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Top 50 Android Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Android startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Android Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

Investor	Android United States investments
Raymond Tonsing	5
Don Dodge	4
Paul Buchheit	4
Geoff Entress	3
Reid Hoffman	3
Ashton Kutcher	3
Dave Morin	3
Naval Ravikant	3
Kevin Mahaffey	3
Paul Graham	3
Jarl Mohn	3
Dharmesh Shah	3
Christian Hernandez	2
Yuri Milner	2
Yanki Margalit	2
Mark Pincus	2
Scott Banister	2
Mitchell Kapor	2
Tim Draper	2
Justin Mateen	2
Justin Kan	2
Jay Jamison	2
Jed Carlson	2
Ram Shriram	2
Jyri Engestrom	2
David Beyer	2
Andrew Wright	2
Garry Tan	2
David Blitzer	2
Maneesh Arora	2
Rick Marini	2
Russell Siegelman	2
Jonathan Kraft	2
Ariel Poler	2
David Assia	2
Pejman Nozad	2
Cam Drummond	2
Richard Wolpert	2
Anthony Noto	2
Rick Marini	2
Reuven Agassi	2
Moshe Bellows	1
Clarke Miyasaki	1
Steve Olechowski	1
Jason Warner	1
Brian Spaly	1
Larry Braitman	1
Mark Goines	1
Jamie Lin	1
Sunil Rayan	1

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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.

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.

Don Dodge

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
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.

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.

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.

Reid Hoffman is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder of Manas AI. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
Manas AI — Manas AI uses proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best-in-class biology to reduce the time and expense of traditional medicinal development while also revolutionizing cancer and rare illness treatments.
Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.

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.

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.

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.

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

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions. He attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
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.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

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.

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.

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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 — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

Christian is a technologist and experienced venture capitalist. He is a founding Partner of 2150, a venture capital fund seeking to make our urban environment more efficient and sustainable through technology.

Investment focus

Apps, iOS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Mitoo Sports — The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands
Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy

Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.

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

Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.

Investment focus

B2B, iOS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

iAngels — Invest in groundbreaking startups with iAngels. Discovercutting-edge technology and join a community of forward-thinking investors shapingthe future of entrepreneurship.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
Digital Layers Inc. —

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.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.

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.

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.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO 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 top10 tech entrepreneurs. 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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

Jay Jamison is the current President of Product & Technology of LogicGate. He previously worked at Quick Base as a Chief Product Officer. Jay Jamison attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Mobile, Cloud Infrastructure, Software
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pachyderm — Pachyderm automates and scales the machine learning lifecycle while guaranteeing reproducibility
Neptune.io — Neptune.i is a self-healing platform to fix your server alerts automatically thereby reducing downtime for the business. Every server on the internet generates hundreds of alerts per month. Today, DevOps engineers in lot of companies are fixing these alerts manually at anytime of the day (think 2AM). We help your engineers sleep peacefully byrunning scripts automatically.
Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.

Jed is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology and marketing. He is the CEO of Adwerx, a company committed to providing digital marketing tools that are affordable, effective and accessible to everyone. Previous ventures include SmartPrint, a division of AmeriDisc Inc, and ReverbNation, the music-marketing platform with 3.5 million users.Jed is obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also a trusted advisor and investor in the startup community. He has an MBA from Duke University and lives in Durham with his wife and three children.Before earning his MBA from Duke University, Jed was a successful entrepreneur in Minneapolis with a focus on technology and marketing. His past ventures include The Carlson Print Group, a commercial printing and packaging company, and SmartPrint, a division of AmericDisc Inc. Jed continues to be obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also an active angel investor, mentor and advisor to over ten tech startups.Jed Carlson is also a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on technology and digital marketing. Jed’s commitment to leveling the playing field for small businesses is equal only to his devotion to guiding other entrepreneurs to success.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

WedPics — After nearly 8 years of being the leading wedding photo and video sharing app, WedPics will be shutting down on February 15, 2019. We greatly appreciate you choosing WedPics to be a part of your special day, and want to thank you for being a part of our journey. You can download all your full resol

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Entri — India's leading vernacular learning platform for Job Seekers. Learn Coding, Digital Marketing, Commerce, Spoken English and more.
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.
Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, CRM
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blok24 — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
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.
Magicflix — Magicflix is a safe, curated video service for kids 12 years and younger. Magicflix aggregates videos from award-winning, original content creators from across the world. Magicflix provides a safe environment for children to view videos by curating them to be safe, age-appropriate and positive. Magicflix is now live on the App store. Magicflixis a Techstars Seattle 2014 startup and is based out of Seattle, WA. Magicflix is led by a strong technology team and 3 of Magicflix' 4 founders are moms including the CEO, Mamtha Banerjee. Together with it's content partners, Magicflix' mission is to make the mobile world a safer place for our children.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Odyssey — Odyssey operates as an AI start-up, provides hollywood-grade visual AI.
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.

David S. Blitzer is a Senior Managing Director & Head of the Tactical Opportunities group. David Blitzer is based in New York, having established Blackstone’s corporate private equity investment efforts in Europe. Since joining Blackstone in 1991, David Blitzer has been involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments in Spirit Group,SULO, Allied Waste, Aspen Insurance Holdings, Houghton Mifflin, Universal Orlando, Centerplate, Cadillac Fairview, Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, Southern Cross, NHP, Orangina, and United Biscuits. David Blitzer graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. David Blitzer serves as a Director of United Biscuits and Jack Wolfskin.

Investment focus

Sports, Media and Entertainment, iOS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
The Snow League — The Snow League is the global league for snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions.
Major League Table Tennis — Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) is the first and only professional table tennis league. It is devoted to growing the sport by offering the finest table tennis experience for those involved.

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

Investment focus

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.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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 — Grove Collaborative delivers home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, beauty, and pet products, for a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle.

Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

TeachFX — TeachFX automatically measures teacher talk vs. student talk, wait time, open-ended questions, academic language, and equitable participation using voice AI.
Positron Networks — Positron Networks focuses on integrating AI into scientific computing. The company provides advanced AI-driven solutions designed to enhance and streamline complex scientific calculations and research processes.
Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.

Upon graduation from Williams College in 1986, Jonathan started his career at Bain & Co. After earning his MBA at Harvard Business School, he joined The Kraft Group in 1990. Since that time, he has worked to help drive the growth and diversification of the Group. In his role as President, he is actively involved in the day to day operations ofthe Group's companies.Jonathan serves on the board of directors for several organizations including the Children's Hospital Trust and Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. He is also currently serving as a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard Business School and on the Board of Trustees for Williams College, the Belmont Hill School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, Jonathan coaches Little League baseball and youth soccer in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.
Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
Reloadly — Unlock global access with Reloadly's powerful API for digital gift cards and mobile top- ups.Simplify payouts, boost engagement, and grow your business with customizable, easy- to - integrate solutions.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Cameron Drummond is the CIO of Mastodon Capital Management. He attended the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Cornell University.

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.

Richard Wolpert Founder and Executive Chairman at HelloTech, a pioneer in the fields of technology, consumer digital media and entertainment for more than 25 years, Richard Wolpert has extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. He is also a Venture Partner at Acrew Capital and an Executive Chairman of Scener.Throughouthis career he has been responsible for many “firsts” including: Conceiving of and teaching CS 193C, the first Macintosh programming class at Stanford University; overseeing and managing the process for the creation of TouchBase, the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh; initiating Disney’s Daily Blast, the first kids Internet subscription service; developing and publishing BitBopTuner, the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio; helping the launch of MusicNet, the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet; and debuting Starz! On Demand, the first legitimate online movie subscription service. Wolpert successfully negotiated groundbreaking deals with several major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.As an investor, Wolpert is the co-founder and managing director of Amplify.LA; manages personal investment fund Chance Technologies; functions as an advisor to Accel Partners; served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies; and worked as the managing director of the Mail Room Fund. He has invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, Scour.net, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, Playdek and Universal.Wolpert graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science. He is a founding board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s summer camps for children and sits on the Cedars Sinai Hospital board of governors.

Investment focus

Mobile, Gaming, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
Telgorithm — Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover).
Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.

Anthony Noto is global co-head of the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Group. Before that, he was co-head of the Global Media Group for TMT Investment Banking. Anthony rejoined Goldman Sachs in 2010 after serving as the National Football League’s executive vice president and chief financial officer for nearly three years. While at the NFL, heoversaw league-wide finance and strategy functions, including corporate development, labor finance, operational finance and accounting, tax and treasury.Prior to joining the NFL, Anthony was the Internet, Entertainment and Cable Equity Research analyst and business unit leader for the Communications, Media and Entertainment Equity Research team at Goldman Sachs. Anthony joined the firm in 1999 in Equity Research to cover the Internet sector and added coverage of the Entertainment sector in 2003. He was a top- ranked analyst in both the Internet and Entertainment sectors in the annual Institutional Investor poll and Greenwich Survey from his first year covering each sector. Anthony also achieved the distinction of being the No. 1 ranked Internet analyst from 2003 to 2007. He was named managing director in 2003 and partner in 2004.Prior to first joining Goldman Sachs, Anthony worked at Lehman Brothers, where he was part of the Institutional Investor All- American Team covering the Broadline Retailing sector. Before transitioning to equity research, Anthony was a brand manager at Kraft Foods, Incorporated and a captain in the US Army as a telecommunications officer.Anthony serves on the boards of Women’s World Banking and Greenwich Academy.Anthony was a US Army Ranger, an All-East and Academic All-American football player, and the No. 1 graduate in mechanical engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1991. He also earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
Lendtable — Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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 — Grove Collaborative delivers home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, beauty, and pet products, for a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle.

Chairman at EZSource

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Android
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology

Moshe Bellows - Managing Member @ Maccabee Ventures

Investment focus

Mobile, Android, FinTech
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Xtify — Xtify provides mobile application publishers with the tools to create, manage and execute push and location-triggered notification campaigns across smartphone platforms. Xtify is founded by Silicon Alley serial entrepreneurs Andrew Weinreich and Jeremy Levy. Backed by venture capital firms Acadia Woods Partners and Seventy Six Capital, Xtifyleverages a patent-pending technology to efficiently provide marketers and publishers with a unique platform for delivering geo-relevant messages to mobile users. Xtify's platform works worldwide on Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry native applications and websites.http://www.xtify.com/
FundGuard — FundGuard revolutionizes investment funds technology with a next generation AI-powered platform. FundGuard is a cloud-based enterprise operating platform for asset managers, asset owners, custodian banks and fund administrators to manage investments across mutual funds and ETFs, alternatives, insura

Clarke has a history of success in start-up and early-stage investment environments. Most recently, Clarke served as the Global Vice President of Business Development at Skullcandy, which went public in July 2011 (NASDAQ: SKUL). Clarke joined Skullcandy in early 2008 when there were 18 employees and keyed several initiatives that helped grow thecompany to over $230 million in revenue in 2011. Prior to Skullcandy, Clarke was the Vice President of Business Development at Logoworks, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $57 million in April 2007. Clarke joined on the ground floor of Logoworks and developed several strategic partnerships that spurred Logoworks rapid growth and positioned it for a successful sale to HP. Some of the partnerships included Staples, eBay, Network Solutions, HP, Legalzoom and Intuit. Clarke was at Logoworks from August 2004 – April 2008. Clarke joined vSpring Capital in 2002 after working as a financial analyst for Ford Motor Company. Clarke worked at vSpring in a very active investment period for the fund and opened up vSpring’s first satellite office in New Mexico with Paul Ahlstrom. Clarke also helped develop many of the initial modeling and diligence tools for vSpring. Clarke received a B.S. in Finance from Brigham Young University. Clarke has been an active angel investor. Clarke is currently on the boards of Ecoscraps, Dropship.com and WAVE Energy.

Investment focus

iOS, Smart Home, Subscription Service
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pura — Pura is a smart fragrance diffuser that allows you to control your favorite scents from the convenience of your phone. Save your fragrance with custom scheduling, geofencing, and adjustable scent intensity to refine any house into your luxurious home.
Taft — Taft is a direct-to-consumer, digitally-native footwear brand focused on delivering unique products and exceptional customer service.
Nodal Power — The next generation of renewable power producers.

Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AMPY — AMPY is a wearable motion charger that captures its users’ energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. Its team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devicesAMPY was founded in 2013 by Tejas Shastry,Mike Geier, and Alex Smith. It is based in Chicago, I.L.
Selltag — Selltag offers a simple online platform for people to sell and buy items. It brings together buyers and sellers using the power of social networks. That means people can sell goods that is no longer needed or not used anymore, maybe something people have made or even digital contents to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Pluspeople can get help from those same contacts, if the link is shared to an ad users will get more potential buyers to see it.Selltag was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Valencia, Spain.
Avail — Avail is a provider of tools and guidance that makes it easy to be a landlord. It offers a platform that helps independent landlords and property managers to navigate the rental cycle, as well as provides rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online payments, and maintenance requests services. Until now, landlords with less than10 units haven’t had access to online tools designed specifically for them. Avail is an intuitive app that helps advertise vacant units, request rental applications and credit reports, sign leases, and collect rent — all online. Today, 70,000 landlords use Avail because it’s the only end-to-end platform that helps in scaling from beginner to professional with tools, support, and education.

Jason Warner is the MD at Redpoint. Jason cares deeply about the future of technology, developer experience, and growing companies. He is a people-oriented product technologist, who is passionate about building both the technical and human systems needed for scale and growth. Prior to joining GitHub, Jason was Vice President of Engineering atHeroku, the world’s leading PaaS and one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world. Before Heroku, Jason worked to make Linux accessible to everyone by leading product engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical. Jason is also an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership. His activities include formally and informally advising startup and established executives, as well as active coaching and mentoring future product and technology leaders.Jason graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science, and Rensselaer University with an MS in Computer Science. He lives with his family in Victoria, British Columbia, where he writes, sketches and enjoys the water as much as possible.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

slai — Slai is a self-serve machine learning platform. Instantly connect data sources, train models on GPUs, and deploy to APIs in minutes.
Beam — Train and deploy AI and LLM applications securely on serverless GPUs, without managing infrastructure.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

Brian Spaly is the General Partner of Brand Foundry Ventures and Executive Chairman of Tecovas. He is a former CEO at TrunkClub. He attended Princeton University and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cann — Cann is a social beverage that comes in three award-winning flavors - Blood Orange Cardamom, Lemon Lavender, and Grapefruit Rosemary. Shop today and get 15% OFF your first order!
Hello Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
Crown Affair — Redefine your relationship with your hair through our products, guidance, and community.

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spacejoy — Transform your space with the best online interior design services. Work with expert designers, get 3D room designs & shop curated furniture effortlessly.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.

Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.

1999 year old bones Internet entrepreneur, he has co-founded four Internet companies, successfully raised venture capital 300 million yuan. Middle also join the venture capital fund of experience in the All Asia Partners and HSS Ventures and so on. Proton Business School Master of Business History at New York University, NTU Chemical /Bachelor of Economics

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Natural Language Processing
Series A, Seed
Taiwan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

WritePath — WritePath is a global online solution provider for multi-lingual translation, document editing, proofreading and copy writing. Our mission is to provide B2B clients timely translation services via the T-Booster Internet platform in various languages and in high quality. WP targets clients that are Internet savvy, self-serve and with limited projectmanagement requirements and recurring demand, unlike traditional translation agencies. Our platform business model helps clients worldwide to go local in no time.
Splitforce — Splitforce is a developer of mobile testing applications that provides easy A/B testing for iOS, Android, and Unity apps. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
WeMo Scooter — WeMo Scooter is provides a smarter travel option with an easy to use vehicle sharing service. With the freedom to ride anywhere, anytime, WeMo Scooter’s smart vehicle rental service is the largest and most established in Taiwan. Open around the clock, WeMo’s services can be accessed through the app and rented at multiple public and cooperatingparking lots. With live tracking features, 24/7 customer service, and insurance for all users, WeMo takes care of the small things to provide a safe and hassle-free experience for riders.

Sunil Rayan is the current Chief Business Officer of Moloco. He previously worked at The Walt Disney Company as a President and Head of Disney+ Hotstar. Sunil Rayan attended the University of Madras.

Investment focus

Test and Measurement, Mobile, iOS
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

test.ai — Test.ai provides an AI-powered test automation platform to help organizations deliver quality mobile app experiences. The platform scales and can test thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain tests. Test.ai automates testing for the most impactful user experiences so that app teams can focus on improving them.The team attest.ai wrote the book on testing— having worked on some of the world’s most used software such as Chrome and Bing and co-authoring books such as How Google Tests Software and App Quality: Secrets for Agile App Teams. Test.ai is dedicated to elevating the quality of the world’s apps and is uniquely qualified to do so.
Appurify — Firebase is Google's mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and grow your business.

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