Top 50 Facebook Startup Investors

Investor	Facebook investments
TMT Investments	3
TechOne VC	3
Delta Partners	3
Union Square Ventures	2
Jonathan Hendriksen	2
Finch Capital	2
Logo Ventures	2
APY Ventures	2
FirstMark	2
Val Katayev	2
Sierra Ventures	2
CABRA VC	2
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund	2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON	2
Maurice Eng	2
Tim Draper	1
Yoshihiro Kawamura	1
SEB Venture Capital	1
TTP Ventures	1
Atlas Venture	1
Turkiye Teknoloji Gelistirme Vakfi	1
Ice Angels	1
Accelerasia Ventures	1
Roger Ehrenberg	1
Sue Decker	1
Jason Johnson	1
Crescendo Ventures	1
Andrew Filev	1
Turkey Development Fund	1
LoftyInc Capital Management	1
Larry Marcus	1
Schoffstall Ventures	1
Robert Goldstein	1
LocalGlobe	1
Gaingels	1
ICU Ventures	1
Mattias Westman	1
TA Ventures	1
Aitarget Tech	1
Odunayo Eweniyi	1
Manatt Venture Fund	1
Eksim Ventures	1
Paul Reeve	1
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji	1
Mana Ventures	1
Mike Merkulov	1
TJK NZ LIMITED	1
Roman Kirsch	1
John Greenslade	1
Kai Huang	1

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
GINOA — GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services.
WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.
Eppione — Eppione was created to help employers and employees substantially leverage technology in the day to day management of HR, Employee Benefits and Business Insurance.The founders of the company account for 100+ years of experience and innovation in these areas.Eppione Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UnitedKingdom.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain

Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Backing entrepreneurs to build Financial Technology market leaders in Europe and South East Asia. Finch Capital invests in financial services, real estate tech, insurance tech, etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mega Fortuna — Mega Fortuna is a leading creator and producer of apps and games. To accomplish this, we mix client needs and lifestyle trends with industry-leading technology.
Mavikanatlar — Mavikanatlar creates technological solutions to assure the safe, legal, and efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Logbook is a flight, mission, and organization management software for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as other air vehicles such as balloons, ultralight aircraft, gliders, powered parachutes, paragliders, andother aviation businesses that use these vehicles.
Mindway VR — Mindway is a venture focused on the intersection of VR and Wellbeing.

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders of iconic and industry-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Pigment — The all-in-one business planning platform for finance and revenue teams to plan & forecast your business in real-time, model scenarios and make better decisions

Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is apioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it's AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years.Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $100M through profits and exits, all before taking any venture capital.While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world's largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College.These days Val is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies. As always on the lookout for the next big project to dedicate himself to.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Audio
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify) — Signal360 is the leading in-venue mobile notification platform for real-time user engagement. Signal360's platform uses cross-platform patented inaudible-sound mobile notification technologies as well as the emerging BLE standard (full support for iBeacon and Android BLE) to wirelessly enable retail locations to interact with customersthrough existing consumer mobile apps, retailer-specific mobile apps, and/or custom created apps.
Thismoment — Thismoment is a marketing technology company that enables the world’s biggest companies to connect with their target audiences in real time on any device. Through Thismoment Content Cloud, our digital storytelling platform, they enable effortless content curation, digital experience creation and sharing, content rights management and seamlessenterprise technology integrations. More than 150 top brands and agencies use Thismoment, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Levi’s, Sephora, Fleishman Hillard and Digitas. Thismoment's vision is to give their customers endless opportunities to engage their customers with any content, anywhere. That’s no small feat, but after working with over 150 of the Fortune 500 brands since 2007, we think we’re in a unique position to make it happen.
Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of enterprise, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Qualiti — Qualiti uses AI to test any software product with no human input.
Paro — Paro empowers businesses & finance professionals to pursue meaningful work & achieve success, harnessing the power of people and technology.
PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.

Cabra.vc is a venture fund for technological startups that want to scale out to international markets

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget

Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.

Investment focus

Personalization, Software, Advertising
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
HeyStaks — Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle and Dr Peter Briggs.HeyStaks patented intent analytics platform analyses web usage data to build rich, accurate profiles that capture a person's intent and interests. It does this in a privacy-enhanced way and is sensitiveto context signals such as location and time to create a dynamic view of customer intent. For mobile operators, HeyStaks helps them know their customer and unlock entirely new revenue streams by delivering superior user experiences, advertisements and offers that are timely and relevant.
Fenergo — Client Lifecycle Management Technology Developed in Collaboration with 60+ Global Banks. Home.

Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Maurice Eng

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.

Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

SEB Venture Capital is a Fintech investor that helps entrepreneurs and innovators launch and grow profitable businesses. They primarily serve as a strategic corporate venture focused on Fintech investments, with the option of partnering with SEB. They are also on the hunt for game-changing inventive solutions to new technologies that will make thefinancial industry smarter, safer, and more environmentally responsible, as well as more user-friendly. They also function as an evergreen fund, giving them the flexibility and staying strength to focus on long-term wealth development depending on what is best for the firm and its shareholders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qvantum — Qvantum offers heat pumps for the next generation heating and cooling technologies that enables the decarbonization of our cities.
EnginZyme — EnginZyme is a biotechnology company that specializes in biocatalysis. It creates products for easy and cost-efficient implementation of biocatalytic processes and helps the chemical industry transition to a sustainable way of operating.The company is driven by a mission to make biocatalysis the first choice for chemical process designersworldwide.
Airsonett — Research-based medical technology company which leads the way in the development of non-pharmaceutical treatment for allergic asthma.

TTP Ventures provides venture capital for IT and clean technology companies based in the UK. It is currently managing a £34m first fund

Investment focus

Energy, Mobile, Retail
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Displaydata — Displaydata is the leader in the design and supply of fully graphic Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). We were first to market with three-colour ESLs and continue to lead this category, having shipped millions of labels. We work in close partnership with many of the world’s largest retail brands and have operations in the US, Europe, LATAM and Asia.We help retailers optimise revenues and margins by improving the customer experience at the shelf-edge, where most purchasing decisions are made.
ShoZu — ShoZu is the provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset. The company’s patented technology provides fast, easy, one-click uploads of photos and video clips from the mobile to the Web, full-resolution photoand video delivery without compression, an emerging suite of services that push content to the phone, the ability to work in the background even if a connection is dropped, and other unique features that simplify and enhance the user experience, plus a mobile advertising service that provides non-intrusive and behaviorally targeted ad delivery.
CamSemi — CamSemi is a privately-held, fabless company based in Cambridge, UK, helping customers find faster, lower cost and easier ways to design and manufacture more energy-efficient power conversion products. CamSemiâ€™s products are based on its portfolio of patented, proprietary technologies and topologies including intelligent control architectures,RDFC and PowerBrane. These new approaches can benefit multiple markets although initially the company is targeting two major opportunities: high-volume mains power supplies and lighting applications.

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on the most compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

K36 Therapeutics — K36 Therapeutics mission to translate epigenetic modulation of oncogenic pathways into first-in-class small molecule therapies.
AAVantgarde Bio — AAVantgarde Bio is developing gene therapies for inherited retinal disorders.
Pheon Therapeutics — Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England.

Having supported Research and Development and Technological Innovation projects in the private sector since 1991, the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) has proven to be a successful example to all of Europe as an innovative and dynamic intermediary. Intermediaries were mentioned in the EU Lisbon Communiqué as being necessary forconveying public support for R&D in the private sector. As one of the providers of one of the many bridges felt every passing day between the legislation in line with the national goals of the public and private sector, the TTGV helps maintain the existence of a transparent, observable and effective mechanism that provides opportunities for participation in the private sector through the management of public funds. Soft loans and compulsory company contributions, which make up the main principles behind TTGV’s support, have provided important benefits to Turkey’s R&D capacity thus far through the “multiplier effect” by promoting an increased contribution of public funds to R&D expenses in the private sector. TTGV is evaluating the expectations, needs and priorities of the private sector and the public, by developing new support mechanisms suited towards the changing conditions and circumstances of Turkey. TTGV employs those mechanisms. Today, TTGV is a sought out partner, both inside and outside of Turkey, in the field of technological innovation.

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Google
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)

AccelerAsia Ventures is our hands-on investment arm. Find out more about our selection criteria for investment and how we could help your business with our accelerator.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shopmatic — Be it chat selling, social selling, marketplace selling, or selling via webstore, Shopmatic offers you multiple ways to do ecommerce and sell products online
Ackcio — Ackcio builds real-time, reliable, wireless, monitoring solutions for industrial applications.
Archanan — Archanan is revolutionizing supercomputing by changing how scientific software is developed. Supercomputing has a problem. Archanan have access to tomorrow's computers but we are still using yesterday's practices. Developing applications for supercomputers costs too much time, too much money, and is too difficult. Archanan empowers thevast majority of scientists to use supercomputers through a suite of easy-to-use tools which can help design robust, scalable, and portable code. Our solution provides cost savings of an order of magnitude to supercomputing centers and increases productivity of their users by ten times. Archanan is facilitating the path toward the future of personalized medicine, self-driving cars, commercial space travel, quantum computing, and much more.

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Investment focus

Advertising, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.

Sue Decker is principal of Deck3 Ventures LLC. She serves on the boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel Corporation, and Costco Wholesale. She is also a trustee of Save the Children.During the 2009- 2010 academic year, she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Harvard Business School (HBS). In this role, she was involved in casedevelopment activities, worked with students, and helped develop and deliver portions of the January 2010 Silicon Valley Immersion Program for HBS students.Prior to joining HBS, Decker performed a number of roles for Yahoo!, from June 2000 to April 2009. Her most recent position was president of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to April 2009. In this role, she was a key participant in determining Yahoo!'s business strategy and vision and was responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo!, including sales, product marketing and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers and publishers. Prior to becoming President, from December 2006 to June 2007, Decker served as the head of one of Yahoo!'s two major business units, the Advertiser and Publisher Group (APG). Before that, Decker was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2000 to June 2007, managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative direction within key functional areas, including finance, facilities, investor relations (and human resources and legal through December 2006).Prior to joining Yahoo!, Decker was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) for 14 years. Most recently, she served as the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, where, among other things, she was responsible for building and staffing a non-U.S. research product based on global sector teams. Before she assumed these responsibilities, Decker spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.Decker holds a B.S. degree from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and an M.B.A. from HBS. She also received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1989 and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term, from 2000 to 2004. She served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to Disney, and on the board of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from March 2005 to May 2007.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.
Rakuten Americas — Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasinglymobile centric customers.
Gusto — Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.

Jason Johnson is a Silicon Valley technologist and entrepreneur with nearly twenty years of technology expertise. He is currently the CEO of August. Jason is also a managing partner of startup incubator Founders Den and the chairman of the Internet of Things Consortium. Jason co-founded mobile security software company AirCover (acquired by MDream, HK:8100). Previously he was vice president of Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB), vice president of Global IP Solutions (acquired by Google) and was the co-founder and CEO of InterQuest (acquired by Darwin Networks). Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Pepperdine University and currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife and son.

Investment focus

Mobile, iOS, Internet
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shyp — Get convenient, secure, and affordable shipping and packaging solutions anywhere with Shyp. Our goal is to make this the best shipping experience in the world.
ThirdLove — Bras designed for your body so you always look & feel your best. Available in A-H and half-cup sizes.
BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers

Crescendo Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA.

Investment focus

Software, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

eASIC — eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide.
eSilicon — eSilicon, a pioneering semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP), provides a comprehensive suite of ASIC design, productization and manufacturing services, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume production of integrated circuits (ICs). The company delivers custom chips (ASICs) to system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) andfabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) who serve a wide variety of markets including the consumer, computer, communications and industrial segments.eSilicon creates a unique, optimized semiconductor Value Chain for each customer and each design - from design services and tools, to IP and materials suppliers, to test and packaging providers. By integrating this Value Chain with its internal expertise and proven eSilicon Enterpriseâ„¢ infrastructure, the ASIC services and solutions provider produces more than 10 million leading-edge chips per year.
NextIO — NextIO, Inc was an information technology company based in Austin, Texas.

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, provider of popular social project management software with customers from 50+ countries.Andrew started his first software development company at the age of 18. Today, he is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager, and advisor to several fast-growing ventures. Andrew'sviews on project management, business and technology are reflected in his Project Management 2.0 blog and occasionally in guest posts in tech and business media (VentureBeat, PandoDaily, etc.)Apart from business, Andrew is interested in human and artificial intelligence - from cognitive psychology to neuroscience to machine learning. He also trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Investment focus

Software, Drones, Google
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
TraceAir — Construction platform providing drone flights, 3D mapping, analytics, and data processing services to accelerate site work.

Turkey Development Fund aims to develop the enterprise ecosystem by investing in new generation startups.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Google
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
BEAM Teknoloji A.S. — BEAM Teknoloji A.S. is an IT company specialized in outsourced software testing.
WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
Fetch Delivery — Snap your grocery, shopping & restaurant receipts with Fetch, the #1 rewards app. Shop & dine, snap your receipts and easily get free gift cards, merch and rewards to your favorite brands!
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.

Schoffstall Ventures invests in innovative technologies backed by strong managements and business plans. They invest in Internet and information technology ventures in the seed and early stages, focusing on communications and networking technologies, information services, and the use of technology in realizing business and process efficiencies.The Schoffstall Ventures team brings decades of experience in operating and growing early stage companies from inception to the liquidity event, as well as one of the largest networks of industry contacts in the country. Their goal is to partner with visionary entrepreneurs in a company's early stages, providing the benefits of their operational experience, contact network and potential synergies with their portfolio companies to help create long-term value in today's competitive marketplace.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Facebook
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Clickable — Clickable solves a problem other advertising technologies do not address- the Company helps advertisers and brands measure their marketing ROI by connecting disparate products and services into one platform. Clickable connects to any data source, and visualizes data in any layout, providing the information that marketers, advertisers and agenciesneed to make marketing placement and spending decisions. Clickable is 100% owned by LookSmart, a public company which purchased the Company’s technology, assets and team in Fall 2013 for less than $10 million and re-launched in 2014. In its previous incarnation, the Company raised a total of $60 million from leading venture capital investors before its sale to a company that failed due to excess business concentration with a single customer, creating the 2013 acquisition opportunity. Over $30 million alone was invested in the data warehouse infrastructure.The Company is looking to raise $2 million through the sale of preferred stock in Clickable to expand its sales and marketing team and accelerate growth. Please click on Executive Summary under External Links (to the right) for an overview of the Company.For more information, please contact Church Lewis, Partner at Gruppo, Levey & Co. at clewis@glconline.com or 646-723-8904.
Ikimbo — Ikimbo offers communication and collaboration software and services for companies. It provides a unified applications platform that includes instant messaging, group email management, and real-time and asynchronous communication. The company also offers professional services to assist clients in planning, implementation and integration with legacysystems. Ikimbo’s clients include well known companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Best Software. Ikimbo’s strategic partners include BroadBeam, OTG, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Ventera Corporation and Network Solutions. The company was established in 1999 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
XMLSolutions Corporation — XMLSolutions Corporation enables the secure, reliable, real-time B2B exchange of direct and indirect materials transactions over the Internet, among trading partners, exchanges and marketplaces of all sizes. XMLSolutions' technology provides true dialect independence among all existing and future EDI and XML standards. The XMLSolutionsintegrated solution includes support for XML-to-XML transformations; EDI-to-XML integration; and over 3000 mission-critical, industry-specific EDI business documents.XMLSolutions delivers a complete solution for the secure purchase of mission-critical goods over the Internet.XMLSolutions industry expertise extends well into the aerospace, automotive, petrochemical, computer and electronics, financial, insurance, utilities, healthcare, and retail industries.

Robert Goldstein joined VPC in 2011 and is a Vice President. He is primarily involved in various operational roles with the Firm’s portfolio companies.Previously, Mr. Goldstein was managing partner of New Trier Real Partners LLC, a real estate private equity firm, and New Trier Merchant Partners LLC, a merchant banking firm he founded. He alsoserved as a transactional attorney and co-managing partner at Levenfeld Pearlstein, a Chicago-based, middle market law firm. Before practicing law, Mr. Goldstein was a registered Certified Public Accountant at KPMG LLP.Mr. Goldstein received a B.S. in business at Indiana University and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is also the vice chair of the Business Economic Development Committee of the City of Highland Park, IL. Mr. Goldstein is a member of the Illinois bar.

Investment focus

SMS, Energy, Facebook
Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

XL Batteries — XL Batteries develops a technology platform to reduce waste formation. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

point.me — Maximize your miles with our real-time search engine. Easily compare reward flights across airlines to find the best deal. So you get better flights, for fewer points.
Confirm — Confirm is the data-driven hiring platform that helps you make the right hire every time. It uses the knowledge of colleagues to get the perfect job, faster. Their mission is to match everyone who's looking for a job with their perfect role. The company was founded in November 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Superluminal Medicines — Superluminal Medicines is a generative biological and chemical company accelerating new possibilities in drug discovery and development. Its platform creates candidate-ready compounds with speed using a comprehensive combination of deep biology and chemistry expertise, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure.

ICU Ventures is a venture investment branch of ICU, an independent asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specialising in the emerging markets of CEE. Our main focus are early stage technology companies with Eastern European roots. This means it's preferable for us that either Founders or Engineering & Softwaredevelopment are from/located in Eastern Europe. We provide companies not only with a necessary capital but also with strategic support and a network of contacts in order to expand them internationally. Apart from gaming and gambling ICU is interested in investing across all the sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Computer Vision, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Germany, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
Revenue Grid — Revenue Grid is a revenue intelligence platform that helps improve sales performance and shifts your CRM from the "view mode" to the "do mode"
Jenfi — Drive growth with Jenfi's revenue-based financing. Tailored funding for marketing & expansion. Flexible repayments. Apply now.

Mattias Westman is the Founding Partner of Prosperity Capital Management, an investment firm specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. PCM is an active investor with assets of some 2.8bn USD. Prior to founding PCM in 1996, he worked for investment banks Hagströmer & Qviberg and Alfred Berg and started investing in Russia in 1993.Westman has also served on the boards of several Russian companies and as Deputy Chairman of the Investor Protection Association in Russia. He holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

SMS, Medical, Facebook
Series A, Series C, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
Bluestar Genomics —
Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Aitarget Tech | Commerce

Investment focus

Google, Big Data, Facebook
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Mo: Meditation & Sleep — The #1 app for sleep, meditation and rest. Our 1,100,000 happy users already know how to lower their stress level and get sound and restful sleep.
Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget

Odunayo Eweniyi is the Co-founder and COO at Piggybank and PushCV. Odunayo is a Co-Founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa and a Board Member at Village Capital. She was also a Writer atTechCabal. Odunayo attended SOAS University of London, freeCodeCamp, and Covenant University.

Investment focus

EdTech, Facebook, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
Genome Medical — We are genetic experts who partner with healthcare organizations like yours to deliver best-in-class genetic counseling services, bringing the promise of precision medicine to more lives.
Kitterly — Kitterly sells knitting & crochet kits to make anything from accessories, clothing and dog sweaters.

Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.

Investment focus

SaaS, Transportation, Facebook
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bottobo — Bottobo Robotics is a robotic company aiming to revolutionize and democratize the autonomous mobile robot landscape. We build collaborative AMRs that work in harmony with human workforces helping organizations in boosting warehouse picking productivity AMR, autonomous mobile robots, 3D Lidar
WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.

Paul Reeve

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founder and former CEO of HOF portfolio company Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. Under his leadership, the company has become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all-time, processing over $2B across over 50Mtransactions, and attracted significant investment from experienced players in the space, including Y Combinator (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree), Greenvisor Capital (led by the Former CEO of Visa), and Mastercard.Previously, Iyinoluwa Co-Founded Andela, Africa's largest engineering organization with over 1000 software engineers that has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures.Iyinoluwa holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo, and sits on the board of several institutions including Paris’ Share Africa Project, Rainbow Educational Services Limited, and Filmo Realty. He served as the Deputy Director General for Madam Oby Ezekwesili’s 2019 Presidential Campaign, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, and a member of Nigeria's Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
GitStart — YC backed tech startup which helps teams scale engineering velocity through its unique Pull Requests as a Service platform and delivers world class code quality so customers can ship faster.

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
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!

Mike Merkulov

Investment focus

Software, Furniture, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Germany, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
Welltory — Helping millions reach peak health and productivity. A Heart Rate Variability App that navigates you to the summit of your potential.
Pufetto — Pufetto creates furniture for those who value in the present life. They want you to devote more time to really important things. It is very important for us that their products delight you for a long time and serve reliably. Therefore, they have done everything to make the choice and purchase of the best furniture surprisingly simple and pleasantfor every guest.

TJK NZ LIMITED

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com.
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

John Greenslade

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

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

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Taelor — Taelor is a subscription fashion service that powers men to rent styles for work, weekends and events.
4D Sight — 4D Sight is a native video monetization platform with a focus on live gaming and sports broadcasts.
Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.