companies. Mr. Pishevar is the founder and Executive Chairman of SGN, one of the leading social and mobile gaming companies and was founding President and Chief Operating Officer of Webs.com. SGN was acquired by Mindjolt (now renamed SGN), a leading social gaming company on Facebook and the web. Webs.com was just sold to Vistaprint for $117.5 million in cash. [...] The Pishevar family is originally from Iran and was poor. Mr. Pishevar speaks of his father as having great ambition who brought his family with him to the United States to pursue a graduate degree. After his father received a Master’s degree, the family returned to Iran in 1978, before the Iranian Revolution began, where he was promoted to the head of Radio and Television for large part of the country. He was in a position to broadcast to foreigners on how to leave the country. Mr. Pishevar says it was a heroic thing for his father to do, but as a result his father was included on the execution list. His father escaped and the Iran-Iraq war began. Mr. Pishevar was reunited with his father in the United States over a year later but not before seeing the Saddam Hussein's bombs fall in [...] but not before seeing the Saddam Hussein's bombs fall in Tehran. His father took a job as a taxi driver and his mother cleaned hotel rooms and the Pishevar family started over in the United States. For the sacrifices made by his parents, Mr. Pishevar wanted to make his parents proud and was diligent with his studies. His brother became a lawyer and his sister earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a professor and he went to the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley he published in the Journal of the American Medical Association at 20 years old and Berkeley filed a patent on his independent research on malaria. Mr. Pishevar initially planned to go to medical school, but followed another dream to become an entrepreneur and bring his ideas to life.

• About Shervin - Shervin Pishevar

  Beyond Business: A Legacy of Impact Pishevar’s influence extends far beyond the boardroom. Through the Pishevar Institute, his family charity, he has given back to the community, endowing a professorship at Howard University and supporting organizations like Build.org and the Malala Fund. President Obama recognized Pishevar’s contributions to global innovation and education, appointing him to the prestigious Fulbright Board. Pishevar is deeply committed to spreading economic opportunity and advancing democracy and freedom technologies. [...] From Humble Beginnings to Global Impact Born in Iran, Shervin Pishevar immigrated to the United States with his family as a child, carrying with him the resilience and determination instilled by his parents. Arriving with just $35, his parents worked tirelessly—his father as a taxi driver and his mother as a maid—despite holding advanced degrees in their homeland. Their sacrifices enabled Pishevar and his siblings to access the education and opportunities that define the American dream. [...] As the early lead investor and board member of Uber, he played a pivotal role in transforming ride-sharing into a global phenomenon. Pishevar also helped introduce Travis Kalanick to the CEO of Baidu, which led to the joint venture creating Uber China. Pishevar invested $50 million to help launch Uber China and contributed another $50 million after its merger with Didi.

• Shervin Pishevar Joins Nova Sky Stories Board of Directors

  Pishevar will develop new partnerships with companies and sovereigns and help scale Nova internationally. Pishevar brings nearly three decades of experience launching and scaling transformative technology companies. He was an early investor in landmark startups such as Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Postmates, and WarbyParker, and co-founded groundbreaking ventures including Virgin Hyperloop One and Telly. His broader portfolio spans market-defining titans like Robinhood, SpaceX, and Slack, and his visionary leadership and proven investment record have earned him a place on the Forbes Midas List of the top 100 venture investors for four consecutive years. [...] Worldwide Speakers Group # Shervin Pishevar Joins Nova Sky Stories Board of Directors Shervin Pishevar WWSG Square Headshot Shervin Pishevar WWSG Square Headshot Nova Sky Stories, the aerial entertainment company co-founded by Kimbal Musk, today announced that Shervin Pishevar, a mission-driven investor and entrepreneur and founder of Sofreh Capital, has joined the company’s board of directors. Sofreh Capital, co-founded by Pishevar, led the company’s recent $50 million Series B round.

• [PDF] From Destitute to Destiny – The Inspirational Life of Shervin Pishevar

  From Destitute to Destiny – The Inspirational Life of Shervin Pishevar Shervin Pishevar is an Iranian born American venture capitalist, entrepreneur and super angel investor. His life is nothing short of a miracle, but as you will read, it was the adversity he experienced that ignited an unquenchable fire for success. From humble beginnings, to rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, Pishevar states that the key to prosperity is zeal and determination. As a keynote speaker at many of the world’s most prestigious events, he openly discusses having little knowledge about starting a business at the beginning of his career. However, through perseverance and trial and error, he has been listed as one of the world’s 20 richest Persian entrepreneurs. Not only is he a business man, but a [...] push the legislation forward. He is also the pioneer of the OpenMesh Project, an organization founded to develop an ISP system in Egypt that could turn laptops into affordable internet routers. He is a volunteer for the charity Invisible Children, and has visited Ethiopia and Rwanda to assist the foundation. Personal Life Pishevar lives in San Francisco; he is the single father of two children. [...] in the creation of the 2008 Obama Technology and Innovation plan. In 2013, he was one of the 15 pioneers in technology who met with Barack Obama to discuss issues such as the United States government’s information technology, HealthCare.gov, and unauthorized intelligence disclosures. Philanthropy, Political Fundraising, and Activism In 2016, Pishvar opened his home to a fundraising event hosted by George and Amal Clooney for Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He was the highest fundraiser for both of Obama’s presidential campaigns. Pishevar is a supporter of the Start-up Visa Act which would give immigrant entrepreneurs access to a two year visa. He is one of the founders of StartUpVisa.com, a website that is helping to push the legislation forward. He is also the pioneer of the

• Award

  Ellis Island Medal of Honor

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  University of California, Berkeley

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  entrepreneur

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  3/24/1974

• Place Of Birth

  Tehran