# Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo > Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) Almirante, US · Angel # Gabriel Weinberg CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo Latest rounds - **WizeHive** Seed · $1.5M Mar 2013 Backs *Software* Profile summary - **Rounds named:** 1 last Mar 2013 - **Filings:** 3 with regulators - **Podcasts:** 5 +1 mentions - **Books:** 2 written What this record rests on - ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them - ✓ **On filings** 3 filings with a regulator - **Linked to a firm** No firm on record - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from filings their firm signed. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=gabriel-weinberg)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=gabriel-weinberg) ## Rounds they were named in - **Rounds:** 1 - **Led:** 0 - **Disclosed:** $1.5M - **Active:** 2013 2013 - [WizeHive](https://millionrounds.com/company/wizehive) *Seed* **$1.5M** *US* Mar 2013 Joined · +4 investors · historical By stage - Seed **1** What they backed Software **1** Alongside - [Gabriel Venture Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gabriel-ventures-ltd) - [Goldin Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/goldin-ventures) - [MAG Fund *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mag-fund) - Mike Zisman *1* Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names. ## Companies they are listed as backing Portfolio - [Locately](https://millionrounds.com/startup/locately) - [Stitch](https://millionrounds.com/startup/stitch-2) - [WizeHive](https://millionrounds.com/startup/wizehive) - [myZamana](https://millionrounds.com/startup/myzamana) - Loveseat.com - Notehall - WakeMate ## Where they are named on record Filings - SEC Form D · Company raising **Loveseat, Inc.** Director on 3 filings · since 2015 - SEC Form D · Company raising **Radial Analytics, Inc.** Director since 2015 - SEC Form D · Company raising **Duck Duck Go, Inc.** Executive Officer, Director since 2011 Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date. ## Their books - Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers Gabriel Weinberg · 2014 4.11 from 9,897 ratings on Goodreads About the book Most startups end in failure. Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't have are enough customers. Founders and employees fail to spend time thinking about (and working on) traction in the same way they work on building a product. This… On AmazonListen on Audible - Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models Gabriel Weinberg · 2019 4.02 from 2,684 ratings on Goodreads About the book A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! "You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head." - Charlie Munger, investor, vice… On AmazonListen on Audible More books for founders and investors on the [Reading List](https://millionrounds.com/reading-list). As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. ## Hear them before you pitch them - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 29 Oct 2021 · 1h 18m Facebook's new name + DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg: the privacy search engine | E1315 With [Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) Their book [Traction](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg#books) Mentions [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) About this episode Facebook changed its name to Meta. In the news segment, Jason shares 10 highlights from the keynote and reacts to the name change (1:57). Then DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg joins (36:22) to discuss his search engine's continued growth, surviving Google's monopoly (41:57), how they… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 14 Feb 2020 · 32 min 20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo With [Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) Their book [Traction](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg#books) About this episode Gabriel Weinberg is the Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. Over the last 12 years, Gabe has scaled DuckDuckGo to doing 1.6Bn private searches every month, a team of 83… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 12 Nov 2014 · 29 min 22. Lessons from 5 Years of Angel Investing (Gabriel Weinberg) With [Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) Their book [Traction](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg#books) About this episode Gabriel Weinberg joins Nick on The Full Ratchet to discuss his lessons learned from five years of angel investing including: Can you first highlight the basic stats of your first few years angel investing? Talk about how you first set your basic strategy on angel investing? With regard to each item… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 17 Sept 2014 · 12 min Investor Stories 1: Why I Passed (Brad Feld, Ann Winblad, Gabriel Weinberg) With [Ann Winblad](https://millionrounds.com/person/ann-winblad)[Brad Feld](https://millionrounds.com/person/brad-feld)[Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) Their books [Venture Deals](https://millionrounds.com/person/brad-feld#books)[Traction](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg#books) About this episode On this special segment of the Full Ratchet, the question "Why I Passed on investing in a Startup" is addressed by: Brad Feld Ann Winblad & Gabriel Weinberg Each investor highlights their own unique scenario with a startup, discusses why they chose not to invest and, in some cases, if that was a...… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 13 Aug 2014 · 28 min 11. The #1 Reason Startups Fail (Gabriel Weinberg) With [Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) Their book [Traction](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg#books) About this episode Gabriel Weinberg joins Nick on The Full Ratchet to discuss why most startups fail including: Many talk about how startups fail b/c of product or building a product. You believe that the main source for startup failure, is for a different reason. Tell us what that is. You've noted five mistakes… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Gabriel Weinberg in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 26 May 2016 · 47 min 83. Cram Session, Episodes 11-17 (Nick Moran) Mentions [Gabriel Weinberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/gabriel-weinberg) About this episode Welcome back to TFR for another Cram Session. In these special releases, we have aggregated the takeaways and tips from previous episodes. In this installment, we will be recapping the following episodes: Ep11: The #1 Reason Startups Fail (Gabriel Weinberg) Ep12: Advising Early-Stage Startups… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=gabriel-weinberg). ## Find people like Gabriel Filter every partner and angel by firm, kind, market and whether we watched them invest. Free with an account. Search people[How we know what we know](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)