Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Legal startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Legal companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in November 2024
Investor | Legal investments |
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Wayne Chang | 6 |
Jack Newton | 5 |
Scott Banister | 4 |
Jeff Seibert | 3 |
David Rutter | 3 |
Pierre Lorinet | 3 |
Howard Morgan | 3 |
Al Giles | 3 |
Daniel Curran | 3 |
Kevin Hale | 3 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 3 |
Elad Gil | 3 |
Miguel Arias | 3 |
Alexander Edward Chesterman | 3 |
Thomas Glocer | 3 |
Darian Shirazi | 3 |
Julius Genachowski | 3 |
Tracy Terrill | 2 |
Ilya Sukhar | 2 |
Mark Cuban | 2 |
Martin Ott | 2 |
Jon Staenberg | 2 |
Sky Dayton | 2 |
Kevin Mahaffey | 2 |
Telmo Pérez Luaces | 2 |
Philipp Kreibohm | 2 |
James Meekings | 2 |
Sergio A. Escobar | 2 |
Nkechi Iregbulem | 2 |
Paul Grewal | 2 |
Mandeep singh | 2 |
Michael Pennington | 2 |
Hristo Hristov | 2 |
Andrew Mullinger | 2 |
Peeyush Ranjan | 2 |
Tom Blomfield | 2 |
Wesley Chan | 2 |
Jessica Kahawati | 2 |
Ahmed Haque | 2 |
Paul Buchheit | 2 |
Charles Delingpole | 2 |
Tom Gonser | 2 |
Mohamed Aboshanab | 2 |
Douglas Monieson | 2 |
Roope Marttila | 2 |
Nacho Pinedo | 2 |
François Derbaix | 2 |
Lee Linden | 2 |
Stuart Marks | 2 |
Roberto Magnifico | 2 |
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.
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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.
An experienced business leader, software developer and entrepreneur, Jack provides the strategic vision that has made Clio a leader in legal cloud computing.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Legal Tech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tangibly — Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form.
- Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
- Hello Divorce — Hello Divorce makes divorce easier and more affordable. Learn about our affordable online divorce plans with as little or as much help as you need, and read our free divorce resources.
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.
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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.
As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company's consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter's Publisher Platform, and Gnip.Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platformwhere he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts.Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain - today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide.Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform.Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
- LLM Shield — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
- Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VALK — Deciphers and streamlines blockchain transactions & DeFi activities, through comprehensive data, actionable insights and easy reporting
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.
Pierre Lorinet is a Non-Executive Director at Trafigura Group. He attended INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Legal, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Sleek — Hassle-free company secretary services and accounting services in Singapore. Register your company in Singapore with our 100% online platform.
- SensorFlow — Save energy and operational costs with HVAC automation and smart room maintenance.
Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior tohis move into the business of technology, Howard served as a professor at the Wharton School and the Moore School, both at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cornell University. He is also an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Howard’s research on user interface technology and the optimization of computer networks was critical to bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in the 1970s. Through this early internet participation, he helped corporate and government agencies use technology to improve the efficiency of both large and small organizations. He also has deep experience with very large databases, and served as the first Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Journal.
Throughout his career, Howard has sought out great people and nurtured them so that they could realize their dreams. His mentees have included both PhD students researching a key topic, and early stage entrepreneurs building companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He currently serves as a Director of Idealab, and he is on the board of several non-profits including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America. He has also served on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He was CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods and in 1997 he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.
Howard received a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a BS in Physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
- Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
- HATCH — HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving!
- Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.
Al Giles
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Investment focus
- Legal, Software, Legal Tech
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.
- Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — Financial Services for International Students and Immigrants
- Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
- Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
- Braintrust Data — The end-to-end platform for building world-class AI products
Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach.Miguel has founded startups before, and helped others grow in a variety of roles. He is a skilled generalist that understands technology as well as people-matters. His expertise encompasses tasks andchallenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations.As Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefónica, he is responsible for leading the new stage in Telefónica's open innovation strategy; this is committed to seeking out and developing technological solutions to complement internal R&D while creating an improved connection with international entrepreneurship ecosystems.Previously as COO at CARTO, he led the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid, NY, DC, London and Tartu offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up.He loves to teach and share experiences as entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School and MIB.Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.He writes his thoughts about entrepreneurship at http://emprenderagolpes.com.
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Investment focus
- Data Visualization, Customer Service, Legal
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
- reclamador.es — reclamador.es offers legaltech and crowd complaining services to help customers claims to companies. Currently offering the service for claims to airlines, banks, assurances, etc or the public administration. Reclamador charges a success fee to the consumers for managing their claims and getting the compensation from the companies. Services arecurrently offered in Spain.
- DADA Company — DADA Company is an editorial project, open to a world of innovation in the area of illustrated books and interactive content, where we cater for different artistic visions, and where we bring together new and different ways of looking at the world and each other.DADA Company is formed by a team of experts in the production of digital content:enthusiasts of the arts, communication, technology, and educational fields. A team comprised of grown-ups (with a big inner kid) who have a broad experience of working on products aimed for children. This is a team that focuses on developing digital interactive books and promoting this format for its innovation in new functionality and services, offering children a rich, dynamic and flexible multimedia experience.DADA Company speaks to kids and to every curious person eager to explore new creative ideas, who have a desire to dream, reflect, discover and have fun.DADA Company offers children quality entertainment designed to educate them but also have fun (“pure edutainment”). It provides parents the satisfaction of knowing and offering their children an enriching learning experience.
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
- Cradle — Design better proteins
- 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.
Darian Shirazi is the Managaing Partner of Gradient.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
- Leya — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
- rift — The sales platform built to help your focus.
Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network.Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools.Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Legal Tech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Responsiv — Legal AI to find answers yourself. Legal Research. Clauses. Policies. Templates. Save your outside counsel budget for when you need it.
- Trustible — Document, manage, and report on your AI Governance strategy to build trust and reduce risk. https://www.trustible.ai/
- Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.
Executive with extensive experience building and leading high performing teams in technology, operations, and marketing. LegalZoom is the leading online provider of legal services to small business and families. The product portfolio includes over 50 transaction and subscription products and has served over 2 million customers withexceptionally high customer satisfaction. During tenure as an executive officer, revenue grew in excess of 400%, expanded from 50 employees to over 1000, achieved significant profitability, and developed the most known brand in legal services. Served in the consolidated role of CTO/CIO with broad responsibilities supporting marketing; product development; finance; sales; operations; customer care; and fulfillment.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Advice, Consumer
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Farewill — Write a legal will in 15 minutes. Apply for probate or arrange a cremation over the phone.
Ilya Sukhar currently works as the General Partner for Matrix Partners. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a part-time partner.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
- Reflect — Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
- Hashboard — Explore fast, intuitive Business Intelligence with Hashboard. Define metrics on your data warehouse and collaborate for deeper insights. Ideal for data teams seeking seamless, code-based workflows.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
- DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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Investment focus
- Legal, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
- IDnow — Your customers deserve seamless 24/7 identity verification and KYC experiences. Compliant with regulations (e.g. AML, eIDAS). Available in 195 countries.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two fundstotaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups.Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com.Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies.Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Proxifile — Our mission is to use technology and design to level the playing field for small businesses and the common person in a world where typically on the wealthiest people and large corporations can afford expensive counsel.
- ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
- Legalpad — Need a work visa? Contact Legalpad by Deel, one of the best visa service companies providing premium visa services. Sign up for a consultation today!
Sky Dayton is the Co-Founder of CloudKitchens. He previously worked at SummerBio as a Co-Founder.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.
- Dune Security — AI fighting AI.CISOs face an impossible risk landscape today. 80% of cybersecurity breaches start because of employee error. The problem is exacerbating with generative AI, as a single hacker can specifically target thousands of employees in the same amount of time that they used to specifically target tens of employees with social engineering.CISOs lack tools to deal with employee risk and are held accountable when a breach inevitably happens.By leveraging AI at each step, Dune Security empowers organizations to quantify individual risk through analyzing user behavior, context, learning patterns, and third party data. This allows the automation of tailored cybersecurity measures to each individual, transforming vulnerabilities into strengths. Dune is the central engine of all employee risk data, which is a solution that is not just timely for organizations but necessary in navigating the present cybersecurity landscape. This gives the CISO the capability to understand who are the high risk employees, to what extent, and why - as well as automatically remediate and restrict access to keep their organization safe.Today, Dune Security uniquely replaces legacy and ineffective security awareness training by pinpointing the crucial 8% of employees responsible for 80% of the risk, ensuring all employees receive personalized, machine learning-driven training tailored to their risk profile. CISOs also have easy access to quantifiable data via robust reporting and API-out capability, enabling them to both report to compliance auditors, regulators, and insurance underwriters, as well as restrict access to high-risk employees through other security systems.
- Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
- Monomer Bio — Monomer Bio provides solutions for laboratory automation. We specialize in automating biology research with a focus on cell culture. Automate your cell culture workflows by leveraging the Monomer automation software platform in conjunction with readily-available hardware and instrumentation.
- Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.
Telmo Pérez Luaces has all-embracing experience within the Internet and telecommunications sector. Starting at Netjuice Networks in 1999, then joining the Orange-France Telecom Group (2000-2015) and occupying numerous positions: Strategy Director. CEO Office (Wanadoo), Online Director and Portales (Orange Spain) and VP Strategy Home &Convergence (Orange Group). During this period within Orange Group, as VP Digital Corporate Development he adapted the online strategy and launched the main open innovation initiatives on a global basis, by being responsible for the design and implementation of the Orange Fab acceleration program globally, along with the corporate venture capital activity (Orange Digital Ventures). He has participated in the acquisition of a variety of Internet and telecommunications companies, and more recently in investments in startups related to IoT (Smart home, connected car, etc.) and Data areas. He has also been member of the Board of Directors of Orange Digital Services and Cityvox.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Legal, FinTech
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
- Medity — Medity is a hub for health professionals, news, job opportunities, training, networking, and more. Medity's many features provide healthcare providers with a value proposition. A health professional has access to all the newest news in the area, as well as resources and utilities for their work, in addition to being able to communicate withother peers.
- Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.
Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Legal
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany
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As co‑founder and UK Managing Director James leads the UK business and is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day‑to‑day operation of Funding Circle in the UK. James co‑founded Funding Circle in the UK in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for small businesses to access funding and wanting to build something better.Prior to Funding Circle James was at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he advised companies on strategy and growth across the retail, media and services sectors.James has a first class Economics and Management degree from Oxford University.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
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- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Ophelos — Flexible repayments, with an empathetic approach. Discover how we can help you get debt-free on your terms and timescales.
- Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.
Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies across the United States and Canada ranging from B2B Cloud & SaaS startups (leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics and Security) to B2C Consumer startups (leveraging Mobile Apps, IoT/Wearables and eCommerce). Sergio has +15 years of experience as a multiple timestech entrepreneur with startups in Aerospace, eCommerce, Manufacturing, AgTech and Financial Technologies. Over the last 8 years, he has been deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene (incubators and accelerators) through his involvement in Founder Institute, Techstars Startup Programs, McGill X-1, Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Flat6Labs Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean', Krypto Labs in the Middle East and Creative Destruction Lab in Artificial Intelligence. He has been pioneering the Canadian investment scene by launching one of Canada's very first super angel funds: BCFventures.vc
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- Software, SaaS, Real Estate
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- FightCamp — FightCamp delivers the most exhilarating and effective form of home fitness through interactive boxing workouts, streamed to your device on demand.
- JITbase — JITbase helps to improve workforce efficiency and increase production capacity by collecting data from machines that no one else can access.
- Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
Early Stage Investor
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States
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- Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
- Aeon — Aeon develops advanced capabilities at scale for maximum deterrence.
- Loop - Delivery Intelligence Platform — Fully automated delivery intelligence platform. Loop is your co-pilot to manage your food brand. Empower your team to minimize errors, stay ahead of food trends and boost revenue through data driven smart workflows.
Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase.
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- Apps, Email, Legal
- Series A
- United States
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- HerculesAI — An enterprise generative AI company offering secure, high-precision AI applications to automate critical business processes.
Mandeep singh
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- Legal, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- India
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- Plunes — PLUNES is a utility network where anyone can have your own Lawyer and Doctor anywhere anytime. Students can also join and have some real experience of solving client's conerns with experienced professionals. You can start debate with anyone and can create Video CVs and Video Presentations. In the age of internet you are bombarded withinformation you just start typing and options are plenty, but most of it is paid ads or links which are optimized by professionals to result on top on search engines while searching something. Every word that you type is sold to advertisers. So you have very little options to determine the credibility of the information of Lawyers or doctors that you get, as because we generally choose first few links on the search engines it results in increasing costs of the consultations that we wanted because of the monopoly of few top players who can afford to place ads on top of search engines. You will agree with us when we tell you that an online legal or medical consultation cost thousands of rupees. And if by chance there is any document or reports that you need to verify it again will cost you thousands. And again there are reliability issues. You cannot determine the quality of advice you received. Apart from that you have to pay in advance and then wait for the appointment to be scheduled. Where in PLUNES offer you an opportunity to have your own lawyer and doctor anywhere anytime for free. You can send notices, verify documents or medical reports by just sitting over your sofa. You can determine the location, experience and area of expertise of a Lawyer or Doctor before consulting them you can even check the previous consultations he/she has offered. Options are plenty to determine the credibility or availability of any professional. We ensure that you can best validate the solution that is offered to you. And so to achieve that we have created PLUNES in a manner that as soon as you receive the solution from one professional other lawyers or doctors of same expertise can also offer the solution on your concern. They can subject the solution to challenge if it is not correct. And then there is an option of PROFESSIONALS ON DEMAND, you can "hire lawyer or doctor instantly" no more pending scheduled appointments. You can have telephonic consultations, email consultations, video consultations or chat with professionals all for up to 24 hours. Send notices, review reports all by just sitting over your sofa, still if situation demands you can meet the professionals in person. Now the question is what is a utility network? Utility network is where anyone can Connect, Earn and Learn, and is offered with compelling services which helps you increase your various skills, few of the features are following.
One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.
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- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
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- Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
- FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Hristo Hristov - Chief Executive Officer @ DarikNews.bg
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- E-Commerce, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Bulgaria, Ireland, Romania
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- ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
- Releva — Releva provides the global rails for real-time revenue operations and recommits to empathy in automated brand communication. Releva is the only AI-first growth platform that optimizes customer experiences by providing a deeper understanding of the needs of each customer.Releva is a one-stop solution for eCommerce sales and marketing. Itcombines tools to measure, attribute, experiment, analyze, predict and automate your growth in real-time on a single dashboard. Releva combines user needs with your sales strategy to optimize for expected, timely, and engaging communication.
- Biodit Global Technology JSC — Biodit Global Technology is a tech company that specializes in development of state-of-the-art biometric security systems.BIODIT means innovation, comfort, design but above all, it means the highest level of SECURITY. Endless areas of application - healthcare industry, business and office centers, commercial and residential buildings,hospitality, banking and automotive industries.The areas of application of our unique biometric technology for access control, time attendance monitoring and management of operations, just to name a few, are endless - healthcare industry, business and office centres, commercial and residential buildings, hospitality industry, university centres, banking industry, automotive industry, security companies etc.
Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- tripAbrood — Your Family Adventure Awaits!
- Tooth Fairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.
Peeyush Ranjan is the GM and VP of Google Pay, Fintech, and Next Billion Users at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, India, Tanzania
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- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
- Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
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- Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.
Wesley Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $450M early stage fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. He is an investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva where he is a member of the board of directors, led the Series A and C rounds, and is worth north of $40B. He founded GoogleAnalytics and Google Voice and holds 17 US patents for his work in creating Google AdWords. Among Wesley's 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote the first or very early check into fintech API decacorn Plaid, logistics powerhouse Flexport, SMB payroll leader Gusto, enterprise software unicorn Lucid, and stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD)-- and led investments in Canva, AngelList, Carta, Guild Education, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Zipline, Astranis, TrialSpark, and Ring (exit to AMZN). Business Insider named Wesley to their Top 100 Seed Investors list for two consecutive years in 2022 & 2021.He was formerly a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures and one of the first General Partners at GV (Google Ventures). He led investments and/or held board seats in Xilis, AngelList, Opsera, Pendulum Therapeutics, ProteinQure, Okera, Ascend.io, Overture Life, TopFunnel, Spring Discovery, iPierian (exit to BMS), Transphorm (NASDAQ: TGAN) and Dialpad. Wesley also founded GV’s seed investing program and wrote first checks into RobinHood, Plaid, Gusto, RobinHood, Vungle ($750M exit to Blackstone), Lucid, Optimizely, DataPad (exit to Cloudera), Freshplum (exit to TWTR), Namo Media (exit to TWTR), and Parse (exit to FB).Wesley is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award – the company’s most prestigious recognition – for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. He also worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and at Microsoft Research as a research fellow. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and completed his Masters degree at the MIT Media Lab.Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.” As a fan of the arts, Wesley is also a board member of the Met Opera in New York City.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Australia
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- Carta — Carta (formerly eShares) is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees.
- ONEHOPE — Every bottle of ONEHOPE wine supports a meaningful cause. With $8 million donated to date, doing good has never tasted so great. Shop now!
- Puzzle Financial — Make accounting your startup's competitive advantage.
Jessica Kahawati
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Investment focus
- Legal, Legal Tech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- e-gree — Setting off into the complex world of the legal system can feel daunting. An ocean of slow-moving and expensive lawyers. Litigation that is impossible to navigate or understand on your own. Rather than drifting helplessly through this archaic system – e-gree can help. It is your speedboat. And it puts you in control.e-gree allows you to chartyour own course and make your own rules. Create your own personalized and uncomplicated written agreements that alleviate misunderstandings and the need for litigation.That’s why we built e-gree – to allow real people the world over to protect their interests, save and manage their e-greements, and even get justice if those e-greements are broken.e-gree lives on your most personal device – your smartphone. That means we are always with you, ready to quickly and easily jump in and protect your interests. By spending time with e-gree, you can learn about various e-greements, and how to use them to protect yourself. And you’ll never lose a record of an e-greement you’ve made – we will store them safely for you.Simple. Secure. Direct. And inexpensive.From a serious contract, to simply wanting to put a handshake in writing, e-gree has multiple written agreements to suit your needs. Here are just a few of the e-greements you can use to protect your interests:Have an impromptu business meeting and want to pitch a confidential business idea? An effective Non-Disclosure Agreement by e-gree can be produced, presented and signed in just moments to protect your idea and give you the confidence to securely share it. Our everyday lives involve meeting people, networking, and forging relationships. Your contact list is an invaluable tool and the Referral e-greement ensures you will be credited for bringing people together.Throwing a private party and want to keep it that way? e-gree’s Non-Disclosure Agreement will ensure you and your guests can relax in the knowledge that no images or recordings will be shared.
Ahmed Haque is the Senior Vice President of Innovation at 2U Inc, a leading education technology company that powers graduate degree and skill-based certificate programs.Before his role at 2U, Ahmed was the Chief Academic Officer at Trilogy Education, where he oversaw product strategy, curriculum development, instructional management, and programanalytics. Under Ahmed's leadership, Trilogy developed a fleet of programs in software development, data analytics, ux/ui, cybersecurity, and financial technology taught to over 40,000 students at 50+ universities. Since creation, these programs have generated over $200M in total revenue and led to tens of thousands of adults transitioning into highly-paid careers in the tech sector. As a member of the starting executive team, Ahmed helped scale Trilogy from its initial 20 person staff to a 2,500+ workforce and through its acquisition by 2U, Inc. for $750M in 2019. He is also an investor and advisor focused on mission-driven companies in the education, health, wellness, and social impact sectors.
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- EdTech, Training, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- AltaClaro — Immersive, experiential online practice skills training by practicing attorneys, using mock transactions and live feedback.
- Vantage Point — Vantage Point's immersive training and HCM platform leverages Virtual Reality (VR) and focuses on Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training.Vantage Point was founded under the belief that while technology can cause apathy, immersive technology can drive empathy and fundamentally make the world more human. Webelieve that the heart of all we do is human. The way we make the world more human is by using technology to teach and inspire people to become the very best versions of themselves they always hoped to be. Today Vantage Point is actively developing the platform and the products to train people on EQ-driven and Soft Skills that matter, with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to unlock their full potential.Vantage Point is used by the top Fortune 500s, Global Law Firms, Startups, and more.Vantage Point is a female led company with executive leadership including the former Chief Software Architect of SAP SuccessFactors.We are "The Next Frontier in Immersive Enterprise Training".
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
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- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Tom is a General Partner and an entrepreneurial executive with a strong track record in technology leadership and innovation with more than 15 years’ experience participating on boards of directors of fast-growing companies.Prior to joining SPV in 2017, Tom was founder and chief strategy officer of DocuSign, The Global Standard for eSignature. Hebegan his career at Apple Computer, Wildfire Communications, McCaw Cellular, and AT&T Wireless, then launched and ran several companies focused on SaaS, Financial Services, and GPS Technology. Experienced in corporate development, raising venture capital, strategic business planning, M&A, international business expansion, and business model development.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Superblocks — Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs. Drag and drop UI components. Extend with Python or Javascript. Deploy in 1-click. Secure and Monitor using your favorite tools
- Symmetry Systems — Symmetry Systems delivers Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) purpose-built to provide full visibility and unified access control over your most valuable data assets, no matter where or how they are stored. Symmetry DataGuard maintains authority over data even when all else fails, whether that be exploited insider credentials, maliciousapplications, or security fatigue from the rapid onset of remote work.
Building Next-Generation Ecosystem
Entrepreneur, Globalist, Lawyer.
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Legal, Travel
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VISXA — VISXA is a platform for legal support in business and individual immigration. VISXA takes on the complexities of legalizing emigration so that you can think about the positive changes ahead. Whether you are immigrating for training, professional development, family rebuilding, business expansion, VISXA can help you get what you want with aguarantee.3 easy steps to get you closer to your goal:- fill out the form on the website; - get a free consultation. We understand your situation better, you get a specialist for your case; - VISXA is your single point of contact, tracking progress on your case to receive a positive decision
- NEWTEAM — NEWTEAM® International Law Firm, Building Bridges between the West and East
- Passport Bros — Passport Bros Global Lifestyle Global Mindset Global Law #PassportBros #Passbros
Douglas has board responsibilities for two of HPA’s portfolio companies: UICO, a touch-screen manufacturing company, and Group Gift, a crowd-sourced B2B group gifting site. He also led the successful exit of Gradebeam, which was purchased by Textura in 2011. Gradebeam.com was a SAAS business that connects general contractors and subcontractors inthe construction industry. Douglas has been involved in the financial trading community for more than twenty years. He began his career in 1989 as a spot foreign exchange dealer at Manufacturers Hanover. He became a Commodity Trading Advisor in 1991 and worked for Commodities Corporation, where he successfully traded from both their Princeton and Chicago offices. Since 1994, he has been an active member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). He is a founding member of the NASDAQ100 futures pit, and served as the Vice Chairman of the Pit Committee from the pit’s inception until 2001. He worked closely with the CME Board of Directors and staff on pit design, pit space allocation and helped with the successful launch of the e-mini NASDAQ contract in 2001. Douglas is a valued member of the CME Pit Supervision Committee (1999-Present) and has served on the CME Group’s Political Action Committee since 2007. Douglas has made regular appearances as a financial commentator on Bloomberg TV and has made guest appearances on CNBC, CNNFN, and Canada’s Report on Business TV. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Modern Asset Group, an alternative investment management firm with an expertise in managed futures.Douglas graduated from the University of Michigan in 1987 with a BA in Economics and received his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago in 1989. He and his wife Leslie live in Lincoln Park with their two children, Aaron and Sarie.
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Investment focus
- Legal, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- UICO — Rugged, durable and 100% waterproof PCAP technology designed here in the United States by the experts at UICO.
- Ascent RegTech — Regulatory compliance management solutions for financial services automate expensive, manual work while mitigating compliance risk.
Roope Marttila is the Co-Founder and CEO at Herculex.ai.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Service Industry, Information Technology
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Herculex.ai — We develop customer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to connect lawyers and people in need of legal services. We are a team of online behavior experts, AI specialists, and forward-looking lawyers. Learn how to get new leads for yourself.
Nacho Di Pinedo is Co-Founder & CEO at ISDI.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Consumer, Legal Tech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- reclamador.es — reclamador.es offers legaltech and crowd complaining services to help customers claims to companies. Currently offering the service for claims to airlines, banks, assurances, etc or the public administration. Reclamador charges a success fee to the consumers for managing their claims and getting the compensation from the companies. Services arecurrently offered in Spain.
Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
- WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
- Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.
With many years of experience in business finance and international financial markets, he is a collaborator with LUISS EnLabs, director at LVenture Group and a partner with InnovActionLab. Since 2008, he has occupied himself with startups, has acted as co-founder, business angel, advisor and mentor, focusing on turnover, internationalization andcrowdsourcing. He has worked in New York, Rome and London, filling important positions at Lehman Brothers, Banco di Roma, UBS, Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was co-founder and director of companies and associations, including Business Value, Agorà SGR, Atlas Capital (hedge funds) and Business Club Italia. He has led trainings at Banco di Roma, UBS and Barclays Capital on tools and capital markets and was co-editor of publications about markets, published by Euromoney Publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Bari.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Legal, Mobile
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.
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