Tech Advisor | Board Member | Angel Investor

Desigan Chinniah, aka Dees or cyberdees, is a creative technologist. Dees has a portfolio of advisory roles and board positions. He makes early stage investments indexing on diverse and under-represented founders.

Dees is a stalwart of the web and has had check-ins* at various dot-coms over two decades. His superpower is his unparalleled global relationship network.

Advisor: Ably + BRCK** + Cinnamon** + Coil + GreenTec** + hubii** + Mozilla + OutVoice + SEDNA + Self** + Snips** (acquired by Sonos) + The Bot Platform** + Voi** + Zama

Investor: Axiom (YC W21) + Athens (YC W21) + Backstage + BonfireIM*** + CoGrammar / HyperionDev + Erase All Kittens + Eventasaurus*** + Heroify + Ikigai Data + Juked + Kibo + Makielab (acquired by Disney) + Odin + Paus + Protagonist + Replay + Roleshare (PeopleTechPartners) + TalentQL (Techstars) + Yodomo

Mentor: Seedcamp + Design Club

Board: Grant for the Web (co-creator) + Tor Project + Ushahidi

tl;dr

Dees is a smart creative and possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, Fundraising, Community and Developer Relations.

A sneakerhead and self-confessed geek, he lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.

You’ve come this far… Why not say helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcom?

*formerly at Mozilla, Firefox, PayPal, eBay, BBC, Skype, Ask Jeeves
**alumni
***dissolved