About

Elizabeth Davis

Hello, and welcome to my website!

I am an entrepreneur passionate about consumer technology and how it can be leveraged for social good. I started my career as a software engineer, completing internships at both Google and Pinterest, before becoming the Co-Founder and CTO of a social networking startup, Greo.

A few years ago, a couple of my friends and I got together and decided to build out a new app in our dorm room at Stanford. It was January 2016. The nation was in the middle of a racial reckoning with the Black Lives Matter Movement and a political reckoning with the 2016 election. There were a lot of polarizing political conversations happening on our campus and we decided to build a more effective space to have meaningful discourse on these matters. We launched and invited a couple of our friends to try it out. Soon thousands of college and high school students jumped on the app and a new startup was born. As the technical co-founder and CTO, I built the majority of the initial app myself, and then led our engineering team as the startup grew.

 Over the course of the startup, our team received venture funding from a number of Silicon Valley venture capital firms, including New Enterprise Associates and Floodgate. We also went through Y Combinator during the Summer 2017 batch. The app expanded nationally to multiple other college campuses. Over time engagement plateaued and we eventually sunsetted the product. We spent the next year as a mini-app incubator, spinning up a few other apps, such as Stashe and TLDR. TLDR was featured on the App Store and made the Top 100 list on apps within its category.

Since then I have transitioned to working at Facebook as a Product Manager on the Social Impact Product Team, with a focus on Charitable Giving.

I build fundraising tools on Facebook that enable people to support causes they care about. To date, our products have empowered over 50 million people to donate billions of dollars to nonprofits and people in need. This work has been more vital than ever in 2020.

Earlier this year, I led our product efforts to address the global financial crisis sparked by COVID. I launched Business Fundraisers to ensure that thousands of small businesses impacted by COVID were able to get the support they needed to stay afloat. Small businesses who may not have been able to secure other grants or relief loans were able to raise millions of dollars by leveraging these new tools.

This year, I also led our fundraising initiatives to advance racial justice on Facebook. I launched a major fundraising campaign on Juneteenth in which Facebook seeded over 175K+ fundraisers created for racial justice organizations such as the Equal Justice Initiative. In one weekend, Facebook users raised over $12M for these nonprofits. They continued to raise tens of millions of dollars for other racial justice organizations over the next couple months.

Now I spearhead growth efforts to drive adoption of all of our nonprofit and personal fundraising products.

My goal is to ensure that our social media platforms are a source for real-world change at scale. in addition I have a few exciting projects of my own in the works!