Om Malik, tech writer, GigaOm founder and investor, has died

Om Malik, the technology writer, GigaOm founder and investor, died on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

What the family said

The announcement was published on his own blog, om.co, under the title "Om Malik, 1966-2026" and signed "— Om's Family". In it, his family invites readers to share their remembrances in the comments or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Twitter, Instagram, Glass and LinkedIn. The post also points to his About page and Wikipedia entry, and notes that some of his photography prints are still available at photos.om.co.

Who Om Malik was

Based in San Francisco, Malik spent three decades in Silicon Valley as a journalist, entrepreneur and, more recently, a venture capitalist. He was born and raised in Delhi, where he earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from St. Stephen's College, and moved to New York City in the early 1990s, starting Desiparty.com and co-founding Masala magazine.

He began his technology blog in 2001; with seed funding from True Ventures it grew into GigaOm, a pioneering media company and research firm. Before that he held editorial roles at Business 2.0, Forbes.com, Red Herring and Quick Nikkei News, and his writing appeared in The New Yorker, Fast Company, Wired and The Wall Street Journal. He was the author of "Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist".

After a major heart attack in 2008 he reordered his priorities, becoming a venture partner at True Ventures and a full-time partner in 2014; he later moved to partner emeritus, focusing on technology forecasting while continuing to write and photograph.

Tributes

The post quickly became a gathering point for colleagues and readers: it has drawn 337 comments, including tributes from technology journalists and former GigaOm colleagues who remember him as a writer and mentor. "A beautifully honest and candid writer. One of the best to do it," one reader wrote.