Othman Laraki
Co-founder and CEO, Color Genomics
Othman is an investor, entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO at Color Genomics. He has founded several companies before Color Genomics, one of which was acquired by Twitter, where he was VP of Product, responsible for Growth, Revenue and International. Before MixerLabs, Othman was at Google, where he managed a number of products including the Google Toolbar, Google Gears, early Firefox extensions, as well FastNet (real-time fetching and caching infrastructure). Prior to Google, Othman was at ACCESS Systems, where he ran server-side engineering. Othman currently serves on the board of directors of ESI Group, a publicly traded French software company. Othman has an MBA from MIT and a BS + MS in Computer Science & Industrial Engineering from Stanford.
Content & Articles by Othman Laraki
Most Startup Content Is Invisible: Here’s How to Fix It
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Irina Maltseva, founder of Seen, to share how early-stage B2B SaaS companies get found on Google and inside LLMs. She has spent...
Setting Up A Founder-Led Organic LinkedIn Content Machine With Claude
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Jonathan Martinez, founder and CEO of GrowthPair, to share how founder-led LinkedIn content took his startup from zero to $1M in annual...
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos, to share...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...