Spencer Maughan is the Founder and Managing Partner of DYDX. Spencer heads the Silicon Valley office and is based in Palo Alto, California. Previously Spencer has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at KPCB working with the $1B Green Growth Fund. Spencer was also an investor at Venrock, a Venture Capital firm with >$2b under management where his team invested in companies such as Nest Labs (acq NASDAQ: GOOGL), Lucid Motors (NASDAQ: LCID) and Phononic Devices. Spencer’s investment focus has been centered on data-empowered technology companies. Spencer sits on numerous boards and has been part of entrepreneurial programs at Stanford University, University of Wisconsin and Duke University. He has also previously served on the advisory board of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. Spencer has a BSc and PhD in Genetics from the University of Melbourne where he was a Melbourne Research Scholar with funding from Bayer. Upon finishing his PhD, Spencer was named a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) within the Institute of Biotechnology. While at Cambridge, Spencer’s work on malarial drug-resistance type proteins received a commendation from the UK Houses of Parliament.
Spencer also holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he was the American Australian Association’s Macquarie Bank Fellow.
