Top 50 Cannabis Angel Investors in United States in May 2026
Top 50 Cannabis Angel Investors in United States in May 2026
| Investor | Cannabis United States investments |
|---|---|
| Robert Stavis | 4 |
| Michael Lazerow | 3 |
| Bruce Macfarlane | 3 |
| Jason Calacanis | 3 |
| Paul Buchheit | 3 |
| Samara Hernandez | 2 |
| Rick Thompson | 2 |
| Kat Cole | 2 |
| Justin Kan | 2 |
| Kingsley Advani | 2 |
| Roger McNamee | 2 |
| Jon Oringer | 2 |
| Stanley Tang | 2 |
| Adam Zeplain | 2 |
| Clark Valberg | 2 |
| Jack McCue | 2 |
| Louis Beryl | 2 |
| Shawn Carpenter | 1 |
| Carmelo Anthony | 1 |
| Ben Lamm | 1 |
| Ross Mason | 1 |
| Steven MacDonald | 1 |
| Keisuke Honda | 1 |
| Namek Zu'bi | 1 |
| Steve Huffman | 1 |
| Wayne Chang | 1 |
| Michael Auerbach | 1 |
| Henry Davis | 1 |
| Danica Patrick | 1 |
| Jonathan Slimak | 1 |
| Nasir Jones | 1 |
| Timothy Mosley | 1 |
| Bruce Linton | 1 |
| Chris Burggraeve | 1 |
| Tom Chapman | 1 |
| Scott Robinson | 1 |
| Rich Paul | 1 |
| David Lee | 1 |
| Kevin Lin | 1 |
| Yoni Meyer | 1 |
| Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 1 |
| Tom Vorisek | 1 |
| Jim Koch | 1 |
| Michael Straumietis | 1 |
| Patrick Carroll | 1 |
| Mark Opel | 1 |
| Efrain Sanchez | 1 |
| Justin Wong | 1 |
| Harry Rubin | 1 |
| Tobias Lütke | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Robert Michael Stavis is based out of Larchmont, New York and is the Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners. Robert previously worked at NewSchools Venture Fund as a Director. Robert Stavis attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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- LNTS — LNTS has recognized the deficiencies in healthcare and through our proprietary technology and solution, we are making rehabilitation and performance far more efficient for patients, clinicians and providers. LNTSConnect.com
- Flower Company — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
- Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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- Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
- Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.
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- Cannabis, Insurance
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
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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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- latchkey — Latchkey helps software teams ship faster by eliminating CI/CD investigations.
Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
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- SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
- Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Samara Hernandez
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- B2B, CRM, Cannabis
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf Trade — Leaf Trade simplifies the entire wholesale cannabis process by providing a cannabis wholesale marketplace that makes ordering, fulfillment, and payments easier.
Rick Thompson is the Co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director of Signia Venture Partners. He previously worked at Idle Games as a Chairman and Co-Founder. Rick Thompson attended the Wharton School.
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- Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cloud9 — Home of Cloud9, an esports organization with championship teams participating in Apex Legends, Chess, Fortnite, Halo, Hearthstone, League of Legends, Overwatch, Super Smash Bros, Teamfight Tactics, Valorant, World of Warcraft, and more!
- Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
- Kush Marketplace — Wholesale Marketplace for the Legal Cannabis Industry
Kat Cole is Group President at FOCUS Brands and responsible for building FOCUS Brands revenues and profits through global licensing, manufacturing, and ecommerce. Previously, she was President of Cinnabon, Inc. accountable for leading and growing the multi-channel brand team that drove record comp sales growth, brand expansion and franchiseevolution during her tenure. Prior to her role with FOCUS Brands at Cinnabon, Inc., Ms. Cole was a Vice President at Hooters of America, Inc., a multi-channel brand which operates company and franchise restaurants. She received her MBA from Georgia State University, and sits on the advisory boards of Project Pie, a QSR Pizza Chain and Orpheus Brewing, an Atlanta-based Craft Brewery. Kat is presently the incoming Board Chair of the Women’s Foodservice Forum.Her story is often shared for inspiration as she moved up from working as a hostess at 17 years old to traveling globally to open new franchises. At 19, Kat dropped out of college, advanced to various management and leadership positions, and at the age of 26, became a Vice President at Hooters. She later completed her MBA at Georgia State University.She is widely known for legacy business model innovation, building brands, humanitarian work in the US and Eastern Africa and mentorship and development of emerging leaders.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Homebase — 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses use Homebase to manage their hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, and more.
- Immi — Rich, satisfying ramen with bold flavor. Packed with protein and fiber, with fewer carbs.
- JUICER — JUICER is helping restaurants automate their pricing within their existing technology stack using machine learning algorithms. By taking a data-driven approach to pricing, restaurants can significantly increase revenue and profitability. With dynamic pricing, restaurants can increase profits during peak periods, increase volume during slowerperiods, and improve the customer experience by providing deals to price-sensitive customers, and by lowering wait times for customers during busy periods.
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, India
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- Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
- FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Kingsley Advani (born October 24, 1993, in London, United Kingdom) is a British tech entrepreneur, investor, and author based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the Founder and CEO of Allo, an exchange for tokenized stocks managing over $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets, and the founder of Allocations, a fintech platform that has grownto administer more than $2 billion in assets across 30,000+ high-net-worth clients.Advani began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 13, launching a digital commerce business on eBay, before discovering Bitcoin in 2011 while studying finance and economics. In 2013, he allocated his IBM internship savings into Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies, becoming an early investor in what later became a multi-billion-dollar asset class. By his mid-twenties, he had invested in more than 200 companies, including unicorns such as SpaceX, Solana, Coinbase, Robinhood, and eToro.In 2017, he co-founded a global investor syndicate that collectively managed more than $4 billion in assets. Two years later, he launched Allocations, a platform providing infrastructure for fund administration, SPVs, and private market investments. CNBC recognized him as the “Blockchain Oracle” for his early insights into cryptocurrency adoption and market trends.Through his ventures, Advani has become a leading voice in fintech, blockchain, tokenization, private markets, and Web3, with frequent speaking engagements at global conferences including the SF Blockchain Summit, Beyond Blocks, Coinfest Asia, and the Ritossa Summit in Dubai. His commentary emphasizes how blockchain and emerging technologies can democratize access to alternative assets and reduce the barriers to launching micro-funds.Advani is also the author of The Blockchain Oracle: How Technology, Finance, and Vision Shape the Future of Global Investing (2025), a book that explores the intersection of blockchain, fintech, and global finance.
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- FinTech, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
- Juvenescence — We extend healthy lifespan through developing innovative medicines that target core aging mechanisms to not only treat but prevent age-related diseases.
- Volumetric — Advanced materials and 3D biofabrication.
Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder of Prior to SilverLake, Roger was a co-founder of [ntegral Capital Partners. Integral is a leading technology investor in late-stage venture and public company investments. Founded in 1991 by Roger, John A. Powell, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S. Roger serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a director of the Rex Foundation, Move, Forbes Media LLC and Palm. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
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- Software, Social Media, Video
- Series A, Convertible Note, Seed
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flow Cannabis Co. — Flow Kana partners with independent multi-generational farmers who cultivate under full sun, sustainably, and in small batches. Using only organic methods, the result is an unparalleled product that simply cannot be found anywhere else.
- MJ Freeway — MJ Freeway Business Solutions provides cannabis compliance software for the marijuana industry. We offer professional consultations for operators.
- Jumbo Privacy — We want to help build an internet we can all trust. Learn how to take back control of your online privacy and security today.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
Stanley Tang is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at DoorDash. He attended Stanford University.
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- Software, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Singapore
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- Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
- Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
- goop Kitchen — goop Kitchen provides teriyaki bowl, salad, spring roll salad, chinese chicken, and arugula salad. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
Adam Zeplain is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mark Ventures. He focused on investing early-stage in areas such as Consumer Internet/Media, Consumer Packaged Goods, Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, and E-commerce. Adam serves on the Board of Advisors of Soma Capital (Ranadive's seed-stage YC focused fund), data. world, Umbel.Adam also serves on the Advisory Council of Andela.
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- Cannabis, B2B, Retail
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Herb — Herb is the go-to destination for weed discovery, dispensaries, strains, education, culture and community for cannabis and marijuana enthusiasts around the globe.
- Prima — Prima is a best-in-class, purpose-driven holistic wellness brand elevating hemp-based CBD and functionally innovative botanicals. Its core mission is to rise up against the modern day stress epidemic through education and products made with the highest standards of purity, potency and transparency. Prima is built on the essential principle thatbalance is a critical part of health and happiness — and that we all deserve better. Prima is a privately held Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) based in Santa Monica, CA.
- Full Harvest — Waste less, profit more. Source imperfect and surplus fruits and vegetables up to 10-30% off.
Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
- Carrot — The app that automatically saves your finds and helps you get back to them when you're ready to buy. Download on Chrome & iOS
- Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.
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- Women's, Cannabis, Wellness
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- House of Wise — Luxury, full-spectrum CBD products for women by women. All natural. gluten-free. and ethically sourced products from the U.S. A Wise Woman takes control of her sex, stress, sleep, strength, and wealth.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AnchorUSD — Unlike competing stablecoins, AnchorUSD holds all deposits in US-domiciled bank accounts. Because USDX can always be created for $1 or redeemed for $1, investors can trade with confidence and avoid the volatility of unbacked cryptocurrencies. We undergo regular audits to ensure that the number of USDX in circulation is exactly equal to the numberof dollars in our bank account.
- Tenant Turner — Tenant Turner helps property managers eliminate vacancy.
- Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
Shawn Carpenter is the Founder and Chairman of the Board at Three Tree Ventures, an early-stage technology startup investment fund that backs exceptional entrepreneurs that are applying technology to market segments with high caps that have had a historically incorrect, ineffective and/or insufficient level of technology application. ThreeTree Ventures prefers to invest in startups as early as possible, has historically only invested in product companies, and prefers to invest in organizations with one or more U.S. military veteran founder(s). Since early 2014, Shawn has also been an LP and Advisor to Crosscut Ventures (https://www.crosscut.vc) in Los Angeles, CA, where he is also a Crosscut Scout.Mr. Carpenter is a globally respected cyber security expert with a broad range of successful early-stage investments, including Compass (IPO on NYSE #COMP 4.1.2021 @ $8.22B valuation), Privateer Holdings (acquired by Tilray), Awake Security (acquired by Arista Networks), Left Coast Ventures (acquired by Subversive Capital), GroupSense, White Ops (now known as "HUMAN" acquired by Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking) ThreatGRID (acquired by Cisco), RideScout (acquired by Daimler AG), InAuth (acquired by American Express) and Efflux Systems (acquired by NETSCOUT Systems). Mr. Carpenter is known for his acumen in advising early stage innovators. He has successfully helped Three Tree Ventures portfolio entrepreneurs and their companies raise capital for pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A investment rounds, navigate rough waters, acquire key talent and customers, and help develop short and long-term business strategies. He currently advises CrossCut Ventures, Trinity Cyber, TruSTAR Technology (acquired by Splunk 5-2021), AgentHero, GroupSense, uStadium, Tokn and NetSwitch Technology Management. He has held key positions at startups where he was an early employee — Principal Forensics Analyst at NetWitness, Chief Technical Analyst at iSIGHT Partners, Chief Strategy Officer at Invotas, and Senior Vice President of Cyber at Cybraics. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Acronym Investment. One of his passions is being the Technical Advisor for a non-profit 501(c)3 founded by his wife, Dr. Jennifer Jacobs, and a close friend, Jessica Stern — Connect Our Kids (https://www.connectourkids.org). The organization is applying modern technologies like artificial intelligence and data science to the United States foster care system to improve outcomes. His experience and successful entrepreneurial background are coupled with deep technical skills honed while pioneering cyber security protocols for the federal government and working at NetWitness and iSIGHT Partners over the past two decades. Shawn is also a veteran of the US Navy, and qualified as a nuclear operator and chemist during his six years of service in the US Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPS Class 9203). Shawn also worked as a senior cyber security analyst for almost six years as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) at Sandia National Laboratories. After joining NetWitness as one of the first employees, he helped architect, implement and stand up the Justice Security Operations Center (JSOC) — at that time the largest deployment of NetWitness gear for a federal client. Mr. Carpenter also worked as a principal senior analyst at the US Department of State's Cyber Threat Analysis Team (CTAD) from 2004-2007; he was a key member of the 2005 CTAD team that was awarded the prestigious Frank B. Rowlett Trophy For Organizational Achievement by the National Security Agency. Shawn has been tinkering with computers since he bought his first computer, a TRS-80 Model I, in late 1978 at the age of 10. He has been curious about almost everything since he was born, and enjoys playing slide guitar, banjo and trumpet, metal detecting with his kids, climbing tall trees, building forts, lucid dreaming, experimenting with brain/machine interfaces, building robotic banshees, and hacking all of the things. Mr. Carpenter has a particular affection for blues and jazz, and is an investor and minor partner in a John Coltrane biography — "Chasing Trane" (https://www.coltranefilm.com). His investments span everything from technology-enabled real estate, to being the first money in at Rumi Spice (https://www.rumispice.com), a sustainable saffron growing enterprise founded by three West Point graduates that served in Herat, Afghanistan, that three years later is the largest private employer of Afghan women in the world, with over 2000 women employees. In May 2017, Mark Cuban became an investor in Rumi Spice. In September of 2018, Rumi Spice's saffron became available nationwide in all Whole Food Markets. Shawn is a native of Sioux Falls, SD, and credits his very patient wife -- Dr. Jennifer Jacobs, his Mother, Jan, his brother, Shane, his South Dakota roots, and mentors and friends like Aaron Walters, Amit Yoran, Paul Garrett, Fraser Verrusio, Jeff Cesnik, Mischel Kwon, Kendall Millard, Gary Golomb, Paul Kurtz, Dave Haugen (his high school band director) and many, many others for his scrappiness, successes and ability to recover from failures.
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- Cyber Security, Security, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dark Cubed — Easy-to-use, cybersecurity solution, deploys in 15 minutes and delivers enterprise-grade threat protection at a fraction of the cost. Get a demo today.
- Arista NDR — Get a security solution built on an AI platform that acts like the human brain to sense, detect, and respond to threats you may not even know exist.
- Three Tree Ventures — Seed-stage venture capital fund
Carmelo Kiyam Anthony, of the New York Knicks, is a nine time NBA All-Star and has been an All NBA team member six times. He has been a member of the United States Olympic men's national team three times, winning a bronze medal in 2004 and gold medals in 2008 and 2012. In 2012, Carmelo set the USA men's Olympic team record for most pointsin a single game when he scored 37 points against Nigeria.Carmelo was born in the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, New York. He was born to a Puerto Rican father and an African American mother. His father, after whom he is named, died of cancer when Carmelo was two years old. When he turned eight, his family moved to Baltimore, where he honed not only his athletic skills, but also his survival skills. Sports would serve as an important diversion from the violence and drug dealing that were pervasive in the housing projects a few blocks from the homes of Carmelo and his friends.Carmelo attended Syracuse University. In his freshman year, he led the Orangemen to their first ever National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.Carmelo also has a broad array of business interests. With Stuart Goldfarb, he is co-founder and partner of Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC, which invests in and develops opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures. Stuart and Carmelo have also partnered in other ventures, including the award winning Vice Sports Clubhouse. Carmelo is the owner of Puerto Rico’s only professional sports team, the Puerto Rico Football Club (PRFC), which plays in the North American Soccer League (NASL). Carmelo is one of only three current NBA players who have a Jordan Brand signature shoe line.
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- Mobile, Internet, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Goalsetter — Goalsetter is a goal-based savings and gifting platform, made just for kids and powered by those who love them. It combines the best of goal-based savings platforms like Digit and Acorns with the best of gift-registries like Zola and Honeyfund, and in so doing, targets the millennial mom with a platform that enables families to contribute to kids’future goals instead of buying them more consumer goods. In turn, Goalsetter becomes a savings vehicle for kids, turning first-time savers into all-the-time savers and giving kids healthy financial habits that will last a lifetime.
- Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Ben Lamm is based out of Dallas, Texas and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. He previously worked at Hypergiant as a Founder & Board Member. Ben Lamm attened the Baylor University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- AnthemIQ — Digital Commercial Real Estate Transaction Management for Brokers
- Prima — Prima is a best-in-class, purpose-driven holistic wellness brand elevating hemp-based CBD and functionally innovative botanicals. Its core mission is to rise up against the modern day stress epidemic through education and products made with the highest standards of purity, potency and transparency. Prima is built on the essential principle thatbalance is a critical part of health and happiness — and that we all deserve better. Prima is a privately held Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) based in Santa Monica, CA.
- Carbon Counts — You play. We plant. The world prospers. Escape into the EverForest, a brand new Play-to-Plant merge adventure game from the Carbon Counts game studio. In the EverForest game, you'll play to grow a flourishing forest and we'll plant real trees on your behalf.
Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
- Evercoin — Evercoin is a mobile application that provides a cryptocurrency exchange service. The application allows users to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash. Users can also trade from the safety and control of their own wallet. Evercoin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- Garnet Labs — Protect modern dev/ops environments with behavioral monitoring, threat detection and enforcement. Detect and block unknown threats in real-time before they impact users.
Steven founded myMatrixx in 2001 to originally serve the needs of one client seeking a better solution to manage its workers’ compensation pharmacy benefits. This led to the creation of one of the first online tools for the industry. Since then, he has been instrumental in the development of new myMatrixx solutions designed to take the complexityout of workers’ compensation and to provide better outcomes for injured workers.A serial entrepreneur, Steven previously co-founded and served as the CEO of TechHealth where he was instrumental in developing a proprietary web-enabled technology for ancillary medical services. Additionally, he partnered with The Christopher Reeve Foundation to promote research for a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other central nervous system disorders. Steven has focused the majority of his career in workers’ compensation and formerly served in numerous leadership positions with PMSI and Pharmerica. He also served in the Air National Guard.Over his career, Steven has combined an innovative approach with technology and a passion for “doing the right thing” to address the numerous challenges facing a complex market. The end result has been numerous technological advances which have significantly impacted the clients he has served.Steven was named the 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Observer and was a finalist in the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He is active in Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Society of International Business Fellows and Young Presidents’ Organization. He graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and attended the School of Management at the University of Texas.
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- B2B, Cannabis, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chattr — Chattr is a retail chatbot platform reinventing the way candidates and employers create meaningful connections at scale. The platform screens, schedules and delivers unlimited happy hires. It replaces your dated application process with an AI-powered chat that applicant's love. Chattr handles all the repetitive hiring tasks, freeing storemanagers up to focus on store growth. It engages applicants instantly, 24/7, online, through text or in-store. The company supports retailers through their AI recruiting automation that creates enhanced applicant experiences while allowing hiring teams to optimize their recruiting efforts with less resources.Chattr was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, USA.
- MamaBear App — Want to find the perfect child tracking app? Our guide includes information on monitoring your kids and reviews of the best parental control apps.
- Kush Marketplace — Wholesale Marketplace for the Legal Cannabis Industry
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Genopets — Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
- Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
- Freecracy — FreeC a platform that connects millions of employers and job seekers by utilizing intelligent matching technology that is powered by AI.
Namek is a Founder and a Managing Partner of Silicon Badia. A seasoned technology investor, Namek has personally led investments in over 60+ technology companies globally across 15+ different industries. De facto the group’s Chief Investment Officer, he is involved in the entire investment life cycle from sourcing and analyzing pipelineopportunities to structuring and closing investments and taking board positions.Namek started his career building technology on Wall Street and then went on to become the founding investment principal of an early stage venture capital fund based in NYC. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Egypt, France
Portfolio highlights
- Petal — Credit cards with cash back at many local businesses, no annual or international fees, high limits, and a mobile app that makes it easy to manage your money, track your spending and automate payments.
- LucyRx — A Next-Generation PBM With National Scale
- Infinity Constellation — Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation.
Steve Huffman is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the CEO of Reddit. Steve previously worked at Hipmunk as a Co-Founder and CTO. Steve Huffman attended the University of Virginia.
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- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
- Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
- Series — The first AI social network. Don't bother your friends for warm intros, bother your AI friend instead. It knows more people.
Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Ghost Message — Record and turn your classes into automated notes, quizzes, flashcards together with classmates.
Michael Auerbach is the Chairman at The Parent Company.
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- Cannabis, Marketplace, B2B
- Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Roomer — Roomer is the peer-to-peer marketplace for hotel rooms. Traveling soon? Use Roomer to book your hotel room at a great price from someone who can't use theirs.
- Pure Beauty — Pure Beauty is an e-commerce platform that offers products in different categories.
- Privateer Holdings — Privateer Holdings is a private equity firm shaping the future of the global legal cannabis industry, developing a portfolio of world-leading brands.
Henry Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Sakara Life. He previously worked at arfa, Inc. as a Co-founder and CEO. Henry Davis attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Consumer Goods, Beauty, Fashion
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Amicole — Amicole is a cosmetics manufacturer that aims to provide customers with a wide range of skin care and formula items.
- Wiz Distro — PicaPuff offers a wide selection of high-quality, fresh THCa flower in buds and prerolls. Third-party tested for potency and purity.
- Lucky Sweater — Welcome to the ultimate slow fashion community closet. Explore different styles, discover independent designers, and try new things with the slow fashion community.
Danica Patrick is a role model, transitioning from sports star to entrepreneurial powerhouse. Her historic achievements include being the only woman to have led laps at both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 races, a feat only 13 other drivers have accomplished. She’s also the only woman to have won an IndyCar race, the only woman to havewon the Pole in NASCAR's Daytona 500, and, this year, the first woman to host the ESPY awards. Danica has been on Time magazine's list of most influential people. She’s appeared in more Super Bowl commercials than any other celebrity, 13, all with tech giant GoDaddy, and was recently featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine. Danica is focused on entrepreneurial challenges these days, and she’s defying convention in business, as she did on the track. Danica owns Somnium, her expanding Napa vineyard; her own line of athleisure wear, Warrior by Danica Patrick; and has authored “Pretty Intense,” a health and fitness book. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy, her longtime sponsor.
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- Health Care, Pet, Fitness
- Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Petfolk — Petfolk's world-class animal hospitals & pet care centers offer virtual, in-person & urgent veterinary care with a pet-parent-focused approach. Learn more!
- Beam Organics — beam creates the highest quality functional supplements for better balance, performance, recovery, and sleep.
Jonathan Slimak was co-founder and COO of Alter (also known as Facemoji) acquired by Google in 2022. Before that, he co-founded Ready Makers and was head of Product. Jon is also the founder of Piictu one of the first social photo networks on the. iPhone. Jon has over 12 years of leading Data-driven Product and Design teams - creating consumersoftware specializing in gaming, mobile and social web. He attended Pratt Institute.
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- Machine Learning, Art, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Iceland
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- Solsten — 12traits is an AI firm engaged in understanding human behavior in the digital world for powering the future of customer experience.
- Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
- Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
- Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Super-producer Timbaland has stamped his indelible imprint on the music scene since the mid-1990s. His production has helped create career-defining hits for artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, among many others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip hop music,Timbaland, whose musical influences cross cultural lines, has also been sought by diverse superstars whose music similarly knows no boundaries, from pop star Justin Timberlake to avant-singer Bjork. Released April 3, 2007 is his second solo album, Timbaland Presents Shock Value (Blackground/Interscope/Mosley Music Group). That LP follows his producing of the majority of the tracks, including the #1 “SexyBack,” on Timberlake’s #1 charting, multi-platinum FutureSex/LoveSounds, which followed their work together on Timberlake’s previous smash, Justified.Born Timothy Z. Mosley in Norfolk, Virginia on March 10, 1972, Timbaland, so named by Jodeci member Devante Swing after the Timberland boot, has had many reincarnations -from disc jockey DJ Tiny Tim to half of the hip hop group Timbaland & Magoo; from membership in Devante Swing’s Swing Mob crew known as Da Bassment to S.B.I. (Surrounded By Idiots), a production ensemble including Pharrell Williams, to being CEO of his own label, Mosley Music Group.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain, Sales
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
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- Yuga Labs — Powered by ApeCoin and shaping web3 through storytelling, experiences, and community. From the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club.
- Pure Beauty — Pure Beauty is an independent cannabis brand based in Los Angeles, California.
- Bored Ape Yacht Club — Bored Ape Yacht Club develops a series of cartoon ape characters for auction in exchange for cryptocurrency. BAYC is a collection of 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs, which are digital collectibles on the Ethereum blockchain.
Mr. Linton is the founder of Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC) and co-founder of Tweed Marijuana Inc.Bruce’s primary focus has been to position cannabis brands in a competitive market and to raise the capital necessary to fund such operations. Bruce’s experience as a founder, CEO, and Board member across a wide variety of enterprises has influencedthe positive start of Canopy Growth, which to date has enjoyed market support for capital raises of over $150 million and the distinction of being the first company in the industry to be offered debt instruments by a federal lender. Bruce has led three M&A transactions valued over $500 million total since founding CGC. In addition to his leadership responsibility at Canopy Growth, Bruce is the CEO of communications company Martello Technologies. After beginning his career at Newbridge Networks Corporation, he has since held positions that include General Manager and Re-Founder of Computerland.ca, President and Co-Founder of webHancer Corp, and part of the establishing team at CrossKeys Systems Corporation. He was also part of the leadership team for the NASDAQ/TSX initial public offering at CrossKeys. Bruce has been responsible for the acquisition and/or disposition of over $600 million in business assets, and has established regular engagement with the World Bank and Asia Development Bank while focused on markets in India, Philippines, China, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. He is the past Chairman of the Ottawa Community Loan Foundation, past Board Member and Treasurer of Canada World Youth past Board of Governor for Carleton University, past President of the Nepean Skating Club and past President of the Carleton University Students Association.
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- Health Care, Cannabis, Biotechnology
- Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Denmark
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- Omura — Discover heat-not-burn technology with Omura's dry herb vaporizer devices. Explore sustainable vaping options for hemp & whole flower CBD.
- Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
- Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte
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- Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Series A, Angel, Seed
- United States, Ireland
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- Greenrush — Get weed delivered to your door with greenrush's cannabis delivery service. Our app let's you buy weed online from a network of local dispensaries near you.
- Arcview Group — The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
- Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.
Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM. Tom has an investment portfolio that spans multiple industries including technology, logistics, beauty, fashion, health, and medical cannabis. He invests in committed founders and experienced management teams to grow disruptive mission-driven businessesthat leverage technology to deliver a better service to consumers and transform the way the world works. Tom's recent investments include disruptive beauty brand HEYDAY, a one-stop shop for personalised skincare treatments; size-inclusive womenswear brand Universal Standard; Caliva, California's largest fully licensed integrated cannabis dispensary, retailer and distributor; by Humankind, a personal care brand seeking to eliminate single-use plastic; Convoy, which connects truckers with shippers to fill unused trucking capacity, reducing the environmental impact of freight; feminine health brand, OHNE; baby food business, Cerebelly; medical cannabis startup, Plena; and the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to the IPO and trading of commercial real estate assets, IPSX. Tom's work as an investor builds on his experience founding MATCHESFASHION.COM, operating at the forefront of the changing face of retail for more than 30 years. With his wife Ruth, they grew the company from a single bricks-and-mortar store to a global luxury fashion brand with a reputation for supporting and nurturing new and emerging talent, and are credited with introducing designers such as Versace, Prada and Bottega Veneta to the UK. Under Tom's leadership, MATCHESFASHION.COM invested heavily in technology across all areas of the business, enabling the company to better understand the lives of its customers and provide them with a fast, convenient and highly personalised service. MATCHESFASHION.COM was one of the first luxury brands to go online in 2005; one of the first businesses to launch 90-minute delivery in 2016; and one of the first retailers to build a platform to provide a single truly unified view of customer's shopping across both online and physical channels.It was, however, his understanding of how digital could radically transform how companies engaged with their customers and his appetite for challenging traditional practices that led to him being inducted into the Business of Fashion’s Hall of Fame in 2018 and being described as a “retail innovator”. Tom recognised that MATCHESFASHION.COM could use digital not only to reach a global audience quickly but to build highly personal, intimate customer relationships, engaging shoppers with rich, resonant content and storytelling. Paired with his challenger mentality, this insight saw Tom transform the company from a 14-store physical retailer into a leading global luxury e-commerce giant. From the launch of their website in 2007, MATCHESFASHION.COM grew at a rate of up to 100 per cent per year, raising £20 million in 2012 for a minority stake in the business.In 2013, Tom's commitment to digital saw him rebrand all Matches' physical stores as MATCHESFASHION.COM. These decisions collectively enabled the business to accelerate from a valuation of £76m in 2012 to an acquisition price in excess of $1 billion just five years later. In 2017-18, the business had 95 per cent of sales online and 85 per cent internationally. MATCHESFASHION.COM is also credited with pioneering blended retail, seamlessly bringing together physical and digital commerce to connect with customers over multiple touchpoints – whether that be through the company's events, magazine or private shopping experiences. Before the sale of the business, Tom conceived of 5 Carlos Place, a five-storey townhouse combining luxury private shopping in a home environment with a purpose-built broadcasting hub and events space focused on creating engaging content for MATCHESFASHION.COM's 100 million annual online visitors. Carlos Place was an extension of the private-shopping concept behind No.23, which reinvented retail service along the lines of private-client banking, delivering a highly personalised, intimate, bespoke shopping experience. Throughout the growth of MATCHESFASHION.COM, Tom has focused on keeping customers and their lifestyles at the centre of all company decisions, recognising that top-class service is the foundation of all consumer-facing businesses and that technology investment should always enable a business to connect better with the consumer and support them. Like MATCHESFASHION.COM, many of Tom's investments both challenge the status quo and have strong brands that build deep, personal relationships with customers by connecting with them across both physical and digital touchpoints, and place special importance on social responsibility, inclusiveness and environmental impact. Having been described as "trailblazers" by The New York Times and "pioneers" by VOGUE, Tom and Ruth Chapman were awarded Draper's Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to fashion retail in 2017. In the same year MATCHESFASHION.COM won British Luxury Brand of the Year at the prestigious Walpole British Luxury Awards. Tom Chapman, along with his wife Ruth Chapman, were awarded OBEs in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to the international fashion retail industry. An advocate of arts, sustainability and cultural causes, Tom is a member of the Innovation Circle at the Serpentine Gallery.
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- Health Care, Fashion, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- GoHenry — GoHenry's debit card and app lets kids ages 6-18 learn practical money management skills that they can go out and apply in the real world.
- Superkind — Robin Games brings you life, styled. Our first lifestyle game debuts on iOS and Android in 2021.
- Forte — We connect talent with opportunity, by funding and facilitating effective training in Software Development, Data Analytics, Cyber-Security and more.
Scott Robinson is an investor and entrepreneur
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- Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
- Cognito — Cognito identity verification provides instant KYC and AML compliance, watchlist screening, and more, globally, with just a few lines of code.
- Cadera Brands — A producer and marketer of cannabinoid-based consumer goods, focusing on health and wellness.
Rich Paul
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- Art, Toys, Events
- Seed, Secondary Market, Post-IPO Secondary
- United States
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- Funko — Funko provides branded pop culture products to a diverse range of consumers and retail channels.Funko currently holds hundreds of licenses and the rights to create tens of thousands of characters - one of the largest portfolios in the pop culture and collectibles industry. Funko’s Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible on themarket, selling millions of figures to collectors around the world.
- Bach — Bach solves the myriad pain points behind coordinating group travel, allowing groups to discover, decide, and plan in one place, complete with a marketplace for bookable experiences and critical features including group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation.
- 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.
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
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- Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, South Korea
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- 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 — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Yoni Meyer is a Board Member at LEUNE.
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- Cannabis, Pharmaceutical, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, Portugal
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- LEUNE — LEUNE is a California born lifestyle brand forged on the principle of transcending the narrative of cannabis culture. Honoring a 3.0 consumer who knows that ‘getting high’ only begins to tell the story of what the plant truly represents, we’re interested in elevating the conversation around cannabis. Through high aesthetic and uncompromisingquality standards, we aim to create the new ideals for the industry.
- TSUMo Snacks — Tasty snacks to make you smile. Salty and savory THC edibles for adults that want to treat their taste buds to the ultimate experience.
- Cansativa Group — Cansativa Group operates a cannabis B2B platform and is exclusive distributor of medical cannabis on behalf of the German state.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Vaas — Software
- Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
- Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
- Hammock — Hammock is the first landlord software recognised by HMRC for Making tax Digital. We provide real-time monitoring of rental income and expenses, bookkeeping and property tax statements, compatible with MTD for IT, all in one place.
Jim Koch
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- Cannabis, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uncle Arnie's — Uncle Arnie's: your party captain serving award-winning THC drinks and cannabis beverages. Life's a trip. Drink it up. Non-carbonated, bold flavors, good vibes.
Michael Straumietis
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- Cannabis, Software, Sales Automation
- Seed
- United States
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- GreenSTOP INC — GreenSTOP provides automated solutions for retailers as an ancillary technology company. It is a self-service platform that will revolutionize the legal cannabis retail market.
30 year investigative experience with 22 years of management experience.
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- Cannabis, Recreation
- Series A
- United States
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- Tyson 2.0 — The official merchandise of Mike Tyson's legendary brand, Tyson 2.0
Portfolio highlights
- Wiz Distro — PicaPuff offers a wide selection of high-quality, fresh THCa flower in buds and prerolls. Third-party tested for potency and purity.
Founder and CEO of Growth Logiq Inc.
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- SEO, Advertising, Web Development
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Canopysync — CanopySync helps dispensaries launch high-ranking websites with real SEO infrastructure, no-code control, and UX designed to convert.
- Growth Logiq — Growth Logiq is a multinational team of SEO experts headquartered in Phoenix Arizona. They work in highly competitive Sectors like Cannabis, SAAS and Ecommerce. Their goal is to help their clients dominate Page One rankings and grow Organic SEO as a Customer acquisition channel.
Justin Wong
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- Cannabis, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- California Dreamin — California Dreamin is a food and beverage start up that manufactures all natural cannabis infused sodas for a light social high. It is simply made of fruit juice, cannabis, and carbonation. It was on their first date that the founders, Amy and Peter discovered their mutual love for starting companies. Amy and Peter knew then wanted to startsomething, but weren't sure what. With a little reseach, it became clear that the cannabis market was on it's way to becoming huge while only catering to your typical pothead.
Harry Rubin
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- Cannabis, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uncle Arnie's — Uncle Arnie's: your party captain serving award-winning THC drinks and cannabis beverages. Life's a trip. Drink it up. Non-carbonated, bold flavors, good vibes.
Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Foxglove — Foxglove is visualization and management for temporal and multimodal data. It's used by robotics companies to scale and accelerate development.
- Anything — Anything is your AI agent for turning ideas into apps. Build sites, apps, tools, products and more just by describing what you want
- Manifold Labs — Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.
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