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Top 50 Email Angel Investors in United States in May 2025

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

Top 50 Email Angel Investors in United States in May 2025

Investor	Email United States investments
Scott Banister	4
Geoff Ralston	3
Wayne Chang	3
Karl Mehta	3
Max Levchin	3
Jeremie Berrebi	3
Arjun Sethi	3
Esther Dyson	3
Christian Hernandez	2
Drew Houston	2
Christopher Lynch	2
Matt Brezina	2
Armando Mann	2
Eric Ries	2
Cyan Banister	2
Michael Perone	2
Tom Axbey	2
Elad Gil	2
Terrence Rohan	2
David Tisch	2
Eric R. Schnadig	2
Amir Banifatemi	2
Dave Morin	2
Auren Hoffman	2
Daniel Scrivner	2
Jonathan Abrams	2
Lachy Groom	2
Chris Dixon	2
Joe Liemandt	2
Bill Guthy	2
Mark Rose	2
Walter Winshall	2
Joe Caruso	2
Paul Grewal	2
Michael Wilens	2
Ben Lilienthal	2
Darian Shirazi	2
Ash Patel	2
Zach Weinberg	1
James Siminoff	1
Carsten Thoma	1
Tim Stevens	1
Russ Wilcox	1
Jon Callaghan	1
Gary Rieschel	1
Marc Bushala	1
Ken Kastner	1
Suresh Nihalani	1
Avichal Garg	1
Scott Petry	1

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Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.

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.

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aalyria — We are revolutionizing the orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks using any radio or optical spectrum, any orbit, and any hardware across land, sea, air, and space.
T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Ghost Message — Ghost Message enables users to send an anonymous message to pals in a group chat to flirt, make jokes, or pose queries.

Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform and former Venture Partner at Menlo Ventures. He isFounder of Silicon Valley based tech-driven non-profit, CodeforIndia.org and serves on several non-profit boards for education impact worldwide.Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc., acquired in the March of 2011 by Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the world's largest payment network. PlaySpan is a global leader in payments and monetization for digital media, mobile apps, social networks, and online games. Karl served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama Administration during the inaugural 2012-13 term. He was also recently appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board of the State of California. In 2010, Karl won the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award for Northern California from Ernst & Young. Karl is on the boards of Simpa Networks Inc., and the Chapman University Center for Entrepreneurship and advisor board of Intel Capital.He is co-author of the book 'Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid" https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Inclusion-at-Bottom-Pyramid/dp/1460265521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486813387&sr=8-1&keywords=financial+inclusion+at+the+bottom+of+the+pyramid

Investment focus

Email, Messaging, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Earn.com — We're building a token-based social network, where senders pay users in digital currency to complete tasks and reply to emails. If we're successful, it will be one of the first major applications of digital currency for the regular user.
Ten Machines Corp. — Ten Machines Corp. is a New York-based developer of an anonymous messaging app for everyday emotional release

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.

Jeremie Berrebi is the CEO and Founder of MeetB. He previously worked at Fresh Planet as a Co-Founder. Jeremie Berrebi attended Yeshiva Netivot Olam.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Optix — Optix is the only coworking space automation software that enables you to automate, optimize, grow and engage your community.
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.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
Slingshot AI — Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

Christian is a technologist and experienced venture capitalist. He is a founding Partner of 2150, a venture capital fund seeking to make our urban environment more efficient and sustainable through technology.

Investment focus

Apps, iOS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Mitoo Sports — The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands
Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy

Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

Chris Lynch is Chairman of the Board at Azuki and a partner at Atlas Venture. He focuses on big data and disruptive infrastructure. Chris is also an advisor to many Boston area startups and is a mentor to many of the region’s entrepreneurs.He is the founder of hack/reduce, a newly formed non-profit community space in Cambridge focused on bigdata technology, for which he also serves on the board.Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, Chris successfully drove growth and led several companies to exit, generating billions of dollars in proceeds. Most recently, Chris was president and chief executive officer of Vertica Systems, where he led the company from late stage startup to the top ranked big data company globally. Chris joined Vertica out of Atlas’ entrepreneur-in-residence program. HP acquired Vertica in March 2011, and following the acquisition Chris served as senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Database Business Unit.Previously, Chris was president and chief executive officer of Acopia Networks, which was acquired by F5 Networks. At F5 Networks, Chris served as senior vice president of data solutions where he was responsible for building the company’s vision in the data management space. Prior to F5 and Acopia, Chris led global sales and marketing for Arrowpoint Communications through its $5.7 billion acquisition by Cisco. Chris then joined Cisco as vice president of sales and marketing for its content management business. Chris’ track record of success continues back through Lucent, which acquired Prominet; Bay Networks, which acquired Wellfleet Communications; and Digital. In each of Prominet, Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications, and Digital, Chris served in sales leadership positions. Chris received an MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University, and a BS in business administration from Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science from Bentley University. When he’s not working to establish Boston as the technical hub for big data, Chris supports St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to pediatric cancer research.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

DataCamp — Learn Data Science & AI from the comfort of your browser, at your own pace with DataCamp's video tutorials & coding challenges on R, Python, Statistics & more.
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
Rupert AI — With a 2-click integration to your BI tools, Rupert lets your analytics team actionize their reports and metrics and automate the distribution of actionable insights from verified reports, delivering hyper-personal insights to the right business stakeholders at the right time directly where they are.

Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Aerodome — The future of air support.
Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
Enara Health — Medically guided, from lifestyle changes to GLP-1 medications, to achieve lifelong results.

Armando Mann is the President & Board Member at Hopin. Armando Mann attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Reduct — A collaborative transcript-based video & audio platform for searching, redacting, highlighting, and editing content of people talking, as easily as text.
Fireflies.ai — Fireflies uses generative AI to bring ChatGPT to meetings. Generate transcripts and smart summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and several other platforms.
The Podcast App — The Podcast App is an audio platform that helps millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world.

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Michael Perone is the Co-Founder of Perch.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
ON — Our ChatOS platform empowers brands and connects fans in new and interesting ways to what they like, what they’re passionate about, and what they’re craving to discover.
Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.

Tom Axbey is an Advisory Board Member at ParkMyCloud. He attended Croydon College.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor, and the Managing Director of Otherwise, a new type of Founder-Angel Fund. Terrence's early stage investments include Figma, Notion, Hugging Face, Vanta, Robinhood, Patreon, Front, Granola, Justworks, Circle, and Browser Company, among others. He has been ranked by Forbes as part of the Midas Brink list.Before becoming an investor, Terrence Rohan held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube. He holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
David AI — David AI is an audio data research company - trusted by top AI labs to develop the proprietary audio datasets that power their models.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.

Eric R. Schnadig - Board Member @ Dynamic Yield

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

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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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

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

Edit Daniel Scrivner is an award-winning designer as well as an advisor and investor. His client roster includes Apple, Square, Nike, Disney, Target, and more. He advises world-class teams at companies like LendingHome, Empower, TrustToken, and ForUsAll, as well as VC firms like Designer Fund and Notation Capital. Daniel is also an early-stageinvestor in more than 60 businesses including Madison Reed, Stance, Managed by Q, Clarity Money, and Almanac Beer Co. Recognized as a leader in his field, he's been invited to speak at some of the world's best companies including Andreessen Horowitz, General Assembly, Designer Fund, and 500 Startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Veritonic — Discover the power of audio analytics and insights at Veritonic. Maximize your brand's impact with data-driven audio strategies. Explore now!
Scratch Kitchen — Scratch Kitchen is a collection of clean-label restaurant concepts in Denver and Boulder built for takeout and delivery featuring dishes made from scratch with high quality ingredients.
Cafe X Technologies — Cafe X Technologies is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Cafe X Technologies is a privately backed company with funding from Khosla Ventures, Social Capital, Jason Calacanis, Felicis Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and The Thiel Foundation.

Jonathan Abrams is the Co-founder and General Partner of 8-Bit Capital. He previously worked at Girls in Tech, Inc. as a Board Member. Jonathan Abrams attended McMaster University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Apptimize — Learn how forward-thinking product teams fuel data-driven growth through Apptimize's Mobile A/B Testing and Release Management platform.
Memo — Alien Labs is building Memo, a note-taking app for technical teams that use Slack. With Memo it’s quick and easy to save and find code snippets, meeting notes, links, Slack messages, or other short work notes – right inside Slack or on the web. Notes can be kept private or shared with anyone on your team!

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

Chris Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-leads its $350M crypto fund. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technologycompany that was acquired by eBay in 2011.Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard. He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium, and before that at cdixon.org; his a16z Podcast appearances can be found at https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio

Joe Liemandt - CEO @ Trilogy

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Internet
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

OtherInbox — OtherInbox is dedicated to making email better for everyone. Since 2008, we've built a series of innovative tools to help millions of people organize and improve their email. Our apps help you take control of your inbox. OtherInbox, Inc. is proudly based in Austin, Texas and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Return Path, Inc.
Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.

Bill Guthy, Founding Principal and Co-Chairman, along with co-founder Greg Renker, focus on new product and brand development. This includes selecting, licensing and developing products that meet the direct response criteria for success and crafting the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) and proper casting of talent that have an associated productstory rather than a traditional endorsement.Raised by his mother above a New York City luncheonette, Guthy experienced a childhood of meager means. He excelled in high school-as editor of the paper, president of the Speech Club and student body vice president-conducting a successful landscaping business on the side. “I always had an entrepreneurial drive, a desire to do better,” Guthy recalls.In 1969, the family settled in Southern California where Guthy followed tradition and attended Ambassador College in the only major then offered, Theology. In his sophomore year, the school broadened its choices and he switched to Psychology, graduating with a B.S. in 1977.While in college, Guthy served as senior class president and paid his tuition by duplicating audiotapes for the Blind Department of the church affiliated with Ambassador. He eventually secured permission to rent the equipment at night and took on independent jobs. Cassette Productions Unlimited (CPU), his own audiotape duplication and packaging firm, was thus born in 1977. Originally operating from his apartment, Guthy soon bought his own equipment and moved into a small office in Pasadena.In 1981, Guthy purchased a home for weekend retreats in Indian Wells, California and began a friendship with Greg Renker, whose family owned the resort. Both men realized they shared a love of motivational books, in particular Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” Guthy himself was well on his way to financial success, his cassette duplication business flourishing. CPU, now owned by Guthy-Renker, was renamed Guthy Renker Fulfillment Services (GRFS) at the beginning of 2011. It currently employees around 650 people with more than 400,000 square feet of fulfillment distribution and call center space with three locations in CA, LA and NC.

Investment focus

Email, Payments
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zumbox — Zumbox, a paperless postal system, allows businesses to deliver transactional mails electronically to their consumers’ digital mailboxes.This web-based postal delivery and archiving system that provides an online alternative to the U.S. postal service for the secure archiving of transactional mails such as bills, monthly statements,warrantees, health care and insurance materials, mutual fund disclosures, and other household documents. It connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail through the internet.Zumbox, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Product leader experienced in creating, developing and managing amazing consumer experiences. From his early career at E*TRADE, to his own startup Spare Change (acquired by PlaySpan/Visa), to product leadership roles at Visa and Google/Motorola, Mark love's creating unique, remarkable consumer products.Specialties: consumeracquisition and engagement, analytics, agile development, growing teams.

Investment focus

Software, Email, Apps
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jeeng — With Jeeng, publishers can accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.
PowerInbox - DynamicMail business — PowerInbox - DynamicMail business automatically transform static email HTMLs into dynamic, interactive content so recipients get content that is updated for relevancy in real-time upon open.

Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your

For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
Surround Insurance — Helping consumers in their 20s and 30s get started with insurance that's fast, simple, and personalized for modern life.

Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Legal
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

HerculesAI — An enterprise generative AI company offering secure, high-precision AI applications to automate critical business processes.

Michael Wilens serves as a Special Advisor at Fidelity Investments. Wilens also serves as a board director of COLT Telecom, ProBuild and Exemplify.Wilens joined Fidelity Investments in June 2008 as the president of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo), and currently serves as a special advisor to senior Fidelity leadership. In thiscapacity, he provides executive oversight to a variety of Fidelity business units including Fidelity Charitable, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), Fidelity Business Consulting, XTRAC Solutions, Enterprise Talent, and Enterprise Account Management. Mr. Wilens also previously served as the president of Corporate Operations and Technology, in addition to leading Fidelity’s Workplace Investing business. Prior to joining Fidelity, Wilens spent eleven years in senior roles at Thomson Reuters, including chief executive officer of its North American Legal division, Westlaw.Wilens holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and bachelor and master of science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

Ben has successfully started and sold two Internet communications infrastructure companies. The first one, Nascent, to CMGI in 1999 and then Vapps, in 2008, to Citrix. He earned his MBA from NYU and his BA from Amherst College. He is a member of the Henry Crown Fellows Class of 2010 at the Aspen Institute.

Investment focus

SMS, Wearables, Communication Hardware
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

AwayFind — AwayFind is a web application that lets you stop checking your inbox every 5 minutes but still allows urgent emails to find you quickly by pushing them right to you with alerts. When there's an urgent email, AwayFind will call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or notify you through iPhone and Android apps.The application lets both individuals andorganizations get away from their inboxes without having to worry about missing urgent messages. Whether to get some "real" work done, go to a meeting, or even on vacation, AwayFind makes sure that the urgent messages the user specifies still finds them.AwayFind does not require any installation or learning curve, and it supports all major email platforms including Google Apps/Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo Mail, and IMAP.The company has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, TechCrunch, MSNBC, The NY Post, CNET, Gartner, The Guardian, Forbes and many others.AwayFind offers a free basic service in addition to its Pro Plan packages.
Wristcam — Wristcam camera for Apple Watch. With the help of a camera on apple watch, you can capture 4K Photos, HD Videos and send Live Video Messages to your friends on any device.

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Twenty (YC S23) — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

Ashvin Patel is Currently Co-Founder and Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners, making seed-stage investments. Ash most recently was Chief Technology Evangelist for Previously he was the Executive Vice President of the Platforms andInfrastructure Division where he was responsible for global technology investments and platform initiatives both on and off the Yahoo network. Under his previous title he also led an increased focus on innovating and developing next-generation services for Yahoo customers, and oversaw divisions including Product Platform Engineering, Platform Strategy & Architecture, and the Advanced Development Division. Since starting at Yahoo in 1996, Patel has played a key role in architecting and enhancing MyYahoo, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Chat and many other products that continue to impact millions of Yahoo users. In 2001, he became SVP of platform engineering, where he was responsible for Yahoo's Communications Products, core platforms and infrastructure. In 2006, Patel became Yahoo's Chief Product Officer, and was responsible for global product strategy and development, as well as identifying future product trends and emerging technologies.Prior to joining the company, Patel was a principle member of the technical staff at Oracle Corporation, and before that, held a number of software engineer and development positions at technology companies in Silicon Valley and London.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

QDC.ai — QDC combines state-of-the-art Theoretical Computer Science and Quantum-Inspired Algorithms, leveraging the latest research from computational physics and quantum computing. Our product VeloXQ is a cloud-based Middleware designed to solve today’s hardest combinatorial optimization problems. Customers plug us into their data pipeline, and we providethem with real time analytics, simulations and actionable data.
MegaBots — MegaBots brings the giant robot combat of science fiction to real life. MegaBots produced the world famous USA vs Japan giant robot duel.
Headroom — Headroom Embedded is the best way to bring intelligent video conferencing to your platform. Give your users focused space to connect, understand and remember everything.

Before co-founding Flatiron, Zach was Co-Founder, President and COO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Zach co-foundedEatNow.com which was privately acquired. An active angel investor, Zach has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough.com, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Zach studied economics and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes
Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data with modern software designed for data capture, collaboration, and insights.

A lifelong inventor and successful entrepreneur, Jamie created the world’s first Wi-Fi video doorbell while working in his garage in 2011. The doorbell, then called DoorBot, has since transformed into what’s now known as Ring, a security powerhouse that offers several DIY home security products and services, including the popular Ring VideoDoorbell that’s capable of preventing and solving neighborhood crime. Although much has changed since the company’s inception, it is the mission of reducing crime in neighborhoods that continues to drive Jamie.Intensely dedicated not only to the Ring mission, but also to Ring Neighbors (what Ring calls its customers), Jamie is a loyal and trusted leader. He gives his team autonomy so that they can stay focused on what’s most important: the company’s mission of making neighborhoods everywhere safer.Under Jamie’s direction, Ring has seen incredible success and growth. In 2018, Amazon purchased Ring, the company’s second largest acquisition. With the support of Amazon, Ring and Jamie continue to innovate and remain at the bleeding edge of home security.Prior to Ring, Jamie founded several successful ventures including PhoneTag, the world’s first voicemail-to-text company, and Unsubscribe.com, a service that helped email users clean commercial email from their inboxes. He successfully sold both companies in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Jamie holds his Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. When he’s not working, Jamie enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and two dogs, Shortrib and Pancake.

Investment focus

Email, Music, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

HAAWK — HAAWK - YouTube Content ID and Facebook Rights Management for music libraries, publishers, labels, and film/TV studios.
Unsubscribe.com — Unsubscribe is a powerful service that addresses a simple problem - getting rid of unwanted mailing lists. With the click of a button, users instantly send unwanted mailing lists to Unsubscribe.com for safe removal.Users can either download an Unsubscribe button to be used in their email client or forward unwanted mail from any device. Thecustom button allows one to check off multiple emails at a time to Unsubscribe from, revisiting a brand new inbox.
Liquid Death — Don't be scared, it's just water. 100% stone-cold mountain water (8.1+ PH). Infinitely recyclable aluminum cans. Death to plastic.

Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
Ninetailed — Ninetailed is a composable API-first personalization, experimentation, and testing tool for dynamic websites, headless CMSs, composable content, and MACH.

Tim is responsible for driving business development, strategic partnership initiatives and market growth strategies. Tim joins Cloudera from QuinStreet, where he served as Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, as well as President of International Operations, all in support of the company going public during his tenure.Priorto QuinStreet, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Business Services at Borland Software and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Inktomi.Tim holds B.S. degrees in Finance and Management from the University of Oregon and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Davis.

Investment focus

Email, Mobile, Web Hosting
Angel, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Xoopit — Xoopit features: - email content search - add links, maps, etc. from the web to a mail being composed - exposes information aboutall senders on a thread: profile pics, recent conversations and attachments and media they've sent. testing
Well — Well helps you collect and share the things you want to do. Experience a new kind of list: beautiful, social, and fun._Get Suggestions From Friends_ — On Well your friends suggest ideas to your lists. Planning your next road trip, picking the perfect movie or finding the best sushi in town all just got a little easier._Get inspired &motivated_ — Explore popular lists to discover what others are doing. New places to visit, books to read, wines to try and more await you._Relist interesting items_ — Just because you didn't think of it first, doesn't mean you don't want to do it. Relist any item to quickly copy it to one of your lists.
RateItAll — On RateItAll you can rate & review anything - from your favorite sports team, food, songs, movies to anything else!

Russ Wilcox is the Co-Founder and Partner at Pillar. Prior to VC, he has 20 years of start-up operating experience and has founded three companies. At Pillar, he is a general partner investing ~$500K to $2 million in seed-stage companies coming out of the Boston-area innovation ecosystem. Pillar typically leads and plays an active role in helpingfounders to create new companies and scale them to success.As Co-Founder and CEO at E Ink Corporation, he commercialized electronic paper invented at the MIT Media Lab. E Ink conducted materials research, filed patents, scaled a factory, and shipped tens of millions of displays for the Amazon Kindle and other devices. To date consumers have purchased more than $10 billion of E Ink-related devices and content.Following E Ink, Russ co-founded Transatomic Power, advancing a source of clean energy; and Piper Therapeutics, conducting pre-clinical studies for an immuno-oncology drug.Russ actively supports the Boston entrepreneurial community. Since 2012 he has volunteered as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Harvard Business School Rock Center and counseled hundreds of students on achieving their start-up goals. He sits on the Harvard Physical Sciences Accelerator Review Board and was a Board Director for Harvest Automation, a venture-backed developer of agricultural robots. He has been an angel investor in several start-ups, including Disruptor Beam, PowerInbox, Calimmune, Gen9, DriveFactor, and Camino Financial. Russ began his startup career as a product manager at PureSpeech, a speech recognition company co-founded by Jamie Goldstein.Russ graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and worked in Boston and Paris as a management consultant for Oliver Wyman. He was a Baker Scholar at the Harvard Business School. He is an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year and a Mass High Tech All-Star. He holds thirty-three issued U.S. patents.Russ enjoys foreign cultures and traveled around the world with his family during 2010-2011. He also supports enrichment education and has coached middle school teams for Destination Imagination, FIRST Lego League, and Model United Nations.

Investment focus

Internet, Agriculture, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Higharc — Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building.
Verve Motion — The Future of Industrial Wearables
PowerInbox - DynamicMail business — PowerInbox - DynamicMail business automatically transform static email HTMLs into dynamic, interactive content so recipients get content that is updated for relevancy in real-time upon open.

Jon is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He has been in the venture capital business since 1991 and built three companies of his own. His first was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Jon started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined Greenhouse, AOL’s venturecapital investment group and incubator. He entered the internet market early by joining CMGI’s @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners.First as a founder and now as an investor in early-stage technology companies, Jon’s direct startup experience has allowed him to see the world through an entrepreneur’s eyes. Jon’s career has been driven by a deep belief in the power of human creativity to improve our world.Jon received a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He was recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. When he is not empowering the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, you can find him talking about airplanes or hanging out with his wife and four boys.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Finland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
1000 Markets — 1000 Markets is an online marketplace with specialized shops for small businesses selling artisan work and crafts.
Keep Holdings — Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands. The company's products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings' suite of services focuses on commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web canbring brands and consumers together in new productive ways.

Gary Rieschel has had a successful career as a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor, and global business strategist in high technology. He has been a member of the LP Amina’s board since 2008.Prior to joining LP Amina, Mr. Rieschel was a senior executive at Intel, Sequent Computer, Cisco Systems, and Softbank Corporation.Mr. Rieschelcreated or helped structure several of the most successful joint ventures in the history of the technology industry. These included Cisco Systems’ Japanese JV (with Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, NTT, and Softbank, among others), Sequent Japan (with Panasonic), Yahoo Japan (with Softbank) and ETrade Japan (with SBI).Mr. Rieschel holds a BA in Biology from Reed College in Portland, OR, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Clean Energy, Apps
Series B, Series C, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Madaket — One platform to rule them all. Our Provider Data Management (PDM) platform gives you full control of your healthcare administrative ops.
MailTime — As seen on TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Startup Battlefield. MailTime incorporates the smooth experience of instant messaging and the universality of emails. They re-format and summarize your mails into a messaging conversation view. They redesign the way you assign tasks by mentioning and help you to track information easier.
Special Project — Special is a platform for independent video creators to launch their own direct-to-fan subscription streaming service. It independently turns content into profit while keeping full ownership and control of the brand, catalog, and data.

Marc Bushala is the current CEO of Heaven's Door. He previously worked at SantaFe Partners - Blue Cactus Restaurant as a Founder and CEO. Marc Bushala attended Miami University.

Investment focus

Email, Sales, Shopping
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Speakeasy — Speakeasy Co. provides an integrated direct-to-consumer solution for beverage alcohol brands that remains three-tier compliant.

Ken Kastner

Investment focus

Email, E-Commerce, Web Hosting
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Unsubscribe.com — Unsubscribe is a powerful service that addresses a simple problem - getting rid of unwanted mailing lists. With the click of a button, users instantly send unwanted mailing lists to Unsubscribe.com for safe removal.Users can either download an Unsubscribe button to be used in their email client or forward unwanted mail from any device. Thecustom button allows one to check off multiple emails at a time to Unsubscribe from, revisiting a brand new inbox.

Suresh is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities in the Communications space, adding value to the teams of our portfolio companies, and working with founders and entrepreneurs on developing their ventures. He brings 23 years of experience in the Communications industry to Finaventures.In 1996, Suresh founded Accelerated Networks.Under his leadership, in just four years, the company received $88 million dollars in private capital. The company raised another $72 million from a successful IPO in June 2000.Prior to founding Accelerated Networks, Suresh was with ACT Networks which went public in 1995. Suresh was pivotal in driving ACTâ€™s growth from a start-up company to a successful publicly traded company with a valuation of $500 million.Prior to ACT, Suresh was Director of Product Development at MICOM Systems, Inc. (Nortel Networks) for five years, where he was responsible for developing Statistical Multiplexers, Protocol Converter products and X.25 PADS. Before MICOM, he was with Litton Data Systems and Documation Inc.Suresh has an Electrical Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and an MSEE and MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Email, Photo Sharing, Search Engine
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Xoopit — Xoopit features: - email content search - add links, maps, etc. from the web to a mail being composed - exposes information aboutall senders on a thread: profile pics, recent conversations and attachments and media they've sent. testing

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Key — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
Bluenote Health — Accelerate innovation with AI built for and trusted by leading life sciences companies.

Scott Petry is the Co-founder and CEO Authentic8.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

UpGuard — UpGuard's proprietary technology tests an organization's IT infrastructure both internally and externally and calculates the potential risk for future intrusions and outages. Upon evaluating the ongoing configuration state of every server and network device, companies are given an easy-to-understand score called CSTAR — a single numberwhich indicates to IT staff as well as their executives their risk level for data breaches. An organization's CSTAR score can even be used by corporate insurers in creating a cybersecurity insurance policy.Thousands of companies, including ADP, E*TRADE, and Cisco Systems, use UpGuard to validate infrastructure, continuously detect risks, and procure cybersecurity insurance. UpGuard is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Portland, Oregon.
SendGrid — SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare aswell as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.
Cloudsnap — A code-free solution to seamlessly integrate your most important business applications. Automate your business with Cloudsnap.

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