Top 50 Android Angel Investors in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Android startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Android Angel Investors in December 2024
Investor | Android investments |
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Raymond Tonsing | 5 |
Paul Buchheit | 4 |
Xavier Niel | 4 |
Don Dodge | 4 |
Patrick Lütjens | 4 |
Brian McClendon | 3 |
Renato Profico | 3 |
Dharmesh Shah | 3 |
Geoff Entress | 3 |
Kevin Mahaffey | 3 |
Ashton Kutcher | 3 |
Reid Hoffman | 3 |
David Helgason | 3 |
Jarl Mohn | 3 |
Kevin Efrusy | 3 |
Paul Graham | 3 |
Haresh Chawla | 3 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 3 |
Dave Morin | 3 |
Adeyemi Ajao | 3 |
Mitchell Kapor | 3 |
Naval Ravikant | 3 |
Henrik Lindemann | 2 |
Ignacio Vilela | 2 |
Yuri Milner | 2 |
Livingstone Ian | 2 |
Maneesh Arora | 2 |
Ariel Poler | 2 |
Richard Chen | 2 |
Pejman Nozad | 2 |
Garry Tan | 2 |
Mark Pincus | 2 |
Tim Draper | 2 |
Rick Marini | 2 |
Justin Mateen | 2 |
Kashish Sharma | 2 |
David Assia | 2 |
Cam Drummond | 2 |
Aloke Bajpai | 2 |
Niklas Zennström | 2 |
Sebastian Knutsson | 2 |
Nate Macleitch | 2 |
Justin Kan | 2 |
Jyri Engestrom | 2 |
Ram Shriram | 2 |
Frank Westermann | 2 |
Scott Banister | 2 |
Jean-David Blanc | 2 |
Paige Craig | 2 |
Victor Savyuk | 2 |
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director.
Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Friend — Meet somebody new. Find a new companion to move through life with
- Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
- Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters anytime, anywhere. Super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you. Free to use with no ads.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Don Dodge
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Nimble CRM — A G2 Crowd Market Leader, Nimble helps you build relationships everywhere you engage -- from your inbox to across the web. Try it free - no credit card required.
- Propensity — The ABM library of tools and workflows designed to maximize your ABM strategy. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to scale.
- Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.
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Investment focus
- iOS, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas.
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
- uMake — Design in 3D. Anywhere. The first 3D design app for the iPhone & iPad. Explore your ideas in 3D. Simple. Get uMake Now for iPhone & iPad.
- beans.ai — Core offerings include: - Beans Maps+: Hyper-accurate location information for apartments, condos, hospitals, and universities, along with access codes, parking locations, and other important information to access a destination. - Beans Route: Logistics app and platform to simplify dispatch, improve operations, and manage driver schedules. BeansRoute comes with preexisting integrations for safety, fleet, telematics, and insurance management. - Beans Optimize: A fast, dynamic route planning engine that provides unlimited customization in route sequencing, route planning, and assisted dispatch.
Renato Profico
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
- Firstbird — Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
- Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
- Twenty — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
- Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
- Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- bem — Engineering teams use bem to transform any data point into whatever shape they need.
- Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.
- Token Security — Token is the new approach designed for the identity boom era. Introducing Machine-First Identity Security.
Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
- Spicewell — Spicewell develops and creates food seasoning products that includes various kinds of micronutrients. It uses modern science to infuse healthy and organic additions to food meals. Spicewell is based in California, USA.
- HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
Reid Hoffman is the Partner of Greylock. He previously worked at Convoy Inc as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
- Lantern — Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need toconfidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
- Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.
Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
- PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.
Paul Graham
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Egypt, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
- Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
- Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.
Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Education
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
- Onmove — Zast is a high speed long distance trucking aggregator enabled through technology.
- Adaptive — Privileged access management for infrastructure resources including Kubernetes clusters, VMs, databases, data warehouses and more, without compromising on security
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
- Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
- StockGro — Learn stock market trading and investing from industry experts. Use our platform to build your social trading circle and understand the stock market.
- Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
- DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Henrik Lindemann
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Investment focus
- Art, iOS, Android
- Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Artland — Artland is a dedicated platform for contemporary art. Discover, buy from galleries on a global scale and connect with art lovers and art collectors.
Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
- Secondary Market, Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
- Authy — Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional layer of protection beyond passwords. Download our free app today and follow our easy to use guides to protect your accounts and personal information.
- SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
- Lori Systems — Lori is a venture-backed start-up building the cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-drivenmarketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings upwards of 18%).The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa.
- XiaoBangGuiHua — XiaoBangGuiHua is an intelligent investment advisory service platform. Through intelligent robot algorithm and advanced asset allocation model, it provides investors with scientific and systematic financial management solutions, including small help investment app, Bin Xu said investment series, love said finance and economics
Ian Livingstone CBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe.He co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982, writing 14 titles in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series which has sold over18 million copies worldwide. He designed Eureka, the first computer game published by Domark in 1984. He joined the Domark board in 1992, overseeing a merger that created Eidos plc in 1995 where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, and as Creative Director until 2006. At Eidos he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, recommending changes in ICT education policy. Following publication, he chaired the Next Gen Skills campaign, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy. He was listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK.Roles (as of May 2016): Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki, Chairman of Sumo-Digital, Chairman of PlayMob, Chairman of Antstream, Chairman of The Secret Police, Chairman of Flavourworks, Vice Chair of UKIE, Patron and Non-executive director of Creative Skillset, a Member of the Creative Industries Council, Non-executive director of Creative Industries Federation, Non-executive director of Creative England, Non-executive director of Young Rewired State, GamesAid Trustee, Advisory Board Member of GameCity, and Adviser to the British Council.
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Investment focus
- Android, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NURVV — Free shipping in the UK
- Magicave — Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup.
- Whitbread — Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units.
Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.
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- Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Japan, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
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- Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
- Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
- humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!
Richard Chen
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- Mobile, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
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- Farel — Say farewell to piecing together different vendors, integrations, and clunky software. Farel delivers one seamless, all-in-one, software platform engineered for growing airlines.
- Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
- Kinnek — Potential customers are looking for reasons to trust your company, and they want third-party sources to vouch for you. Kinnek helps suppliers like you build a world-class online reputation and easily share it. Because when you win more trust, more prospects become loyal customers.
Pejman Nozad is the Founding Managing Partner at Pear Ventures. Pejman has over 17 years of experience investing in early stage high tech start-ups. Pejman has invested in over 100 startups and has seeded several multi-billion dollar companies such as Dropbox, Lending Club, Gusto, Addepar, Danger. Pejman was named by Forbes in 2012 as "one ofthe most successful angel investors."Pejman co-founded Pear Ventures with Mar Hershenson, with the mission of helping exceptional entrepreneurs build category-defining companies. The firm embodies Pejman’s values of ambition and conviction, and hold integrity, humility, and trust as central tenets how it operates. Through Pear, Pejman has invested in companies such as DoorDash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Branch Metrics, and One Concern.
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- Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Evergive — We are building EverGive so that anyone can leave a lasting impact on the world. When donors use EverGive, their donations are invested, and, every quarter, the profits are given to the donors selected charities and causes.
- Fieldbook — Fieldbook is a powerful software platform for organising group tours that boosts productivity, saves time and minimises human error. It integrates seamlessly into your existing operations for a painless transition and immediate results.
- SoundHound — SoundHound Inc. is the only company offering an independent voice AI platform that delivers a custom branded voice assistant, allowing companies to keep their brand, customers, and data.
Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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- Internet, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into passive revenue.
- Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
- Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
- Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 techentrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, India
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- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
David Assia is a Chairman at iAngels. David Assia, a member of their Board of Directors since October 2006, is a co-founder of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., and served there in various positions, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, from 1983 until 2007. Mr. Assia is currently the CEO of Nadyr Investments,a privately held investment company. Mr. Assia was managing director of Mashov Computers Ltd. between 1980 and 1986 and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since 1989. Mr. Assia also serves as a director of the First International Bank, eToro Group Ltd., Biocatch Ltd., MobeeArt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Yeda Research & Development Company and The Israel Association of Electronics and Software. Mr. Assia holds a B.A. degree in economics and statistics and an M.B.A. degree, both from Tel Aviv University.
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- SaaS, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CodiPark — CodiPark is a mobile-payment platform that focuses on parking lots. CodiPark users scan a barcode, pay, and go without waiting in lines or seeking payment machines. The process speeds up entrance and exit times, resulting in increased revenue opportunities for parking-lot owners, who also no longer have to collect cash.
- Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Cameron Drummond is the CIO of Mastodon Capital Management. He attended the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Dating, Social Media
- Seed, Convertible Note
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hinge — Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application. Moreover, Hinge provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
- RealKey — Go straight to funding with facilitated documentation gathering that ensures underwriters get everything needed for a clean approval.
- Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India tolaunch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InstaAstro — Chat and talk to astrologer for accurate predictions on love, career, marriage, business & relationship. 24/7 astrology consultation starting from 10 per minute in Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, etc
- MealHopper — Mealhopper brings food from home that matches closest to the customers. They provide a true home food from real home cooks.
- OnlineTyari — OnlineTyari.com helps you prepare and take online mock tests for govt exams like SSC, IAS, Bank PO, Railways. We keep student updated with latest study material including GK and current affairs 2019 in India. We provide study material (online Mock tests, E-Books, Video classes and Practice questions). Highly recommended for students preparing for competitive exams like civil services (IAS, CSAT), engineering services, PSU jobs exams.Get current affair 2019 and free mock tests to start preparation.
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.
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- Apps, Music, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Estonia
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- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | Effortless AI Ads for Mobile Game Studios.
Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Android
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
- QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Nigeria, India
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- Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Finland, France
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- Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
- Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
- Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
- Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI
- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health
- Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017)
- Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech
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- iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Austria, United States
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- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
- Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
- not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
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- ZenGo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
- Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
- Aula — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.
Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Iceland
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- StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
- Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
- Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
Built two unicorns: Dendy and Akado.
Startup advisor and mentor.
I invest in companies I work with.
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- SaaS, iOS, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, United States
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- AppFollow — AppFollow is a B2B SaaS, one-stop platform that helps teams run apps in app stores. It delivers critical analytics around app reviews and searches result in positions straight to email, Slack, Zendesk, Salesforce, Helpshift, Intercom, and 30 more integrations. AppFollow helps mobile app owners to track keywords performance, increase your organicinstalls with ASO (App Store Optimization) Tools, track competitors, and market leaders. AppFollow supports 5 stores (App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store, and Mac App Store, Amazon), has 30+ integrations with the most popular services, translation from 31 languages, covering all countries.Over 50 000 companies from all over the world trust AppFollow with their app growth including HBO, Merc, Sky, Wrike, Airbnb, Hubspot, Uber, Swisscom, Robinhood, Gett, Jam City, Pixonic, Wargaming, and more.
- DeckRobot — Transform the way you create and present corporate documents with DeckRobot, the pioneering generative AI company leading the charge. Our innovative technology combines advanced machine learning with ease of use to deliver customized enterprise solutions for slide formatting and styling that are both stunning and secure. Trust our team of PhDs,published in scientific journals, to take your presentations to new heights.With a presence in over 20 countries, DeckRobot is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is proud to work with clients from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses in over 50 countries. Join our rapidly expanding team of experts in the US and Europe and be part of our mission to revolutionize the world of corporate presentations.
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