Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan built his personal wealth primarily through the 2011 sale of OkCupid to IAC/Match Group for $50M, and later co-founded The Echo Design Group. He established his family office in Chicago, where he also spent time as a partner at Corazon Capital, a venture firm. The family office invests Yagan's own capital alongside select co-investors. The family office targets early-stage startups, focusing on Seed and Series A rounds across sectors including Gaming, PropTech, EdTech, Data Analytics, Mobility & Transportation, Sports & Wellness, Media & Entertainment, and broader consumer and enterprise technology. Its investment toolkit includes direct co-investments and special purpose vehicles (SPVs), with a geographic focus on North America. Confirmed portfolio exposures include companies such as ShipBob (per Forbes, 2021) and Cameo (per TechCrunch, 2020), though full holdings are not publicly disclosed. Yagan has made no disclosed AUM or team headcount, operating a lean family office structure. He maintains involvement in the Chicago startup scene and is a frequent angel investor. No recent major transaction (within the past 24 months) has been publicly reported, but his office continues to deploy capital into early-stage startups in its target sectors. The structural differentiator of this family office is its direct tie to a founder-operator who has scaled and sold a major consumer platform, giving portfolio companies access to operational playbooks in user acquisition and product-market fit. As a single-family office run by a tech entrepreneur, it operates without institutional LPs, allowing flexible check sizes and no fixed fund lifecycle.