Chris Golda
General Partner at Y Combinator
Christopher "Chris" Golda is a General Partner at Y Combinator, named in June 2026 after working with founders as a Visiting Partner. He co-founded BackType (YC S08), a social media analytics company Twitter bought in 2011, then led product for Twitter's Ads Center until 2014. From 2014 to 2025 he ran Rogue Capital, a seed and Series A fund.
Y Combinator
- BackType
- Venture capital
- Data infrastructure
- Online advertising
- Now
- General Partner, Y Combinator2
- Founded
- BackType (YC S08), 20084
- Exit
- BackType to Twitter, July 20116
- Education
- University of Toronto, BASc electrical engineering1
In their words
I invest in and advise early–stage startups on product vision and execution, team and company building, fundraising and M&A, product management, marketing, and more.
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Experience
- Managing PartnerMay 2014 – Aug 2025
Made seed and Series A investments; the portfolio he lists includes Benchling, Coinbase, Ollama, Resend, Stoke Space and Supabase.3
- Venture Advisor3Aug 2019 – Feb 2020
- Product lead, Ads CenterJul 2011 – May 2014
Launched Twitter Ads and led product for the Ads Center, the tool advertisers used to buy ads and track how they performed.4
- Co-founder2008 – Jul 2011
Built a social media analytics company whose API served more than 100 partners; its real-time data processing system, Storm, later became an Apache project.5
Education
BASc, electrical engineering1
Milestones
- Co-founded BackType with Mike Montano in Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch4
- BackType raised a seed round led by True Ventures5
- Twitter acquired BackType; terms were not disclosed6
- Joined Twitter, where he led product for the Ads Center3
- Left Twitter and started investing as Managing Partner of Rogue Capital3
- Apache Storm, first developed at BackType, became an Apache top-level project7
- Became a Venture Advisor at Menlo Ventures3
- Joined Y Combinator3
- Named a General Partner at Y Combinator2