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Top 50 Art Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Art startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Art Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor	Art United States investments
Cyan Banister	4
Scott Belsky	3
Julia Hartz	2
Amir Handjani	2
Dasha Zhukova	2
David Mahoney	2
Jenny Lefcourt	2
Benjamin Ling	2
Jonathan Keidan	2
Binh Tran	2
Nion McEvoy	2
Blake Krikorian	2
James Joaquin	2
Eric Ries	2
Scooter Braun	2
Andrew Mitchell	2
Kevin Mayer	2
Shu Duan	2
Kelly Graziadei	2
Raymond Tonsing	2
Patricio Worthalter	2
Keith Rabois	2
Dave Morin	2
Bryan Rosenblatt	2
Justin Timberlake	2
Brian Spaly	2
Andrew Silberstein	2
Scott Heiferman	2
Elio Leoni Sceti	2
Tom Ryan	2
Aarti Ramamurthy	2
Jason Robins	2
Richard Davidian	1
Wendi Murdoch	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Tim Kang	1
Sonalee Parekh	1
Howard Wolk	1
Stani Kulechov	1
Spencer Rascoff	1
Mariano Conti	1
Louis Beryl	1
Alexis Ohanian	1
Jimmy McNeal	1
David Lee	1
Fabrice Sergent	1
Joseph N. Sanberg	1
Kevin Weil	1
Jon Callaghan	1
Mike Krieger	1

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oboe — Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning.
Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.

Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world's largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world.Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite's award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.'s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013.Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Microverse — Want to learn how to code? Pay $0 until you become a software developer and land a job. Learn programming from the best online coding school and connect with a global community.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Glimpse — Create a distributed showroom experience without the hassle of a real showroom. Drive product discovery and track the customer journey with Glimpse's platform.

Amir Handjani

Investment focus

Art, Education, Social Media
Seed, Angel
United States

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.

Dasha Zhukova is an entrepreneur and investor whose work is at the intersection of art, architecture, and culture. In 2008, she founded the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow–– an institution committed to providing access to global culture through a rotating exhibition series and creative content production. The iconic RemKoolhaas-designed structure also acts as a home for Russia’s first and only contemporary art archive. Through the Garage Archive Collection, the museum conducts original research and translation to help create a digital platform for the study of postwar contemporary art. Garage has published 130 books and catalogues by authors ranging from Susan Sontag to Walter Benjamin and has had a print run of more than half a million copies distributed worldwide. With education at its core, Garage acts as vehicle for exploration and discovery for nearly a million visitors annually.Dasha led the strategy for cultural urbanization behind the establishment of New Holland Island as the preeminent public recreation space of St. Petersburg. She stewarded the redevelopment of the historic location, founded by Peter the Great in the early 18th century, and directed the project to completion until it opened its doors to visitors in 2011. New Holland Island acts as a point of convergence, with restored classic architecture in dialogue with modern galleries, parks and playgrounds, seasonal festivals, and public art.Motivated to scale access to contemporary culture, Dasha founded Garage Magazine in 2011. Since acquired by Vice Media, Garage Magazine fosters collaborations between established and emerging artists and serves as mechanism for sparking conversation between art, fashion, current events, and content creation. Published bi-annually, Garage Magazine allows readers to immerse themselves in the values of its eponymous museum in the comforts of their own homes.Dasha is a founder of both Artsy, a digital platform that democratizes the process buying and selling art, as well as the IRIS Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the understanding and development of contemporary culture throughout the world. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum in Moscow, and the Shed, where she is a founding member. Born in Moscow, she was educated in Los Angeles, graduating from UCSB. Dasha lives in New York City with her two children.

Investment focus

Art, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series D
United States

Portfolio highlights

Artsy — Artsy is the world’s largest online art marketplace. Browse over 1 million artworks by iconic and emerging artists from 4000+ galleries and top auction houses.

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.

Investment focus

Art, Video, Retail
Series A
United States

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 Sphereâ€™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 â€” Surphace can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishersâ€™ 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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Idiomatic — Turn your customer feedback data into instant voice of customer within minutes. Any help desk, any survey, any feedback, any scale. Try it for free today.
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.

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).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.

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.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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
CatalyzeX — Browse open-source code for AI & other research papers to catalyze your projects. Easily connect with authors and experts when you need help.
Nearside — FDIC-insured business checking account and cashback rewards debit card. Get 2.2% cashback in 2022 on all eligible business purchases. Rewards, discounts, no overdraft fees or monthly minimums, and a Mastercard Enhanced Debit Card. Get started today!

Nion McEvoy, Chairman and CEO, joined Chronicle Books in 1986. He became Editor-in-Chief of the Adult Trade division until the acquisition of the company in February of 2000 by The McEvoy Group. He previously worked in the Business Affairs offices of Wescom Productions and the William Morris Agency. He is a graduate of the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz, and the University of California's Hasting's College of the Law.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

20x200 — 20x200: It's Art For Everyone! Limited-edition, museum-quality prints by emerging, established and legendary artists.
Editr (Tablo Inc.) — Matchmaking Visual Style with Shopping
Seven Seas Music — Seven Seas Music is a Paas—desktop & mobile—that enables users to discover and share authentic music from around the world. It solves numerous issues associated with global music licensing for media producers.

Blake Krikorian

Investment focus

Social Media, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gem — Gem empowers individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralization movement spreading globally today. Gem has been powering this movement through its cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain platform since 2013. Our seasoned team of cryptocurrencysoftware architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering easier and more secure ways to participate in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace.
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 — Your AI recruiter - source passive candidates with automated talent sourcing. Recruiting AI software to help you hire underrepresented talent.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
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.

Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Egypt, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kindo — Gen AI custom built for DevSecOps teams
Spatial Labs — Spatial Labs is a technology infrastructure company that is powering the next generation of Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Omni-channel, and Immersive Experiences - collectively known as the Metaverse.
Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Harry's — Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their groomingessentials need online.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
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.

Kevin Mayer is the Co-CEO & Founder of Candle Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Music, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States

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!
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.
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

Shu Duan - Director @ Credit Suisse

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada

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.

Kelly Graziadei - Founder & General Partner @ f7 Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Art, Digital Media
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Turing — Trusted by AI and enterprise leaders. Advance and deploy AGI with the most experienced genAI deployment and LLM training solutions from Turing.
Brightback — Customer retention automation software for SaaS and subscription businesses. Stop SaaS churn and retain customers at scale.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Argentina, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
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.

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

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Jomboy Media — A creator-led media company that breaks down sports at the expense of no one (except ourselves). Click to read Jomboy Media, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Machine Learning
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

1Password — Protect your sensitive information with our password manager. Stop data breaches, secure apps, and autofill passwords with 1Password.
Hydrow — Hydrow rowing machines offer the best low-impact, full-body workout. Get an immersive experience working out in the most beautiful locations. Shop now!
Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

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 THC-infused 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.

Andrew Silberstein

Investment focus

Art, Events, Retail
Seed
United States

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.

Scott Heiferman is a Co-Founder and CEO of support groups, playgroups, bookclubs, business circles, running groups, community action groups, etc. Previously, Heiferman co-founded Fotolog, a photo sharing network where over 30 million people have uploaded nearly a billion photos. He also founded i-traffic, a top online ad agency in the 90s. He then fled the ad industry and was influenced by 9/11 to start Meetup. Scott graduated from The University of Iowa. He is an angel investor in Betaworks, Founders Collective, Virgance, 20x200, and others. Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship and was named an MIT Technology Review "Innovator of the Year". He's @heif.

Investment focus

Social Media, Internet, Art
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vibely — Kajabi Communities has everything you need to build and monetize a thriving community including live calls, challenges, leaderboards, accountability tools, and more.
Change.org — Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries. Change.org empowers anyone, anywhere, to create the change they want to see. On Change.org, people everywhere are starting campaigns, mobilizing supporters, and working with decision-makers to drive solutions. Change.org is a certifiedB-corporation, a new class of companies dedicated to positive impact. Investors include Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Ev Williams, Richard Branson, Reid Hoffman, and the Omidyar Network, started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
Gatheround — Facilitate must-haves like regular team bonding, new hire onboarding, peer learning, and more.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Chile

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 — From lead generation & web design to SEO, our Digital Agency combines our dynamic skill sets to achieve targeted results and grow businesses.

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.

Investment focus

Music, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
WHOW Games GmbH — WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space.

Aarti Ramamurthy investor.

Investment focus

Art, Apps, Music
Series A, Funding Round
United States, India

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!
BuildShip — BuildShip enables organizations to quickly build powerful AI-enabled workflows and automation. The platform's intuitive visual and low-code interface allows users to create APIs, schedule jobs, handle backend tasks, and build ETL data pipelines. It seamlessly connects AI models, databases, and tools in your stack, facilitating rapid innovationby combining the ease of no-code with AI-powered coding.
Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Jason Robins is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of DraftKings, the innovative sports-tech entertainment platform that is changing the way consumers around the world engage with and consume sports. Robins co-founded DraftKings in 2012 and oversees all of the company’s strategy and operations, while also driving funding and partnerships. Robinshas quickly built a reputation for expanding DraftKings’ reach across numerous platforms through wide-ranging, forward-thinking partnerships. Under his leadership, DraftKings became the first DFS company to sign a league partnership, with Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2013. Since then, the company has signed three additional league-wide partnerships, including the National Hockey League (NHL) and NASCAR. DraftKings is also the exclusive partner of 12 National Football League (NFL) teams, seven National Basketball League (NBA) teams, 27 MLB teams and seven NHL teams. Robins attended Duke University, where he received his degree in Economics and Computer Science. He resides with his wife and sons in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

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 — Shop discounted open-box baby and kids items from all the top brands

Richard Davidian

Investment focus

Art, Education, Social Media
Seed
United States

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.

Wendi Murdoch is a Chinese-American entrepreneur, art collector, film producer, and businesswoman.Born in Jinan, Shandong, she was the third wife of News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. She is the co-founder of Artsy.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series D
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VIPKID — VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.
Meituan — Meituan develops and operates a platform providing retail and online group buying services. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online. It operates a social commerce website that offers online group discounts for movie tickets, groceries, food, restaurants, entertainment, and health/fitness sectors.Zhang Tao foundedMeituan Group in 2010 that became Meituan-Dianping in December 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. Meituan-Dianping officially changed its name to Meituan in September 2020.
ByteDance — ByteDance is a technology company that operates a variety of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people. Its platforms aim to help users explore and discover the world's creativity, knowledge, and everyday moments that matter, while also empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones. It isdedicated to providing a safe, healthy, and positive online experience for all of its users.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Tim Kang

Investment focus

Art, Digital Media
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

LAGO — LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence.

Sonalee is a seasoned corporate advisor who adds more than 20 years experience in the global technology, media, and telecommunications industries to our leadership group. She has held senior leadership roles at several international investment banks, including Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies. Parekh currently serves as the SVP ofCorporate Development and Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Investment focus

Art, Education, Social Media
Seed
United States

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.

Howard L. Wolk is Co-President of The Cross Country Group (CCG), a privately-held organization consisting of technology-enabled emergency assistance, direct marketing and customer service businesses serving global corporate clients in the automotive, insurance, real estate and financial services industries. The company enjoys strategicrelationships with global corporations such as General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Liberty Mutual, Progressive, Bank of America, Citibank and many others. CCG has approximately 2500 associates in North America and Europe and serves over 75 million of its clients’ customers.

Investment focus

Apps, Art, Publishing
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cuseum — Cuseum helps museums, attractions, and nonprofits drive visitor, member, and donor engagement. Learn more about how Cuseum's mobile engagement app platform and digital membership card solution is helping organizations around the globe.
Push Corp — PushPage is a personal homepage platform that offers users an online presence where they can publicize their likes and interests through a series of interview-like questions PushPage provides. The company was founded in mid-2011 by Harvard grad (and former Facebook intern) Meir Lakhovsky and Cornell grad Jared Jaffe. The service is now inbeta, and already has seen over 5,000 people creating PushPages on the platform, answering questions about their interests, hobbies, recommendations and tastes.
Ology Media — Ology is a social discovery and networking site built for consumers to share content and conversation around their interests and passions. Both users and Ology's talented and hilarious editorial staff creates content that spans music, film, TV, celebrity, geek, sports, humor, politics, as well as countless other niche passions and topics.Ology's mission is to put people's passions at their fingertips by bringing them closer to the things they love and closer to others who share those interests.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Spencer Rascoff is the Co-Founder and the Chairman of Board at Pacaso.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HostGPO — HostGPO is an industry-specific group purchasing organization for short-term rental businesses.
Setpoint.io — Originators, Asset Managers and Lenders use Setpoint's technology and capital to power asset-backed transactions.
Arrived Homes — Arrived Homes is a platform for investing in shares of rental homes starting from $100. Buy shares of rental homes, earn passive income, and let Arrived take care of the rest.

Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Astaria — Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs.
GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
LAGO — LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence.

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stelo Labs — Read the lastest on web3 security from Stelo
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.
Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Jimmy McNeal

Investment focus

Art, Digital Media
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

LAGO — LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence.

David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

A lifelong entrepreneur, Fabrice Sergent is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bandsintown Group. He is a media and Internet entrepreneur with 20 years of experience, having spoken at prominent music events including Midem, REVOLT Music Conference, DLD, MWC’s 4YFN and the Glimpse Social Discovery Conference. Bandsintown improves the concert-goingexperience for millions of fans around the world and helps thousands of artists of all sizes and genres to better connect with their core audience. Under Fabrice’s leadership, the family of Bandsintown apps has attracted over 19 million concert-goers, reaches a global audience of 120 million music fans through Bandsintown Amplified and powers the tour dates for more than 300K artists around the world. Bandsintown has expanded to become the premiere destination where artists and fans connect. Fabrice also serves as Chair of the Advisory Board for the Previously, Sergent was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Club-Internet, which was purchased by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online for a historical 1.2 billion euro in 2000.

Investment focus

Art, Fashion, Printing
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Curioos — Welcome to the largest online collection of giant art. Shop high-quality giant canvas, art prints, photographs, and framed artworks on GiantArt.com. Find affordable oversized wall art to elevate your space.

Joe Sanberg is a public and private-sector entrepreneur and investor harnessing the power of innovation to improve the quality of life for all. He is Co-Founder of Aspiration, an online financial company built for everyone. Aspiration serves people at the heart of their financial lives – their banking account – in a trust-based model that empowerspeople to choose whatever fee they think is fair (even zero) and enables them to bank, invest, and spend in accordance with their values. Joe is regarded as one of the nation's leaders in the fight to end poverty. Joe has been the leading advocate for California's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-income families. Joe not only lobbied California to pass the credit, but in 2015 when the state didn’t allocate enough money for outreach, Joe created CalEITC4Me. This community organizing program has connected working California families with $4 billion of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credits. A native of Southern California, Sanberg attended Servite High School in Anaheim where he has created an International Leadership Program that supports students learning Mandarin and visiting China. Sanberg graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
Bright Funds — All-in-one CSR platform for companies of all sizes: employee giving, volunteering, and grants management. Bring purpose and impact to your workplace.
Three Day Rule —

Kevin Weil is the Head of Product at Instagram, overseeing consumer and monetization products. Prior to Instagram, Kevin was the SVP of Product at Twitter, overseeing product development and design across Twitter's consumer and ad products, as well as Vine and Periscope. Between 2010 and 2014, he led product development for Twitter'sadvertising platform, as well as the development of Fabric. Before joining Twitter in 2009, he was the first employee at web media startup Cooliris, working in user growth and analytics. He also worked worked at municipal wireless network provider Tropos Networks, Microsoft Research, and in a past life as a Physics Ph.D. Student, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. In Mathematics and Physics, and holds an M.S. in physics from Stanford

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
Vybe — vybe is the place to create fun photos with friends.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.

Jon is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He has been in the venture capital business since 1991 and built three companies of his own. His first was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Jon started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined Greenhouse, AOL’s venturecapital investment group and incubator. He entered the internet market early by joining CMGI’s @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners.First as a founder and now as an investor in early-stage technology companies, Jon’s direct startup experience has allowed him to see the world through an entrepreneur’s eyes. Jon’s career has been driven by a deep belief in the power of human creativity to improve our world.Jon received a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He was recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. When he is not empowering the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, you can find him talking about airplanes or hanging out with his wife and four boys.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Finland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
1000 Markets — 1000 Markets is an online marketplace with specialized shops for small businesses selling artisan work and crafts.
Keep Holdings — Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands. The company's products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings' suite of services focuses on commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web canbring brands and consumers together in new productive ways.

Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 70 million photos every day. As the head of engineering, Mike focuses on building products that bring out the creativity in all of us. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Mike holds an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Prior to foundingInstagram, he worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Udio — Discover, create, and share music with the world. Use the latest technology to create AI music in seconds.
CodeCrafters — Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.

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