Rackhouse Ventures

We’re an early-stage venture capital fund that backs data founders, regardless of sector or geography.

KEVIN NOVAK

• Founder of Rackhouse VC

• Uber's first head of Data Science

• Inventor of Uber's dynamic pricing product

• Chief Data Officer for Tala Financial

He served as Uber’s first Head of Data Science, its first Head of Data Science Platform, and was one of the early members of a Uber Freight (Uber’s innovative freight marketplace). Kevin was the inventor of Uber’s dynamic pricing product, and holds several patents around GPS points processing, marketplace optimization products, and using data science to improve the mobile experience. He has also served as Chief Data Officer for Tala Financial, an alternative underwriting lender, helping the world recognize the creditworthiness of those without traditional financial identities. Kevin has invested in firms like Standard Cognition, Volley Automation, and several dozen others. He was one of the founders of the Greylock Data Science Community and regularly advises universities around the US on data science curricula.