# Holloway

> Holloway is a San Francisco-based digital publisher of book-length, expert-written guides on the practical realities of work - raising venture capital, equity compensation, technical recruiting, remote teams, and more. Each guide is searchable down to the paragraph, annotated by editors, and updated over time so the page never goes stale the way a printed book does.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Andy Sparks (Co-founder & CEO), Joshua Levy (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~22
- **Products:** The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital, The Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation, The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring, The Holloway Guide to Remote Work, The Holloway Reader / Platform
- **Notable:** Raised $4.6M seed from NYT and top tech VCs (2019)., Josh Levy's open guides (Art of the Command Line, Equity Compensation, AWS) reached hundreds of thousands of readers before Holloway formally launched., Built a web-native reader with hover definitions and annotations adopted by other publishers.

## Products & services

- **The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital** — A 340-page online guide on the funding process, by Andy Sparks and a team of editors.
- **The Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation** — An open guide on stock options, RSUs, and tax for employees and founders.
- **The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring** — Expert-edited playbook for hiring engineers.
- **The Holloway Guide to Remote Work** — A practical guide for distributed teams.
- **The Holloway Reader / Platform** — A web-native reading platform with full-text search, definitions on hover, annotations, and lifetime updates.
- **Publish on Holloway** — A program enabling authors to publish book-length works on the Holloway platform.

## Achievements

- Raised $4.6M seed from NYT and top tech VCs (2019).
- Josh Levy's open guides (Art of the Command Line, Equity Compensation, AWS) reached hundreds of thousands of readers before Holloway formally launched.
- Built a web-native reader with hover definitions and annotations adopted by other publishers.

## Latest updates

- **2019-08** — Holloway announces $4.6M seed and launches publicly with flagship guide on raising venture capital.
- **2020-01** — Introduces Holloway Platform alongside two new books on equity comp and technical recruiting.

## Links

- Website: https://holloway.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/holloway-1
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/holloway
- GitHub: https://github.com/holloway
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/hollowayguides/

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Last updated: 2026-06-29