Ivan Kirigin
Founder CEO at Tango.vc
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Kirigin is a founder, investor, and engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling products at the intersection of robotics, ML, and growth. He cofounded Tipjoy (YC W08), led growth at Dropbox through a 12x expansion, founded YesGraph which was acquired by Lyft, and then worked on self-driving systems at Lyft Level 5. Today he runs Attention AI and invests through Tango.vc (Fund I backed 46 startups), focusing on seed-stage automation and robotics companies including notable portfolio hits like Cruise. He combines hands-on robotics and computer vision research from Carnegie Mellon with product and growth instincts, repeatedly turning research-grade systems into revenue-driving products. Notably, his single early investment before Tango—Cruise—was acquired for over $1B, reflecting a strong early nose for deep-technology winners. Based in Redwood City, he’s equally comfortable shipping ML-powered acquisition pipelines as he is architecting autonomous vehicle stacks.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at New York UniversityMS Robotics, MS Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Croatian
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Github Skills (13)
python-client4
api3
aerospike3
python3
wrapper3
sdk3
letterpress2
typescript2
javascript2
ios2
finder1
android-sdk1
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ikirigin/nevertru.mp
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
ikirigin/wiif
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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