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Top 50 Celebrity Startup Investors in United States (June 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 $1.5M–$140M
Adam Nash
Angel
2 United States, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$20M
Vine St. Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $50k–$10M
Harrison Metal
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.4M–$40M
Larry Braitman
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $550k–$10M
Jim Moloshok
Angel
2 United States Seed Apps, Film, Internet $50k–$750k
Mike Hennessey
Angel
1 United States, Chile, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Mobile $1M–$4M
Aubrey Graham (Drake)
Angel
1 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Angel Gaming, Mobile, FinTech $3M–$555M
Greg Kidd
Angel
1 United States, Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Series A FinTech, Mobile, Software $385k–$4.5M
Troy Carter
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Social Media, Software, Mobile
Jordan French
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Apps, Sensor, Internet $25k–$2.1M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $5.4M–$180M
Joseph Tsai
Angel
1 United States, China, Germany Seed, Series A Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce $3.2M–$5.9M
Jay Rasulo
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Film, Video, Internet $1.4M–$10M
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Software, Energy $2M–$30M
David Tisch
Angel
1 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$40M
SV Aangel
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$107M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
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
Mark Attanasio
Angel
1 United States Seed, Angel, Series B Mobile, Sports, Charity
SOSV
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Gregory Milken
Angel
1 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Series B Video Games, Gaming, eSports $1.5M–$27M
Fuse Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Belgium Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Web Hosting, Video
John Tan
Angel
1 Singapore, United States, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Travel
Scrum Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, China Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$520M
Marc Benioff
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.2M–$91M
RRE Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, Internet $1.1M–$32M
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Seed iOS, Apps, Video $1M–$2M
Tech Coast Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada Seed, Convertible Note Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Blackpoynt Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion
Allen DeBevoise
Angel
1 United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Video, Media and Entertainment, Social Media $1M–$5.3M
Jim Wiatt
Angel
1 United States Seed, Angel Software, Marketplace, Apps $1.4M–$1.8M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.2M–$40M
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Apps, Music $745k–$100M
Boxee
VC Fund
1 United States Seed Retail, Fashion, Celebrity
Sam Guren
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Finance $70k–$4.5M
Kal Vepuri
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Health Care $965k–$25M
Darrell Cavens
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $1.1M–$9M
Desert Angels
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series A, Angel SaaS, Software, Biotechnology $200k–$21M
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Madrona
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$65M
Michael Mahan
Angel
1 United States Series A Apps, Sports, Internet
Manatt Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $600k–$45M
Bo Feng
Angel
1 United States, China, Hong Kong Series A, Seed, Angel Blockchain, FinTech, Finance $100k–$40M
Rosecliff Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed Software, Internet, Health Care $1.4M–$23M
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$2.7M
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Music, EdTech, Internet $2.5M–$16M
Kai Huang
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Hardware $50k–$4.9M
Sterling Equities
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series B Pet, Video, Retail $1.1M–$2M
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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: 1419
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5.5M–$60M; Series B $12M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Section4 — Section4 membership gives you unlimited classes with the best minds in business.
  • Pylon — Talk to your customers over Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord? Meet Pylon. We'll help you scale your sales, success, and support processes over chat and integrate that data back into your existing systems.
  • Nirvana Insurance — Modern fleet insurance that rewards safety
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • 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

  • Equitybee — EquityBee helps startup employees get the money they need to exercise their stock options before they expire.
  • Pylon — Pylon is the mortgage-lending-as-a-service platform. Build a fully digital mortgage experience using our APIs, pre-built UI components, and capital markets stack. Based in New York, NY.
  • Pinwheel — Secure, reliable access to consumer income data for financial innovation at scale. Grow direct deposits, verify income and employment, unlock earned wages.
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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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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: 175
  • 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

  • Hone — Hone helps HR and L&D teams scale development that upskills managers, leaders, and teams through AI-powered and live experiences that deliver measurable impact
  • Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
  • 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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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

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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: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.3M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
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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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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
  • Geography: United States, Chile, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orchata — Te presentamos orchata, tu super en 15 minutos. Te regalamos 100 pesos en tu primer pedido.
  • 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.
  • DBM Cloud Systems — DBM Cloud Systems is a provider of an Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine ("AIRE") which is a scalable, software-only platform for replicating object data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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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: Gaming, Mobile, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$3M; Series A $10M–$555M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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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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–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aeldra — Exclusive U.S. Banking for Indians. Open a U.S. bank account in 10 minutes from India if you have an Indian Passport. Visa, Social Security Number or U.S. Address not required. Get a Mastercard Global Debit Card and a cutting-edge Mobile Banking App. Aeldra is the first neo-bank offering cross-border banking to Indians. Indians can now apply for a U.S. Bank Account with a Mastercard Debit Card from India using their Indian Passport. Using revolutionary technology based on Machine Learning Aeldra has proprietary KYC, Risk Management and Info Security capabilities to be in compliance with U.S. & Indian regulations as well as meeting the highest standards of safety and security. Aeldra's mission is to democratize global banking by providing seamless access to all. Indian citizens can open a U.S. bank account from home, and manage the account through an intuitive App.
  • MONI — MONI is building the bridge between the now and the future of banking and financial services. Our mission is to provide simple low-cost mobile personal banking tools for everyone, everywhere – and credit in real-time.We do not believe in the anarchy of destructing the old, we believe in future-proof evolution. We are building a hub connectingthe current banking, payment and credit provisioning systems to new technologies such as cryptocurrencies. Our technology reduces system complexity, cuts out middlemen, reduces costs for all parties, and decreases fraud.MONI technology, accessible from any feature or smartphone, enables every citizen to identify themselves and provides them with basic financial services. Our technology works today, on any carrier network, anywhere in the world.
  • Tribe — Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/
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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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Jordan French
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Jordan French is the Founder and CEO of Grit Daily News. He previously worked at BNB Shield as a Co-founder. Jordan French attended Vanderbilt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Zebra — The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world.The companywas founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
  • BNB Shield — BNB Shield finds, reports on and challenges illegal, contract-breaking and unlicensed short-term rentals.
  • S'More Date — Dating 3.0 Relationships powered by content NOT headshots! Named a top dating app by: AskMen, Marie Claire, Self Magazine, Esquire, Refinery 29 ++ Featured in: Forbes, Elle, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Esquire, Bustle, and more
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1594
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $10M–$180M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
  • Nevis — Nevis is the world's first AI-powered platform designed specifically for wealth management. It automates operational tasks that consume as much as 80% of a financial advisor's day, such as meeting preparation, document management, opening custodian accounts, and client onboarding. This allows advisors to focus more on deliveringpersonalized client service and growing their businesses.
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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, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TraceMe — TraceMe puts you on the inside track with your favorite artists, athletes, and entertainers.
  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
  • 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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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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Patrick Soon-Shiong
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Patrick Soon-Shiong is the Executive Chairman of ImmunityBio. He previously worked at Wibbitz as a Board member. Patrick Soon-Shiong attended the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $5M–$25M; Series C $20M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
  • Sienza Energy — Sienza Energy is developing a radical new approach to design and manufacture batteries. The company’s revolutionary strategy is based on a 3D nanotechnology electrode structure that takes advantage of advances in multiple fields over the last decade, providing an approach to battery design that is unique in the industry. By combining these advancesin an innovative way, Sienza can drastically improve the batteries’ energy and power densities — all with the goal of simultaneously reducing the overall battery costs. With this new approach, Sienza Energy can provide even more capability in a range of products, from smart devices to electric vehicles.
  • Alyssum Therapeutics — Alyssum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing next-generation immunotherapies to modulate B cells.
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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: 216
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
  • Vengo — Massive national network of digital screens accessible through every major SSP. Buy retail and point-of-purchase screens on your preferred platform.
  • Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
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SV Aangel
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: 923
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.2M; Series A $2.5M–$35M; Series B $8M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
  • depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • EPD Biotherapeutics — EPDBio is a platform technology-based biotech company that provides research and product development services.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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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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Mark Attanasio
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Mark Attanasio is the Managing Partner at Crescent Capital Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Sports, Charity
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Prizeo — At Prizeo, donate as little as $10 to a worthy cause to enter to win unforgettable experiences with the biggest names in music, sports, and entertainment.
  • ON — Our ChatOS platform empowers brands and connects fans in new and interesting ways to what they like, what they’re passionate about, and what they’re craving to discover.
  • Remedy — Remedy is a prescriptive chronic care analytics platform employing artificial intelligence to help value-based health systems determine who should get what care, when, how, and by whom to maximize patient health outcomes per dollar spent. We are a design-driven company with core medical AI technology capable of diagnosing disease, catching hiddenhigh-risk diagnoses, and projecting the development of patient’s health into the future. Built around our core AI engine, our first product Remedy Sentinel helps value-based providers identify hidden chronic, co-morbid conditions and intervene by engaging high-risk patients prior to onset. We envision a world where healthcare marries the science of “health” with the art of “care”: scientific, data-driven decision making drives the best outcomes for each individual patient, and frees providers to focus on applying their human touch.Remedy combines novel artificial intelligence algorithms for predictive medical analytics with a healthcare-optimized product development process to give leaders the tools they need to transform their delivery networks and thrive in a value-based care environment. With this approach, Remedy builds a scalable suite of products that, when deployed, learn from experience, and grow into a solution optimized to fit the needs of specific provider groups and the populations they serve.Remedy systematically maximizes the patient health outcome achieved with each dollar spent by using AI to help determine what care is delivered to whom, when it is delivered, where it is delivered, how it is delivered, followed, and supported, and who should deliver it. We not only surface insights, but also build the necessary tools and helps coordinate step-by-step implementation processes to affect real change.
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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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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, Gaming, eSports
  • 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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Fuse Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Fuse Capital (formerly Velocity Interactive Group and fused with ComVentures) is a leading investment and strategic equity management firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Fuse has a globalpresence with offices in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, India and China. For more information, please visit www.fusecapital.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Hosting, Video
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Belgium

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Quantia — The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
  • MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
  • Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
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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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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: 129
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $6M–$520M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Lob — Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs that allow businesses to send timely, personalized, automated offline communications to their customers.
  • Placemeter — Placemeter is an urban intelligence platform. We quantify modern cities worldwide.Our platform leverages proprietary computer vision technology to make sense of both archival and live video streams. First, Placemeter detects hidden patterns in pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Then, we predict how those patterns will evolve over time. Theresult is stronger businesses, safer streets and highly innovative neighborhoods.The answers you need are all around us. Quantify your world at http://www.placemeter.com.
  • SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
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Marc Benioff
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

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: 136
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M; Series A $5.9M–$30M; Series B $6M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
  • 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: 506
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $2.3M–$27M; Series B $7.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Poncho — Fun daily weather forecasts, delivered by a cat. Available on Facebook Messenger, iPhone, and Android.
  • Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.
  • Medallia Agent Connect — Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance.
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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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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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Blackpoynt Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Blackpoynt Ventures is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • COVETEUR — Coveteur is a globally-renowned multimedia brand speaking to style-obsessed readers covering luxury fashion, beauty, and lifestyle.
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Allen DeBevoise
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years of experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to foundingThird Wave, Allen built a strong track record as an Angel Investor in the digital media sector and has had over 15 high-multiple exits and NAVs. Allen is currently the Chairman of Machinima and sits on several digital media company boards including StyleHaul, MiTu, Tubular Labs, DanceOn, INDMusic, and Mondo Entertainment. He was an early investor and outside board member for several companies. LowerMyBills.com and Dealer.com are examples of two companies that had highly successful exits. He was featured on the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power List 2009 and on Digital Media Wire's 2010 List of "25 Executives to Watch” and dubbed the Godfather of Online Video. Allen is a frequent speaker at major digital media conferences and considered an important leader in the rapidly growing Silicon Beach venture capital community.Allen has been engaged on the leading edge in the digital media and interactive arena for over three decades including working on the first uses of computer animation in entertainment ("Tron"), the first interactive video on the Mac ("Guernica"), the first interactive television trial (Time Warner Orlando) and the first broadband cable Internet prototype ("@Home").Allen has an A.B. in Mathematics and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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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Jim Wiatt
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Jim Wiatt is a Board Member at AOL.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Safely Health — The Safely App lets potential partners share their verified STD and COVID status in a way that's trusted, private, and secure. More than an app, Safely is a movement to disrupt the spread of STD's and make the world a safer (and more fun) place to be. Behind it's sexy exterior, Safely is a fully vertically integrated healthcarecompany with partnerships and proprietary integrations with many of the world's leading healthcare companies, including Quest, Labcorp Mayo Clinic, EPIC, CVS, and more. SAFE works in partnership with the CDC, many of the world's top nonprofit organizations and influencers, plus social media platforms and dating apps, to empower this and future generations to know and show their status.
  • 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.
  • Squabbler — Squabbler powers video conversation and engagement.Squabbler is the first video engagement platform that allows users to respond to web content and interact with one another through video submission.Our platform allows publishers to embed customized modules into their web properties, social media and mobile applications to increase thelevel of engagement of their users and redefine the way people interact with their content.Please contact us for a demo.
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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: 474
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • RebelMouse — RebelMouse is the first digital publishing platform that is fully wired for social. Its solution enables brands, media companies and individuals to create vibrant content experiences that build communities and continually reach and grow audiences across the social web.Unlike conventional approaches that focus on managing content workflows withinspecific channels, RebelMouse liberates content across sites, social, apps and ads, and amplifies engagement with intelligent recommendations, social calls to action, real-time trending alerts and more.Founded in 2012 by former Huffington Post CTO Andrea Breanna, RebelMouse's modern approach to traffic helped create huge online hits like Axios and The Dodo, while also relaunching existing publishers like PAPER Magazine and helping them "Break the Internet." RebelMouse also helps brands who want to act more like a media company, including helping United Airlines Hub become the most popular airline blog.For more information, visit rebelmouse.com and follow RebelMouse on Twitter at @rebelmouse.
  • Expressable — Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas.
  • Bookkeep — Whether you run multiple locations, franchise stores, or sell across channels, Bookkeep automates your revenue recognition, deposit reconciliation and sales tax compliance with 100% accuracy.
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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, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$8M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
  • Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
  • 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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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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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.
  • SpotHero — Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages, lots, and valets near you. Find parking near work, home, airports, and events with the help of SpotHero.
  • 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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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, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $965k–$6M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beams — 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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Darrell Cavens
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Before founding zulily, Darrell spent almost a decade at Blue Nile, where he was CTO and SVP of Marketing. In 2009, he spent a year at Microsoft leading the BizTalk Server business. Previously, he was at Starwave, a Seattle-based internet company, working on large web properties including ESPN.com and ABCNews.com. He attended the University ofVictoria. When he's not at zulily, Darrell's favorite thing to do is spend time with his young son and daughter, especially on trips to visit family in Canada and Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • 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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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, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $702k–$4.5M; Angel $200k–$700k; Series A $1.8M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
  • Lemon Perfect — Lemon Perfect is a zero-sugar cold-pressed lemon water that’s full of flavor and packed with antioxidant vitamin C. We squeeze half a California-grown organic lemon into every bottle and can—and add no artificial ingredients—making healthy hydration more convenient, refreshing, and delicious than ever.The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered inAtlanta, GA.
  • 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.Our team is dedicated to maintaining and exceeding quality standards through rigorous testing and validation, FDA listing, AABB approval, and comprehensive regulatory and safety certifications.Our
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups

Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

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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: 42
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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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: 464
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $6M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $260M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Spice AI — Designed for apps and machine learning, Spice AI is helping developers working with web3 and blockchain data to build the next generation of apps.
  • Polly — Polly gets answers to your most important questions, instantly. Get in context feedback from your colleagues in Slack, Teams and Zoom.
  • ShopIgniter — Reaching and converting social mobile consumers is now essential for most brands and their agencies. But advertising on social networks is only half the solution. To deliver high-value brand and business outcomes - at scale - marketers need tools and expertise that enable robust targeting, ad creative tuning, mobile landing page testing andintegrated conversion optimization and remarketing. ShopIgniter’s powerful social performance marketing platform enables digital marketing leaders to reach and convert their highest value social mobile consumers. Innovative brands like Target, Ford, Disney, Sony Music, Nike and Universal use the Igniter platform to deliver, manage, optimize and measure highly effective social media advertising campaigns in social streams that drive brand and business outcomes across networks and devices. Founded in 2009 and funded by Madrona Venture Group and Trinity Partners, ShopIgniter is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.More information can be found at www.shopigniter.com.
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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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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 & Philips, LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm.

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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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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

  • Medlinker — Medical Alliance is a post of physician social service platform. Users are certified doctors working in the Medical Alliance, they can share knowledge, experience and insights with the other industry elite, to continue to provide high quality content for each other. Application provides a medical quiz, map that case, the anonymous social circlesand doctors and other functions, is committed to helping physicians groups, more convenient access to high-quality information from the industry
  • Tabi — Tabi’s consumer chain will act as an incubator, helping dApps build their brand and culture while providing the support and liquidity they need. Our vision for L1 3.0 is that, like Google and Amazon today, our users won’t need to understand Tabi’s inner workings; they’ll simply enjoy using it.
  • Forge — Accelerate your future with Forge's private market solutions. Get access to pre-IPO investment opportunities and liquidity for your private company shares.
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Rosecliff Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States Celebrity startups, 6 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:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Series A $6M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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 an AI-powered construction supply chain platform that simplifies material logistics and enhances project performance.
  • Trashie — Trashie provides a textile recycling service with rewards through its Take Back Bag and TrashieCash program.
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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: 105
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.5M; Angel $267k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaster — Communication between general contractors and trade partners on construction projects is complex and fragmented, yet it’s mostly handled through email, phone and text. Naturally, critical items get lost in the clutter. As a result, everyone suffers the financial impacts of project delays, disputes, claims, and issues. Kaster bridges the gap betweengeneral contractors and trade partners by connecting them through one communication workspace, so items never fall through the cracks and project teams avoid unnecessary risk.Learn more at www.kaster.app
  • 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
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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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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

  • Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
  • 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.
  • Orange Chef — Orange Chef designs and manufactures hardware and software applications to answer some of the toughest questions around health and nutrition. Widely regarded as leaders of the connected kitchen category, all products are created with an emphasis on quality, simple design, and smart utilization of artificial intelligence technologies. Orange Chefdistributes its products in stores like Williams Sonoma, Apple, Target, and Amazon, among others. Established in 2011, Orange Chef is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco.
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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: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paintzen — Paintzen is a quality painting service with local professional interior & exterior house painters for your project. Hire a painter today!
  • 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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Celebrity Investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 29 deals from 69 investors.

69
investors
in United States Celebrity startups
29
deals
in United States Celebrity startups
$2.5M
median round
in United States Celebrity startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage
52/48
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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