Top 50 Local Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

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, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

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Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
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

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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.

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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, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
latchkey — Latchkey helps software teams ship faster by eliminating CI/CD investigations.

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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, Fashion
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.

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CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
CalypsoAI — 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.

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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.

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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

Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
PositivEnergy — We are energy architects driven by a desire to make the benefits of clean energy easy, risk-free and available to all. Learn about energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure and backup power / UPS.
Hopscotch — Hopscotch is a network of top therapists committed to supporting your child. Explore our directory to find the right provider for your family.

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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, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
Autumn — Autumn connects bereaved families with vetted grief counselors, estate attorneys, funeral directors, and more. Free guides and provider matching included.
Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!

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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, Mobile
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.

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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.

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Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

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Mecka AI — Mecka AI is a data infrastructure company that builds large scale human datasets and tools to train and deploy AI and robotics systems.
Wabi — Create, discover, and remix any mini-app in minutes. The era of personal software is here.
Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs

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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.

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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, Internet
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.

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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 Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.

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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
Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
Chelsea Football Club — The world famous Chelsea Football Club is located at Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road in west London.

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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

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

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
Virtualness — Track and grow your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot. OptimizeGEO measures AI share of voice, citations, sentiment, and AI search visibility.
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.

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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

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Keith Rabois is based out of United States and is the Managing Director of Khosla Ventures and also Board of Directors of Spellbook. Keith previously worked at Square as a COO. Keith Rabois attended the Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

At-Bay — At-Bay delivers comprehensive cyber insurance with integrated MDR and security solutions. Detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats before they hit. Trusted by 40K+ policyholders.
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.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.

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

Portfolio highlights

Giphy — GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
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.

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Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.
Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.

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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

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Pear (formerly Apparel Media Group) — Design premium custom merch to sell online or place a direct order. Upload your 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.

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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.

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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, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mentava — Our mission is to give options to kids whose learning needs aren't being met. Our first product teaches preschoolers to read.
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!
Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.

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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 — Inside.com is the only source you'll need for daily roundups and analysis of the latest news and trends in the world of business, tech, and venture capital. Inside Network of Newsletters are designed for the up-and-coming entrepreneur and creator, as well as for the C-Suite executive looking to keep finger on the pulse of what's happeningin the industry. With curated news stories, topic deep dives, and founder interviews, you'll find that Inside is the one news source you'll need to stay in-touch, ahead of game, and inspired to be at least 1% better everyday. Subscribing to Inside is free, try it today at Inside.com
Acorns — Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.
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.

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

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, News, 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.

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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.

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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, Music, Fashion
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 — Explore Maestro, a leading interactive video platform. Learn how our interactive video tools can help you create more powerful experiences for your audience.
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.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Content
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

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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.

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Leonard Lodish - Operating Partner @ Lumia Capital

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Education
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

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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

Remynt — Remynt is revolutionizing debt recovery by enabling creditors to recoup revenue from non-performing delinquencies and empowering consumers to rebuild their credit.
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

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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, EdTech
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zulama — Carnegie Learning is shaping the future of math learning with the best math curriculum and supplemental curricular solutions.
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

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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 finds, triages, and fixes vulnerabilities across code, packages, infrastructure, and containers.
Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
Mentra — Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies.

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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

Bizly — Bizly is a meeting-building platform that provides everything you need to plan and run successful meetings. With Bizly, everybody can share ideas and insights across your company, turning every meeting into an opportunity to transform culture and productivity.
FetchyFox AI — FetchyFox is the digital infrastructure and intelligence platform to help public spaces, like airports, improve the customer experience, maximize revenue, and extract insights with AI. We are a passionate team of technologists and innovators on a mission to deliver seamless end-to-end customer experiences of the future.Based in the heart ofSilicon Valley, California, the AI company has attracted top industry experts from AI, airports, airlines, and leading organizations around the world to invent the ultimate end-to-end integrated travel experience of the future. As avid adventurers, curious engineers, climbers, martial artists and travelers, ourselves - we are working tirelessly to improve the customer experience for everyone, everywhere.
Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!

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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.

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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

PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
Vengo — Massive national network of digital screens accessible through every major SSP. Buy retail and point-of-purchase screens on your preferred platform.
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.

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Dan Martell is the Founder and CEO of Saas Academy. He previously worked at Flowtown as a CMO and Co-Founder. Dan Martell attended Microsoft Certified Professional.

Investment focus

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

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.
Neutonic — Unlock your potential with our powerful nootropic blend designed to make you feel less stressed, less fatigued and genuinely more productive. Save up to 20% subscription and bundles.
Founderpath — Over $200M deployed to 500+ founders with 200+ 5-star reviews. Get capital and use powerful agents to double revenue and save time.

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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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
Unusual AI — AI models advise, recommend, and increasingly make buying decisions for your prospects. Unusual helps make sure that those prospects end up in your pipeline rather than your competitors.
Crosby — Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.

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Tony DiBenedetto

Investment focus

IaaS, Local, Events
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BlockSpaces — Accelerating Blockchain Adoption for Enterprise
MyArea Network — Social Networking on the local & national level with MyArea Network by creating a FREE personal profile to get connected.

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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, Local, Content
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!

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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, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rumi.ai — 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.

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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 — Social Networking on the local & national level with MyArea Network by creating a FREE personal profile to get connected.

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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, Apps, Local
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 — The refreshingly delightful email marketing platform. Send product, marketing, and transactional emails with Bento.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
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 — 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

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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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
Talk Local — Need a service professional? Search the Nation's #1 Service Directory. It's Free and Fast, get connected over the phone instantly with Local Plumbers, Accountants, Computer Repair Pros, Dentists, Heating & Cooling HVAC, and other service professionals!
Upshift — The convenience of owning a car without all the headaches.

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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, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RealKey — Go straight to funding with facilitated documentation gathering that ensures underwriters get everything needed for a clean approval.
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!

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Felix Ortiz III is founder, chairman and CEO of Viridis Learning, an educational technology company aimed at building the middle-skill workforce. A serial entrepreneur, Ortiz has started several companies, including Visionary Trade & Export, a venture he founded at age 20 that led to multimillion-dollar deals. He was recently appointed to theBoard of Directors for the New York City Technology Development Corporation. Ortiz also serves on the Board of Directors for the Osborne Foundation. In 2013, he served on the technology subcommittee of then-Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio in New York City. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Ortiz was national co-chairman of Gen44, applying his entrepreneurial experience and energy to encouraging civic involvement among the younger generation. Previously, he was a member of the Obama-Biden transition team's advisory group for international trade and economics and served on the campaign's national finance committee council. Ortiz was a member of the U.S. Army 18th Airborne Corps and JAG Corps. He attended St. John's University.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Local
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Irys — Irys delivers AI-native cybersecurity, resilient IT, and adversarial simulation to modernize defense, governments, and enterprises.
Viridis Learning — Viridis is SaaS platform that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill talent.

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Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein

Investment focus

Internet, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Series A
United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Streem — Easy AR-powered remote video support & communication platform with AI data capture to get the job done from anywhere. Streem is better than being there.
Unbabel — Unbabel offers multilingual translation services in more than 30 languages to enhance your customer service experiences. Learn more about our language operation solutions!
Framed Data — Here is an exclusive deal for Mattermark subscribers.

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