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Cory Levy

Cory Levy

Cory Levy is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, co-founder and former COO of One, Inc., co-founder of After School, and founder of First Text.

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Email Address
cory@corylevy.com
Founder of
After School (company)
After School (company)
One, Inc.
One, Inc.
First Text
First Text
Birthdate
October 10, 1991
Birthplace
Houston
Houston
Nationality
United States
United States
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
United States
Educated at
University of Illinois System
University of Illinois System
Awards Received
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2017 Forbes 30 Under 30
Occupation
Investor
Investor
Invested in
Lingopal
Lingopal
Hebbia
Hebbia
Nucleus
Nucleus
POSH
POSH
Glowbom
Glowbom
Wander
Wander
Voices
Voices
Simulate
Simulate
Wellfound ID
corylevy

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AngelList URL
angel.co/p/corylevy
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles...338690-71
Wikidata ID
Q21621822

Cory Levy is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in San Francisco. Levy was born and raised in Houston, Texas and studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before dropping out in 2011 to co-found One, Inc., where he served as COO until 2019. At One, Inc., Levy built a number of apps including After School, a teen social network launched in 2014 that grew to 20 million users and was acquired by Ancestry. In 2019, Levy founded First Text, which connects ambitious young technical founders at early stages with mentorship, funding, and a network of founders, operators, investors, and experts over text. First Text hosts Z fellows, a fellowship program in which a ten-person cohort are given $10,000 to take a week "break" from school or work to work on their entrepreneurial projects with mentorship support and a series of expert speakers.

In 2016, Cory Levy joined the Board of Directors of international non-profit DoSomething.org. In 2019, he became an advisor for venture capital firm SignalFire, and in 2020 he became a founding advisor for the gaming app Humaning Inc. Levy has spoken on entrepreneurial topics at SXSW, Duke University, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, USD, Drexel, Indiana University, University of Michigan, USC, University of Maryland, University of Illinois, Stanford, Boston College, and Boston University. Levy is the creator of the NextGen Conference, an annual conference hosted at Stanford University to connect young entrepreneurs with more experienced entrepreneurs, and Internapalooza, an annual conference that conference brings together college students in Silicon Valley with experienced entrepreneurs and speakers.

In 2017, Forbes named Cory Levy on the 30 Under 30 lists in both the Consumer Technology and Dorm Room Founders categories. Levy has invested in Nucleus, POSH, Glowbom, Wander, Voices, Hebbia, and Simulate.

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Cory Levy - Medium

https://medium.com/@cory

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Cory Levy "Lessons From 19 Year Old $1M Dollar Entrepreneur"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12BH34IZCmQ

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November 8, 2013

Dear Old People: Meet Today's Teenager | Cory Levy | Talks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PmuHXBxR0

Web

May 31, 2018

Engineer in Residence: Cory Levy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjmsQNCXN3w

Web

January 11, 2018

First Text with Cory Levy on Apple Podcasts

First Text

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/first-text-with-cory-levy/id1291751648

Web

May 19, 2020

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