Shervin Pishevar Biography

Shervin Pishevar is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist, currently based in the San Francisco, US. He is a partner at SherpaVentures along with Scott Stanford and a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hyperloop Technologies. Shervin is most famous for being an early major investor in Uber an on-demand transportation company. In 2014 Shervin and Stanford announced that they were seeking $250 million for a new fund called SherpaEverest that would make investments in more late-stage companies (such as Uber). In 2015 it was reported that SherpaVentures was raising a new $175 million fund. Shervin is also an investor in Didi, Warby Parker, Slack, Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever in 2016) and Postmates, among others.

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