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Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

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

Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

Investor	Finance United States investments
Gokul Rajaram	10
Ron Suber	9
Naval Ravikant	9
Garry Tan	8
Peter Thiel	8
David Tisch	7
Fred Ehrsam	7
Edward Lando	7
Max Levchin	7
Elad Gil	6
Barry Silbert	6
Walter Winshall	6
Terrence Rohan	6
Nancy J.	6
Lachy Groom	6
Aaron Levie	6
Cyan Banister	6
Balaji Srinivasan	6
Brendan Wallace	6
Charley Ma	6
Kingsley Advani	5
Chris Adelsbach	5
Anthony Pompliano	5
Scott Banister	5
William Hockey	5
Henry Yoshida	5
Omri Dahan	5
Nihal Mehta	5
Ankur Nagpal	5
Tom Williams	5
Will Herman	5
Kevin Moore	5
Dave McClure	5
Scott Belsky	5
Justin Mateen	4
Ryan Selkis	4
Jacob Gibson	4
Hiten Shah	4
Sam Yam	4
Arjun Sethi	4
Max Altman	4
Todd Warren	4
Manik Gupta	4
Howard Lindzon	4
Marc Bhargava	4
Bill Boebel	4
Vikram Pandit	4
Mark Goines	4
Brandon Metcalf	4
Paul Sethi	4

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Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member. Gokul is a Partner at Firebolt Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
OpenInfer — OpenInfer develops an AI inference engine for edge applications
Freed — Join thousands of happy clinicians saving 2+ hours a day. Use Freed's AI medical scribe for instant clinical documentation.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions. He attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.

Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Odyssey — Odyssey operates as an AI start-up, provides hollywood-grade visual AI.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.

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.

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a US solar technology company building high-performance perovskite tandem products. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

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.

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

Quanta — Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Barry Silbert is the Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group, a company helping to build the foundation of the digital currency and blockchain technology industry by launching, incubating, and investing in groundbreaking companies that will transform the global financial services ecosystem and usher in the “internet of value”. DCG has been anactive seed investor in the digital currency industry with over 50 investments in 15 countries including BitGo, BitPay, BitPagos, BitPesa, Chain, Circle, Coinbase, Gyft, Kraken, Ripple Labs, TradeBlock, Unocoin, and Xapo.In addition, Barry also created the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), a private, open-ended trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments, a Digital Currency Group company. The BIT’s shares are the first publicly quoted securities (ticker: GBTC) solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin, enabling investors to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping bitcoins.Prior to founding Digital Currency Group, Barry founded SecondMarket, a platform that enables private companies and investment funds to more efficiently raise capital and provide liquidity to their stakeholders by simplifying complex transaction workflows, streamlining investor onboarding, and verifying that investors are accredited.SecondMarket has received numerous accolades in recent years including being named by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and has received honors from Forbes, Fast Company, Deloitte and other organizations. Barry has received several individual honors including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's prestigious "40 Under 40" list.Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Barry was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey and graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.

Investment focus

FinTech, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Voyat — Voyat is the technology company powering direct connections between hotels and customers online and on-property to define a new tier in guest loyalty. Using Voyat’s lightweight platform, hotels can achieve true 1:1 relationships with their guests and present offers, promotions and guest loyalty rewards tailored to every individual. Voyat creates alasting digital link between every guest or visitor at a hotel property via a WiFi connection to strengthen the direct booking channel and increase customer lifetime value. As a result, the guest is recognized as the valued customer that they are and the brand is able to set itself apart in an overcrowded marketplace to keep those loyal customers coming back.Leading hotel brands including The New York Palace, Morgan’s Hotel Group, Mövenpick Hotels and many others rely on Voyat technology to enable personalized interactions with their customers which drive higher direct and repeat bookings and define a new tier in guest loyalty. Voyat, founded in 2012 by Bob Lund and Benjamin Habbel, is a global company headquartered in New York City with offices in Copenhagen, Barcelona and clients across North America and EMEA.For more information please visit www.voyat.com.
OneName — Onename is a registrar (like GoDaddy) for the .id namespace on the Blockstack network.
TradeBlock — TradeBlock is the world's leading provider of institutional trading tools for digital currencies.

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

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.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Mach9 — Mach9 is building the operating system for cities. We're monitoring surface and underground infrastructure to predict and prevent infrastructure failures.

Nancy J.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sunroom — Where women & non-binary creators get paid to exist
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Maven — Maven is where top creators teach cohort-based courses. We help you make a living teaching what you love.

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.

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
Allbirds — Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life.The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to bemutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness.Allbirds is based in San Francisco and founded in 2015.
Yellow — eNaming.com is excited to exclusively offer YELLOW.APP the domain name to the public for the first time. We believe the .APP top-level domain is a critically im

Charley Ma is the GM of Fintech at Alloy . Charley Ma attended University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Knot — Knot powerfully improves products for you and your users, adding revenue-generating features and connecting cardholders to thousands of merchants.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Default — The command center for modern sales teams.

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Anthony Pompliano currently works as an Entrepreneur and Investor for Pomp Investments. He previously worked at Morgan Creek Digital Assets as a Co-Founder and Partner. Anthony Pompliano attended Bucknell University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Spindl — Make more intelligent business decisions in web3 using Spindl’s attribution tooling.
Zion — Join our mission in creating the last platform you will ever build
Haven — Bookkeeping, tax credits and tax services for growing businesses!

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.

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Town — The complete tax solution for small businesses like yours

Henry is CEO and Co-founder of Rocket Dollar, a web platform that lets people invest IRA money into private and alternative investments. Henry founded venture capital backed robo-advisor Honest Dollar[acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2016, now Marcus Invest], was the founder of a $2.6b assets under management RIA, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch.Henry is a Certified Financial Planner and has brought multiple innovative products and methodologies to the market. Yoshida graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, has an MBA from Cornell University, and lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from both the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen’s University in Canada. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters, Lillianna and Gemma-Day.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Rachel, and daughter, Lillianna.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Finance
Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Oliver Technology Corporation — Oliver Technology Corporation is a SaaS Enabled Marketplace revolutionizing the way legal services in the financial industry are delivered. We've developed an integrated SaaS solution that allows banks to manage and oversee legal collections from beginning to end. In addition, the platform provides access to a marketplace of over 300 trainedattorneys across 15 states.
BlueCheck Inc — BlueCheck provides identity verification, age verification, and photo ID verification infrastructure for digital businesses. Easy to use ID verification.
Rocket Dollar — Self-Directed retirement investing means that you make all of the investment decisions inside your retirement account.

Omri serves as Marqeta’s chief revenue officer and is accountable for the company’s growth and financial performance. After joining Marqeta’s early team, he helped pioneer the organization’s customer acquisition and growth strategies which, along with Marqeta’s award-winning technology, catapulted Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform into aglobal, industry-defining business.Omri began his career within the White House, eventually transitioning to the private sector, where he established a reputation for building world-class teams who develop transformational ideas into high-growth businesses. As a partner at The Trium Group, he advised CEOs and executive teams of multinational organizations including AXA, Barclays, and Virgin Atlantic, helping the firm to grow into a leading global strategy consultancy.Omri is a frequent speaker at international and domestic conferences and is a featured guest lecturer at the Columbia Business School’s Institute for Personal Leadership. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ByteChek — ByteChek helps businesses build cybersecurity programs to enhance sales and build trust from customers. The company was founded in 2020 by AJ Yawn is based in Miami, Florida, United States.
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Tom Williams

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.

Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
Pristēm — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

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.
Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
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.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

Jacob Gibson is the Co-Founder and Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He is a former co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Adadot — Adadot empowers developers to improve their performance and wellbeing by analysing productivity and collaboration data.
fortú — fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.

Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shopgenie — The all-in-one marketing solution to grow your auto shop. Attract high-quality customers and keep them coming back for repairs with our digital toolbox.
GarageWorks — Ontdek de inrichting voor je garage, bijkeuken, berging, tuinhuis of schuur; zoals garage kasten, garagevloeren en slimme opbergsystemen.
Grain — Record, transcribe, clip & share video from Zoom in real-time. An essential tool for modern teams.

Sam Yam is the Co-Founder, President and CTO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Backer — Backer is a smart way to save for your kid's education with help from family and friends. Save 4x more with backers. Invest your savings tax-free with a gold-rated 529 savings plan.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.

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 — Transforming the mental health landscape through groundbreaking AI research
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Max Altman - Managing Partner @ Apollo Projects

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Yuzu Health — Powering innovative health plans

Todd Warren is a Managing Director of Divergent Ventures. He was a Board Member at ReadyPulse. He attended Northwestern University.

Investment focus

Finance, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

One4All — Download the Cauze app and donate to any nonprofit in the US at the tap of a button. Recruit your friends to amplify your donations and change the world when inspiration strikes. Available for iOS in the Apple App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store.
Thinkfuse — Thinkfuse is an enterprise SaaS provider that integrates closely with email to streamline scheduled communications like status reports and project updates without changing the way people work. It helps helps teams collaborate while building intelligence about work done across an organization.
Highlighter — Host a live TV show in your browser. Share the Highlights.

Manik Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Uber. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber's Marketplace and Maps product teams, where he was responsible for creating best-in-class mapping solutions and marketplace technologies. Throughout his career, Manik has focused on the problems around “helping move X from point A to point B.” Priorto Uber, Manik worked on Google Maps for over 7 years. He led the creation and curation of all the maps and business data to make Google Maps the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful map of the world.Manik grew up in India and spent many years in Singapore, where he founded an e-commerce startup, BuyItTogether.com, right out of college. The company was successfully acquired by a Norwegian company, CoShopper.com, and Manik subsequently managed Hewlett Packard's e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific and Japan. He studied computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University and received an MBA from Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SigScalr — SigScalr provides insights on petabytes of logs, metrics and traces data. An innovative architecture that swiftly filters through compressed data without the need for costly decompression, resulting in significant reductions in compute and storage.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.

Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.

Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

Founder

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
BlockJoy — Easily deploy and manage enterprise-scale blockchain nodes on any infrastructure for up to 80% less than the cloud.
Fun Country — Hop on to a virtual, interactive space just right for team standups, one-on-ones, and happy hours.

In 1973, Pandit began study at Columbia University at age 16. Three years later, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and the year after that a master's. In 1986 he received a Ph.D. in finance.Pandit joined Morgan Stanley as an associate in 1983. Seven years later, he was named head of Morgan Stanley's U.S.stock business. In 2000, he was named head of investment banking. In 2005 he left Morgan Stanley and a year later helped found a hedge fund, Old Lane. Citigroup bought the fund in April 2007 and fast-tracked him to replace Charles Prince as CEO in December of that year. After leading Citi through the financial crisis of 2008 and the tumultuous years that followed, Pandit resigned as CEO in October 2012.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Sardine — Solve risk, compliance, and payments with one powerful API.
Kryptomon — Kryptomon is an NFT Play-and-Earn blockchain game, where Pokémon meets Tamagotchi and CryptoKitties. Breed, Train and Fight with your NFT Kryptomon. It's a new world where trainers can live a new adventure on Blockchain. Set in the Kryptomon metaverse, community members play as ‘Trainers’ of their own individual monsters — Kryptomons — each ofwhich is a completely unique digital asset connected to an NFT. Each has a unique but mutable genetic code made up of 38 randomised parameters that determine all of the aspects — physical and behavioral — of the creature. This not only ensures that each Kryptomon is unique but also brings to life each Kryptomon as a digital companion in the Kryptomon metaverse. They are capable of learning, falling sick, getting hungry, and protecting their trainers when out on an adventure in the physical world. In turn, trainers will have to care for, feed, and train their Kryptomon partners in order to grow and prepare for the battles ahead. Kryptomon creates the next step in the evolution of crypto-gaming by using advanced blockchain technologies, digital genetics, and location-based technologies. So what are you waiting for? Play and participate in the Kryptomon league to become the Kryptomon Metaverse Champion!
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.

Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.

Brandon Metcalf is an accomplished entrepreneur with a strong track record of building and leading successful companies. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Brandon hosts the popular Cash & Burn podcast, where he has real conversations with other SaaS founders and executives about the biggest challenges of scaling software companies. Withhis deep expertise in the software industry, particularly in the realm of Salesforce, he has a wealth of experience in creating, scaling, and managing global businesses.As currently the founder and CEO of three companies - Place, Asymbl, and Blueprint Advisory - Brandon oversees a diverse range of ventures. Place is a Salesforce-powered software that streamlines the process of managing customer subscriptions, billing, financial data, and business analytics for B2B SaaS companies. Asymbl is a staffing and recruiting solution that helps companies optimize their recruitment process using Salesforce, while Blueprint Advisory is a software consulting firm that assists other businesses in building, implementing, and customizing Salesforce-based software.Before his current ventures, Brandon founded and served as President of Talent Rover, a Salesforce-based global staffing and recruitment software company that he grew to become the 9th fastest-growing software company in the US in 2017 (according to Inc. 500). Talent Rover was successfully acquired in March 2018, further cementing Brandon's reputation as a skilled and successful entrepreneur.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Asymbl — Maximize staffing & recruitment with core Salesforce products plus Asymbl's products and services that include application tracking and timesheet management.
Place — With Place, finance teams can be more strategic, leadership gets greater visibility, and everyone gets connected, real-time data - from the same source - to make the right decision at the right time.

Paul Sethi is a co-founder and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, the Founder and Managing Partner at Trajectory Capital Partners, and the Co-founding Partner of OpenFortune. For 7+ years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of, the leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acquired by List Partners). He alsoco-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice, with a real-time alerts and data extraction engine built for the enterprise. Paul has been a first-check angel for over a decade, including in Flexport, SeatGeek, Transfix, Knotel and LearnVest. He serves as Advisor to Transfix and OpenFortune and graduated with honors from Wharton (UPenn) and Columbia. Early in his career, he was a public company investor focused on the tech sector.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mantl — MANTL helps banks and credit unions open more accounts across more channels with the highest-performing origination software on the market.
Slash Keyboard — GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
JOANY — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

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