Om Malik

Om Malik was one of the very first founders we backed when we started True Ventures. In our Presidio office, Om shared his idea for a new kind of media company — an idea that became GigaOm, the esteemed technology blog he founded in 2001. With seed funding from True, he turned that one-man blog into a media company and research firm.

Not long thereafter, Om joined the True team as a venture partner, investing in promising networking and infrastructure technologies. He became a partner in 2014 and partner emeritus in 2020. Along the way, he focused on technology trend prediction and prognostication, always pushing the True team to take bigger and bolder market risks.

Om was a brilliant thinker, a prolific writer, a gifted photographer, and a sage advisor to so many across the technology ecosystem — thoughtful, humorous, profoundly kind, and deeply curious.

Om has been part of True since our earliest days, and he will always be a part of Team True. We were very, very lucky to call him our partner and friend. Watch our video in remembrance of Om here.