April Underwood is a full stack leader and builder with executive experience at Slack and Twitter, and founder of Nearby and co-founder of #ANGELS. She invests in companies and serves on public boards.
What April can write
Adverb Ventures writes $500K to $10M checks, larger than 71% of firms in the atlas.
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- Google · Product, Partnerships, Engineering
- Twitter · Director of Product and Director of Business Development2010-2015
- Slack · Chief Product Officer2015-2019
- Adverb VenturesNow
- Intel
- Travelocity
- Climate Corporation
- Google
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Who is April Underwood?
April Underwood is a full stack leader and builder with executive experience at Slack and Twitter, and founder of Nearby and co-founder of #ANGELS. She invests in companies and serves on public boards.
How much does April Underwood invest?
April Underwood invests through Adverb Ventures, which writes checks of $500K to $10M at pre-seed, seed, series a.
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What did April Underwood do before Adverb Ventures?
Product, Partnerships, Engineering at Google; Director of Product and Director of Business Development at Twitter; Chief Product Officer at Slack; Intel; Travelocity; Climate Corporation; Google.
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