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
5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph
by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...
5 Tactics for Improving Startup Culture
Guest post by Gaurav Bhattacharya, CEO and co-founder at Involve. “Culture” is a set of norms and beliefs commonly shared by a group of people that give them a sense...
Mucker Academy: Pricing Models for the Enterprise with Jim Howard
In this episode of Mucker Academy, cloud software executive Jim Howard sits down with the MuckerLab accelerator to share his 15+ years of experience in developing and selling products and...
The Cryptic VC’s Guide to Saying “No” on Investments
by William Hsu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mucker VCs say a lot of cryptic stuff when we pass on an investment – partially because it make us appear smart,...
LA’s Starring Role as China Ramps up Investment in Media and Technology
LA has rapidly become the venue of choice for many Chinese investors seeking opportunities in media and technology. They are seeing exactly what I saw when I began to spend...
Mucker Academy: Kevin Diamond, CTO at The Black Tux
This is the second in our Mucker Academy video series, where we invite leaders from the tech community to speak with MuckerLab companies. You can find the first video here....