2x founder

Emmett Shear

Researching organic alignment

Founder

Kiko· Summer 2005 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @eshear

2024CEO· Softmax

Founder · since 2005

Company

Softmax

Role

CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Kiko

We're the best online calendar solution to ever exist. Period.

Summer 2005

Experience

Career

Softmax
CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Y Combinator
Visiting Group Partner · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2025
2023
Twitch
CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011 – 2023
2011
Fathom (YC W21)
Angel Investor · 2021
2021
Y Combinator
Part-time Partner · Mountain View, CA · 2011 – 2016
2011
Justin.TV Inc.
Founder
Founder · 2006 – 2011
2006
Kiko Software Inc.
Founder
Founder · 2005 – 2006
2005

Bio

Emmett Shear is founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Emmett is also co-founder of Justin.tv and a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Emmett graduated from Yale University in 2005, where he met two of his Justin.tv co-founders.