Immad Akhund has invested in 1 startup on The Pitch, deploying $50K in Healthtech, Hardware, Fund I Portfolio.
Investment Thesis
What Immad Looks For
“I've done a bunch of robotics investments. But they've always taken way, way longer than anyone anticipated and it's been much, much harder than anticipated.”
— S15 · Ep 3
“We need to do value-based pricing. That's like the real solution to America's health problem.”
— S14 · Ep 7
“Most of the time when there's a hack on consumer distribution, it doesn't last forever.”
— S14 · Ep 3
“Recruiting in general, I don't like investing in. It's very hard to scale recruiting startups.”
— S14 · Ep 1
About Immad Akhund
Immad Akhund is the CEO of Mercury, the fintech ambitious companies use for banking*, credit cards, and software for all their financial workflows. He co-founded the company in 2017 with the vision that banking should do more than safely hold money – it should bring all the ways people and businesses use money into a single product that feels extraordinary to use. Launched in 2019, Mercury has raised $500M in total funding from Sequoia, Coatue, CRV, Andreessen Horowitz and others. He is a former part-time partner at Y Combinator and is an active angel investor, with more than 350 investments in startups including AirTable, Rappi, Applied Intuition and Substack. *Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.
Portfolio
Investments on The Pitch1 investment
Episodes
Top episodes featuring Immad5 episodes
S15FundedCosmicBrain AI: How to Train Your Robot
S14FundedMappa: Can This Voice AI Startup Find You a Job… or a Date?
S14Doctours: VC Funded Hair Transplants?!
S14Season 14: What VCs Really Want
S14Season 14 Finale: The Mad Scientist, The Foxhole, and a 48M Power Move
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