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Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United States in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United States in July 2025

Investor	Crowdfunding United States investments
Ron Suber	4
Blaine Vess	3
Dan Cunningham	2
Payam Zamani	2
Paul Graham	2
Dave Morin	2
Max Levchin	2
Amir Banifatemi	2
Jason Calacanis	2
Dave Shaver	2
Tikhon Bernstam	2
Jeffrey Tarrant	2
Bill Ullman	2
Ankur Nagpal	2
Erik Peterson	2
Steve Schoettler	2
Nihal Mehta	2
Daniel Schryer	2
John C. Morris	1
Kamran Pourzanjani	1
Jaan Tallinn	1
Alan Matthew	1
Scott Heiferman	1
Vipul Ved Prakash	1
Geoff Ralston	1
Joshua Schachter	1
Christopher Kaskie	1
Benjamin Ling	1
Numerous Confidential Sources	1
Halle Tecco	1
Kevin Durant	1
Pramod Jain	1
Kevin Moore	1
Joi Ito	1
E. Mackey	1
Connor Doherty	1
Sam Avshalom	1
Sunmeet Jolly	1
Kevin Zuber	1
Andrew Boszhardt Jr.	1
Taylor Merritt	1
Ben Goldhirsh	1
Patrick Sullivan	1
Vinod Khosla	1
Ellen Levy	1
Marc Benioff	1
Jennifer Hyman	1
Ryan Petersen	1
Patrick Gannon	1
Jonathan Golden	1

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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.

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

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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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 — 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

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

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.
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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.

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 — Digsy is an online platform that makes it easy for small business owners & startups to find new office space & services — free of charge.Small business owners don't have time to search for new office space & services, and while traditionally the solution would be to hire a commercial real estate agent, agents don't want torepresent small business owners (commissions are too small). So, the 28M U.S. small business owners are left out in the cold when it comes to getting help finding a new office for their business.With Digsy, we've built a solution that uses software automation + a network of 3,000 relocation experts to make it easy for business owners find their dream office & get the best deals on telecom/internet, office equipment & movers. That way, they can focus all their energy on growing their business, while Digsy helps them find a new home.We get paid by landlords, brokers and service providers for connecting them directly with new tenants & customers.
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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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, SaaS
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.

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

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.

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.

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+.

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.

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 — Pioneering the first oral drug for FSHD and advancing cancer treatment solutions.

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 — Discover Sokikom, the interactive platform transforming math education with fun, engaging games for kids.
Indiegogo — Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream and support entrepreneurs that are working to bring their dreams to life.

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, Series A, Funding Round
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.
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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.
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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.

Hans Morris is the Founder and Managing Partner of Nyca Partners, a venture capital and advisory firm focusing on financial technology. He is director of portfolio companies Lending Club and Cardworks, as well as a director of KCG, XP Investimentos, and Oak Hill Advisors, which are portfolio companies of General Atlantic. He was a managingdirector at General Atlantic from 2010 to 2014 and continues as a special advisor.John Morris served as President of Visa Inc. from 2007-2009, joining Visa as it undertook a reorganization which merged several separate businesses into a new company. In March of 2008, Visa completed an offering of 51% of the company for $19.7 billion. John Morris' primary responsibilities included managing all of the markets in which Visa did business, and all sales and marketing.John Morris previously spent 27 years at Citigroup and its predecessor companies in several operating and management roles. In his final position, he was CFO and head of finance, technology and operations for Citi Markets and Banking, the global institutional and capital markets businesses of Citigroup. From 2000 until 2002, he was Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Client Management of the Investment Banking Division at Salomon Smith Barney, and for more than 10 years he was the head of the financial institutions group within the investment bank.John Morris graduated from Dartmouth College and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, and a Trustee of Jacobs Pillow.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Digit — Get the all-in-one money app that budgets, saves, and invests for you. Try Digit free for 30 days.
Orchard Platform — About OrchardOrchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting,and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently.Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y.Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com.About Orchard Platform Markets, LLCOrchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.
Treasury Prime — Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTechs through an API. Its full integration into core banking systems gives developers access to a wide range of banking services from opening accounts to making payments to issuing cards. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kamran founded Bestcovery.com in 2008 to help consumers quickly and easily find the best of everything. Kamran oversees the day to day operations and growth of the company and is responsible for its overall vision and strategic direction.Prior to Bestcovery, Kamran was the co-founder, President and CEO of PriceGrabber.com, where his visionfostered a culture of success and achievement. PriceGrabber was consistently recognized by critics and consumers alike as the leading and most innovative comparison shopping engine. With a strong reputation for consumer advocacy, PriceGrabber became the most trusted comparison shopping service for over 24 million users per month.PriceGrabber was acquired by Experian in December of 2005 for approximately $500 million. In recognition of the company’s growth and performance, Kamran was named Ernst & Young’s 2005 “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Los Angeles area.Kamran is a member of the board of directors for Legalzoom.com and Oversee.net. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

CloudSight Inc. — CloudSight is a global leader in image captioning and understanding. CloudSight delivers the most superior and state-of-the-art solution to people and companies around the world.CloudSight has two breakthrough consumer apps - CamFind, the world's first successful mobile visual search engine that allows you to "Search the PhysicalWorld" and find information about anything just by taking a picture from your mobile device; and TapTapSee, an app for the blind and visually impaired that utilizes a mobile device's camera and VoiceOver to photograph and record objects to identify them out loud for the user.In addition, CloudSight offers its very own CloudSight API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.CloudSight Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
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.
Younity — Younity provides users with a personal cloud where they are given access across all computing and mobile devices. Its platform unifies all media like photos, video, and music as well as assists users to stream, access, or share media anytime, from any device that enables consumers to access their personal media and content seamlessly.It wasfounded in 2010 and is based in Encinitas, California.

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.

Alan Matthew is an Active Angel Investor, investing in over 24 companies in the past year and a half. He has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1977 and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for over 30yrs.As a published photographer in the New York Times, Alan has explored over 85 countries in his life and has been a ShamanicHealer for over 17yrs. His company, Tribal Ventures, LLC invests in a vast array of companies and their core values lie within investing in the people of the company, not just the idea. This has been proven to be very successful for him and Tribal thus far.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

CFX Markets — CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringingliquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest.
Popular Pays — Popular Pays is your one-stop-shop for all things content creation & influencer marketing. Easily manage & optimize your campaigns to reach your goals.
Edovo — Edovo provides robust correctional programming featuring educational, vocational, and rehabilitative content and curriculums at no cost to incarcerated Learners. We strive to lower recidivism, increase safety, and drive positive outcomes for incarcerated people and their families.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Vipul Ved Prakash was the Founder, CEO, and CTO of Topsy Labs.

Investment focus

Software, Art, Content
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Oumi — Building truly open, reliable frontier AI.
Sahara AI — Sahara AI is the decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes sovereignty and provenance of AI, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users. | Join the Collaborative AI Economy Now
InScope — InScope build the future of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Audits.

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.

Christopher Kaskie - Founder @ Varyer

Investment focus

Finance, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kickstarter — Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.

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Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Nutrition
Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fund the First — Fund the First is the #1 trusted fundraising platform for those who serve. Visit us to start your fundraiser!
HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Halle Tecco is an active angel investor and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. Previously she founded and ran Rock Health, the first seed fund devoted exclusively to digital health companies, and worked at Intel and Apple. Tecco has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. She was named as one of GoldmanSach’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and listed on the Forbes 30 under 30. Tecco has spoken at Aspen Ideas Festival, CES, SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt and has guest lectured at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Hospital
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

HUED — HUED is a platform that diversifies the patient/doctor connection by connecting patients with diverse healthcare providers.
Marley Medical — Our board-certified physicians create your custom care plan, while nurses, pharmacists and health coaches check in and cheer you on to your good-health goals.
Veracity — Veracity creates a personal skincare experience based on real data about your hormones and biofactors through our Skin + Health test.

Kevin Durant is a 12-year NBA veteran who plays for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP; having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals, two NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He is also a ten-time NBA All-Star. Off the court, Durant is co-founder andpartner of Thirty Five Ventures. Thirty Five Ventures includes his diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, & Coinbase; the media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.Projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include the sports business vertical “The Boardroom,” in partnership with ESPN, which examines the ins and outs of sports business and illuminates the world of sports far beyond what fans ordinarily see. Kevin also served as an executive producer on Fox Sports Films’ “Q Ball,” which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in Spring 2019. Upcoming projects include the scripted series “SWAGGER” with Imagine Entertainment and Apple. Last fall also saw the opening of The Durant Center in Suitland, Maryland, the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation’s college pipeline program in conjunction with College Track.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Sports
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

The Snow League — The Snow League is the global league for snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions.
Zelus Analytics — Zelus Analytics provides a world-leading sports intelligence platform for the professional teams in our exclusive partner network.
League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.

Pramod Jain

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crowdera — Crowdera is a free crowdfunding platform that supports social impact and innovation projects serving individuals, non-profit organizations and social innovators. Crowdera complements organizations’ existing fundraising and volunteering activities by offering a user-friendly platform to create visually compelling, viral fundraising campaignsthat raise awareness and funding for an individual or organization’s needs and dreams.Future of Funding for the Things That Matter!

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.

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.

E. Mackey

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Equity Crowdfunding, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Unbanked — Banking Business Resources
Cityzenith — Cityzenith is a technology startup that provides data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities. Cityzenith's 5D platform technology empowers users with a simple way to make sense of the Cityzenith is based in Chicago, London, and New Delhi. The company's SmartWorldPro Digital Twin platform was created forpeople designing, constructing, and managing complex, large-scale building projects, properties, and real estate portfolios.The SmartWorldPro currently supports more than two dozen major architectural design, building and infrastructure management, and smart city initiatives throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and the U.S. It also enables its users to make informed decisions from design and planning through operations and sales. The platform won the 2016 Realcomm Digie Award winner for Best Tech Innovation in Commercial/Corporate Real Estate.Cityzenith was founded by Michael Jansen in 2009.
GROUNDFLOOR — Get your share of real estate investing and let Groundfloor handle the rest. Invest in fractional real estate without breaking the bank.

Connor Doherty is an ambitious student, marketer, investor, crypto & Sports Card Enthusiast, drone pilot, & content creator from Kirkland, WA. He is currently a sophomore studying civil engineering, but switching into business at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. He is also actively investing in startups & public companies,cryptocurrencies (DeFi & more), sports cards, as well as building his drone photo/video business, Eastside Aerials, in addition to other business ventures.Note: There is a bug in the amounts invested, the amounts invested for equity crowdfunding raises were minimal and close to the minimums

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, eSports
Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Juked — The Juked App is officially LIVE! Join a community of like-minded esports fans on the Juked app, your new home for discussing esports news, matches, tournaments, and more.
Solectrac — Solectrac is The leading electric tractor manufacturers in the United States. If you compare electric tractor vs diesel tractor, then we will recommend the best electric tractor. Contact Us Now!
FuelGems Inc. — most powerful multi-action fuel additive on the market

Sam Avshalom - COO @ Variety Fun

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
United States

Portfolio highlights

Beanstox — Beanstox helps you automate investments in personalized ETF portfolios. We make it easy to build your wealth over time with hassle-free investing. Investing for beginners and people who like simple investing. Start today.
Zeehaus — Zeehaus offers a digital platform that makes equity sharing homeownership possible for anyone. Become a part of the first blockchain based equity sharing marketplace.
Knightscope — Knightscope builds Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) that are patrolling across the country 24/7/365 helping secure the places you live, work, study, and visit.

Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
Pops Diabetes Care — If you are an employer, caregiver, or just someone who wants an easy diabetes management system, Click here to learn how we can help!

Kevin Zuber is Chief Compliance Officer at Cannavista Wellness. He attended Southern New Hampshire University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Equity Crowdfunding, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Envel — Envel is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of consumer banking, fintech, money management, and wealth management. It features and an autopilot software platform that uses the power of Artificial Intelligence to guide your finances in real-time. Envel has developed patent-pending AI banking tech to help take care ofpersonal finances 24/7 in a way that benefits the user’s pockets and not the middleman. The company's unique behavioral science-driven technology formulates and implements the best savings and spending model for its customers to ensure there is little unnecessary spending. Through its Envel Money Management System, each user's Spending DNA™ is defined and tracked by a system that learns individuals' habits over time and automatically adjusts account splits and friction accordingly.Envel is initially geared towards helping keep college students cash in check, and aim to eventually help more than one million college students get out of debt.
Astralabs — Astralabs is an accelerator that launches, acquires, and scales startups to success as part of building a diverse startup portfolio. The firm was founded in 2020 and based in Austin, Texas.
Gatsby — Gatsby makes options trading social, commission free, and contract-fee free.

Andrew Boszhardt Jr. is a Founder and Managing Partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital and was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tunnel X, Inc. — Tunnel X is secure, private conversation for everyone.Tunnel X offers web-based and mobile-based messaging which allows users the peace of mind they need to have private conversations without fear that co-workers, roommates, hackers, or government agencies will be snooping on their conversations.Users log in not with a traditional usernameand password (which are easily hacked), but with a photo which they have taken themselves, protected with a PIN. Digital information from this same image is used to encrypt all communications, whether they are text-based messages or shared files (users may share files of any type with each other).Unlike email, social media, and other forms of online communication, Tunnel X is geared specifically towards one-to-one, substantive conversation. Typing a message to the "wrong" person is essentially not possible on Tunnel X. Hitting "reply-all" is also not possible. And Tunnel X messages are not surrounded by the clutter of email spam or social-media clutter. Users use Tunnel X when they want to chat without distraction.Tunnel X SSL is configured for a post-Snowden world: all SSL connections are secured by PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy), which disallows government agencies from storing encrypted communications for later decryption. And messages in Tunnel X databases are superenciphered: triple-encrypted using three different algorithms (AES-256 and two AES runners-up, TwoFish and Serpent).
Karma — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
SuperPhone — Increase engagement, drive revenue, and build better relationships with SMS / MMS marketing. Guaranteed ROI with 98% open rates for Shopify and BigCommerce stores.

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.

Ben Goldhirsh is the Co-Founder and Board Director of GOOD and a Chairman at Goldhirsh Foundation. He attended Brown University.

Investment focus

News, Content, FinTech
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crowdfunder — Ninjahoki merupakan slot gacor online terbaru pragmatic play resmi terpercaya yang menyediakan deposit pulsa tanpa potongan 100%.
GOOD Worldwide — GOOD Worldwide is a media firm driving results through business and society to work with brands and communities. It operates as a mission-driven media company that reaches 200MM+ people per month, largely through social media.

Patrick Sullivan - Managing Partner, Founder @ Arches Capital

Investment focus

CRM, FinTech, Finance
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BoostUp — BoostUp is a savings platform that helps people reach their big purchase goals and buy with confidence. BoostUp users automate a daily savings plan to start by saving as little as $1/day, plus they can RoundUp their everyday purchases, crowdfund gifts from family and friends, and receive exclusive purchase offers from BoostUp brand partners.Saving money has never been so easy or so rewarding. BoostUp has over 53,000 users who have used their BoostUp savings to purchase over $165,000,000 worth of products and services from BoostUp partners. To save for free with BoostUp, visit the App Store, Google Play, or BoostUp.com.

Vinod Khosla is the Partner of Khosla Ventures. Vinod Khosla attended Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
Quaise — Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
Loop — Loop Health is bringing ease and choice to patients seeking major medical treatments. We've brought together family physicians, top specialists, and leading hospitals in Pune – to provide options, transparency, and ease to patients and their families. Loop Coordinators help patients match with a doctor, compare treatment costs, get secondopinions, and complete admission formalities – removing the stress and making lives easier for the patient and their families.

Ellen Levy is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
Rattle — Sales automation for scaling teams. Learn how revenue leaders use Rattle to effortlessly update Salesforce, improve pipeline accuracy and skyrocket their success.

Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
Whalar — Whalar is on a mission to Liberate the Creative Voice and make advertising more inclusive, diverse and effective.
Parallel Bio — Using the immune system to cure disease. Parallel Bio uses a human immune system in a dish and AI to discover drugs more likely to work in patients.

Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a fashion company with a technology soul that is disrupting the way women get dressed. In her role, she sets the strategic priorities of the business and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, product, and analytics.She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009 with Jennifer Fleiss, and has since raised $126 million in venture capital, growing the business to over 6 million members, 950 employees and 400 designer brands.Jennifer has been honored with numerous recognitions including: Forbes' "Women Entrepreneurs to Watch", TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Awards”, Fortune Magazine’s “Trailblazers, 11 People Changing Business in 2013,” “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” and “40 Under 40”; Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”; and Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology.” She has been a featured speaker at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the Forbes Women’s Summit, Tech Crunch Disrupt, and Marie Claire’s Power Trip, and has appeared as a guest on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and CNN Money, among many others.In 2015, Jennifer launched the Rent the Runway Foundation with Jennifer Fleiss to inspire and ignite the next generation of female entrepreneurs. The foundation’s first initiative, in partnership with UBS, is Project Entrepreneur, a venture competition and educational program designed to provide women entrepreneurs nationwide with the tools to build high-growth, high-impact businesses.Prior to Rent the Runway, Jennifer was the Director of Business Development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG's Fashion Division. She also ran an online advertising sales team at WeddingChannel.com and was an in-house entrepreneur at Starwood Hotels, creating Starwood’s first wedding business which was recognized on the Oprah Winfrey Show for its innovation. She received her BA from Harvard University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Jennifer is a Bloomberg Fellow, a TechStars mentor, and a member of both the Entrepreneurship Board at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Women in Business Board at Harvard University. She is an investor in and advisor to several high-growth startups throughout the U.S.

Investment focus

Professional Services, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Brit + Co — Brit + Co curates the best fashion deals, beauty tips, show and movie news, easy recipes, and more. Find inspiration and expert picks all in one place!
Prefer — Prefer is a referral network for independent professionals to grow their businesses.
Homepolish — Homepolish is a new approach to interior design that brings savvy, expert designers – recruited from the top firms in the country – right to your doorstep. Unlike traditional interior design firms, they don’t charge product markups and their designers work with clients as true design partners, minus the industry ego.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

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.

Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Merlin — Merlin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the marketplace, consumer software, delivery, and human resources. It provides a software platform that helps employers to find, screen and select the candidates for every opening. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Twenty (YC S23) — Building a better Salesforce, powered by the Open Source community.
Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.

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