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Top 50 Celebrity Startup Investors in United States (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United States Celebrity startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Celebrity startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
General Catalyst
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2M–$130M
Jim Moloshok
Angel
2 United States Seed Apps, Film, Internet $50k–$750k
Harrison Metal
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.4M–$40M
Vine St. Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $50k–$10M
Larry Braitman
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $550k–$10M
Adam Nash
Angel
2 United States, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.1M–$20M
SV Angel
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$130M
David Tisch
Angel
1 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$40M
Madrona
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$75M
Michael Mahan
Angel
1 United States Series A Apps, Sports, Internet
Bo Feng
Angel
1 United States, China, Hong Kong Series A, Seed, Angel Blockchain, FinTech, Finance $100k–$40M
Chad Hurley
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Software, Sports $2M–$50M
Fusion Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $1.1M–$50M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Social Media, Internet $800k–$80M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
Greg Kidd
Angel
1 United States, Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Series A FinTech, Mobile, Software $385k–$10M
Gregory Milken
Angel
1 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Series B Video Games, eSports, Gaming $1.5M–$27M
Marc Benioff
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.2M–$50M
RRE Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, Internet $1.2M–$32M
Desert Angels
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Software, Health Care $702k–$70M
Raptor Group
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$70M
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Seed iOS, Apps, Video $1M–$2M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.3M–$50M
Scrum Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, China Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$31M
Allen DeBevoise
Angel
1 United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, Video, Social Media $1M–$5.3M
Sam Guren
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Finance $70k–$4.5M
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps $745k–$100M
Kal Vepuri
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $965k–$25M
Rosecliff Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Health Care $1.7M–$23M
Kai Huang
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Hardware $50k–$4.9M
Jeff Bezos
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Grant, Series B, Seed Software, Non Profit, Information Technology $800k–$480M
Troy Carter
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Social Media, Software, Mobile
Jay Rasulo
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Film, Video, Internet $1.4M–$10M
Pasadena Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
BrandProject
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
SOSV
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
John Tan
Angel
1 Singapore, United States, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Travel
Tech Coast Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada Seed, Convertible Note Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Brainchild Holdings
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $30k–$13M
Joseph Tsai
Angel
1 United States, China, Germany Seed, Series A, Series E Sports, Art, B2B $3.2M–$700M
Sterling Equities
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series B Pet, Video, Retail $1.1M–$2.5M
Aubrey Graham (Drake)
Angel
1 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Angel Mobile, Fashion, FinTech $3M–$555M
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $235k–$2.7M
Darrell Cavens
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Consumer Goods $1.1M–$9M
Mike Hennessey
Angel
1 United States, Chile, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Mobile $1M–$4M
Manatt Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $600k–$45M
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Music, EdTech, Internet $2.5M–$16M
Third Kind Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1M–$35M
Boxee
VC Fund
1 United States Seed Retail, Fashion, Celebrity
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2051
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Datalogix — Datalogix® is the industry-recognized leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data. We help more than half of the top 100 consumer marketers increase the effectiveness and measurability of their advertising. DLX Platform®, encompasses over $1 trillion in consumer spending and powers campaigns for more than 75% of online mediacompanies. DLX ROI® is rapidly becoming the industry standard for measuring offline sales lift for digital media. Datalogix also offers predictive analytics for Direct Mail, and integrated media solutions via the DLX Net. Our expertise spans the major consumer segments, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom, Travel and Financial Services. We are based in Colorado, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and London.
  • Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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Jim Moloshok
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Jim Moloshok serves on various digital media company boards, gives advice to venture capital firms in the evolution of media consumption and how consumers relate to content across multi-platforms, and has invested in companies that overlap his areas of expertise and passion.Before entering the investment and entrepreneurial world fulltime,Moloshok most recently was president, Digital Initiatives for Home Box Office.Before joining HBO, Moloshok was part of the turn-around team that went to Yahoo! in 2001 to help it recover from the dotcom collapse, building Yahoo! back to be the leading portal with all of its content areas ranking first or second in their categories.Prior to joining Yahoo!, Moloshok was one of the founders of Windsor Digital, a venture capital firm cofounded with Terry Semel, former Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios and then Chairman and CEO of Yahoo!Moloshok also spent eleven years at Warner Bros. as co-founder and president of Warner Bros. Online, and president and CEO of Entertaindom.com. Moloshok also served as SVP of Warner Bros. marketing and advertising.Moloshok started his professional career working in local television.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Film, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SnapUp — SnapUp is a smartphone app and e-commerce platform that enables its users to collect and track products through screenshots. It alerts its members when a product of their preference is sold for a lower price. It enables its users to share these items as dynamic lists on web or mobile.SnapUp uses a patent-pending technology to recognize andprocess only screenshots taken of product pages. It was founded in 2013 by Eric Goldberg, based in San Francisco, California.
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • ElderSense.com — ElderSense - Senior Homes, Assisted Living Communities, Eldercare Homes & Local Caregivers in Phoenix and Arizona. Free Eldercare Service. ALTCS and Medicare paid Homes.
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Harrison Metal
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $68M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
  • CoreStory — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
  • Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction is a software provider specialized in automating complex communication workflows. Their premier product, the Automated Patient Interaction System, enables healthcare organizations to communicate more effectively with patients using text messaging, automated voice, and email.This automated system helps both patients and healthcare providers connect quickly through technology to remind patients of appointments, fill open slots and request patient feedback.
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Vine St. Ventures
VC Fund · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Vine Street Ventures is a venture capital investment firm dedicated to investing in internet and mobile businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Habi — Habi is a technology-driven real estate company that helps middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Using its proprietary pricing algorithm and scalable processes. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial.
  • Hunt Club — We're not like traditional recruiting firms. Hunt Club's recruiting network contains leaders, executives, founders, and entrepreneurs across all industries.
  • ActionStreamer — ActionStreamer live streaming software delivers enterprise-grade solutions, combining wearable technology with the best live streaming platform and streaming software for real-time video at scale.
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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Felvin — Felvin saves 5 hours every week in the life of a software developer. We achieve this by allowing developers to instantly find the right code snippets, software packages, and dev utilities, without changing their search habits. While Felvin will start with software devs as the beachhead, we eventually plan to provide a vastly superior searchexperience for every knowledge worker through our instant apps platform that allows anyone to build and integrate domain specific mini-search engines.
  • 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.
  • Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
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Adam Nash
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Adam Nash is the Co-Founder and CEO at Daffy. He attended Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $2.8M–$3.6M; Series A $11M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
  • Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
  • Chariot — Chariot is a DAF tool that nonprofits can add to their website to allow donors to give with their DAF in 3 clicks.
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1072
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $2.6M–$40M; Series B $8.3M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
  • NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
  • Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 219
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkero — Arkero is the AI transformation partner for sports businesses, connecting ticketing, CRM, and data to automate gameday planning, retention, and fan insights.
  • Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
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Madrona
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 503
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $6.1M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $260M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Z2 — Join our growing community of players. Dive into Battle Nations, dominate enemies, forge alliances, and lead your army to glory.
  • Jobalign — Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs.Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobsevery year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.
  • Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning
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Michael Mahan
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Michael Mahan is the President of dick clark productions and a Partner of Mosaic Media Investment Partners. Mr. Mahan brings a wealth of experience to this position from his previous post as President of the TV Guide Network and tvguide.com. Mahan led the transformation of the TV Guide Network from a guidance-focused utility network to afull-screen entertainment destination available in 81 million homes. Prior to TV Guide, Mahan was a board member and head of corporate strategy for dick clark productions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TraceMe — TraceMe puts you on the inside track with your favorite artists, athletes, and entertainers.
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Bo Feng
Angel · Chaoyang, Liaoning, China · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Bo Feng is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $1.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yiigoo — Yiigoo is a baby clothing brand that creates natural materials products that are comfortable for children.
  • Berachain — Berachain is an EVM-identical Layer 1 (L1) blockchain that uses the novel Proof of Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism to align liquidity and security at the network level.
  • Mosaix — Mosaix develops a branded voice assistant for the localized services, languages, and needs of global footprint. Mosaix's dynamic language AI platform enables enterprise customers to create intelligent voice assistants for quick and accurate answers to queries from a plethora of languages. The company is replacing cumbersome text-based searchwith quality voice search interface.
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Chad Hurley
Angel · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Chad Hurley is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Greenpark Sports and the Co-Founder of AVOS Systems. He earned his bachelor's degree in fine art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $14M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Polycam — Polycam is a 3D creation tool company that develops a sensor app to capture 3D scans of objects. Its tool for photorealistic 3D asset creation is used to capture, document, edit, and share digital 3D content. Its sensors use computer vision and artificial intelligence technology such as a colorization engine to create 3D objects and spaces.
  • NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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Fusion Fund
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Fusion Fund supports early-stage entrepreneurs who are looking to build globally disruptive companies using innovative technologies to drive systemic change.They are entering the next wave of technological advancement and foundational innovation is required to enable massive growth. With Fusion Fund’s technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds,we seek to support entrepreneurs who are building companies with strong technical barriers and advantages in their business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $6.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Scout Space — SCOUT's mission is to give spacecraft the ability to see and avoid potential threats. We improve SDA by up to 1000x.
  • Sancho — https://t.co/ptb9Xn8I5U Physical API for advanced manufacturing
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.4M–$31M; Series B $8.3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brain Co. — AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions
  • Niteshift — Niteshift is a software development company that builds the full-stack cloud platform for coding agents. enabling background coding agents that can simulate and close loops on complex tasks end-to-end.
  • Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GroundTruth — Understand your consumer, build your business, increase store visits and sales, and make smarter forecasting decisions with location data that tells the truth.
  • Shake — Shake is a mobile-first application that allows users to create, sign, and send, plain English and legally binding agreements from their phones. Shake was founded in 2012 by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and investors. They have decades of startup and executive leadership experience at companies such as Google, Spotify, AOL, BuzzFeed,and RRE Ventures.
  • RebelMouse — Build, launch, and grow with AI-powered workflows, technical SEO, and performance-first publishing.
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Greg Kidd
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Greg Kidd is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Know Labs.Greg is a co-founder and partner of Hard Yaka. As an investor, Greg provided first money at Twitter, Square, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Solana. Other early investments include Ripple, Uphold, and Brave.After working at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton,Greg took his first company public on the NASDAQ with $250 million in revenue and 3,200 staff globally. He later served in the payments division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as a director at the financial regulatory consulting firm Promontory Financial Group. Greg also served as Chief Risk Officer at Andreesen Horowitz and Google Ventures backed startup Ripple. Greg graduated from Brown University and earned an MBA from Yale University and an MPA in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $385k–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Empyr — Figg is a leading card-linked marketing platform uncovering value for advertisers, banks and publishers with data-driven solutions.
  • Meld — Access stablecoins and digital assets anywhere
  • Cashmere — Secure multisig solana wallet, built for teams. Send, receive, and grow your digital assets directly from your Cashmere Vault.
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Gregory Milken
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Gregory Milken is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, where he focuses on investments in digital media, gaming and esports. Gregory has led March Capital’s investments in broadcasting solution Genvid Technologies, game mastery platform Dojo Madness, and game developers nWay and Wavedash. Gregory has over 15 years of entrepreneuriall and operational experience. He was the co-founder and COO of AltEgo, a cloud-based technology and gaming company. Prior to his work in technology, he worked in strategy and operations for Knowledge Universe Education, new business development at Warner Bros. in Hong Kong and London, and at Twentieth Century Fox.Gregory received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a M.A. in international policy studies from Stanford University. He also received a B.A. in international relations and Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, eSports, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.4M; Series A $4M–$12M; Series B $11M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • Knock Knock — WEB3.0 is not just the next generation of the Internet. It is an evolution that combines decentralization, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts, bringing them into the world of game development.
  • Gunslinger Studios — Gunslinger Studios is a game studio bent on bringing the thrill of multiplayer gaming to mobile players in a minute or less-- something that fits a schedule but scratches the itch for competing and moving forward in a game world. The studio is creating quick, one-hand-controlled experiences for a ge
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Marc Benioff
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Marc Benioff is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of Salesforce. Marc previously worked at Oracle as a Vice President. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California. Marc Benioff has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M; Series A $5.9M–$30M; Series B $7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • June.ai — Discover June, a digital communication hub that replaces your email experience. June creates a new world for your existing email that gives you more control, interactivity and efficiency.
  • Panthalassa — We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
  • Enclave — Enclave is a cybersecurity startup that builds an AI‑native code‑security agent for software development and DevSecOps teams. It analyzes entire codebases to triage scanner noise and surface only the vulnerabilities that truly matter, using cross‑file taint analysis and trust‑boundary mapping. The platform helps engineering teams ship code fasterwhile reducing the risk of exploitable security issues in production. Enclave primarily targets software companies and enterprises that prioritize secure, high‑velocity development.
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 540
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $2.4M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mingyian — Mingyian is a China brand management company for western celebrities and influencers, and is developing the first micro-event platform for celebrities to host online events that engage, grow, and monetize their fan base in the Chinese market. Early investors include RRE Ventures, #DominateFund, Oscar-Nominated Hollywood Director M. NightShyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao, a senior executive at one of China's largest energy companies.Our team is made up of industry giants in the China digital and US entertainment spaces, including the Co-founder of E! Entertainment, Former General Manager of the Television Network, Former SVP at William Morris and EVP at Universal Television, Former Director of Business Development at Live Nation, China's First Blogger, Co-Founder of largest site for engineers and designers in China, among many others.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
  • Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
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Desert Angels
VC Fund · Tucson, Arizona, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Founded in 2000 and based in Tucson, AZ, the Desert Angels is a non-profit organization of accredited investors looking for opportunities to invest in early-stage companies. We focus on companies with new innovations in science, tech and SAAS, and our portfolio spans a broad range of industries. Our members will invest $4million-$6million per yearinto roughly 20 deals, about half of which are follow-on rounds. We offer a Sidecar fund which automatically co-invests when specific criteria are met. We are nationally recognized, and in the most recent ARI HALO report listed #7 in the country and #1 in the southwest region as one of the most active angel groups. The Desert Angels is a charter member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the trade association of angel investment groups; and an active member in the Angel Syndication Network (ASN), a network of angel groups that syndicate deals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $702k–$4.5M; Series A $1.8M–$21M; Series B $1.2M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $638k in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • MessageDesk — Unify text conversations, connect teams, reach more people, and send text message broadcasts from your phone number with a shared SMS inbox.
  • Delta Development — Delta Development Team stands as a pioneering force in Transportable Blood Storage Solutions, transforming cold chain logistics with advanced thermal system technology and real-time monitoring capability through a highly intuitive blood program management system.
  • Linshom Medical, Inc. — Noninvasive|Respiratory Rate|Relative Tidal Volume
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Raptor Group
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Raptor Group Holdings is an alternative investment firm that provides investment management and advisory services. Raptor Group sources and invest in companies across various stages and asset classes, ranging from early-stage venture to both private and public equity. Raptor focuses on various industries including, but not limited to Sports,Consumer, Technology, Media, Entertainment, and Financial Services. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$18M; Series A $6.3M–$28M; Series B $11M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Dapple — The Enterprise OS Cloud. A new category of AI infrastructure between the public cloud and the private data center. When the outcome matters, it runs on Dapple.
  • Applied Atomics — Applied Atomics is a Rapid Response Network in Space.
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
  • Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 528
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$17M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • Betaworks — Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
  • BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
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Scrum Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.3M; Series A $6.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • BiPSEE — BiPSEE is a medical XR company that provides treatment support for children for the purpose of nurturing a sense of self-efficacy. They also deploy AR and VR animation with one button dentistry and medicine, whether outpatient or hospitalized in various situations your child's anxiety and pain relieve. It aims to reduce anxiety and pain inchildren in a wide range of medical fields such as dentistry, pediatrics, and dermatology.BiPSEE is abs ed in Tokyo, Japan.
  • SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
  • ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
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Allen DeBevoise
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Allen DeBevoise is the Founder and Managing Partner of Third Wave Digital. He previously worked at Machinima, Inc. as a Chairman of the Board.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Video, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals was founded in 2015 as a US-based esports and gaming organization that competes in League of Legends (LCS). At Immortals we aim to entertain, inspire, and be the voice of esports fans in the Great Lakes Region through our exciting players, talented creators and innovative regional experiences.
  • Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
  • Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.
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Sam Guren
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Sam Guren started in the venture capital/private equity business in 1975, with Continental Illinois Venture Corporation (CIVC), a subsidiary of Continental Bank (Chicago). During his tenure with CIVC, the firm’s investments ranged from Apple Computer to Yoplait to Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts. The KKR investment took the firm into the buyoutinvestment business.In 1981, Sam Guren was recruited by William Blair to co-found and manage William Blair Venture Partners. He grew the business to six professionals during three funds. Investments ranged from the founding of The Sports Authority to the buyout of Sanford Corporation to investments in various technology, healthcare and cable television companies.Robert Baird recruited Sam Guren in 1996 to manage the Baird Capital funds. While there, BCP grew from two to five professionals with a focus on outsourcing and temporary staffing.Sam Guren joined Allied Capital in 1999, and stayed through 2002. He managed the Chicago office, and was on their Investment and Operating Committees.From 2007 to 2011, he was the Managing Director of Hyde Park Angels, an angel network affiliated with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Sam is an advisor to OCA Ventures and a member of the Boards of Directors of The Debt Exchange (Debtx), SpotHero, and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Knapp Entrepreneurship Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology.Sam Guren is a recipient of the Stanley C. Golder Medal, which “acknowledges individuals who have made profound and lasting contributions to the private equity industry in Illinois”.Prior to his involvement in the venture capital and private equity business, Sam taught junior high math and was a junior varsity high school wrestling coach in the Cleveland Public Schools System.Sam Guren is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and received an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiobit — Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings.With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world'ssmallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.
  • LogicBay — LogicBay offers cloud-based partner relationship management (PRM) solutions for small emerging to global enterprises. The company also offers consulting, training, and certification solutions. LogicBay was founded in 1980 and is based in Warwick, Rhode Island.
  • CrowdHall — Boost your social media presence, buy YouTube views, Instagram followers, TikTok views, and more to gain visibility and organic growth.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$8M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
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Kal Vepuri
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Kal Vepuri is Founder and Chairman of Brainchild. Brainchild Holdings is Kal's personal direct investment vehicle. Brainchild & Company is a collective of engineers, operators, and designers that build physical products and digital services. Prior to forming Brainchild, Kal was a technology entrepreneur, a consultant at Bain & Companyand an institutional private equity investor. Kal earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics with High Distinction from Duke University and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Economics.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $965k–$6M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beams Safety Intelligence — Beams is a platform for people who like to listen and contribute to great conversations in their own time.
  • Loveseat.com — Loveseat online furniture auction is the best way to get great deals on overstock, returned, vintage and used home furniture in Texas & California. Bid on our weekly online auctions for customer returns, retail overstock, shabby chic, danish modern, mid century modern and much more.
  • Fruitful — Book a free session with an expert Fruitful Guide, take control of your money, and stop stressing.
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Rosecliff Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 8 in the past 12 months

We are a New York City based investment firm focused on venture capital and private equity opportunities. Our team invests in technology enabled companies in the financial, consumer, healthcare, and software industries. Our portfolio companies have strong management teams characterized by integrity, intelligence, experience, energy, and passion.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$6.8M; Series A $6M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Krane — Krane is a construction procurement and material management platform for GCs and subcontractors. Track submittals, purchase orders, supplier lead times, and deliveries in one real-time system.
  • Trashie — Just a 'small-town' recycling and rewards platform trying to make it in the big city.
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Kai Huang
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Kai Huang is the Senior Advisor of Grishin Robotics. He attended the University of California Berkeley.Kai is a Venture Partner at Idea Bulb Ventures. He is the co-founder and ex-CEO of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise, acquired by Activision in June 2006. Kai was also co-founder and CEO of Adux Software, asoftware company developing solutions for the server appliance market. Prior to Adux Software, he was a consultant with Accenture, where he worked with Fortune 500 clients in the area of supply chain management. He is an active, serial angel investor. Kai holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taelor — Taelor is a subscription fashion service that powers men to rent styles for work, weekends and events.
  • Eruptive Games — Eruptive Games is a fast growing game studio, winning accolades and impacting game design in the social gaming space. Eruptive produces action based multi-player games, pioneering social features and gameplay with every new title.
  • humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!
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Jeff Bezos
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the Founder of Blue Origin. He previously worked at Cashican People LLC as an Investor. Jeff Bezos attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Non Profit, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$480M; Grant $2.5M–$33M; Series B $8M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue Origin — Earth, in all its beauty, is just our starting place. Blue Origin is opening the promise of space to all.
  • Flourish — Flourish is an AI company building human-level intelligence with human-level efficiency.
  • General Intuition — The frontier lab for acting in space and time.
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Troy Carter
Angel · Culver City, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Troy Carter is the Founder and CEO of Venice Music. He previously worked at Atom Factory as a Founder and CEO. Troy Carter attended Fairfield University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Therabody — Therabody is a developer of medical devices for targeted vibration therapy and pain relief.
  • MobileCoin — Download the Sentz App to send and receive payments globally from anyone you can text in under five seconds for (basically) free!
  • Moment House — Elevated Digital Experiences
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Jay Rasulo
Angel · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Jay Rasulo has the Happiest Job on Earth. As chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, he presides over a family vacation business that spans three continents and includes five world-class vacation destinations, a top rated cruise line and the most popular resort locations in North America, Europe and Asia. During the past 50 years, more than 2billion guests have passed through the gates of Disney theme parks around the world.Jay is the architect of the long-term global growth strategy for Disney Parks and Resorts' business, including Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened on September 12, 2005 – bringing the enchantment of a Disney theme park to a whole new region of the world.Jay oversees a broad range of businesses that help make Disney the leader in the vacation destination industry. The theme parks and resorts include the Disneyland Resort in California, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland. In addition, Jay is responsible for the Disney Cruise Line; Walt Disney Imagineering -- the designers and builders of theme parks, attractions and other facilities and Disney Regional Entertainment, comprising the ESPN Zone sports-themed restaurants.Jay, who has been with The Walt Disney Company for 20 years, was appointed president of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in 2002. In the fall of 2005, he became chairman of the segment. He spent two of the five years with the company in France as chairman and CEO of Euro Disney, S.C.A. where he was instrumental in turning Disneyland Resort Paris into Europe's top tourist destination. Cementing his reputation as a dedicated business leader and strategist, the Los Angeles Times in 2002 called Jay "… a provocative and passionate leader who understands the cultural nuances of foreign markets." The article went on to credit Jay for "…helping to transform Disneyland Paris.In addition to his duties at Disney, Jay has emerged as a recognized leader within the travel and tourism industry, working to broaden awareness of the industry's role in creating jobs, economic growth, and cultural exchange. In 2006, Jay serves as Chairman of the Travel Industry Association of America, the industry's preeminent trade association in the United States. Additionally, Jay serves as Chairman of the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which is charged with advising the U.S. Department of Commerce on the creation of a national tourism strategy. He also serves on the board of directors for the French American Chamber of Commerce and Euro Disney S.C.A.Jay first joined The Walt Disney Company in 1986 as director and later rose to senior vice president of Corporate Strategic Planning. In this role, he led strategic development for all real estate-based businesses in The Walt Disney Company portfolio.After two years as a senior vice president of Corporate Alliances and three years with Disney Regional Entertainment, Jay moved to Paris as executive vice president, Euro Disney, S.C.A. He served as president and C.O.O. before taking over as chairman and CEO in 2000.A native New Yorker, Jay has a degree in economics from Columbia, and both an MA in economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Before joining Disney, he held positions with Chase Manhattan Bank and the Marriott Corporation.Jay and his family reside in Los Angeles, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Video, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubbl — Bubbl Adds Fan Interaction Tech to Online and Live-Streaming Video.Our interaction suite includes single-click clip-and-share, video meme creation, selfie/reaction capture, and real-time filters. We partner with media companies, video players, and publishers to boost fan engagement, extend content reach, and establish new ad-based revenuestreams.
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • Stella — Stella is an industry consortium of large frontline and hourly employers who share non-hired and laid-off applicants with one another through the Stella marketplace. Using Stella's iOS, Android mobile apps and our map-based interface, job seekers can easily explore nearby network job openings. Applying is a snap thanks to our common jobapplication and tight employer ATS integrations. Applicants do not have to fill out the same information over and over again. This streamlined process improves the candidate experience by saving time and effort.Stella has raised $25M+ from world class investors. Dozens of America’s largest employers are already using Stella to hire talent and to help their laid-off employees find new work more quickly. More companies and jobs are being added every day. Our growing team is based in New York City and Sydney, Australia.Stella. Finding work has never been easier. Discover more at https://stella.jobs
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Pasadena Angels
VC Fund · Altadena, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Entrepreneurial small businesses are major engines of job growth and key players in the commercialization of new technologies. However, most entrepreneurial ventures fail to achieve their goals. Among the most common reasons for such business failures are the inability to execute sound business plans and to access capital funding, particularly atcritical early stages of a company's development.Affiliated as Pasadena Angels, Inc., a nonprofit entity, the organization offers early-stage companies the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge of more than 100 experienced entrepreneurs, senior corporate executives, and skilled professionals from a variety of industries and venture capital affiliates.Approximately 80 companies from a broad range of industries are screened each year by Pasadena Angels members and are provided with invaluable counsel, including insights into developing business and financing strategies that are achievable and fundable. Companies also benefit from the group's feedback and the opportunity to connect with individuals who may offer more specialized expertise and advice.The organization's members provide up to $1 million in early-stage financing and seed money to emerging technology-based ventures located in Southern California. The group cooperates with other venture capital firms and angel investment groups to support companies that are raising between $1 to $5 million. Pasadena Angels members invest individually and directly, without any legal pooling of financial resources. The corporate entity, Pasadena Angels, Inc. does not invest or act as an investment agent in any manner.Pasadena Angels charges no fees and provides its services to companies which it believes have a significant potential for success and the potential to benefit from an association with the organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Everyset — Everyset is the easiest platform for employers to on-board, pay, and insure project workforces. Workers instantly onboard and track payments with a profile portable between employers. To increase density between employers & workers, we are initially focused within entertainment.
  • Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
  • Veriskin — Medical device company dedicated to developing new technologies for skin cancer diagnostics
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BrandProject
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Porta — Restaurant-quality Italian food delivered to your door. Pizza, Pasta, Dessert subscription.
  • Acid League — Experiments in acid? Acid League makes flavor-tripping vinegars, drinks, sauces, and condiments to energize your cooking.
  • Guaranteed — Guaranteed reimagines hospice care with at-home treatment, cutting-edge technology, and a clinical team that puts the dying and grieving first.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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John Tan
Angel · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

John Tan - Founder @ Controlled Commodity

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Tech Coast Angels
VC Fund · Newport Beach, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States, possessing more than 300 members in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Its members provide funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other investment group.Members invest in companies in a wide range of industries, including the life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, consumer products, and tech startups. TCA as a whole gives companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring, and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been ranked by CB Insights to be among the Top 20 Angel Groups in the US; TCA was also ranked as #1 for Network Centrality, meaning we have more connections than anyone! If you are in the game-changing business, we are here to help.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyte — Flyte promotes cellular healing in pelvic floor muscles for lasting results. Flyte is fast, proven, safe, pelvic floor therapy for bladder control.
  • Lincode — The #1 business challenge that manufacturers identify is quality management. As new manufactured products continue to enter the market and consumer expectations shift faster than ever, factories are looking to improve their quality systems while scaling operations and cutting costs. At Lincode, we enable manufacturers to improve the speed, accuracy, and data tracking capabilities of their quality inspection systems at scale.
  • Nob Hill Therapeutics — Nob Hill Therapeutics is a Delaware Corporation, founded to develop and market DryNeb, a first-in-kind dry powder nebulizer to address large pulmonary drug delivery market opportunities. The company has exclusively licensed the technology from the University of New Mexico.DryNeb™ vs. Aerosol Mist Nebulizers Compact, handheld, portable DryNeb willreplace cumbersome aerosol mist nebulizers.The pulmonary route of drug delivery has been gaining much importance in the present day, as it enables targeted drug delivery directly to the lungs for both local and systemic treatment. Pulmonary drug delivery, as a noninvasive drug administration method, is characterized by its high bioavailability and fast action. It is increasingly used in modern clinical practice for improved treatment of local as well as systemic diseases.
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Brainchild Holdings
VC Fund · Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Pre-Seed $30k–$500k; Series A $1.1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Presto — Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Our enterprise-grade touch, vision, and voice technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests.
  • Shadow — Community led app
  • Biorez — Biorez is a medical device company whose aim is to apply its patented and proprietary technology comprised of PLLA, a degradable polymer, in orthopedic implant devices for regeneration and augmentation of soft tissue. In addition to the L-C Ligament®, Biorez has also developed a suite of associated products, including the biorez GRAFT™, a FDA510(k)-cleared innovative device for soft tissue augmentation of the rotator cuff in the United States.
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Joseph Tsai
Angel · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Art, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series E
  • Geography: United States, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$6.1M; Series E $100M–$700M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
  • Cambium — Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse.
  • Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.
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Sterling Equities
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Sterling Equities is a family-run group of companies that include The NY Mets, Brooklyn Cyclones, PE, VC and several Real Estate Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Video, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moonwalk — Wallet-as-a-Service Platform
  • Electrolyte Boost — Electrolyte Boost is a healthcare products company that offers electrolytes without water for energy drinks.
  • Rad — Monetize content with AI upscaling, multilingual subtitles, viral prediction tools. Stream content on PS5/PSVR2. Built for creators who want more revenue.
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Aubrey Graham (Drake)
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Aubrey Graham (Drake) is the Founder of OVO Sound.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.2M; Series A $10M–$555M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Bullrider — There's cannabis then there's Bullrider. Legacy in the making since 2004. Cannabis dispensary selling and delivering legal weed in Brampton, Canada from 67 Shelby Road.
  • StatusPro — Completely rewrite the rules of the game and leave your legacy in the latest NFL and NFLPA-licensed VR experience, NFL PRO ERA 25
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Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
VC Fund · College Park, Maryland, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

The Dingman Center Angels is a Maryland based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $235k–$2.5M; Angel $267k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BetterU — An all-in-one app that's help you improve your productivity and well being.
  • TargetDocs — TargetDocs is a communication workspace that collects and organizes all of your subcontractor's project files in one place so they never fall through the cracks
  • Cursive Technology — Bringing Academic Integrity back to the head of the class. We're using ML to prevent plagiarism and contract cheating. Private Beta opening Spring 2023, DM us.
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Darrell Cavens
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Darrell Cavens is based out of Seattle, Washington, and is the Member Board of Directors of Match Group. Darrell previously worked at zulily as a Co-Founder, President & CEO. Darrell Cavens attended the University of Victoria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $6.3M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Armoire — Rent an infinite closet, styled just for you. Armoire is a women's rental clothing membership that continuously styles you with curated, contemporary designs.
  • Shipium — Shipium is the supply chain platform for ecommerce.
  • Vouched — Discover Vouched's industry-leading digital identity verification solutions. Streamline your customer experience, integrate seamlessly, and unlock access to critical services. Get started for free.
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Mike Hennessey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Mike Hennessey

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Chile, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metal Pay — Metal Pay allows people a free bank account, the ability to buy and sell over 50 cryptocurrencies, and the ability to pay anybody instantly.
  • Mosaic — Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy. It is a solar finance company that provides financing for residential solar systems. Mosaic's vision, 100% clean energy for all, embodies the desire to create shared prosperity through clean energy and to help millionsof people invest in themselves, their homes, and the future of the planet.It was founded in 2011 and is based in Oakland, California.
  • Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.
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Manatt Venture Fund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

The Manatt Venture Fund is the investment arm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm. The Fund makes early-stage investments, and since its founding in 2000 it has made investments in over 90 companies. The official investment entity is MPP Holdings, LLC.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
  • Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
  • Genome Medical — The leading provider of telehealth genetic services. Access expert guidance, accelerate diagnoses and improve rare disease care.
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Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is the co-founder, Chairman, and General Partner at Waverley Capital Acquisition Corp. 1.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EdTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3M; Series A $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shazura — Shazura is a unique Computer Vision with unsupervised patented Fingerprint AI. Edge to Cloud AI Platform. True Visual AI for images & videos.
  • Rentlogic — Rentlogic is a tech-enabled standards organization that grades every apartment building in New York City (A, B, C, and F) for health and safety. The grades are based on physical inspections and public data from city agencies. Rentlogic’s methodology was developed in collaboration with stakeholders from all facets of the housing sector to be fair,credible and objective.
  • Thread — Discover the service that only recommends clothes in your style, size and budget. All online and completely free.
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Third Kind Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Actual contact with an alien is a Close Encounter of the Third Kind

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
  • Architect — Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals.
  • Chatforce — Chatforce is an AI-powered game studio. Four AI agents turn your ideas into playable, shareable games in minutes. No coding required.
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Boxee
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

social networks like Twitter, Facebook, etc.Since it is partially open source, users can create their own apps, plug-ins, and skins for it.The framework for Boxee is based on source code from the

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Celebrity
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ED01 — ED01 (formerly Edition01) is a product development and distribution platform that's changing how brands, designers and retailers work together. ED01 develops limited edition collection and launches new product categories for a fast growing client-network of designers, brands, celebrity figures and retailers. ED01 then wholesales thecollection to a growing list of international retailers.ED01.com: As the E-Commerce Destination for Design Collaborations, ED01 offers powerful branding and distribution opportunities.
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Celebrity Investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 32 deals from 72 investors.

72
investors
in United States Celebrity startups
32
deals
in United States Celebrity startups
$2M
median round
in United States Celebrity startups
10%
lead investors
lead at least one round
38%
Seed
most common funding stage
54/46
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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