Safa Rashtchy

Founding Managing Partner at Think + Ventures, looking for entrepreneurs who never give up. Writing about #founders, #startups, #technology, #seedfunding, and #venturecapital

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
14
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8
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1
Mid stage
0
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16y
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Portfolio

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Investor and Advisor
Feb 2021
Serve Robotics (NASDAQ:SERV) develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical. Spun off from Uber in 2021 as an independent company, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. The company has scalable multi-year contracts, including a signed agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets. Come join us, we are hiring!
Investor and early advisor
Nov 2017
At ApplyBoard, we are dedicated to making global education accessible for everyone. Our mission is to empower students worldwide to unlock opportunities for the best education. With our innovative platform and expert team, we simplify the journey—from exploration and application to enrollment—helping thousands of students achieve their dreams of studying abroad.
Investor
2017
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty.
Investor
2015
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
Investor and Advisor
2014
Tubi is the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S., dedicated to providing all people access to all the worlds stories. As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 FAST channels. Tubi is part of the Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation that oversees the company’s digital businesses
Board Member/Investor
Dec 2013
YouEye is now a UserZoom company. UserZoom is an all-in-one platform to rapidly test usability & measure UX. Read more about the acquisition here: http://www.userzoom.com/news/userzoom-acquires-youeye/ “We are excited to incorporate the YouEye solution into our user experience platform. The integrated platform combines the best of both worlds — scalable quantitative data with sophisticated and agile qualitative feedback."— Alfonso de la Nuez, CEO & Co-Founder UserZoom. "YouEye and UserZoom are Innovators in remote usability testing and UX research. Combining our platforms empowers companies to quickly identify the biggest opportunities to improve digital products"​ — Malcolm Stewart, CEO YouEye. Discover the why behind your KPI's. Qualitative analytics and customer insights that help drive performance in: - Brand Impact - eCommerce Conversions - Product Design With hundreds of thousands of new websites, products and services sprouting up every day, it’s more important than ever to have an engaging and usable solution. Traditional focus groups and labs are slow and costly, and you never really know if you’re getting true, unfiltered feedback from study participants. YouEye is reinventing the way that the world approaches customer research. Our platform empowers companies to quickly identify the biggest opportunities to improve products, services, websites, or marketing. With remote usability testing, behavior recognition, survey analytics, and user experience analytics, it has never been easier or more affordable to build amazing experiences.
Investor
Oct 2012
Signifyd provides an end-to-end Commerce Protection Platform that leverages its Commerce Network to maximize conversion, automate customer experience and eliminate fraud and consumer abuse risk for retailers. Its solutions provide the transparency and control that brands need to succeed in the rapidly changing world of commerce. Signifyd, which is the leading provider of payment security and fraud prevention for the Top 1000 Retailers for 2024, is headquartered in San Jose, CA, with locations in Seattle, Denver, New York, Mexico City, São Paulo, Belfast and London.
Advisor/Investor
Sep 2012
Technology company focused on local discovery via personalized contextual recommendation engine. Latest product is Wist App - iOS local discovery application that delivers top 5 spots for you on the go powered by the contextual recommendation engine. Investors: 500 Startups, Google Ventures, Idealab and others
early stageInternet
Advisor/Investor
Jan 2012
Local Motion is helping corporations, local governments and campuses build smaller, smarter fleets. We've designed a module that can be installed in any vehicle to make it accessible with one's corporate badge. Employees gain instant, guaranteed and simple access to mobility. Managers gain full control over their fleet, and enough data to truly optimize their assets.
Investor
2012
The Facebook company is now Meta. Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. We want to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. To do that, we ask that you help create a safe and respectful online space. These community values encourage constructive conversations on this page: • Start with an open mind. Whether you agree or disagree, engage with empathy. • Comments violating our Community Standards will be removed or hidden. So please treat everybody with respect. • Keep it constructive. Use your interactions here to learn about and grow your understanding of others. • Our moderators are here to uphold these guidelines for the benefit of everyone, every day. • If you are seeking support for issues related to your Facebook account, please reference our Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help) or Help Community (https://www.facebook.com/help/community). For a full listing of our jobs, visit http://www.facebookcareers.com
Board Member/Investor
Nov 2010
Icanbuy develops tools as widgets to be integrated into any website: lenders, real estate brokers, search engine portals The data analysis is sold as reports to financial companies: lenders, investors, and insurance companies. What We Do: Meet the needs of an underserved market – enable online real estate consumers to perform intelligent analysis. Provide proprietary data analytics tools and content to real estate buyers and investors – an accessible financial analyst for the average person. Focus on “real estate” eco-system. Collect and aggregate granular consumer data Integrate data from industry partners and affiliated third parties Process and syndicate sale of business intelligence Employ a business model similar to Axciom, Experian and Hart-Hanks in consumer analytics market Value to the Consumer: Make real estate buying and investing safer and smarter. Provide on-line financial tools and content to allow online real estate consumers to compare, analyze, and improve decision making in specific and meaningful ways: What is my purchasing power? What is my borrowing capacity based on my specific financial profile? What type of loan products do I qualify for? What is the best available rate for me? What properties fit my budget? Is the property I am looking at a good value?
Advisor/ Investor
Aug 2010
With one tap, Qwiki automatically creates beautiful movies from the events captured on your iPhone - providing a rich and elegant way to share your life. Our previous iPad product was named Apple's "Best of" in 2011, with ~2MM downloads. In only 2 weeks, Qwiki for iPhone has 225k downloads with 50k Qwikis created. We're always hiring great iOS and web B/E engineers. Contact us...
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2021
Investor and Advisor
Feb 2021
Serve Robotics (NASDAQ:SERV) develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical. Spun off from Uber in 2021 as an independent company, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. The company has scalable multi-year contracts, including a signed agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets. Come join us, we are hiring!
2017
Investor and early advisor
Nov 2017
At ApplyBoard, we are dedicated to making global education accessible for everyone. Our mission is to empower students worldwide to unlock opportunities for the best education. With our innovative platform and expert team, we simplify the journey—from exploration and application to enrollment—helping thousands of students achieve their dreams of studying abroad.
General Partner
Oct 2017
Think +, a seed stage venture fund, has a distinct focus on research-driven investments and consumer-centric ideas. The investment thesis of Think+ is based on four principles: - Investments in highly focused areas that offer the largest market potential for disruptions - Funding early stage disruptive models, with a researched approach - Focused on the proprietary ‘Consumer Value Strategy’ - Entrepreneur-sought value add through Thought Leadership We invest in companies that put their customer first and focus on radically changing the current models that are inefficient. Our background spans WallStreet, Silicon Valley, and global investments, as well as a brand name in research-based investments.
Investor
2017
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty.
2015
Investor
2015
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
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