Parker Cox

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General Partner at Meridian Venture Partners · Developer infrastructure

Meridian Venture Partners
San Diego, CA · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
Duke University
English
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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Meridian Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 38 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Pfizer and Airbnb. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Questions about developer infrastructure
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  • SEO and link-building offers
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  • Fund-of-funds solicitations

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
venture capitaldeveloper toolsopen source
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed developer infrastructure in the US

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, climate
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Typically lead or co-lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

San Diego, CAdeveloper toolsventure capitalopen source

Experience

  1. General Partner
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Meridian Venture Partners · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Led or co-led 8 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  2. Enterprise Account Executive
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
    Pfizer · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · San Diego, CA
    • Signed 15 channel partners that now source 31% of pipeline.
    • Closed 228% of quota two years running.
  3. Partnerships Manager
    Nov 2016 - Sep 2019
    Airbnb · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Opened 7 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
  4. Partnerships Manager
    Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
    Coinbase · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Closed 198% of quota two years running.
    • Opened 11 new logos over $2 million ACV in the region.
  5. Partnerships Manager
    Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
    HubSpot · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Shortened the channel sales cycle from 7 months to 3.
    • Opened 11 new logos over $1 million ACV in the region.

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Education

  1. Duke University
    BS, Finance
    2004 - 2008

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