Top 50 Local Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor	Local United States investments
Dave Morin	4
Steven Cox	4
Jason Calacanis	4
Kevin Hartz	3
Clark Landry	3
Ronald Conway	3
Joshua Schachter	3
Auren Hoffman	3
Georges Harik	3
George Crowley	3
Mark Goines	3
Andrew Mitchell	3
Max Levchin	3
Richard McIntyre	2
Stacy Brown-Philpot	2
John Borthwick	2
Arjun Dev Arora	2
Payam Zamani	2
Christopher Shonk	2
Jean Hammond	2
Chris Adamo	2
Matthew Ocko	2
Magid Abraham	2
Max Mullen	2
Katy Perry	2
Jawed Karim	2
Andre Iguodala	2
Ryan Allis	2
Gil Elbaz	2
John Brown	2
Timothy Ferriss	2
Tony DiBenedetto	2
Dan Martell	2
Orlando Bloom	2
Cyan Banister	2
Josh Berman	2
Naval Ravikant	2
Dan Toscano	2
James Murdoch	2
Darrin Ginsberg	2
Alexis Ohanian	2
David Tisch	2
Ed Roberts	2
Larry Marcus	2
Keith Rabois	2
David O. Sacks	2
Brandon Leonardo	2
Leonard Lodish	2
Paul Singh	1
Peter Corbett	1

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons.

Investment focus

Local, Music, Video
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

TakeLessons — TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, andcommunication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.

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.

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.

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.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.

George Crowley

Investment focus

News, Local, Communities
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Harry's — Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their groomingessentials need online.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
LiquidTalent — LiquidTalent is a web and mobile local talent marketplace for hiring vetted developers and designers through social connection. Our on-demand platform facilitates direct connection between talent and hirers via text messages and call requests. Our community events bring people together. We are creating the future of work platform for the nextgeneration economy.
RETAILIGENCE — Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers.

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

Education: Allegheny College, BS Chemistry 1988, Carnegie Mellon University MBA 1992, University of Pittsburgh JD 1992. Work: Kass Shuler 1992 - 1994, Trenam Kemker 1994 - 2006, McIntyre Thanasides 2006 to present. Richard McIntyre enjoys providing business and legal consulting services to technology companies. Mr. McIntyre has invested 10+local technology companies with investments ranging from $10,000 to $300,000. With some local friends and clients he started First Round Tampa Bay, which has pooled investments to fund two local technology startup companies.

Investment focus

VoIP, Local, Events
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Phonism by Inlayer — Phonism offers device management & provisioning solutions that enables VoIP organizations (Service providers, Call centers...) to set up and manage all of their VoIP devices in a single pane of glass. Phonism's Portals & APIs provide our customers with the ability to offer true zero-touch deployments and eliminate support costs ofon-site visits.
MyArea Network — MyArea Network is a fast growing Media Tech Company that redefines Local and Social marketing.We provide a Digital First, Mobile First proprietary marketing platform for local businesses to connect directly with their customers and local communities. We own over 150 websites based on area code, 813area.com for Tampa, 407area.com Orlando, etc. topromote all things Local across North America.Our mission is to Help Every Local Business Prosper in a fragmented digital world.Our vision is to become the go to source for all things LOCAL.We have a winning solution to save local businesses the two most valuable assets, time and money in digital marketing. Traditional media is ineffective and diminishing in viewership. Social Media like Facebook, Yelp and Google are disconnected from local communities causing it difficult for local businesses as it is time consuming, confusing and constantly changing. Local Digital agencies are expensive and not scalable.We are one of the few, if not only, media tech company that has a national footprint for all LOCAL markets. We combine new media with the cutting edge technology - real-time analytics, AI & personalized experience for businesses to successfully grow both offline and online.

Stacy Brown-Philpot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cherryrock Capital. She previously worked at TaskRabbit as a CEO. Stacy Brown-Philpot attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.
Braintrust — Braintrust is the new model for how work gets done. We connect organizations with top technical talent to complete strategic projects and drive innovation.

John Borthwick is the CEO and Founder of Betaworks. He leads the company building and investment process since 2008. Previously, John was SVP of Alliances and Technology Strategy for Time Warner Inc.; CEO of Fotolog, one of the first social photo sharing sites; and head of AOL’s product development studio after they acquired his first company, WPStudio, one of Silicon Alley’s first content studios.John Borthwick studied at Wesleyan University and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dots — Dots is a meditative puzzle game.
Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

Arjun Dev Arora is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Advisor at Format One.

Investment focus

Social Media, SEO, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Portal — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
Cimphony — Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Upshift — The convenience of owning a car without all the headaches.

Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
Glass | Government Ecosystems — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai

Christopher Shonk is the Managing Director of ATX Venture Partners. Christopher Shonk holds 10 board and advisor roles including Investor & Advisor at RoverPass, Investor & Director at Slingshot Aerospace, and Advisor at SourceDay. He attended ACTON MBA and Campbell University.

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

b.well Connected Health — b.well Connected Health delivers a scalable, FHIR-based platform that unifies all healthcare data, solutions, and services, enabling personalized care and effective population health management.
Localeur — Founded in Austin, Texas, in early 2013, Localeur is a global community of locals spanning 180+ cities and destinations around the world who share recommendations on their favorite places to eat, drink, and play to help travelers experience locally in their cities. Unlike review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, Localeur has an exclusive communityof local insiders who share authentic recommendations on places in the cities they live in, not the ones they visit. The company has partnered with brands like JetBlue Airways, Lyft, Nike, and Match.com to create campaigns that use their vision to help their ideas come to life.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Kiss & Tell — Kiss & Tell is a private social network with integrated group booking that gets everyone there without the headache. Rethink weddings, celebrations and retreats for the better! When you're ready to gather, plan & go again, reschedule with us!

Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch.Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jeanserves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zulama — Zulama Modern Learning is the first platform to combine game design technologies and project-based strategies. Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center helped us develop a way to bring game design, programming, art, and screenwriting to middle and high schoolers.Zulama provides extensive mentor-based professionaldevelopment so teachers learn to become “Creative Directors” and facilitate our rigorous new curriculum in their own classrooms. We help teachers see how both building and playing games satisfies state and national curriculum standards, develops 21st Century Skills, and promotes higher-order Blooms.We combine STEM with the Arts (STEAM) to give students not only the skills but also the creativity they need to thrive in the global digital workplace. Zulama is leading a movement away from the current industrial-era educational model towards interest-driven deeper learning that prepares students for success in the 21st Century.The payoff we are seeing with current schools includes improvement in statewide school rankings, fewer dropouts and behavioral problems, and improved student math and reading proficiency levels.With Zulama, students are building games. They are building enthusiasm. They are building skills that lead to high-tech careers … and that’s how, together, the Zulama community is building tomorrow’s workforce.
Skookii — Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else.
Choosito — Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less

Chris Adamo is the Chief Business Officer of WhereBy.Us Chris has an MBA and BS from Binghamton University.

Investment focus

Software, Video, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Inside.com — Helping humans curate the next best stories using AI. No click-bait, no fluff, just good stories inside.
Acorns — Acorns helps you save & invest. Invest spare change, bank smarter, earn bonus investments, and more! Get started.
Epic Games — Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.

Matthew Ocko has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matthew is a co-founder & co-managing partner ofData Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Magid Abraham is the Co-Founder of comScore, Inc., and currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Magid served as Chief Executive Officer from the company’s founding in 1999 until March 2014. Prior to co-founding comScore, Magid was Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Paragren Technologies, Inc., which specializedin delivering large scale Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) systems for strategic and target marketing. Paragren is now part of Siebel Systems. Before founding Paragren, Magid was President and Chief Operating Officer at Information Resources, Inc., a major international research company, which he led through a period of rapid growth in revenues, market share and profit. Throughout his IRI career, Magid has been a prolific innovator who designed a number of pioneering marketing applications that became standards of CPG marketing practice. Magid is a widely recognized expert on market research, consumer modeling and innovative information solutions. Magid has authored many articles in a variety of academic and industry journals. Magid's most recent honor, received in January 2011, was the Buck Weaver Award for Marketing, established by MIT’s Sloan School of Management for individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science. In 2009 he received the AMA’s Parlin Award, a preeminent national honor recognizing one individual annually who has demonstrated “outstanding leadership and sustained impact on advancing the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period of time.” Magid has received the Paul Green award by the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the "best article that shows or demonstrates the most potential to contribute to the practice of marketing research and research in marketing," and the AMA’s William F. O’Dell Award for an article “that has made the most significant long-term contribution to the marketing discipline.” Magid was also named Ernst & Young® Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. Magid was also inducted in the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, designated along with comScore as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and was named a “Great Mind” by the Advertising Research Foundation. Magid has given numerous speeches on Internet industry trends and marketing subjects in various industry conferences and forums. Magid received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and an MBA from MIT. Magid also holds an Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique, France's premier science and engineering school.

Investment focus

Software, Local, Big Data
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Milo — Buy & sell electronics, cars, clothes, collectibles & more on eBay, the world's online marketplace. Top brands, low prices & free shipping on many items.
Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
Zoomdata — Zoomdata, developers of big data exploration, visualization, and analytics platform, lets business users see and interact with data in all-new ways. Designed mobile and touch first, its patented micro-query architecture delivers results on billions of records in seconds and gives users a single plane of access for bridging old data and new data.The Zoomdata interface allows users to easily Connect, Visualize, and Interact with data on browsers and mobile devices. Once deployed, users are able to create dashboards, fuse disparate data sources from across the enterprise into single user experience and create a corporate data quilt that lets business users collaborate on the data that drives their business.

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Tempest DX — Tempest delivers a ready-to-use self-serve platform, empowering developers to automate building, deploying and managing their apps with built-in security and compliance. Tempest combines everything teams need from a service catalog and software ownership to powerful end-to-end automations, enabling organizations to accelerate time to market, boostproductivity, and maximize engineering ROI.
Tempest — Tempest is a ready-to-use self-serve platform that enables developers to automate app development, deployment, and management while ensuring security and compliance.

Katy Perry was born October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. After having three record deals fall apart, she signed with Capitol in 2007. Later that year, she released her first single, "Ur So Gay." Still, her career did not fully take off until the release of her next single, "I Kissed a Girl". Her album Teenage Dreamswas released in August 2010.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Local
Series A, Series E, Series D
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
Audius — Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.
Apeel Sciences — Apeel Sciences' plant-derived solution for fresh food providers doubles the lifespan of harvested fruits and vegetables even without refrigeration. It develops low-cost, natural technologies to help to eliminate food spoilage, reduce water and energy use, and preserve natural ecosystems.Apeel's private investors and philanthropicpartners include Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, S2G Ventures, Powerplant Ventures, DBL Partners, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.Apeel Sciences was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

Jawed Karim is a Co-Founder of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was a software architect at PayPal. Jawed holds degrees in computer science from UIUC and from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
Double — Double Finance is the best solution for investors who care about the best indexing, lowest fees, and best yields. Visit now to learn more.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.

Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Social Media, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crux — Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl
Bento — We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that rotate daily. Next customers choose four side dishes. We have six to eight side options, thatalso rotate daily.The menu focuses on Asian-inspired food with dishes like Korean short ribs, Japanese eggplant, dragon roll, seaweed salad, okonomiyaki, and gyoza.After placing an order, customers track their server’s location and progress. They’ll meet our server curbside, grab their Bento, and it’s time to eat!Our patent pending packaging enables this system allowing for delivery in an average of 15 minutes.Since launch we have seen double-digit W/W growth.
Butter.ai — The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier.

Co-Executive Chairman at Foursquare. Founding Partner/Co-founder at TenOneTen Ventures.

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Quartzy — Quartzy is the world's most popular lab productivity software for life science companies. Manage inventory, track lab supply orders, and buy everything, all in one place.
OneSignal — OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to provide a seamless messaging experience to create meaningful customer connections. OneSignal's multi-channel platform enables businesses to deliver over 8 billion messages daily. OneSignal is designed to scale with businesses and deliver messages more quickly.The platform leverages machine learning to send communications at the optimal time by creating personalized messages and send them to the right audiences by comparing performance, enabling clients to deliver engaging mobile and web push messages across all platforms.
Smashing — The smartest way to read articles

John Brown is the Board Director of Amazon.com .He is also an Independent Co - Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for the Edge. A visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC). Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a positionhe held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as the management of radical innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, and nano technologies. He was a Co - Founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include digital youth culture, digital media and institutional innovation. John, or as he is often called JSB. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education.Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public Boards,Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and private Boards of Directors. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002. With John Hagel he Co - Authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge which is about new forms of collaborative innovation and The Power of Pull: how small moves, smartly made can set big things in motion, published April 2010. His current book, The New Culture of Learning Co - Authored with Professor Doug Thomas at USC, was released January 2011.JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in Mathematics & Physics, PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in Computer & Communication Sciences. He has received six Honorary Degrees including: May 2000, Brown University, Doctor of Science Degree, July 2001, the London Business School, Honorary Doctor of Science in Economics,May 2004, Claremont Graduate University, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,May 2005, University of Michigan, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, May 2009, North Carolina State University, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, May 2011, Illinois Institute of Technology, Honorary Doctor of Design.

Investment focus

News, Local, Computer
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.

Timothy Ferriss is a start-up angel investor Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime and others, blogger and entrepreneur. Tim's best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2ndstraight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007. Tim is a Guest Lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. Other education-related interests includes social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, Tim used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). Tim is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, Evernote, StumbleUpon, Trippy, about.me, TaskRabbit and Uber. Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tim has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon. Tim received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shift — Shift is on a mission to help current and former members of the US Military discover and prepare for successful new career paths.
The Hustle — Sign up for the free, 5-minute newsletter keeping 2.5M+ innovators in the loop with stories on business, tech, and the internet.
Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!

Tony DiBenedetto

Investment focus

IaaS, Local, Events
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BlockSpaces — Accelerating Blockchain Adoption for Enterprise
MyArea Network — MyArea Network is a fast growing Media Tech Company that redefines Local and Social marketing.We provide a Digital First, Mobile First proprietary marketing platform for local businesses to connect directly with their customers and local communities. We own over 150 websites based on area code, 813area.com for Tampa, 407area.com Orlando, etc. topromote all things Local across North America.Our mission is to Help Every Local Business Prosper in a fragmented digital world.Our vision is to become the go to source for all things LOCAL.We have a winning solution to save local businesses the two most valuable assets, time and money in digital marketing. Traditional media is ineffective and diminishing in viewership. Social Media like Facebook, Yelp and Google are disconnected from local communities causing it difficult for local businesses as it is time consuming, confusing and constantly changing. Local Digital agencies are expensive and not scalable.We are one of the few, if not only, media tech company that has a national footprint for all LOCAL markets. We combine new media with the cutting edge technology - real-time analytics, AI & personalized experience for businesses to successfully grow both offline and online.

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

Orlando Bloom is an English actor known for his breakthrough character as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean. He was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England.

Investment focus

Local, Banking, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free

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.
Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Currently Josh is the Co-Founder and CEO of BeachMint, a next generation eCommerce company based in Santa Monica, CA. The company is focused on social and curated commerce and is backed by New Enterprise Associates and Anthem Ventures.Most recently Josh was the President of Slingshot Labs, a division of dedicated to building new Internet companies. Slingshot Labs employs a portfolio approach to the development and launch of businesses, and plans to nurture four to five ventures per year.Josh Berman is a co-founder and was the chief operating officer of Berman formerly co-founded and managed successful Internet companies, ResponseBase Marketing, and Xdrive Technologies. Prior to his start up life, Berman was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Berman received his MBA from the University of Southern California, his BA from UC- Santa Barbara, and is a CPA in the State of California.

Investment focus

Local, Music, Video
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

TakeLessons — TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, andcommunication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

Dan Toscano is the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

B2B, Local, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pear (formerly Apparel Media Group) — Design premium custom shirts to sell online or place a direct order. Upload your artwork or design in our free online tool & choose products to print on. Get started today!
DinnerCal — DinnerCall is a mobile app that enables users to search, order, and pickup family-style dinner from grocery stores. It was launched by Gerry Hays, Ashton Chaffee, and Akram Mnif in September 2015 and it operates from San Francisco, California.

James Murdoch is a Founder and CEO at Lupa Systems. He attended Harvard University from 1992 to 1995.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Social Media, Video
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Brut — Brut is an international video content publisher, focused on news and feature-based, short-form content. They cover topics from politics to technology and social justice, culture and more. Brut videos are viewed more than 400 million times a month and touch more than 150 million worldwide.Brut. is a global media company that creates short-formvideo content for audiences around the world. With offices on two continents, Brut. publishes content daily in three languages and across eight social platforms generating over 500MM views a month.
THE VOID — The most immersive VR destination ... ever.
Breezeworks — Breezeworks Scheduling Software for Service Businesses helps professionals get to appointments efficiently on time. Manages team and syncs across all devices.

Darrin Ginsberg is the CEO at Super G Capital.

Investment focus

Local, Software, Messaging
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Minbox — All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.
SupportLocal — SupportLocal is changing the way people discover local businesses and places by improving upon the oldest and greatest factor in making life’s daily decisions – word of mouth. SupportLocal enables people to give and get local business recommendations from the people they know and trust. Based in Denver, Colorado within the unique Galvanizecampus, SupportLocal was started by industry veterans, including CEO, Justin Sanger, who is recognized as a leading authority in local search. The teams’ last company, LocalLaunch was an award winning local search platform for small businesses was acquired by Denver based Dex One in 2006. At SupportLocal we are helping people build support for everyday live. In doing so, we will remain dedicated to the principles of trust, privacy, sharing, and community.

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 is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

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.

He is Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and a prolific founder, investor and board member at numerous start-up companies in high technology. Ed’s portfolio of current and recent companies includes Advanced Magnetics, Inverness Medical, Meditech, Pegasystems, Sohu.com, andVisible Measures. He is the author of several books on technology and entrepreneurship, and holds four degrees from MIT, including a PhD in Economics.

Investment focus

Advertising, Search Engine, Local
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tettra — Tettra is an AI-powered knowledge base and knowledge management software. Curate company information and get instant answers to your team's repetitive questions.
panOpen — PanOpen is an operator of an open education platform used to help faculty and students to succeed with open educational resources. Its platform provides peer-reviewed resources at a fraction of the cost of commercial textbooks that enable faculty and schools to help lower the cost of educational materials and realize the potential of openeducational resources.
CoverWallet — How much will my business insurance cost? What insurance coverage does my small business need? Visit CoverWallet and get a free quote in just a minute!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.

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 — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
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.

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Waitroom — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Brandon Leonardo is a Co-Founder at Instacart.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Local, FinTech
Seed, Series D
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

PostgresML — PostgresML is an AI application database. It is a Rust-written open-source Postgres extension.PostgresML instantly scales workloads with dedicated replicas or serverless GPU-accelerated cloud.
Ascend — Ascend is an online payments platform that automates insurance payments end-to-end: from online customer payments and financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables.
Airtrain AI — Sematic is an open-source Continuous Machine Learning platform that enables ML teams to build better and safer ML models faster.

Leonard Lodish - Operating Partner @ Lumia Capital

Investment focus

B2B, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

VendOp — Capture performance data about your suppliers and vendors to cut procurement costs
RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
StudySoup — Unlock comprehensive textbook solutions, insightful lecture notes, study guides, and exam preparation videos with StudySoup

Paul Singh is a Managing Partner at Results Junkies.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Internet, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

RepHike — RepHike find your people. The ones who are in tune with your brand, with a trusted voice in their community, and spread the word to others who actually care. RepHike lets you search, collaborate, and track your social partnerships.
Kolkata Chai — We're a chai company with a cafe in NYC and online marketplace. Come explore our DIY chai kits, gift boxes, recipes, locations and more.
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

Peter Corbett is the retired founder of iStrategyLabs – a digital agency that develops solutions to clients’ challenges and brings them to life in the online and offline world. He’s widely known for his marketing acumen coupled with a deep technical background, and a focus on community building. His client work includes brands like Disney, ESPN,ABC, NPR, PBS, GE, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Intel, GEICO, American Eagle Outfitters, Pinkberry, Honest Tea, Coca-Cola, Crate & Barrel/CB2, Chase, Rosetta Stone, The US Army, Deloitte, McKinsey, Volkswagen, Audi, Ford, Hilton, Double Tree, Embassy Suites Hotels, Marriott, Sweetgreen and more.

Investment focus

Social Media, iOS, Apps
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Spinnakr — Spinnakr notifies you of the most important analytics events as they happen.
SocialRadar — SocialRadar is building technology that makes people aware of the people and connections around them. Developing leading-edge technologies in the mobile, social and location space, SocialRadar is building applications on iPhone, Android and Google Glass that will change the way people connect.
Disruption — Disruption is a new kind of asset management and financial services firm for the private market. In 2013 Paul Singh set out on a mission to figure out how to better serve the maturing private market and its participants in the creation and management of their wealth. His hunch was that the private market is where the public markets were 30 yearsago and its evolution is making for better data and insight.