Alexis Ohanian

Who they are

Alexis Ohanian is the founder of Seven Seven Six (776) — co-founded Reddit in 2005 and later launched Athlos, a global track-and-field league focused on equity in women's sports.

Person

Ohanian graduated from the University of Virginia in 2005 and, straight out of school, co-founded Reddit — handling the non-technical side while it grew into one of the internet's largest communities. He stayed on as Executive Chair and Board Member through Reddit's years of growth, then moved into venture as co-founder and Managing Partner of Initialized Capital in 2011, an early-stage fund that backed companies before most institutional money was paying attention. He left Initialized for Y Combinator as a Partner, then in September 2020 launched Seven Seven Six from scratch — a VC firm he explicitly designed to operate like a technology company, including a proprietary internal OS called Cerebro. He's also a founding control owner of Angel City Football Club and the Los Angeles Golf Club, and founded Athlos, a global track-and-field league built around women's sports. He co-founded 776 Foundation in 2022 to support marginalized communities and climate action, and runs the Business Dad Podcast on fatherhood and career. He posts publicly on AI agents, women's sports investment, climate and reforestation, and founder support — themes that double as his actual deal thesis.

Company

Seven Seven Six most recently participated in the $1.75M seed round of Veritas Labs in February 2026. In March 2024, 776 led Interlune's $18 million seed round — backing what the firm called the first company commercializing off-planet resources, a signal of its national-security and space-economy focus. The firm was founded by Ohanian in 2020 alongside founding partner Katelin Holloway and has raised over $1 billion across three funds. It runs a proprietary operating system called Cerebro to manage team operations, portfolio monitoring, and LP relations. The portfolio has produced 15 unicorns and 11 acquisitions.

Market

Seven Seven Six competes in early-stage venture against firms including Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and Initialized Capital — the last of which Ohanian co-founded before leaving to start 776. The firm spans technology, fintech, healthcare, space economy, clean tech, and Web 3.0, and positions itself as founder-centric and operationally differentiated. Early-stage VC broadly faces increased regulatory scrutiny around antitrust and data privacy, while US-China tensions add supply-chain and market-access risk across the technology portfolio.

Network

Katelin Holloway is a founding partner and co-founder at Seven Seven Six, making her Ohanian's closest operational collaborator at the firm. Ohanian has backed early-stage founder Megan Duong through 776 and publicly promoted portfolio companies including Starcloud, Emerge Career, and LNK Energies. His prior institutional relationships include Y Combinator and Initialized Capital.

  • Katelin Holloway· Founding Partner & Co-founder, Seven Seven Six
  • Megan Duong· Early-stage founder backed by 776

How they likely show up

  • Co-founded Reddit straight out of UVA and has been a founder-operator ever since → he likely has low patience for people who theorize without having built something.
  • Built 776 to operate like a technology company (Cerebro OS for internal ops) → he thinks systematically about process and is not a 'feel-it-out' operator.
  • Long-tenure pattern across Reddit, Initialized, and now 776 → tends to commit to institutions over multi-year arcs rather than chasing the next shiny thing.
  • Hybrid role type — VC founder, sports club owner, podcast host, league founder → spreads attention across multiple bets simultaneously; expect him to context-switch fast.
  • Active LinkedIn poster on AI agents, women's sports, and climate → comfortable being publicly opinionated and uses the platform as deal signal, not just broadcast.
  • Founded Athlos and co-owns Angel City FC alongside his VC work → the personal interests and the investment thesis are deliberately aligned; he bets with conviction on what he cares about.

Conversation tips

  • → Lead with a specific portfolio company or sector — he posts granularly about Starcloud, Interlune, or women's sports; generic VC small talk won't land.
  • → If you have a view on AI agents, share it directly — he posts publicly that agents are what excites him most right now and will engage if you have a real take.
  • → Reference Athlos or women's sports investment as a genuine topic, not a flattery move — he frames it as an early, contrarian call that's proving right, and he'll have data to back it.
  • → Don't ask him to explain Reddit — it's 20-year-old background at this point; anchor to what he's building now.
  • → He hosts a podcast (Business Dad) and writes a book (Without Their Permission) — he's a communicator who likes ideas articulated clearly, so come with a sharp framing, not a rambling pitch.

Toolbox

Openers

  • Open on the Interlune seed lead in March 2024 — 776 backed what it called the first company commercializing off-planet resources, a concrete signal of how far outside conventional VC he's willing to go.
  • Bring up Athlos — he founded a global track-and-field league specifically around women's sports equity, and he posts that his early bets on women's sports are proving right; it's both a passion project and a thesis.
  • Reference the Cerebro operating system — 776 built a proprietary OS to run its own operations, which is an unusual structural choice for a VC; it's a good entry into how he thinks about building institutions, not just backing them.

Discovery questions

  1. You built Cerebro to run 776 like a technology company — what does that actually change about how you evaluate or support portfolio companies compared to a traditional fund structure?
  2. You've publicly said AI agents are what excite you most right now — how is that reshaping which sectors inside 776's thesis (space, healthtech, clean tech) you're prioritizing for new checks?
  3. Athlos and Angel City FC are both operating bets alongside the fund — how do you think about the line between your sports investments and the 776 portfolio thesis on women's sports?

Avoid

Don't ask him to validate generic 'build a community' startup advice by invoking Reddit — he's two decades and two funds past that chapter and engages on what he's actively building, not legacy origin stories.

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