Ryan Darnell

Managing Partner at Max Ventures

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Managing Partner at Max Ventures
    Mar 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

    Early stage investor - currently investing out of our 3rd fund Invested in 75+ early stage companies and Co-founded 8 venture backed companies across 3 funds. Investors at Day Zero

  • Co-Founder & Board Member at The Post
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

    The Post is building the largest private membership club of former professional and college athletes that are excelling in business. The company is led by Christian Ponder and backed by world class VCs including Will Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Maveron, FJ Labs, Pareto, and several others.

  • Co-Founder & Investor at Elion
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Elion is the leading independent and authoritative digital health solutions marketplace. We're the trusted source for healthcare builders to discover, evaluate and select the software and services they need to run their businesses. Elion is backed by NEA, 8VC, AlleyCorp, Floating Point, Charge and Max Ventures

  • Co-Founder & Board Member at Tertulia
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Tertulia is building a better way to discover books. By pulling in conversations from across social media, podcasts, and the web, Tertulia delivers superior book recommendations from vetted voices and incorporates seamless purchasing. Tertulia is run by veteran Co-founders Sebastian Cwilich, Lynda Hammes, and Robert Lenne. The company has raised over $6M from AlleyCorp, Max Ventures, Ingram FJ Labs, Addition, Canvas, and several others.

  • Seed Investor at Etched
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Etched is redefining the future of AI infrastructure. They are the first new company to launch a chip since Chat GPT was launched. Following a successful A0 tapeout and $800M raised - the company has built their first racks and secured $1B+ in customer contracts. Their inference systems are built to push the pareto curve on frontier models, including trillion-parameter MoEs and long-context workloads, with our first racks shipping this summer. Etched is solving hardware's biggest bottlenecks through two breakthroughs: -Low-Voltage Inference (LVI): Overcoming thermal throttling to enable multiple times the FLOPs density of traditional AI chips. -Cluster-Scale Memory (CSM): A proprietary, ultra-low-latency interconnect creating a shared memory pool to eliminate memory hierarchy delays. Driven by a world class team of 400+ engineers from NVIDIA, Google TPUs, and Broadcom, the company is scaling production globally—from their 2MW datacenter to their Taiwan facility.