Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in December 2024

Investor	Crowdfunding investments
Ron Suber	4
Jaan Tallinn	4
Blaine Vess	3
Nihal Mehta	3
Ed Wray	3
Max Levchin	2
Ankur Nagpal	2
Samih Toukan	2
Amir Banifatemi	2
Sharad Sharma	2
Erik Peterson	2
David Braben	2
Steve Schoettler	2
Daniel Schryer	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Tikhon Bernstam	2
Edward Lando	2
Jason Calacanis	2
Bill Ullman	2
Paul Graham	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Dave Shaver	2
Scott Belsky	2
Jeffrey Tarrant	2
Payam Zamani	2
Dave Morin	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Nicolas Douay	2
Vaibhav Gupta	2
Shashank V Singh	2
Stanley Fink	2
Dan Cunningham	2
Christian Faes	1
Jitendra Gupta	1
Krishna Mehra	1
Mark Kolokotrones	1
Christian Edler	1
Taylor Merritt	1
Patrick Gannon	1
Shiladitya Bora	1
Daud Vicary Abdullah	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Benjamin Ling	1
Alex Paolo Legler	1
Rafi Gidron	1
Soo Hoon Hauw	1
John Bacon	1
Sunil Patil	1
Jon Oringer	1
Joi Ito	1

Part entrepreneur, executive, sales, marketing, branding, mentor and coach. Medium IQ, High EQ, High AQ (Adversity Quotient).Enjoys traveling, teaching, yoga, hanging out with friends and family. Shares observations and lessons from experience on Wall Street, fin-tech and online lending in presentations at conferences globally, at emergingcompanies, at universities and on white boards. History of creating and executing successful strategies, raising debt and equity for fin-tech ventures, collaborating and having fun on winning teams. Enjoys engaging with entrepreneurs to help with their marketing, product development, sales process, hiring, focus and execution of key metrics. President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Prosper, Executive Vice Chairman and member of the board of directors of Credible. Advisory board member to Docusign, Juvo, Unison, Money360 and eOriginal.Married 26 years, two grown children and living in San Francisco.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.

Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.

Amir Banifatemi is the Responsible AI Chair at GPAI. He is also Taskforce member for the Open Quantum Initiative at GESDA Amir BanifatemiAmir is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the General Manager of Innovation and Growth with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder of the AI Commons, and co-founder and curator ofthe AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds and continues to support and advise companies and initiatives with a focus on the transformation of humanity and society. Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris. He holds Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Financial Services, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Digsy — 100% free to list & search commercial real estate properties for rent. Easily & quickly find commercial buildings & space now!
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
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Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Minjar — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United States, Canada, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.

Investment focus

Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Steve Schoettler is the Founder and CEO of Junyo and an angel investor. At Junyo, Steve combines a passion for education with two decades of experience in early-stage tech companies that have the power to transform industries. Previously, he was co-founder, employee #1 and VP Platform Services at Zynga, one of the fastest growing companiesever, where he led the development of payment processing, virtual currency purchases, and fraud detection. Prior to Zynga, Steve led teams at GO, General Magic, and Kontiki to develop innovative technologies in mobile, security, and distributed computing. He is a board member of both Full Circle Fund and Indiegogo, and he is actively involved in social entrepreneurship. Steve earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Sokikom — Sokikom is the only collaborative math program where elementary students help each other learn through a team-based game, as well as being able to learn on their own or with teacher assignments. Unlike any other math program Sokikom was started through 6 SBIR grants from the U.S. Department of Education to positively impact the teaching andlearning of mathematics in our nation. We're using technology to create immersive learning experiences for students while delivering real-time data that allows teachers to adjust their instruction. Sokikom has been shown in multiple studies--including year-long case studies--to increase student performance in state and district test scores. Sokikom has also won the top industry awards for the best educational game by SIIA, Tech & Learning, Edtech Digest, AEP, EDDIES, BESSIES and has been featured in WSJ, Techcrunch, NBC, and Forbes.
Indiegogo — Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream and support entrepreneurs that are working to bring their dreams to life.

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
SOS Hydration — Rescue yourself from dehydration with SOS, doctor formulated rapid hydration with 80x less sugar than sports drinks and only 3g carbs and 10 calories.
Evry Health — Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
LemonEdge — LemonEdge is the first and only low-code development platform for the complex accounting demands of the private equity industry. LemonEdge enables businesses to develop or customise solutions 10x faster than traditional approaches.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Bill Ullman

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bread — Bread partners with retailers to offer pay-over-time solutions that make financing easier and more transparent. The company uses technology to advance consumer-friendly credit by improving access, transparency, ease-of-use, and cost. Their products help their merchant partners to grow sales by making their products accessible to more consumers.Bread was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, NY.
Stocktwits — Stocktwits provides real-time stock, crypto & international market data to keep you up-to-date. Find top news headlines, discover your next trade idea, share & gain insights from traders and investors from around the world, build a watchlist, buy US stocks, & create and manage your portfolio.
Mirador — Mirador is the leading front-end small business lending platform supporting established lenders with borrower acquisition, digital application, decisioning, and borrower communication. Mirador leverages a streamlined, delightful user experience to create profitability and efficiencies in the lending process, giving traditional lenders the edge theyneed to compete. Mirador’s core lending platform can be supplemented with two modules that support highly prequalified lead generation and a second look program, enabling lenders to implement or expand a fully functioning small business loan program with a single trusted partner. Through the implementation of Mirador’s core platform, lenders have seen a 69% increase in efficiency in the small business lending process and an average reduction of $1550 in the cost to originate a loan, supporting greater profitability in the small business lending business unit. Mirador supports small business lending products including term loans, collateralized loans, SBA guaranteed loans, commercial real estate, and quick decision or docless loans, from $1k-$20M+.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Dave Shaver Founded Corepoint Health LLC in 1997 and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Investment focus

PaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

FarmRaiser, inc — Schools and cause fundraising with Farmraiser helps students become champions for eating healthy food and raises money effectively

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Jeffrey Tarrant

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States

Portfolio highlights

Republic — Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.

Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
Glass | Government Ecosystems — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

Reimagining the way you order food today! Feel free to connect with me here on LinkedIn, drop me a line at vai@voix.ai and check https://www.Voix.ai

Investment focus

Finance, Crowdfunding, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.
TurboAppeal — Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals,meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country.
EVELO. — EVELO makes elegant yet powerful electric bikes for recreation, commuting & exercise. Every bike comes with a 4-year/20,000-mile warranty & a 21-day trial. EVELO electric bikes are easy to ride, fun and are backed by a company with an impeccable reputation. Start a more active lifestyle today!

Shashank V Singh is a Principal/Director Product Management at Axon. He Attended Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University during 2000-2004.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Finance, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.
TurboAppeal — Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals,meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country.
Luminate Health — An Exceptional Patient Experience for Your Lab - Millions of patients use Luminate Health to access, manage, and understand their lab results. We work with commercial and hospital labs across the country to engage their patients and grow their businesses.

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

mmi Analytics — Make better-informed brand communications decisions on a local, global and campaign level. Talk to us about how you can increase your beauty brand sales.
Blackbullion — Blackbullion is the all in one student money space where you can build your money management skills, gain financial confidence and apply for student funding.
CharitableBookings.com — CharitableBookings.com is an online platform that gives back to charity on the users behalf for free, while users earn deals on hotels and travel, and gain access to lifestyle privileges. Based in London, UK, but offering global travel, hospitality and lifestyle deals to its users. So far the startup has raised investment of over £5m, with keyinvestors including Lord Stanley Fink, former CEO of Man Group plc. https://charitablebookings.com/

Seed Investor - Managing Partner at Menagerie Investments & HoldingsStrategic Advisor - Chief Strategist at 396West, the strategic advisory arm of Menagerie Investments & Holdings. 369West serves startups and emerging growth companies by providing high level strategies and execution for marketing, business development, operating plans,crisis management, and pivots. Film/TV Producer - President of Production at Busted Buggy Entertainment. BBE is a dynamic, independent film and television production company. Their NY TIMES Critic's Pick, THE GIRL IN THE BOOK, can be seen on Netflix, and their recent micro-budget success, RESCUE DOGS, can be seen on Showtime. Small Business Advisor - Founder of Worth Becoming Consulting. Worth Becoming provides hands-on advisory and execution services for small, local businesses. Leveraging the vast experience in the start-up world to help small businesses get the edge in their community by thinking high level strategy at a global level, while executing at a local level.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Apps, Brand Marketing
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Speakr — Based in Hollywood, California, Speakr is one of the leaders and foundingcompanies within the influencer marketing space. Speakr has been marryingtechnology and social psychographic data with highly creative content forthe biggest brands, agencies, and publishers since 2010. Through a fullybuilt influencer media-buying platform thataggregates 6,000 data points perinfluencer, Speakr enables advertisers to activate and sell their own influencermarketing programs and custom-built networks with the same control, scalability,and predictability of traditional media buying. With unmatched innovation andaward-winning campaign creation, 90% of all Speakr campaigns over deliver tosurpass client goals and KPIs.
Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
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Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

Mark Kolokotrones - Co -Founder @ Knight & Bishop

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Invested.in — Invested.in is an enterprise white-label solution that provides crowdfunding software solutions for its users. The platform allows businesses to deploy their own crowdfunding websites to support its clients in launching both fundraising campaigns and crowdfunding portals. Invested.in was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, C.A.
Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.

Taylor Merritt

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Lending
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Patch of Land — Patch of Land is a real estate crowdfunding site that brings together borrowers and investors through a simple online interface. It is a real estate marketplace lender that uses proprietary technology and data to provide transparent, scalable, and efficient lending solutions. The company also offers borrowers access to reliable capital forresidential and commercial real estate projects while providing investors easy diversification into real estate with low minimums and a best-in-class secured loan structure.Patch of Land mission is to solve the problem of slow, inefficient, fragmented, and obscure private real estate lending by using the latest technology, data, and process efficiency to more accurately assign risk profiles and project viability, while greatly reducing the time and cost of loan underwriting for borrowers with real estate projects that are overlooked or rejected by banks and traditional lenders.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

I start, run, advise, and invest in technology companies. My experience has been in financial services (real estate, trading, credit, payments, wealth management) and technology (internet, software) companies. My passions outside of business are in math, technology, music, real estate and education.Specialties: Fintech, Investing, Acceleration,Starting Companies & Building Products MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Video
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

just.me Inc — just.me is a free mobile messaging platform that successfully brings the functionality of the camera app, video capture, voice messages, texting, email and other messaging apps all into one powerful application. The user can save memories for themselves; share with family, friends or colleagues; or publish for the world to see; all with asingle app. Memories, Messages or Posts can have unlimited photos, videos, voice and text. Recording life events and deciding who to share them with is here, and its free.Because just.me sits on the smartphone address book, it puts the user in control as to who sees each shared message. There is no ambiguity as to who will see what you share.At just.me it is all about you as you are in control of your information and messages.The app is in beta for iPhone and under development for Android. There is also a web version with reduced publishing features.
Patch of Land — Patch of Land is a real estate crowdfunding site that brings together borrowers and investors through a simple online interface. It is a real estate marketplace lender that uses proprietary technology and data to provide transparent, scalable, and efficient lending solutions. The company also offers borrowers access to reliable capital forresidential and commercial real estate projects while providing investors easy diversification into real estate with low minimums and a best-in-class secured loan structure.Patch of Land mission is to solve the problem of slow, inefficient, fragmented, and obscure private real estate lending by using the latest technology, data, and process efficiency to more accurately assign risk profiles and project viability, while greatly reducing the time and cost of loan underwriting for borrowers with real estate projects that are overlooked or rejected by banks and traditional lenders.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Shiladitya Bora is the CEO of Drishyam Films, a global motion picture studio headquartered in Mumbai, India, that has produced critically acclaimed films such as Masaan (Fly Away Solo), a double winner at Cannes 2015, Dhanak (Rainbow), a double winner at Berlinale 2015 and Umrika, the audience award winner at Sundance 2015. At the helm of DrishyamFilms, Shiladitya is working on high quality indie cinema which travels far and wide across the world yet also engages with audiences within the country.A director, producer and distributor, Shiladitya is known for establishing PVR's Director's Rare, India's leading indie release banner. He also independently distributed Court, winner of multiple international awards and India's official submission for the 88th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Investment focus

Communities, Crowdfunding
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Catapooolt — Catapooolt is a successfull crowdfunding platform connecting startups & investor. Focused on fundraising for technology, healthcare, agritech, consumer tech

Daud Vicary Abdullah

Investment focus

FinTech, Communities, Real Estate
Seed
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Ethis — Our platforms feature exciting and sustainable campaigns. You are the ethical crowdfunders. When good intentions converge, we inspire change in the world. Impact Investment. Participatory Project Financing. Effective Charity. We are Ethis.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Ben is the Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital. He has backed 19 "unicorn" billion dollar companies, with the best yet to come.Previously, Ben was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo,Gitlab, True Accord, Webflow, among many others.Previously, Ben served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy and others.While at Google, he served as Senior Director of Search and Local Business Products, which included overseeing Google Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, Ben was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, where he was responsible for music, movies, sports and news, as well as mobile, television and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, he was the founder and general manager of Google’s commerce group, which includes Google Wallet and Google Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was the first director of the Facebook platform and oversaw the development of the company’s developer ecosystem. He also led product, marketing, developer operations and partner solutions. Ben played a crucial role in developing Facebook Connect, which helped grow Facebook across the web.Ben holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley, and a M.S. and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Ben is a Department of Defense fellow and a recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award, given to the top graduating senior from the College of Engineering.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.
Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.

Alex Paolo Legler

Investment focus

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

200crowd — Il portale di equity crowdfunding per investire nelle migliori aziende

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
CADY — CADY Automates the tedious inspection and verification process of electrical schematics, using AI technology.
GlossAI — GlossAi turns your impossibly long, but precious content, into an endless source of compelling share-worthy videos for the various uses of your target audience.

Soo Hoon has close to 30 years of corporate and regulatory experience in the local and international insurance industry. She specializes in strategic, operational and change management issues, with a special interest in talent development and capacity building.Prior to joining iGlobe in 2008, she was Senior Managing Director at Great EasternLife Assurance, responsible for business strategies of the established markets of Singapore and Malaysia. From 2000-2005, Soo Hoon was Executive Director of the Insurance Supervision Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), responsible for overseeing the liberalization of the insurance industry. She was also active as a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).

Investment focus

Insurance, Crowdfunding, Personal Finance
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inzura — Inzura provides Digital Insurance products and services to the Insurance industry enabling Insurance Companies and Brokers to offer innovative digital insurance products to their policyholders and prospects.Inzura's customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines. They provide state of the artDriver Profiling Telematics, Connected Home solutions and Fitness & Well-Being human telematics.Working with Inzura, their customers gain speed to market enabled by their white label Smartphone Apps that engage users with easy to use products and services. They help Insurers improve customer service, which drives higher customer retention, they also help them to reduce fraud and reduce costs in the claims process.Their product portfolio includes; insurance policy administration mobile apps, insurance telematics (UBI / PAYG) / PHYG / MAYD), user-friendly Smartphone camera photograph analysis, data analytics and back-end server infrastructure. End users benefit from time saving and safety features built into the apps, as well as delivering new services utilising insurance telematics and driving linked rewards.

John Bacon

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, Funding Platform
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

VentureCrowd — VentureCrowd is an alternative investments crowdfunding platform providing investors unique access to fractional equity, property and credit investment opportunities.

Sunil Patil

Investment focus

Finance, Crowdfunding
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.