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Top 50 Art Angel Investors (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Art startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Art startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hesham Zreik
Angel
7 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
Thomas Bunnik
Angel
4 The Netherlands Seed Art, E-Commerce, Home Decor $547k–$1M
Cyan Banister
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$22M
Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace $30k–$1M
Jorg Mohaupt
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Music, Mobile Apps, Art $326k–$2.8M
Oliver Slipper
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, B2B, B2C $382k–$3.5M
Melih Odemis
Angel
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $170k–$1.9M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $182k–$14M
Andrew Silberstein
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity Art, Events, Retail $200k–$400k
Scott Belsky
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.1M–$50M
Scott Heiferman
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Angel Social Media, Social Network, Internet $270k–$10M
Sam Evitt
Angel
2 United States Art, Apps, Music
Gil Avraham Weisblum
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Marketing, Art, Apps
Kevin Mayer
Angel
2 United States, Sweden, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Mobile, Music, Digital Media $120k–$11M
Eric Ries
Angel
2 United States, Serbia, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $40k–$15M
Blake Krikorian
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, E-Commerce $1.1M–$28M
James Joaquin
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Internet, Health Care $500k–$31M
Kelly Graziadei
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$3.5M
Binh Tran
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology $1M–$7.3M
Frédéric Jousset
Angel
2 France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Art, FinTech, Finance
Justin Timberlake
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Portugal Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Apps, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$200M
Michael Hansen
Angel
2 Germany, Hong Kong Seed Software, Art, SaaS $500k–$1.5M
Nicolas Julia
Angel
2 France, Israel, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $400k–$15M
Andrew Mitchell
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion $1.1M–$14M
Tom Ryan
Angel
2 United States, Denmark, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Music, E-Commerce, Mobile $175k–$26M
Tristan Pollock
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Travel, Internet $150k–$50M
Elio Sceti
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Chile Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Retail $393k–$50M
Tinie Tempah
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada Seed FinTech, Art, Apps $2M–$8.1M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Amir Handjani
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel Art, Education, Social Media
Rosario Bifulco
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Art, Medical, Blockchain
Brian Spaly
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail $1.3M–$25M
Raymond Tonsing
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $1M–$115M
Thomas France
Angel
2 France, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Web3, Information Technology $400k–$31M
Patricio Worthalter
Angel
2 United States, Argentina, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art $1M–$20M
Jason Robins
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Sports, Internet, E-Commerce $1.2M–$42M
David Mahoney
Angel
2 United States Series A Art, Video, Retail $500k–$800k
Jenny Lefcourt
Angel
2 United States, Italy Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $2M–$40M
Shu Duan
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1M–$30M
Summer Watson
Angel
2 United States Art, Apps, Music
Shane Mac
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Henrik Lindemann
Angel
2 Denmark Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Art, iOS, Android
Benjamin Ling
Angel
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $650k–$50M
Heiko Rauch
Angel
2 Spain, Germany, United States Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Internet, Software $335k–$5.3M
Sidharth Rao
Angel
2 India Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Big Data, Internet, Software $200k–$306k
Jason Calacanis
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$16M
Mike Edwards
Angel
2 Canada, United States Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Art $387k–$5.6M
Deepak Jain
Angel
2 Canada Angel, Pre-Seed Art, Gaming, eSports
Rahul Vohra
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$298M
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in Art startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1140
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • qOtimp — qOtimp is a pioneering financial technology startup focused on transforming how options and portfolios are managed.
  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Supremacy League — It is a global Muay Thai and stand-up martial arts league concept designed to unify amateur and professional competition.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 6 investments in Art startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 617
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $5k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Thomas Bunnik
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Art startups

Thomas Bunnik is a Dutch serial entrepreneur and investor based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder and CEO of Whoppah, Europe's largest secondhand design marketplace, operating across 16 countries with double-digit million sales. Prior to Whoppah, he founded Pritle, an award-winning digital wealth management platform acquired by BinckBank in2017 for €12.5 million. He has raised over €25 million in equity financing across his ventures and led multiple cross-border acquisitions, including Design Market (France) and Showroommodellen (Netherlands).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, E-Commerce, Home Decor
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $547k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whoppah — Whoppah, is the top-notch second-hand marketplace for second-hand furniture and art. Always in good condition and curated by our stylists and art connoisseurs.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Art startups

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
  • Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel · 4 investments in Art startups

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $30k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Charmy — Charmy is used so users can discover playlists. Users can share a picture and discover songs based on their mood. Their application is available for Android and iOS users. It is an online social media music site.
  • Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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Jorg Mohaupt
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Art startups

Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $326k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Oliver Slipper
Angel · Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Art startups

Building Sports & Tech Companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, B2B, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $393k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
  • PickGuru — At PickGuru we help betting companies, rights holders and publishers enhance the sports fan customer lifecycle of acquisition, engagement, retention, referrals and revenues. Our dynamic sports prediction games and community building tools supercharge the fan relationship and boost trust and loyalty with our client brands.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Art startups

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$1.9M; Angel $275k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LIOM — Pioneering in non-invasive glucose monitoring technology, seamlessly integrated with health metrics for a revolutionary wearable experience.
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Art startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$14M; Series A $1M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Andrew Silberstein
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Art startups

Andrew Silberstein

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Events, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcadia Earth — WHAT IS IT? Arcadia Earth is a large scale multi-sensorial journey through underwater worlds, fantasy lands, and inspirational art installations.
  • Waterton — Are you passionate about providing exceptional customer service? Join the Waterton team! Follow us for Waterton news and job openings.
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Scott Belsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Art startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meticulous — Meticulous auto-generates and auto-maintains visual frontend browser tests, providing a level of coverage that is unattainable with manually written tests.
  • Osmo Studio — Osmo is an AI-native video editor for product launch videos and motion graphics. Turn ideas, Figma files, and footage into polished, on-brand animations, built as editable code.
  • Gravity — The Ad Network for AI
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Scott Heiferman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Scott Heiferman is a Fulfillment Center Associate I at Amazon. He attended the University of Iowa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Social Network, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $270k–$4M; Series A $800k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 222 — this must be the place.
  • Vibely — Kajabi Communities has everything you need to build and monetize a thriving community including live calls, challenges, leaderboards, accountability tools, and more.
  • Realtime — instantly discover communities online and in the real world in 10 mins or less
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Sam Evitt
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Sam Evitt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Music
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
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Gil Avraham Weisblum
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Prior to joining Ranger Global Advisors, Gil Weisblum was the President of GAW Ventures LLC, an investment vehicle that actively allocates capital to public and private investment opportunities on behalf of a high net-worth family and a network of co-investors. Prior to forming GAW Ventures, Gil was most recently a Managing Director at JMB Capital,a global opportunistic hedge fund with over $1 billion in capital.From September 2002 through March 2006, Gil was a senior analyst at Mellon HBV Alternative Strategies, a multi-strategy hedge fund that managed over $1 billion in assets. At Mellon HBV, Gil was responsible for sourcing and evaluating event-driven and special situation investment opportunities.Before joining Mellon HBV, Gil was an Associate at ACI Capital Co., Inc., an integrated investment firm that manages several investment vehicles on behalf of the Israel family and other institutional and high-net-worth investors. Previously, Gil was an Associate at Hoffman & Company, a private equity firm focused on consumer product companies. Prior to joining Hoffman & Company, Gil was an Analyst in the Financial Entrepreneurs Group within Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking Division.Gil received a BS magna cum laude in Finance and Economics from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Art, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
  • ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
  • Prometheus Alternative Investments — Prometheus is a new platform that connects managers and investors, while offering credible content from pros and streamlined access to their funds
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Kevin Mayer
Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Kevin Mayer is based out of Beverly Hills, California and is the Board Member of HYBE. Kevin previously worked at Tinuiti as a Board Member. Kevin Mayer attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Music, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$11M; Pre-Seed $120k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Breakr — Unleash the power of music with Breakr. Explore a dynamic platform connecting artists, brands, and creators. Join us in reshaping the landscape of music discovery.
  • Moment House — Elevated Digital Experiences
  • Popshop Live — Popshoplive is a turnkey creator commerce platform where creators sell their favorite items to their followers through e.commerce, video clips and live-streamed shows
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Eric Ries
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Serbia, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.4M; Series A $1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
  • Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
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Blake Krikorian
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Blake Krikorian

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$6.8M; Series B $16M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.
  • Pixel Labs — Pixel Labs (Hoodline.com) is a media tech company that powers hyperlocal content discovery in 40 US cities. We're solving local news and information discovery down to a 0.2 mile radius.Using machine learning and AI, Hoodline editors turns raw data signals into thousands of hyperlocal automated stories each month. Hoodline's platformalso tags and contextualize content from hundreds of partner publications, adding exact location and dozens of other classifying meta-data to each story. Hoodline's APIs and SDK make it easy for any app or site to integrate with its platform to recommend fresh and relevant content to their users. Partners include ABC, Yahoo Search, MSN, Eventbrite, Uber, CBS, Advance Digital, Zumper and McClatchy. Team of 28 in SF. Investors include Greylock, Rakuten, Disney, Social Capital, CRV, Innovation Endeavors & Joi Ito.
  • Vantage Robotics — Silicon Valley-based Vantage Robotics designs, builds and sells UAVs and UAV components for government and commercial customers.
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James Joaquin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

James has over twenty-five years of experience building and leading technology companies from early stage company ideation to global market leadership. He helped create entirely new categories such as online photography, web-based calendaring and the Personal Digital Assistant. James is the former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks.James is theco-founder of Obvious Ventures, investing in #worldpositive startups that combine profit and purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8.5M; Series A $4M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ampathy — Ampathy is a proprietary technology company that turns users into philanthropists. The company also productizes content for social impact. It has developed the first consumer-facing giving platform that turns corporate ad dollars into philanthropic dollars. Ampathy was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York, United States.
  • Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
  • Fetcher — Automate candidate sourcing and cut time-to-hire with AI recruiting software and sourcing tools built for busy talent teams.
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Kelly Graziadei
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Kelly Graziadei is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Perplexity Fund. Kelly previously worked at Pacific Community Ventures as a Board Director. Kelly Graziadei attended the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Floqer — Build workflows that leverage 75+ industry-leading data sources and AI-powered web scraping to enrich prospect data, conduct account-based research, and automate sales motion at scale.
  • Turing — Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs.
  • MakersPlace — MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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Binh Tran
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Binh Tran is a General Partner of Ascend Vietnam Ventures and a Partner for 500 Startups Vietnam, a seed-stage fund investing in Vietnam-connected startups. Prior to 500 Startups, Binh was a Co-founder of Klout and Evalulogix. He attended the UC Irvine.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Osaro — OSARO offers cutting-edge robotic piece-picking solutions tailored to your industry.
  • Finblox — Finblox is a platform that helps crypto investors buy and earn rewards on their crypto assets like Bitcoin, USDC, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Axie Infinity
  • Outreach — Outreach helps sales, marketing, RevOps, and GTM teams win with AI-powered workflows. Discover the platform driving revenue success today.
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Frédéric Jousset
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Olivier Duha at Bain & Company, Frédéric co-founded Webhelp, which originally provided online support services for businesses and the general public, in June 2000. Rapid growth and innovation over the following years has resulted in the BPO provider and customer experience engineer that is Webhelp today.Frédéric graduated from HEC in 1992 andbegan his career in 1994 at L’Oréal. He handled marketing and familiarised himself with new product development, consumer brand management and advertising strategies. Paying close attention to new technologies, he decided to buy DIALOG, a software vendor, in 1998 and soon merged it with its competitor, IKOSOFT. He then joined Bain & Company in 1999 as part of the private equity practice, where he participated in several consulting assignments guiding the engagement strategy of major funding institutions.Frederic is a Knight of the Order of Merit and the Arts & Humanities, and Commander of Wissam Al-Aouite of the Kingdom of Morocco. Since October 2011, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artsper — Artsper is a contemporary art marketplace where galleries selected across the World can sell their artworks. They work with hundreds of galleries, which enables us to promote more than 10 000 artworks proposed by 4 000 artists.
  • Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
  • LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.
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Justin Timberlake
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Justin Timberlake is a pop star and actor. Timberlake became famous in the 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync. Most recently Timberlake played Sean Parker in The Social Network released in the movie theaters in 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $6M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Password — Protect passwords and secrets, manage app access, and secure AI tools with 1Password. Easy to adopt from growing teams to enterprise.
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
  • The Ugly Company — Welcome to sustainable snacking! The Ugly Company prevents imperfect produce from being thrown away and upcycles it into delicious, all natural, healthy dried fruit snacks.
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Michael Hansen
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Michael’s responsible for strategic growth in the Asia Pacific region of Zendesk. An IT sales veteran, Michael has more than 20 years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles spanning the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.Prior to becoming Zendesk’s first employee, Michael was selling help desk projects in Australia. Michael is anarmy officer who has studied at the Danish Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Art, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChartMogul — SaaS & subscription reporting, analytics & metrics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and PayPal. In one click get your MRR, LTV, churn rate, cohort analysis and more.
  • Soundbrenner — Innovative music tools that remove the hassle from your practice. Master your craft with the Core, Pulse or our app The Metronome.
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Nicolas Julia
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Art startups

Nicolas Julia is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sorare. Nicolas previously worked at Stratumn as a VP of Operations. Nicolas Julia attended the EM Lyon Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Israel, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
  • Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
  • Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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Andrew Mitchell
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZOZI — ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses. It offers introductory flight lessons, vineyard tours and wine tasting by horseback, diving for abalone, ice climbing frozen waterfalls, celebrity and athlete experiences, and various accessible adventures. Thecompany also provides weekend getaways and vacation packages for customers.ZOZI was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • LiquidTalent — LiquidTalent is a web and mobile local talent marketplace for hiring vetted developers and designers through social connection. Our on-demand platform facilitates direct connection between talent and hirers via text messages and call requests. Our community events bring people together. We are creating the future of work platform for the nextgeneration economy.
  • RETAILIGENCE — Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers.
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Tom Ryan
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV and President, CEO, and Streaming at Paramount, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership withhundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Denmark, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$8.5M; Series A $2.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roniin — Roniin is a startup studio that connects talented founders with ideas, execution, and capital to create new companies. The studio is a team of operators that work directly with the management team to co-found the next generation of industry-changing startups. They focus on and have experience in building companies that truly understand sales, thatknow marketing, that have great product and technology.Roniin was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
  • Sommetrics — Sommetrics is focused on improving health and well-being by optimizing sleep quality. Using our proprietary aer+ technology, our initial focus is on developing solutions for disorders related to the narrowing of the airway during sleep, such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and chronic snoring.
  • WHOW Games — WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space.
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Tristan Pollock
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Movement Builder ||| Founding Partner @CoolClimateFund ||| Alum @500GlobalVC @Google @TheEdenDAO @Terradotdo #ODCT

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4.8M; Series B $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
  • Headout — Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at incredible prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds.
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Elio Sceti
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Art startups

Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$4.9M; Series A $5M–$14M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meural — Meural is a provider of an art technology platform designed to offer a digital frame to render images lifelike and textured. Its art technology platform combines art, technology, and design to create a digitally connected canvas built to showcase artwork and photography that provide consumers with newfound access to art from the past, present, andfuture while meaningfully improving the personal space.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
  • Fabula AI Limited — Fabula AI is now part of Twitter on 31 May 2019
  • Narwhal Media Group — Narwhal Media Group provides complete digital services specializing in branding, marketing, and designing. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Bristol, UK.
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Tinie Tempah
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Art startups

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Art, Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$49M; Series B $7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stan — We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
  • The 33rd Team — The 33rd Team is a sports entertainment platform that offers spectator sports content.
  • Pro Padel League — The Premier Professional Padel League in North America. Elevating padel, exploring teams, and bringing you closer to the action with stories, highlights, and behind-the-scenes moments.
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Amir Handjani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Art startups

Amir Handjani

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVY — IVY is a leadership community for entrepreneurs, creatives, and innovative professionals who are passionate about making a lasting positive impact. Our members learn from leading minds, attend curated gatherings, and establish lifelong bonds.
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Rosario Bifulco
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Art startups

Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Medical, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • I-VASC — I-VASC has developed the VELEX device using new technology to treat CVI and varicose veins.
  • Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
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Brian Spaly
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $3.6M–$10M; Series B $8M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

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.
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Raymond Tonsing
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$38M; Series B $20M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Farcaster — Farcaster is a social network that helps coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme makers find people based on their interests. The company focuses on increasing daily active users and adding developer primitives to the protocol, such as channels and direct message delivery. It aims to create a decentralized social network that allows users tocommunicate directly without the need for intermediaries.
  • Friend — Your new roommate is waiting.
  • Blowfish — Blowfish detects and prevents fraud before any fraud occurs.
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Thomas France
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Entrepreneur, Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web3, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.8M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
  • Belfort — Enabling Fully Homomorphic Encryption through Hardware Acceleration
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Patricio Worthalter
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Patricio Worthalter is the Founder of POAP - The Proof of Attendance Protocol. He previously worked at Milliwatt as a CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Argentina, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Summer.fi —
  • Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
  • Coop Records — Coop Records Music
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Jason Robins
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Jason Robins is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the CEO & Co-Founder of DraftKings, Inc. Jason previously worked at Vistaprint as a Marketing and Analytics. Jason Robins attended the Duke University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Givingli — Givingli is the design forward way to make connecting with people simple and more meaningful with greeting cards and gifts.
  • Knot — Knot powerfully improves products for you and your users, adding revenue-generating features and connecting cardholders to thousands of merchants.
  • Kidsy — Save up to 50% on open-box baby gear at Kidsy. Shop strollers, car seats & more from top brands like Graco, Doona, Owlet & Evenflo. New deals daily.
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David Mahoney
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

David Mahoney was appointed to Symantec's board of directors in April 2003. He previously served as co-CEO of McKesson HBOC, Inc. and as CEO of iMcKesson LLC from July 1999 to February 2001. Mahoney joined McKesson in 1990 as vice president for Strategic Planning, and was responsible for planning and corporate development. He had overallresponsibility for McKesson's strategic relations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, was responsible for the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Partners Group at McKesson, and the launch of a new generics program.Prior to joining McKesson, Mahoney was a principal with McKinsey & Company from 1981 to 1990. He serves on the board of directors of Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Corcept Therapeutics, Inc., Schwab Funds/Loudus Funds, SFMOMA, and Mercy Corps.He has a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's of business administration from Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Video, Retail
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $500k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 20x200 — 20x200: It's Art For Everyone! Limited-edition, museum-quality prints by emerging, established and legendary artists.
  • Surphace — Surphace (formerly Sphere) provides contextual content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Surphace helps online publishers create a more engaging reader experience leading to longer time spent on site and increased PVs per visit along with a new incremental revenue stream. Surphace is currently integrated into over150,000 leading sites and is live on over 1.2 Billion monthly article pages across the web. Surphace's core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.â„¢ The Content Genomeâ„¢ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike many other solutions, the Content Genomeâ„¢ does not require a taxonomy or training — Surphace can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishers’ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required. Surphace has a broad range of partners including leading A-list publishers, micro-publishers and independent blogs.
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Jenny Lefcourt
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Series A $6M–$16M; Series B $7.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Idiomatic — Idiomatic believes that if you can listen to your customers at scale, you will make better business decisions. Its voice-of-customer platform helps companies do just that, by using AI to identify and track all issues and trends that customers bring up in customer support inquiries, NPS survey responses, and app reviews. Idiomatic quantifies thosegranular issues so that their clients have clear, data-driven criteria for prioritizing resources in order to improve their products or services. Beloved companies like Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, and Disney rely on Idiomatic.
  • Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
  • Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.
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Shu Duan
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Art startups

Shu Duan is based out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island and is the Head of Capital Markets & Chief Technology Officer of Aspen Digital. Shu previously worked at Credit Suisse as a Director. Shu Duan attended the University of Waterloo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.2M; Series B $1.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tara AI — Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly.At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smartplatform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability.Launched in public beta in April, 2020.
  • Pathmind — Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allowssimulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.
  • Adarza BioSystems — Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip.It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.
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Summer Watson
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Summer Watson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Music
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
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Shane Mac
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Shane Mac is the Founder & General Partner of Logos Labs. Attended Western Illinois University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
  • Particle.News — Welcome to Particle News.
  • Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
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Henrik Lindemann
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Henrik Lindemann

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, iOS, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Benjamin Ling
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • eyesAtop — eyesAtop develops a hardware-agnostic software and edge-AI platform designed to coordinate multi-drone fleets from a unified interface. The technology integrates autonomous control, video analytics, and jam-resistant communications, enabling a single operator to command diverse drone types simultaneously for defense and surveillance missions
  • Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.
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Heiko Rauch
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Art startups

Co-Founder of UFOstart

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Spain, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $335k–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CodeOp — CodeOp is providing the resources needed to encourage, support and equip women and individuals in the TGNC community with the skills to become leading developers and data engineers. We’re building an educational space and program that fosters diversity and inclusion and how we do this is important.
  • VisionAI — VisionAI reimagines eCommerce search with AI agents that fix typos, understand natural language, and turn every query into revenue. Easy setup in 20 minutes.
  • ModelManagement.com — Model Management connects new faces and models with scouts, international modeling agencies and model photographers.
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Sidharth Rao
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Art startups

Entrepreneur since 1998. Proud founder of a couple of really spectacular internet businesses in India. And then, at least 2x number of equally spectacular turkeys. The first bit taught me how to find great partners, choose great investors, build awesome teams, be great in sales, execute, execute and ruthlessly execute.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$306k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lio — Explore insights on digital transformation, manufacturing, and insurance. Lio's blog offers expert tips and trends for businesses embracing technology and innovation.
  • VS Mani & Co — Shop South Indian filter coffee, instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices at VS Mani & Co. Free delivery.
  • FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 714
  • Round size: Seed $525k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $2.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
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Mike Edwards
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Mike Edwards is a CEO at Pioneer Media. Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unbounce — Grow your relevance, leads, and sales with Unbounce. Use Unbounce to easily create and optimize landing pages for your small business and boost conversions with AI insights.
  • SportsIcon — Login alternatif VIP VICTORY77 dengan mudah dan cepat! Nikmati pengalaman bermain slot gacor online yang menguntungkan dan aman di sini.
  • Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
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Deepak Jain
Angel · 2 investments in Art startups

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
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Rahul Vohra
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Art startups

Rahul Vohra is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder & CEO of Superhuman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $10M–$21M; Series B $30M–$298M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Double — AI-powered, ledger-integrated close management for accounting firms and teams. Automate manual work, gain real-time visibility, and close the books faster.
  • Lassie — AI that runs the doctor's office.
  • Function Health — Test your whole body and own your health. Function, co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, is a lifelong routine of 100+ lab tests for the whole body including thyroid, hormones, fertility, autoimmunity, heart, kidney, liver and more. Lab results direct to you with insights from top doctors.
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Art Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 270 deals from 526 investors.

526
investors
in Art startups
270
deals
in Art startups
$1M
median round
in Art startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
49%
Seed
most common funding stage

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