Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in United States (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Robert DeMaio
Angel
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63 | United States | Convertible Note | FinTech, Software, Health Care | $50k–$150k |
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Jason Calacanis
Angel
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43 | United States, Australia, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$14M |
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Ronald Conway
Angel
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37 | United States, Canada, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Social Media, Advertising | |
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Ron Conway
Angel
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37 | United States, Canada, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Social Media, Internet | $500k–$11M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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31 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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Cyan Banister
Angel
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31 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Social Media | |
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Scott Belsky
Angel
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30 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.1M–$50M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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30 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | $500k–$45M |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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29 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$31M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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26 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $6k–$5M |
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Joanne Wilson
Angel
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26 | United States, Canada, Poland | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail | $500k–$8.8M |
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Reid Hoffman
Angel
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25 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $800k–$80M |
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Wei Guo
Angel
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25 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $150k–$19M |
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Mark Pincus
Angel
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24 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Internet, Software | $1.1M–$116M |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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23 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $228k–$25M |
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David Tisch
Angel
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23 | United States, France, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
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22 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$55M |
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Daniel Curran
Angel
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21 | United States, Canada, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $600k–$50M |
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Mitch Kapor
Angel
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21 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Software, Education | $300k–$27M |
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel
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20 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | |
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Alexis Ohanian
Angel
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20 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$152M |
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Kevin Hartz
Angel
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20 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$100M |
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Wayne Chang
Angel
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19 | United States, Canada, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Internet | $1M–$250M |
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Mark Cuban
Angel
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19 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | |
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Mitchell Kapor
Angel
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19 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Education | |
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Dave Morin
Angel
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19 | United States, France, Finland | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Internet, Software | |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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18 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $1M–$27M |
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Auren Hoffman
Angel
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17 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Analytics, Internet | |
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Joshua Schachter
Angel
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17 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | |
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Keith Rabois
Angel
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17 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Michael Jones
Angel
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16 | United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce | $225k–$22M |
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Bradley Harrison
Angel
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16 | United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | Software, Mobile, SaaS | $100k–$85M |
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Paul Buchheit
Angel
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16 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$14M |
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Vishal Rao
Angel
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15 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$25M |
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Eric Ries
Angel
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15 | United States, Serbia, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $40k–$15M |
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Paige Craig
Angel
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15 | United States, Iceland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | |
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Bradley C. Harrison
Angel
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15 | United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | Mobile, Software, SaaS | |
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Trevor Wright
Angel
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15 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $1.3M–$10M |
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Shervin Pishevar
Angel
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15 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $1M–$63M |
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Larry Braitman
Angel
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15 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Education | $450k–$10M |
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Dylan Field
Angel
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $2.2M–$100M |
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Benjamin Ling
Angel
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14 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | |
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Chris Sacca
Angel
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14 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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Clark Landry
Angel
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14 | United States, Mexico, Bulgaria | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Advertising, Analytics | $900k–$20M |
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Ariel Poler
Angel
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14 | United States, Spain, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Angel | Social Media, Software, Apps | $455k–$7.9M |
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Allen DeBevoise
Angel
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14 | United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Video, Media and Entertainment, Social Media | $625k–$5.3M |
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William Lohse
Angel
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13 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Social Media, Advertising | $60k–$6.2M |
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Michael Birch
Angel
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13 | United States, United Kingdom, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Social Media, Internet | |
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Troy Carter
Angel
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13 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Social Media, Software, Mobile | $1M–$30M |
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Robert DeMaio is the founder, CEO, and controlling and majority shareholder of Phinge® Corporation. He is an inventor with over 30 granted patents, including software (Such as App-Less technologies and hardware verification) and patents for modular hardware and devices.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Convertible Note $50k–$150k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Phinge — Netverse Verified User-Centric Patented App-less Platform NI & Magnetically Connectable Devices. CEO Ranked #1 Globally On Crunchbase For 5 Of The Last 7 Months
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 757
- Round size: Seed $525k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
- Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
- howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Ron Conway is based out of San Francisco, California, and was the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron Conway attended San Jose State University. Ron previously worked at Salesforce Foundation as a Board Member. Ron Conway has received the Best Angel at the TechCrunch Crunchies Awards.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Angel $500k–$1.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1158
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Osmo Studio — Osmo is an AI-native video editor for product launch videos and motion graphics. Turn ideas, Figma files, and footage into polished, on-brand animations, built as editable code.
- Gravity — The Ad Network for AI
- Instinct — Instinct is an artificial intelligence startup developing AI technology.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $660k–$6M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.4M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
- Artemis — Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 580
- Round size: Seed $950k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $4.1M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
- Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
- Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Redstamp — We’re full-service. And we don’t just say that: we back it up, from brand conceptualization and design all the way to SEO and print campaigns. Our services are top-shelf, our work is top-quality, and our people are top-notch. We’re based out of Vancouver, helping us get that perfect blend of Canadian nice and urban know-how that’ll serve yourbusiness and build your brand. You tell us what you want, and we’ll nail it. Rest your weary head: we’ve got it.
- Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.5M–$38M; Series B $10M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brain Co. — AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions
- Niteshift — Niteshift is a software development company that builds the full-stack cloud platform for coding agents. enabling background coding agents that can simulate and close loops on complex tasks end-to-end.
- Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$40M; Series B $8.5M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- PlayerZero — PlayerZero builds an engineering world model so SRE, QA, and support teams resolve incidents, prevent defects, and close tickets faster.
- SalesPatriot — We deploy AI into supply chains that the West depends on.
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Origin Lab — Origin Lab licenses premium content from game studios and 3D universes - delivering structured, multimodal data for AI training.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Hybrid is the future
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
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$49M; Series B $7M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stan — We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
- The 33rd Team — The 33rd Team is a sports entertainment platform that offers spectator sports content.
- Pro Padel League — The Premier Professional Padel League in North America. Elevating padel, exploring teams, and bringing you closer to the action with stories, highlights, and behind-the-scenes moments.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.4M–$16M; Series B $2.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- Shred Video — Make awesome GoPro movies from raw footage in seconds. Download now on the Mac App Store! http://t.co/huKZsX8RBY
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Defog — Defog integrates into your app and allows your users to query data in seconds using natural language. Defog are powered by large language models that can search and visualise both structured and unstructured data (such as SQL databases or Data Warehouses) (like text in call transcripts).
- Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
- FORMLESS — SHARE Technology by FORMLESS
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $8M–$152M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arkero — Arkero is the AI transformation partner for sports businesses, connecting ticketing, CRM, and data to automate gameday planning, retention, and fan insights.
- Left Field — Left Field is a dating app that matches users based on shared connections, locations, and personal overlaps.
- Screen Skinz — Shop Screen Skinz for the #1 trusted custom screen protectors for iPhone and Samsung. Design your own or choose from officially licensed screens from NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Colleges, and Sanrio. Disappearing designs within the glass combine premium protection with personalization.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $6M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Ghost Message — Record and turn your classes into automated notes, quizzes, flashcards together with classmates.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
- DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
- DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
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
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.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — A new kind of immersive story game. Play in your favorite worlds with your friends.
Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry
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- Industry: Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.8M; Angel $225k–$3M; Series A $1.6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MeUndies — MeUndies is an underwear and loungewear company known for its product line for men's and women's underwear, sleepwear, and loungewear brand that targets Gen Z and millennial customers.The brand is committed to celebrating comfort, creativity, and self-expression, and is renowned for its ethos of inclusivity, body positivity, andtransparency; its cause-marketing platform (MeUndies Gives); and its frequent drops of colorful, trendy prints. Customers can purchase products individually or through the MeUndies membership program, which offers discounted pricing, flexible order, and delivery options, and early access to the brand’s weekly product drops featuring new prints. Today MeUndies has sold more than nine million pairs of underwear and still continues to redefine the subscription market by evolving the transactional subscription to a membership centered on community and its relationship with the brand. The innovative direct-to-consumer brand offers multiple purchasing options including singles, packs, matching pairs, and its monthly membership. In 2011, Barak Diskin and Jonathan Shokrian headquartered the company in Culver City, California.
- Fresco News — Designed for tech-savvy business owners, the blog shares updates on business, technology, digital marketing, and productivity workflows.
- French Girls — Buy real Instagram followers from Insfollowpro.com for only $0.50. Fast delivery, 24/7 support, and satisfaction guaranteed. Boost, Trust, Excel.
Bradley C. Harrison is based out of Austin, Texas, and is the founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Bradley previously worked at BHV as a founder and managing partner. Bradley C. Harrison attended the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $538k–$4.2M; Series A $4.3M–$85M; Convertible Note $100k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
- inSparq — Friendly and helpful customer support that goes above and beyond. We help you get the perfect domain name.
- 1000museums.com — Our products are the highest quality, made-to-order reproductions of fine art, period.
Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
- BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Advisory CTO and Angel Investor
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.1M; Series A $3.8M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
- Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.
- Cambridge Terahertz — Cambridge Terahertz, a leader in terahertz (THz) imaging technology, offers an AI-powered Concealed Weapons Detection (CWD) solution to enhance workplace security. Our patent-pending system can see through clothing, luggage, plastic, paper, ceramics, and cardboard to detect concealed threats, including firearms, knives, and explosives.
Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Serbia, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.4M; Series A $1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
- Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
- Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
- Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
- Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
- Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
- LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.5M; Series A $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
- HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a virtual world filled with cute, formidable creatures known as Axies. Axies can be battled, collected, and even used to mine tokens through gameplay.
Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
- Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
- NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence-based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products. NUE Life has created a therapeutic ecosystem of ketamine therapy, an interactive companion app, and virtual aftercare programs to help people heal.
CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$3.7M; Series A $4M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Felvin — Felvin saves 5 hours every week in the life of a software developer. We achieve this by allowing developers to instantly find the right code snippets, software packages, and dev utilities, without changing their search habits. While Felvin will start with software devs as the beachhead, we eventually plan to provide a vastly superior searchexperience for every knowledge worker through our instant apps platform that allows anyone to build and integrate domain specific mini-search engines.
- Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
- Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$12M; Series A $13M–$29M; Series B $29M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
- Netic — The AI revenue engine for essential service industries that keep America running.
- Neros Technologies — Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us?
Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
- Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
- Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
An accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, Chris manages a portfolio of over seventy consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. He is partnered in this venture with his wife, Crystal English Sacca. While primarily knownfor its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly grown to be one of the larger venture funds in the United States.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Detect — Working on developing rapid molecular tests for point of need care
- Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of electricity with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
- Fuse Energy — Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100 percent renewable energy.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Bulgaria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.
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- Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evertune — Brand analytics built for the AI era See what brand preferences different AI models have, benchmark against your competition and optimize your content strategy
- Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
- Gemini Sports Analytics — Your Next-Gen Roster Management Command Center
Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
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- Industry: Social Media, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Spain, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $455k–$7M; Angel $1M–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$7.9M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Goin — Goin is a Barcelona-based fintech platform founded in 2017 that provides a unified money optimization ecosystem combining automated savings, investments, digital assets, and rewards. The app enables users to aggregate multiple bank accounts via PSD2, centralizing financial data and automating decisions through its AI engine, gaIA. Goin integratesfinancial automation, portfolio tools, and cash-back incentives in a single interface used primarily by young European consumers. The company operates in a regulated environment, is registered with the Bank of Spain as a crypto service provider, and has expanded across Southern Europe. In 2025, Goin launched KernelPay, its B2B Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure for payments, accounts, and wallet management.
- Reloadly — Send gift cards, airtime & payouts globally with one API. Scalable, instant, developer-friendly platform for rewards and incentives.
- Openlytics — Openlytics is a Visual Data Platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape the direction ofthe product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
Allen DeBevoise is the Founder and Managing Partner of Third Wave Digital. He previously worked at Machinima, Inc. as a Chairman of the Board.
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- Industry: Video, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $625k–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals was founded in 2015 as a US-based esports and gaming organization that competes in League of Legends (LCS). At Immortals we aim to entertain, inspire, and be the voice of esports fans in the Great Lakes Region through our exciting players, talented creators and innovative regional experiences.
- Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
- Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $60k–$2.5M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1.7M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manifest — Manifest is a product ads platform that helps retailers realize the potential of their catalogs by determining which products to promote across Facebook, Google and others. Customers have used Manifest to optimize over 14 million products in 4 billion ads and have generated over $70 million in ROI-positive revenue. Beyond retargeting,Manifest's Matching Engine helps retailers prospect for new customers as well as activate and re-engage existing customers by exposing them to products they have not yet discovered. Top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Gilt, One Kings Lane and LivingSocial use Manifest, which is backed by investment from First Round Capital, Softtech VC, Cowboy Ventures, and others.
- SocialThreader — SocialThreader increases effectiveness of digital marketing via social integration of brand and consumer voices across their ads and websiteSocialThreader helps marketers increase brand awareness, social engagement and conversions. It seamlessly aggregates all of brand’s social touch points, analyzes campaign performance linked to these touchpoints and optimizes content based on campaign goals. SocialThreader directly improves the effectiveness of Search and Display campaigns. Businesses stand to gain significant ROI on their campaigns and better measures on relevant KPIs.
- Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.
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- Industry: Apps, Social Media, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
- HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
- Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.
Troy Carter is the Founder and CEO of Venice Music. He previously worked at Atom Factory as a Founder and CEO. Troy Carter attended Fairfield University.
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- Industry: Social Media, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NOVA — Connecting creatives with opportunity. Hire top creatives, grow your network, and find your dream jobs all on Nova.
- Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
- Belong Entertainment — Belong Entertainment Inc. is a FanTech company creating the financial layer of fandom. Belong empowers artists and brands to connect directly with truly verified fans through proprietary features like FanScore™, KYF™ (Know Your Fan), and Dropblock™. Fans earn rewards, exclusive access, and unique experiences by engaging, spending, and proving theirfandom.The team consists of experienced entrepreneurs who have held senior leadership positions in global entertainment and fintech companies such as Spotify., Belong is launching first in the U.S. with a college and influencer-focused rollout. Its flagship product, the Belong Card, gives fans access to rewards, exclusive drops, and artist-branded experiences while providing artists and brands with verified engagement and transaction insights.Belong’s mission is to transform how culture is monetized by shifting from customers to fans—unlocking the next generation of loyalty, payments, and pop culture engagement.
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