Alexis Ohanian

Who they are

Alexis Ohanian is Founder and General Partner at Seven Seven Six — co-founded Reddit in 2005, then built Athlos (a global women's track and field league) and Angel City Football Club as a founding control owner.

Person

Alexis Ohanian graduated from the University of Virginia in 2005 with a BA in History and a BS in Commerce, and walked out of college directly into co-founding Reddit with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz — funded by Y Combinator and sold to Condé Nast in 2006. He spent the years that followed as Executive Chairman at Reddit, a Partner at Y Combinator, and a Kiva Fellow before co-founding Initialized Capital with Garry Tan in 2011, which grew through early bets on Coinbase, Instacart, Opendoor, and Patreon. In 2020 he started Seven Seven Six, this time as a solo GP, with the explicit thesis of building a VC firm like a software company — complete with Cerebro, a proprietary platform giving founders one-click access to a network of 44,000 contacts. The thread running through all of it is community infrastructure: Reddit built one for the internet, Initialized and 776 build it for founders, and his sports investments — Angel City Football Club (founding control owner), Athlos (a global women's track and field league he founded in 2024), and Los Angeles Golf Club — build it around women's athletics. He also co-announced a $100 million child-care quality initiative with Mayor Eric Adams at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit, hosts the Business Dad podcast at businessdad.com, wrote the national bestseller 'Without Their Permission,' publishes on LinkedIn on AI agents, women's sports ROI, and the evolution of social media, and spoke at SXSW London 2026 and the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025.

Company

Seven Seven Six's most recent headline is leading Starcloud's $170 million Series A for orbital data centers in March 2026 — a sharp signal of where Ohanian is placing the firm's biggest bets. That same month the firm also participated in the $1.75 million pre-seed round of Veritas Labs, a luxury-goods anti-counterfeiting startup using hack-proof chips. In 2026 the firm also acquired ONIT, a college sports trading card platform, and became the second team owner in the women's professional golf league WTGL — extending Ohanian's women's-sports investment thesis into the fund itself. As of early 2026, 776 manages over $1.3 billion in assets across three funds, with a portfolio that has produced 15 unicorns, 1 IPO, and 11 acquisitions including Sorare, Envoy, and Ro.

Market

Seven Seven Six operates in early-stage venture capital, competing with Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, and Benchmark across technology, fintech, healthcare, space, clean tech, and Web3. Its differentiation pitch is operational depth — Cerebro, a founder-first approach, and checks typically between $750K and $4M — rather than scale. The sector faces rising regulatory scrutiny on antitrust and data privacy, and geopolitical headwinds from US-China tensions that affect portfolio companies' supply chains and market access.

Network

Ohanian's most durable co-founder relationships are with Steve Huffman (Reddit) and Garry Tan (Initialized Capital). He has publicly engaged with Sam Altman on AI, appeared alongside Reid Hoffman on the Possible podcast, and has backed early-stage founders including Megan Duong through 776. Founding partner Katelin Holloway runs investment operations at 776 alongside him.

Steve Huffman· Co-founder, Reddit
Garry Tan· Co-founder, Initialized Capital
Katelin Holloway· Founding Partner, Seven Seven Six
Aaron Swartz· Co-founder, Reddit
Reid Hoffman· Co-founder, LinkedIn; GP, Greylock
Sam Altman· CEO, OpenAI

How they likely show up

Founded Reddit, Initialized Capital, and Seven Seven Six across two decades — each a platform-layer bet, not a niche product — suggesting he thinks in categories, not features.
Built Cerebro (a proprietary 44,000-contact operating platform) inside a VC firm → treats internal tooling as a product, not overhead; likely expects the same discipline from founders he backs.
Active LinkedIn author posting on AI agents, women's sports ROI, and social media evolution → comfortable being a public voice and expects engagement with his ideas, not just his résumé.
Ran Business Dad podcast at businessdad.com and co-announced the $100M child-care initiative → integrates personal identity (fatherhood) with professional positioning; he's not compartmentalizing.
Moved from operator (Reddit) to YC partner to solo GP at 776 → each move added independence; he optimizes for control of his own platform.
Simultaneously owns stakes in Angel City FC, Athlos, and WTGL alongside a $1.3B VC fund → high parallel capacity, likely energized by multiple fronts rather than serial focus.

Conversation tips

→ Reference a specific LinkedIn post — he posts substantively on AI agents and women's sports economics, and he'll know immediately whether you actually read it.
→ Ask about Athlos or Angel City specifically, not 'women's sports' generically — he has strong convictions about the ROI thesis and will engage harder if you've done the homework.
→ Don't treat 776 as a standard VC firm — he frames it explicitly as 'a technology company that deploys venture capital'; engage with that framing and ask what Cerebro actually unlocks.
→ The Business Dad podcast is a genuine passion project, not a PR exercise — asking about it signals you know the whole person, not just the Reddit founder.
→ He spoke at SXSW London 2026 and the Milken Institute 2025 — if you were at either, mention it; he tracks who shows up.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Starcloud — 776 led their $170M Series A for orbital data centers in March 2026, which is an unusual bet even for a space-focused fund; asking what made that the right moment to write that check signals you've tracked the firm's recent moves.
Lead with Athlos — he founded a global women's track and field league in 2024, which is an operator move, not a checkbook move; it shows he's still willing to build from scratch, not just back others.
Reference the Cerebro platform — he describes 776 as 'a technology company that deploys venture capital,' and Cerebro (a proprietary 44,000-contact operating system) is the proof point; asking what it's changed for portfolio founders gets to his actual thesis fast.

Discovery questions

You've described 776 as a technology company that deploys venture capital — now that you're over $1.3B in AUM and have 15 unicorns, what does Cerebro do that a traditional platform team can't?
Athlos, Angel City, WTGL — you're not just writing checks in women's sports, you're taking operating roles. What does owning the league structure let you do that minority investing doesn't?
You led Interlune's seed in March 2024 and Starcloud's $170M Series A in March 2026 — how has 776's thesis on the space economy evolved between those two rounds?

Avoid

Don't treat the Reddit origin story as the headline — he's built three distinct institutions since then and will engage more sharply with questions about 776's current portfolio than with nostalgia about 2005.

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