Adam Foroughi

Adam Foroughi is an angel investor who also serves as Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of AppLovin. See sector focus and contact routes.

About Adam Foroughi

Adam Foroughi is an angel investor who also serves as Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of AppLovin, a mobile technology and digital marketing firm based in Palo Alto, CA. His investment thesis focuses on sectors including mobile, advertising, big data, clean technology, consumer internet, enterprise software, and healthcare, with activity primarily at pre-seed and seed stages. Typical check sizes range from $1 million to $7 million, and he often co-invests alongside key industry players rather than acting as a sole lead. Notable portfolio companies include Addepar, Gusto, OKpanda, and Opencare, with a recent investment in Blockstars in the entertainment software industry. Foroughi has publicly expressed a distinctive view that founders should generally avoid angel investing and that the best founders do not need mentorship, emphasizing disciplined execution and efficiency. He was born in Iran one year after the Iranian revolution and transitioned from derivatives trading to bootstrapping AppLovin into a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

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Angel Investor
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Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Individual/Angel
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Mr. Adam Foroughi is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of AppLovin. He was Chief Executive Officer of Social Hour. Currently he, serves as Board Member at PlayPhone. He is also angel investor and co-founder and CEO of Start Up. Previously, he was CEO at Style Page, CEO, Co-Founder at Game Theory, Director of Business Development, Co-Founder at LifeStreet Corporation, Web Traffic Analyst at Claria Corporation

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Adam Foroughi (Palo Alto, CA, United States) — sector focus: Mr. Adam Foroughi is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of AppLovin. He was Chief Executive Officer of Social Hour. Currently he, serves as….
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Adam Foroughi is based in Palo Alto, CA, United States.

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