Rob Solomon

CEO - H55.CH

📍 Redwood City, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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17y
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Seed Investor
Apr 2021
Okra is an open finance company empowering businesses and developers across the African continent to build innovative financial solutions. Okra enables people to easily connect their financial accounts to the apps they prefer and provides businesses with secure access to financial data and payments through a single integration. Our network supports a wide range of financial institutions including top-leading banks across across Nigeria. Okra serves as a bridge—bringing businesses, financial institutions and users together in a unified and inclusive financial ecosystem.
Investor
Mar 2021
EDO, Inc. is the TV outcomes company — a leading platform measuring predictive behaviors driven by Convergent TV advertising. By combining real-time engagement signals with world-class decision science, EDO data maximizes creative and media performance. We work with modern marketers at leading brands, TV networks, entertainment studios, and ad agencies. EDOs investment-grade data align advertising investments to business results - with detailed competitive, category, historical, and predictive intelligence. For industry intel, success stories, and top ads, visit EDO.com.
Seed Investor
Feb 2021
Advertising infrastructure for web3.
Seed Investor
Sep 2020
Sote: Empowering African Trade with Data-Driven Solutions. At Sote, we are a data-first company empowering the growth of African businesses. Our mission is to bridge the $150 billion trade finance gap within the $400B industry, hampered by a lack of credible trade data. We eliminate traditional reliance on real-estate collateral by offering reliable credit, risk management, and business intelligence. By leveraging advanced technology, Sote seamlessly fuses three distinct domains: Trade Finance, Data, and Logistics. Our logistics solutions streamline supply chains and provide real-time visibility, while acting as an automated primary-trade-data mining engine. This overcomes the limitations of real-estate collateral, championing cash flow and supply chain financing. Renowned banks trust Sotes solution for credit analysis, business intelligence, and real-time supply chain visibility, reducing and managing risk akin to Moodys insights. For traders and manufacturers, Sote paves the way for scalable cash flow-based trade finance facilities through our innovative collateralization solutions. Welcome to a new era of African trade, powered data. Sote: Swahili for all of us
Seed Investor
Jun 2015
At Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world. With a growing number of hub cities across the country in the U.S., Canada, India, and beyond, we’re looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more! Se habla español.
Seed Investor
Jan 2014
Uplift is the leading Buy Now, Pay Later solution serving the world’s top enterprise brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps people get more out of life, one thoughtful purchase at a time. Uplift’s enterprise-ready offer engine matches consumers with the right payment plan at the right time, helping brands unlock higher conversion while building customer loyalty. Uplift’s complete range of flexible payment solutions are offered by leading brands throughout the United States and Canada.
Investor
Jan 2014
Unify Square joined Unisys in June 2021 to help our clients create breakthrough employee experiences across devices and platforms as workflows change and evolve. Visit www.unisys.com/solutions to learn more and connect with us on the Unisys LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/company/unisys. Founded in 2008, Unify Square helped hundreds of global enterprises manage, secure and optimize their unified communications and collaboration (UCC) environments – from the early days of Lync and Skype for Business to today’s Microsoft Teams. Its signature software, PowerSuite™, will continue to equip IT administrators with a unified set of experience management dashboards. Now a Unisys solution, PowerSuite™ gives IT admins a single-pane-of-glass view of all UCC platforms with AI- and machine learning-powered actionable insights to enhance the end-user experience.
Investor
Jan 2009
Slack is on a mission to make peoples working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive. It is the productivity platform for customer companies that improves performance by empowering everyone with no-code automation, making search and knowledge sharing seamless, and keeping teams connected and engaged as they move work forward together. As part of Salesforce, Slack is deeply integrated into the Salesforce Customer 360, supercharging productivity across sales, service and marketing teams. To learn more and get started with Slack for free, visit slack.com or connect with us @SlackHQ. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a pleasant and supportive place to work. Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.
Experience · 18 entries
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Investments (10)
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2024
Venture Advisor
Sep 2024
AI Fund is a venture studio. We collaborate with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to create great companies that move humanity forward. Founded by Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed by over $370 million. As a venture studio, we work alongside entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to build new companies rapidly and increase their odds of success. The studio is supported by top-tier VCs and partners including Sequoia Capital, NEA, Nikkei, and AES.
2023
Co-Founder & CEO
Apr 2023
We love building things that didn’t exist before. At Kite, we’re reimagining commerce beyond the legacy systems and supply chains that have made it next to impossible for entrepreneurs to grow products into successful brands. So we’re building a new foundation—an efficient and intelligent platform, from the ground up—and we’re looking for the right set of people to help us build it. Building something brand new requires a culture that supports both the freedom and discipline to inspire big breakthroughs. We’re not just challenging the conventions of commerce, we’re challenging every aspect of the company we’re building. Challenging ourselves to create a dynamic work environment that we’re all excited to be a part of. One that empowers people in all of the right ways, built on authorship, trust, and enthusiasm for creating something special together. We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusion. It is an expectation of every team member at Kite—how we recruit, hire, support career development, and how we collaborate across teams to enable team members to show up as their whole selves. Our collective success is of course, important, but also our individual successes—all of the things that keep us engaged, inspired, balanced, and filled with a sense of purpose. We’re here to do the best work of our lives. If we get this right, we may just change the wheels of consumer product commerce. Not just “faster and cheaper”, but smarter, better, and for everybody—not just the big guys. Inspired by a good challenge? Come build with us: join@kite.co
2021
Director Board Of Directors
Jun 2021
GoFundMe.org is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that raises and distributes funds to address urgent, unmet needs of people and communities, informed by insights from the GoFundMe platform and the philanthropic priorities of a wide range of community partners. Our impact is powered by support from GoFundMe, Inc and a global network of donors who give generously to support our charitable funds.
Seed Investor
Apr 2021
Okra is an open finance company empowering businesses and developers across the African continent to build innovative financial solutions. Okra enables people to easily connect their financial accounts to the apps they prefer and provides businesses with secure access to financial data and payments through a single integration. Our network supports a wide range of financial institutions including top-leading banks across across Nigeria. Okra serves as a bridge—bringing businesses, financial institutions and users together in a unified and inclusive financial ecosystem.
Investor
Mar 2021
EDO, Inc. is the TV outcomes company — a leading platform measuring predictive behaviors driven by Convergent TV advertising. By combining real-time engagement signals with world-class decision science, EDO data maximizes creative and media performance. We work with modern marketers at leading brands, TV networks, entertainment studios, and ad agencies. EDOs investment-grade data align advertising investments to business results - with detailed competitive, category, historical, and predictive intelligence. For industry intel, success stories, and top ads, visit EDO.com.
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