Max Levchin

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at PayPal

Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information. Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also founded NetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

Affirm Buy now, pay later BNPL: finances purchases with instant loans at interest rates of 0% to 30%.; San Francisco

• Co founder, CEO

Google Inc. American multinational technology company; specializes in Internet-related services, products

• VP of Engineering (Aug '10→Oct '11)

Slide, Inc. Online application for social networking websites

• CEO (Jan '05→Aug '10)

Confinity Inc.

• Co-founder (Dec '98)

NetMeridian Software

• CEO (Jan '96→Dec '98)*

Board Memberships

Evernote Corporation note taking platform owned by Bending Spoons

• Director

Kaggle Inc.

• Chairman

HVF, LLC Extracting insights from the vast quantities of recordable information

• Chairman (Jan '12→?)

Yelp On line user reviews

• Chairman (Jul '04→?)

Yahoo! Inc. Global internet service for consumers and businesses

• Board Member (Dec '12→?)

PayPal, Inc. Online payment site, IPO in 2002, later acquired by eBay

• Director (Mar '00→Dec '02) [+1]

• Director

Confinity Inc.

• Chief Technology Officer (Dec '98→Mar '00)

Positions

FWD.us Zuckerberg-backed advocacy group

• major contributor

Donations

Andrew Cuomo former governor of New York State

• 2 contributions · 20,000 USD (Nov 12 '17)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Yelp PAC Provides online reviews for everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. Revenues are $1 billion.

• 2 contributions · 10,000 USD (Dec 30 '13→Sep 20 '14)

Affirm, Inc. For Positive Policy

• 1 contribution · 5,000 USD (Dec 31 '19)

Paypal Inc Political Action Committee

• 2 contributions · 3,500 USD ('02)

Cory Booker Democrat US Senator from New Jersey

• 4 contributions · 0 USD (Apr 24 '13→Jun 7 '13)

Holdings

Xapo Stores Bitcoin for wealthy investors on encrypted servers scattered across the globe; Palo Alto, California

• Investor

TrueAccord Brings debt collection into the 21st century by using machine learning programs to analyze individual debtor’s responses and customize contacts; San Francisco

• Investor

Stripe Online and in-app payment platform with easy-to-use customer interface; San Francisco

• Investor

Schools

University of Illinois One of the original 37 public land-grant institutions

• BS, Computer Science (Sep '93→May '97)