Phin Barnes is a venture capitalist affiliated with The General Partnership who previously served as a general partner at First Round Capital. Phin Barnes's Twitter Score is 136 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,495 (top 1%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Phin Barnes joined First Round Capital in 2008 as a summer apprentice, per Axios, and rose to general partner before departing that role, as Axios reported in August 2020, while remaining involved as a board partner. First Round Capital created Dorm Room Fund, a student-run startup investment fund, in 2012, and Phin Barnes remains affiliated with it. Phin Barnes now works at The General Partnership.
Phin Barnes is affiliated with a range of technology and crypto-adjacent companies, including Gauntlet, a crypto risk and economic modeling platform, as well as Notion, Clay, Persona, Stedi, and Warp. Phin Barnes has published 12,254 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 251 accounts, with 834 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Phin Barnes include 641 founders, 212 angel investors, 47 influencers and 78 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Matt Huang, Kyle Samani, Meltem Demirors, Anthony Pompliano and David Sacks.