Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Adam Marchick is an Investor at Emory University and an Independent investor of PadSplit. He was the Executive In Residence at The Chernin Group and the Senior Advisor of Headspace before that.

He pioneered the voice-enabled path to purchase. Alpine.ai helped make brands and retailers accessible and valuable in a voice-enabled world.

Adam started coding when he was 16, building GPS tracking systems in Matlab. The first start-up he joined grew to a $3B IPO (iBeam Broadcasting) – after that he was hooked on start-ups.

As CEO and co-founder of Kahuna, his team took it from napkin idea to a thriving company with $60M in funding, led by Sequoia Capital. Kahuna defined and led the Mobile Marketing Automation market, and has the privilege to serve The New York Times, Yelp, Yahoo, Overstock and hundreds of other market leaders as customers.

For the first seven years of his career, Adam held Engineering and Product roles at Facebook, Oracle (Siebel), Jarna (Mobile Apps) and AAyuja. Before starting Kahuna, Adam was a successful Venture Capitalist at Menlo Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures.

Outside of work, Adam created the Glow Foundation, a nonprofit that has provided financial education and aid to hundreds of thousands of college-ready students, improved financial literacy in America since 2006 and is now part of BUILD.org.

Adam received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, then went back to get his MBA at the Stanford GSB a number of years later.

Adam received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, then went back to get his MBA at the Stanford GSB a number of years later.