Top 50 Hospitality Angel Investors in United States in February 2025

Investor	Hospitality United States investments
Erik Blachford	5
Jason Calacanis	4
Joanne Wilson	4
Jonathan Wasserstrum	4
Keith Rabois	4
Scott Banister	4
Tom Ryan	3
Rick Marini	3
Dave McClure	3
Chris Dixon	3
Rick Marini	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
Eddie Lou	3
Rudy Gadre	3
Michael Lazerow	2
Jason Manolopoulos	2
Andrei Kulik	2
Glen Hellman	2
Clark Landry	2
Chris Sang	2
Terry Jones	2
Eric Chen	2
Nathan Doctor	2
Spencer Rascoff	2
Matt Mullenweg	2
Safa Rashtchy	2
Hugh Crean	2
Bedy Yang	2
Othman Laraki	2
Shaun White	2
Parker Thompson	2
David Perry	2
Arielle Zuckerberg	2
Brian Costello	2
Cyan Banister	2
Jason Finger	2
Andrew McCollum	2
Eric Ries	2
Juney Ham	2
Wayne Chang	2
Varsha Rao	2
Keisuke Honda	2
Victoria Grace	2
Dan Martell	2
Jeffrey Vinik	2
Alexis Ohanian	2
Ben Zises	2
Pankaj Jain	2
David Tisch	2
Kevin Hartz	2

Currently a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO at Butterfield & Robinson and CEO atTerrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Property Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

WATS — WATS is a digital platform for business waste management to enable cost savings and emissions reductions through operational efficiency.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Pomelo — Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.
Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.

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

Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV and President, CEO, and Streaming at Paramount, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership withhundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Investment focus

Music, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
WHOW Games GmbH — WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.

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, Angel
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Eddie Lou is the Board Director and Investor of HiLink. He holds an MBA and a B.S. in Engineering from Washington University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HiLink — HiLink provides an all-in-one video conferencing and collaboration platform crafted for education. We make remote learning more interactive and engaging while increasing efficiency.
iAsk Ai — iAsk is an AI search engine that delivers the fastest and most accurate responses in seconds, making it an attractive option for users looking for a more intuitive and user-friendly search experience. We are committed to continuous growth and development, striving to become an exciting contender in our field.At iAsk.Ai, the search engine hasadvanced from simple keyword-matching systems to an advanced AI that comprehends users' needs. It delivers relevant information to help users easily address simple or complex questions.
Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.

Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

neu — Get on-demand enhanced cleaning for your Airbnb. Use neu to auto-schedule cleans after every checkout, get access to vetted service professionals, and peace-of-mind
Wrench — Wrench offers a convenient way to get great auto repair near me, diagnostic service and oil changes. Our mobile mechanics will come to you!
Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.

Jason has over 24 years of investing experience with a focus on emerging markets, both in investment banks and fund managers. Jason co-founded the fund management company Dromeus Capital in April 2008 and served as Chief Investment Officer and member of its Executive and Investment Committees. He is an active mentor of the start-up community,advising many Greek start-ups. His start-up investment activity began in 2010.

Investment focus

Rental, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A
Greece, United States

Portfolio highlights

Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
Douleutaras — Douleutaras (Greek name)/Easyhero (international name) is the professional services market leader in Greece and Cyprus. Having solved the biggest industry growth barrier and created the best-in-class product, the company has initiated its international expansion, going after the €250B market in Europe.

Angel Investor | Engineer at Google

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cherry Labs — Founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to Facebook, Google and Apple, Cherry Labs works on making our homes the safer. Cherry employs over 20 engineers, AI scientists and product designers in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow and Shenzhen.
FRAMEN — Advertise in locations with an addressable context. Reach people without them opening an app to skip your ad. Inside of Hotels, Offices, Gyms, etc.. Click here
80days.me — Book multi-city trips around Europe and explore the most popular cities by train, ferries, and flights in one multi-city trip with Eightydays.me. Easy and fast booking. Trusted payments. Carefree travel. 24/7 Customer support

Executive Coach, Startup Entrepreneur, Former Hired-Gun Turn-around CEO, Former Angel Investor, and University Faculty

Investment focus

Social Media, Advertising, SEO
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Veenome — Veenome automatically translates videos into data at a very large scale to help Ad Networks and Publishers lift their CPMs through targeting, reduce fraud through viewability detection and eliminate brand safety/objectionable content concerns.Specifically the data that we create from these videos includes:IAB Category, IAB Subcategory,Brand Safety Category, Viewability(Player size, player page position, autoplay and muting detection), Duration, Player Size, Media Size, Media Type, Media URL, Page URL and FPS
spotflux — Get the best privacy and security with FastVPN. Unblock websites on unlimited devices with our private and fast VPN service.
Social Tables — Social Tables is a web-based event planning platform for hospitality, meeting, and event professionals. They wanted to make event planning less stressful so they built software using cutting-edge technology that consolidates every part of your event planning process. Social Tables eases designing a floorplan, streamlines the arduous seatingprocess, saves you a ton of time, and makes event planning fun again. Specialties such as Attendee Information Management, Floor Plan Design, Seating Chart Creation, Guest Engagement, Social Seating, Event Planning

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.

Terry is a Special Venture Partner who focuses on identifying new investment opportunities for GC in the areas of travel and leisure, transportation, and e-commerce. He also works with the firm's existing portfolio companies on strategic partnerships and business development.Before joining GC, Terry founded Travelocity.com, a pioneeringonline travel site. He led Travelocity.com as President and CEO from its inception until May 2002. In March 2000, Terry took the Company (TSG) public. Prior to his stint at Travelocity.com, Terry was CTO of Sabre, Inc. In his 24 years at Sabre, he served at the executive level in various roles, including president of decision technologies, vice president of applications development, and vice president of product development.Terry helps travel-related companies improve their digital marketing efforts and makes frequent appearances as a keynote speaker and on major television news stations to comment on trends in e-commerce and travel. He serves on the Board of Directors of Entrust, Inc. and Overture Services, Inc.Terry is a graduate of Denison University, earning a B.A. in history.

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pinktada — Buy a trip using Pinktada marketplace and enjoy travel flawlessly.

Eric Chen joined Silver Lake in 2008 and is a Managing Director. Prior to Silver Lake, Dr. Chen was a Senior Vice President and Executive Committee member of ASML, a global leader in semiconductor technology. Dr. Chen joined ASML following its acquisition of Brion Technologies in 2007, the company he co-founded in 2002 and served as the CEO sinceinception. He was formerly a Senior Vice President at J.P. Morgan, where he coordinated the global research effort in the electronics sector and conducted equity research for a number of technology segments. Earlier in his career, Dr. Chen conducted theoretical physics research at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ("CERN") and at the Advanced Product Research Development Laboratory and MOS-13 facility for Motorola. Dr. Chen is currently on the board of Allyes Online Media Holding and Hillstone Networks. Previously, he served on the boards of Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings Limited and Varian Semiconductor. Dr. Chen was born and raised in China and is bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin). He represented China in the International Physics Olympics in Germany, earning the Silver Medal. Dr. Chen studied Physics at Peking University and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sold — Sold is the new service that sells so you don't have to. Download the iOS app and get started today
Guestmob — Guestmob is a next generation discount hotel booking platform.One of Guestmob's innovation is offering customers the ability to book clusters of hotels that are equivalent in location, quality, ratings, at prices significantly lower than the published rates of each of these hotels. These discounted prices are determined via a learningalgorithm that anticipate how much a hotel is likely to discount.Customers are guaranteed a room at one of the top hotels selected in the collection, and these rooms are secured via last minute mob auctions, where hotels sell in bulk the rooms they expect to stay empty.
Triptrotting — Triptrotting is a venture backed travel company that matches travelers and locals based on similar interests. It is an online community and its application “Wist” helps its users feel like locals anywhere they go, whether in an unknown neighborhood in their own city or far away land.This new application of Triptrotting uses a combination ofcontextual, personalized, and social data to create unique and most relevant recommendations for every user.Triptrotting is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago. It was founded in 2011.

Nathan Doctor is the Founder of Infinite Capital and Co-Founder of Qualified.io and Codewars.com. Infinite Capital is a crypto asset investment firm focused on crypto-native creators and community-led projects. The firm has invested early in many of the top 10 DeFi projects and top 50 cryptocurrencies. Nathan is also an active angel investoracross tech sectors.Qualified.io is a rapidly growing platform for assessing engineering skills, used by Apple, GE, Vimeo, and Zoom. The team also built the developer community, Codewars.com, where over 2 million engineers train their coding skills.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
Sturdy Finance — The first protocol for interest-free borrowing and high yield lending.
H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.

Spencer Rascoff is the Co-Founder and the Chairman of Board at Pacaso.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
Ohana — New York City Largest Sublet and Sublease Community. NYC short term rentals, furnished apartments, monthly rentals, and rooms for rent.
Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.

Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users.

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Turkey

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.
Snapwire — Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.
Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.

Hugh Crean is the current Chief Executive Officer of Operix. He previously worked at JPK Capital as an Operating Partner. Hugh Crean attended Boston College.

Investment focus

Travel, Mobile, Hospitality
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Plot — Plot pairs IoT sensors and cloud-based software to deliver facility, city, airport, and roadway monitoring. We are currently installed at Los Angeles International and Sacramento International Airports to monitor their TSA wait times and provide automated alerts to staff on changing environments.Once our sensors are installed, we are able toprovide airport staff with custom reporting, as well as, provide travelers with predicted wait times. We are the only solution on the market that actively tries to reach travelers before they leave for the airport.Before renaming to Plot, the company was named Park Evergreen and focused on parking solutions. Park Evergreen was accepted into Batch 19 of 500 Startups. Plot was founded in 2016 by Jenn Starr, Jason Cass, Christopher Addington, Ben Cantey, and Ben Smith and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Bedy Yang is a Managing Partner at 500 Global, a Fellow at Kauffman Fellows, and a Lecturer at VC Unlocked at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Founder of +INNOVATORS. Prior to that, he was a Management consultant at Integration Consulting. He attended FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas and the University ofPennsylvania.

Investment focus

iOS, Hospitality, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Floqq — Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Latin America.Speak a different language, get a promotion, change your profession, create a company, play a musical instrument, learn a new sport, or impress your friends with an exotic meal:- More than 10,00 high-quality online videos featuring all kinds of topics and skill-sets- Each course is taught by an real-world expert in the area - Learn at your own rhythm, with courses ranging in levels of difficulty - All the videos are always available on the website and mobile apps
Pick1 — While whoever doing polls/surveys focus on how to create the questions, Pick1 focuses on how to leverage the answers: social insights crunched to deliver actionable data.A Brand using Pick1 gets an highly customizable, flexible and integrated solution that connects seamlessly with third party technologies (SalesForce, MailChimp, Lithium),enabling the brand to process this information in an automated way: a "survey/marketing intelligence suite".The result of this is that: a) the Brand doesn't need to go through the pain of integrating a polling tool into its own properties, because Pick1 is taking care of that via API, b) any other solution would be not providing any kind of context data anyway, which Pick1 instead provides.The Brand can then leverage this further layer of data to create clusters of users, matching them with a more specific content/advertising to generate higher engagement and conversion.
Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.

Othman Laraki, MS, MBA, is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Color, a health technology company building public health infrastructures such as scaled and efficient testing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic or using genomics for population health. Previously, Othman co-founded Mixer Labs and developed its GeoAPI platform, a powerfullocation engine for developers. After the company was acquired by Twitter in 2009, he served as the social media network’s Vice President of Product and helped expand its user base from 50 to 200 million unique accounts. Before this, Othman spent several years at Google, where he played an integral role developing front-end products, including the Chrome browser.Othman is a long-time investor and advisor to leading companies such as Pinterest, AngelList, Slack and Instacart, and serves as a board member for ESI Group and Frontier Medicines. He holds degrees in computer science and management from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Sweden, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Evernow — Real science for real menopause symptoms
Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.
Detail — Record and edit engaging video faster with the simplicity of a camera app combined with the power of a video editor.

Born in San Diego, California in 1986, Shaun Roger White endured two major surgeries to correct a heart defect before he was 1 years old. Despite this challenging start Shaun proved he was far from frail, charging into sports like surfing, soccer and snowboarding at a young age. Shaun grew up in a family of five and one of the family'sfavorite pastimes included skiing. At the age of 4, Shaun proved to be fearless on his skis racing down the slopes with older brother Jesse. In an attempt to slow down Shaun when he was 6, his mom decided to put him on a snowboard and instructed him to copy everything Jesse did. Unfortunately for her, it only encouraged Shaun to go faster.While Shaun was being lauded as a snowboard prodigy, in the summertime he was simultaneously turning heads on the skateboard scene. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk befriended the 9-year-old at a skate park and mentored the up-and-comer, encouraging Shaun and helping him turn pro at the age of 17. Participating in both sports was far from usual, but for Shaun this duality helped excel his progression.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Retail
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

AvantStay — Travel with the people you love. Group travel has never been this easy - check out our homes and locations across the country.
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.
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Parker Thompson - General Partner & Founder @ Tnt Ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Restaurants
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Lish — Lish specializes in corporate catering, office catering, online catering delivery, and workplace food solutions. We serve companies in Seattle & Bellevue/Eastside, including Redmond and Kirkland.
Primeloop — Primeloop makes it easy to track your press, and receive notifications about new comments, shares and engagement on all your PR clippings.
Free Agency — We break the information and the process asymmetries holding people back from the highest levels of their career potential

Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com.Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai's game streaming technology isnow fundamental in the Sony PlayStation.In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney.Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012.Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc.TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

CARRO — Unlock a new sales channel and let Carro uncover the perfect brand partners on Shopify. Carro enables top brands on Shopify to sell each others products through cross-store selling.
INTELITY — INTELITY unites mobile apps, in-room tech and back-of-house tools into one fully-integrated guest experience platform - hospitality industry.
Wonder Technologies — Wonder is revolutionizing the digital gifting and incentives market to make issuing, sending, redeeming and tracking digital promotions fast, easy and impactful. Wonder’s innovative card-linked solution leverages the current payment and mobile ecosystems to deliver a faster ROI, lower implementation costs and increase customer engagement. WithWonder, merchants can immediately launch and measure the success of their marketing initiatives with actionable data and insights. Please visit www.gowonder.com for more information.

Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)

Investment focus

Analytics, Gaming, Business Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Riogrande — Unimos fuerzas con emprendedores de e-commerce para crecer y fortalecer marcas que la gente ama.
The Ticket Fairy — The Ticket Fairy is a marketing and analytics solution that helps events to get more, relevant attendees and secure their ticket income in advance. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales.They are used by large events to: - Increase revenue (typically by 10-25%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business admin - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Plan future events via data-driven decision making, increasing event relevancy

Brian Costello is an Executive at Nobska Point Capital.

Investment focus

Analytics, B2C, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

CRAVE — Discover CRAVE's luxurious collection of pleasure jewelry and fine bedside products. Explore waterproof, rechargeable vibrators with high-quality and body-safe materials. Discreet, compact and quiet for your pleasure and enjoyment.
ezCater — EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers. Co-founded by Briscoe Rodgers and Stefania Mallett in August 2007, ezCater is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Crayon — Crayon's suite of competitive intelligence software tools helps you see and seize opportunities so you can create a sustainable business advantage.

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.

Jason Finger is the Co-Founder and Director of Salvo Health. He previously worked at LiveAuctioneers as an Executive Chairman. Jason Finger attended New York University School of Law.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axion Ray — AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work.
Constructor — The only site search and product discovery built for ecommerce KPIs. Delivering superior experiences with AI, NLP, data and personalization.
StayTuned — At Staytuned, we specialize in Shopify apps that drive sales and growth for top brands.

In 2014, Andrew McCollum became CEO at Philo, an entertainment-focused OTT streaming service that launched nationwide in November 2017. Before assuming the role of CEO, Andrew served on Philo’s board, mentored Philo’s co-founders, and was one of the company’s first investors. Prior to Philo, Andrew was on the founding team of Facebook, and thesocial design of products has been a persistent interest. After Facebook, Andrew was an Entrepreneur in Residence at two of Philo’s investors, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flybridge Partners. He continues to be an active early-stage angel investor and advisor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Moxxly — Moxxly takes the guesswork out of modern motherhood through beautiful, connected devices. Moxxly’s first product is a smart, stylish, and high performing breast pump system that enables today’s mobile mom to pump wherever she is, with her shirt on, while receiving real-time data about her breastmilk supply. Moxxly is female-founded, SanFrancisco-based, and a proud alum of PCH International's Highway 1 hardware incubator as well as a current participant in Stanford's StartX accelerator.
Overlap — Overlap uses AI to help you extract the best moments from video content.
Diamond Foundry — America's #1 diamond producer for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Juney Ham is currently the co-founder and CEO of Beacon, a vetted community and talent marketplace of forward-thinking recruiters and people operations practitioners. Beacon connects high-intent candidates with opportunities at progressive, high-growth companies.Previously, Ham was the Chief Marketplace Officer of Hired, a career marketplace forthe world’s knowledge workers. Within this role, Ham oversaw Hired’s marketing, insights, product, and talent teams. Prior to joining Hired, Ham served as a Senior Vice President at Envestnet, a leading provider of integrated portfolio, practice management, and reporting solutions for financial advisors and institutions. He joined Envestnet through the acquisition of Upside, a financial technology startup providing a robo-advisor for independent financial advisors, where he served as President and co-founder.Prior to Upside, Ham was the Director of Online Marketing for Airbnb, responsible for driving worldwide supply and demand acquisition. His domain of accountability included search engine marketing, search engine optimization, social advertising, email marketing and online partnership operations.Prior to Airbnb, Ham was the Vice President of Global Paid Search for Expedia Worldwide, managing online marketing for Expedia points of sale globally along with product infrastructure, reporting and analytics. Before Expedia, he held engineering, product development and operational roles at Experian Interactive Media and Shopzilla (now Connexity).Ham holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, SEO, Brand Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Trusted — Trusted Health helps nurses build the lives they want. Our intelligent job-matching tool finds the best contract jobs for you.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned toschool to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education, she contributes to various educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them is Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Victoria Grace is the Founding partner of Colle Capital Partners. She previously worked at Queen's Gambit Growth Capital as a Founder and CEO. Victoria Grace attended Washington University in St. Louis.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

WEVR — Build complex worlds. Without the complexity.
VenueBook — VenueBook is a marketplace to create a seamless, transactional digital event planning experience. It allows event planners and venue managers to work together in a digitized, collaborative environment. The company also assists with streamlining every step of your event planning process, from inquiry to the actual event, by allowing alltransactions to occur within one comprehensive online space making the communication process simple and the event management process easy.VenueBook is dedicated to making the event process simple, quick, and most importantly painless. The company provides comprehensive cloud-based SaaS support for venues looking to optimize their events business and support people looking to book events by creating a one-stop-shop where they can research, communicate, book, and pay for their events, all online.VeneuBook was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.
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.

Dan Martell skydives and snowboards and believes running is among the secrets to a fruitful life. But the 29-year-old Moncton, N.B., native insists business is his sport.With a background in computer programming but no formal business training, Dan's passion for technology and business has meant he has had a hand in launching severalcompanies to date.Dan has been described as not having a "knowing-doing gap." At 25, and just 10 months into his 2004 start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., the Canadian firm was landing so many deals south of the border that instead of seeking visa sponsorships for his traveling employees, he moved quickly to set up a U.S. office. Growing by an average of 152% per year, Spheric raked in three business awards before the economy forced the company to effectively close in early 2009.An award winning Entrepreneur, Dan recently co-founded Flowtown, a company focused on providing web-based tools that allow small businesses to measure their online marketing efforts. Now living in San Francisco, Martell spends the majority of his time looking at ways to build a bridge between Silicon Valley and New Brunswick. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using metric-based marketing tactics to gain market adoption.An avid reader who dreams of remaining a lifelong student, Dan invests in startups whose opportunities and ideas he can get excited about. His philosophy is to build companies that solve the business problems he faces. He takes risks in work and life and focuses on the journey over the reward. Martell is relentless in his work ethic — if a job has to get done, he'll do it right away.Martell is a board member of Propel ICT and also volunteers his time working with youth battling addictions at Portage NB. He is passionately involved in facilitating micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries through the non-profit, Kiva.org.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sprig — Sprig is a user insights platform that enables product teams to build better product experiences by going beyond basic analytics. Discover how you can improve your product with Sprig.
LeadSift — We comb through the public web to deliver only qualified leads interacting with your competitors and with demonstrated buying intent.
Founderpath — Where Bootstrapped SaaS Founders Get Funding

Jeffrey N. Vinik is the current owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Storm, as well as a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox. He is also on the board of directors for Liverpool Football Club of the Premier League.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Homee — HOMEE is the technology-enabled claims management company connecting policyholders, insurance and warranty companies, and premier pro networks.
4D Sight — Native video monetization and compliance platform.
Evolved By Nature — Evolved by Nature, based in Boston, was started by biomedical engineer Rebecca Lacouture and chemist Gregory Altman in 2013. Their product is pure silk in liquid form, a regenerative technology made from discarded silkworm cocoons. The company has patented dozens of molecular combinations of the natural silk protein since filing its firstapplication in 2014.

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Ben Zises is an Angel Investor at SuperAngel.Fund. He attended Boston University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sugar — Meet Sugar - a mobile app that allows residents to perform all tasks associated with living in your building and empowers them to engage with others within the community.
Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
Superfiliate — Word of mouth, meet 2023

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.

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.

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland, 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).
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.