Omar Hamoui
Partner
Omar Hamoui focuses on early stage investments backing entrepreneurs that exhibit unique insights. He previously spent 5 years as a partner on the early stage team at Sequoia Capital. Based on investments he led at Sequoia, he has served as a director of App Annie, PicsArt, Next Trucking, Clutter, Papaya, Streamlabs, Carnivore, and Kiwi.
Prior to Sequoia, Omar spent 16 years as an entrepreneur, founding several companies in mobile software and services. While working towards his MBA at the Wharton School, he began to think more seriously about the untapped potential of mobile advertising, and created AdMob to address this growing opportunity. Omar served as AdMob’s founder and CEO from January 2006 through the company’s $750M acquisition by Google in May 2010.
Omar holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Omar can be reached at omar at mucker dot com. He regularly shares insights on company building with his video series Shorthand for High-Growth Startups.
Articles by Omar Hamoui
Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup
This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity...
Thriving As A Post-Coronavirus Startup
This post originally appeared in Forbes. Startups are uncertain, high-risk exercises under any circumstance. When investors make available capital, it’s possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway...
COVID-19
Our team at Mucker is honored to support our portfolio through the unprecedented set of challenges facing the global community with COVID-19. Here is a compilation of products, services, and...
Venture Capital for the Rest of Us
The seed from which Mucker grew came forth from the ripples of the Great Recession As the rest of the tech world flooded toward Silicon Valley in search of millions...
William Hsu on TenOneTen’s LA Venture Podcast
Earlier this month, Will joined David Waxman and Minnie Ingersoll from TenOneTen for their fourth episode of the LA Venture podcast series. You can listen to the full episode here....
Building Company Culture, Before It’s Too Late
When I was leading my last business, I always knew that company culture was important. But what I needed to do about it and when to do it was a...