75 & Sunny is an LA-based startup studio and venture fund that incubates and invests in bold solutions to everyday problems.
Within 75 & Sunny Labs, we’ve started five companies which have gone on to raise millions in venture capital from top investors.
And we’ve invested in dozens more through 75 & Sunny Ventures.
Who We Are
Spencer Rascoff
Spencer is Founder and General Partner at 75 & Sunny. He takes an active role in launching new start-ups through 75 & Sunny Labs.
Spencer is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, dot.LA, Pacaso, Recon Food, Queue, and heyLibby and who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. During Spencer’s time as CEO, Zillow won dozens of “best places to work” awards as it grew to over 4,500 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and $10 billion in market capitalization. Prior to Zillow, Spencer co-founded and was VP Corporate Development of Hotwire, which was sold to Expedia for $685 million in 2003.
Spencer currently serves as CEO of Match Group (Nasdaq: MTCH), sparking connections through its brands like Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid.
Spencer is a former Board member of Zillow Group (Nasdaq: ZG), Palantir (NYSE: PLTR), TripAdvisor (Nasdaq: TRIP), Zulily (Nasdaq: ZU), Varo, Julep, SwitchFly, and several other tech companies.
Spencer is a professor at Harvard College and Harvard Business School where he teaches courses on entrepreneurship and innovation. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and a New York Times’ best-selling author of “Zillow Talk: Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate.” Spencer is the host of "Office Hours,” a podcast featuring candid conversations between prominent executives on leadership, company culture, product strategy, and how to run tech companies. Other interviews with Spencer can be found on Business Insider, the Kleiner Perkins Grit Podcast, and the LegendsNLeaders Podcast.
Before his consumer web career, Spencer worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and in private equity at TPG Capital. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Spencer graduated cum laude from Harvard University and is on the Board of Trustees of Harvard-Westlake School.
Wil Chockley
Wil is a Venture Partner at 75 & Sunny, where he advises founders on product, go-to-market, and fundraising strategy. He launched 75 & Sunny with Spencer and led our investments into companies including Apex, Permitflow, Crexi, and HostGPO.
Before joining 75 & Sunny, Wil was an early stage investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where he focused on enterprise software, ecommerce, and marketplaces.
Wil spent the first four years of his career in the technology practice at Bain & Company. He also worked at Thumbtack, a marketplace connecting customers with local service professionals, where he managed 400+ of the 1,000 categories on the Thumbtack platform. Wil graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College.
Lee Lin
Lee is a Venture Partner at 75 & Sunny, where he evaluates new proptech investments and coaches founders in the portfolio. Lee is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded real estate data company AnyProp, and prior to that IDX Vendors, RealtyHop, and RentHop, a bootstrapped and profitable Y Combinator funded startup featured in the Harvard Business School case study "Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market." His angel investments include early rounds in Zenefits, Rippling, Ginkgo Bioworks, Flutterwave, and Checkr.
Prior to the startup world, Lee was a quantitative trader at D. E. Shaw & Co. and Two Sigma Investments in New York City. Lee graduated from MIT with a masters and bachelors in computer science and attended the MBA program at Harvard Business School. After a decade in proptech entrepreneurship, Lee is a licensed real estate broker in over 30 states and an approved technology consultant for the largest 100 MLS organizations and broker associations
Katie Curnutte
Katie leads communications for 75 & Sunny, working with Spencer and Wil and advising portfolio companies.
Katie also runs Mother Bear, a Seattle-based marketing and communications agency focused on start-ups.
Before Mother Bear, Katie spent 11 years leading Zillow’s communications, government relations and public affairs teams (most recently as SVP). She has a BS in journalism from University of Illinois.
Jeanne Brennan
Jeanne is 75 & Sunny’s business operations manager. Prior to joining 75 & Sunny, Jeanne was Spencer's executive assistant at Zillow Group for many years.
She has more than 25 years of experience in office operations and senior-level executive administrative management.
Jeanne received her BA in Psychology from Elmhurst University.
Kat Parra
Kat runs social media for 75 & Sunny, as well as advising portfolio companies on social media content, strategy, and operations.
Prior to 75 & Sunny, Kat was a Senior Marketing Manager at Pacaso, as well as spending time as a Senior Communications Specialist at Zillow.
Kat received her BA in Communications from the University of Washington.