Top 50 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in May 2025

Investor	Mobile Advertising investments
Richard Fearn	4
Toon Coppens	3
Lorenz Bogaert	3
Eric Seufert	3
Auren Hoffman	2
Richard Braddock	2
Michael Kassan	2
James Fong	2
Jim Swartz	2
John Richards	2
Ben Barokas	2
Paul Sethi	2
Anton Gauffin	2
Clark Landry	2
Joshua Schachter	2
Jon Claydon	2
Scott Petersen	2
Tjaart van der Waalt	2
Michael Barrett	2
Geoff Judge	2
Gil Elbaz	2
Alex Rainert	2
Matthew Greitzer	1
Tim Koogle	1
Jordan Mclain	1
Noah Goodhart	1
Bill Wise	1
Don Dodge	1
Scott Kurnit	1
Ben Lewis	1
Jim Warner	1
Ben Wynne-Simmons	1
Wei Guo	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Rohit Sharma	1
Sig Mosley	1
Leo Hindery Jr.	1
Pradip Madan	1
David Levin	1
Jochen Tuchbreiter	1
Jared Hecht	1
Erhan Bilici	1
Grant Gregory	1
Tina Daniels	1
Sarah Behr	1
Naval Ravikant	1
Bradley C. Harrison	1
Peter Naylor	1
Steve Kantor	1
Frans Vermeulen	1

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Eric Seufert is a quantitative marketing and user acquisition specialist with a deep appreciation for the freemium business model. He is currently the VP of User Acquisition and Engagement at Rovio Entertainment; prior to Rovio, Eric held marketing, strategy, and analytics positions at Wooga, Digital Chocolate, and Skype. In 2014, Eric published abook on the Freemium Model, Freemium Economics, through Elsevier.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Mobile Advertising, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Israel, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

INCRMNTAL — INCRMNTAL is an incrementality measurement platform for mobile Advertising. True mobile attribution focuses on incrementality testing.
ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
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.

Rick began his business career in 1965 spending a number of years in product management at General Foods. He joined Citicorp in 1973, was elected to the board of directors in 1985 and was elected president and COO of Citicorp in 1990.Rick resigned from Citicorp in 1992, and subsequently served as CEO of Medco Containment Services, Inc. untilits acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc., and then spent a year as a principal at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.Rick served as Chairman (non-executive) of True North Communications Inc. from December, 1997 to January, 1999; Chairman and CEO of priceline.com from August, 1998 to April, 2004; and Chairman of MidOcean Partners from April, 2003 until December, 2007.Rick was appointed Chairman of FreshDirect in 2005 and became Chairman and CEO in March, 2008.Rick serves on the board of directors of Eastman Kodak Company (lead director), Fresh Direct Holdings, Inc., Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Cristo Rey Network, and several private companies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Investment focus

Analytics, Cloud Data Services, Big Data
Series C, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gravy Analytics — Gravy Analytics provides the industry's most accurate location intelligence and foot traffic data. Make better decisions with real-world location insights.
Mercato — The finest quality food from the best local shops, delivered to your door
Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists.Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients throughan increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers.Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A.Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.”Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry.Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Video
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Telly — The biggest thing to happen to TV since color.
Qonsent — Qonsent is a consumer-first platform for dynamic consent. For the first time, consumers will have direct access and control of their personal data that brands collect and store about them.
Home From College — H\FC is the professional development platform built specifically for career starters and young professionals. Created to help students build their first professional brand, manage their resume and unlock experiences to help them grow. Our Mission is the even the professional playing-field and give career starters a platform to help them start.

James Fong has been the CEO of Oriental Dreamworks. James joined Amazon in 2012 and is responsible for leading its Merchant Services and Advertising businesses, including “Selling on Amazon”, “Fulfillment by Amazon”, “Global Selling” and “Advertise on Amazon”.Prior to joining Amazon, James was a Managing Director of China Tongyin, a boutiquemerchant bank in Greater China, responsible for its TMT practice; a Managing Director of Strategic Investments at NBA China, responsible for its arena, internet and league investments and business development efforts; a General Manager at Microsoft China, responsible for sales and marketing for 17 provinces and 32 cities; and the Managing Director of Microsoft’s $165 million China equity investment fund.James holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

Jim Swartz is the Founding Partner of Accel and the Founder and Co-Chair of Christian Center of Park City. He attended Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nimble Robotics — Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment.
World 1 League — World 1 League is on a mission to inspire, celebrate and reward the best athletes on the planet. Through Olympic-style sports challenges on social media, and first-of-its-kind live stadium events, W1 is transforming the way athletes, fans and brands engage.Founded by nine Olympians and backed by Mark Cuban and Jim Swartz, W1 is the firstprofessional sports league built specifically for social media. Our W1 Rankings system will finally answer the question of who’s the fastest, strongest and greatest in the world -- today rather than yesterday. Built by athletes for athletes, W1 aims to drive economic parity and celebrate open freedoms of expression. It’s time to reinvent the world of sport for a New Generation.
CorVent Medical — CorVent Medical is committed to providing simple, safe and smart solutions for healthcare professionals.

John Richards - CEO / Founder @ Startup Ignition

Investment focus

Software, Augmented Reality, Social Media
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ocavu (formerly Seek) — SeekView brings AR directly to websites--no app required. Seek has worked with Fortune 500 companies all over the world to deliver best-in-class AR content and services, but now focuses primarily on web-based AR solutions for e-commerce.
Grasswire — Grasswire lets people come together in real-time to find and verify these accounts, creating the world’s most open and accurate newsroom. It specializes in the fields of news, social media, and social news. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Cardagraph — Allocate resources based on data to execute better and faster.

Ben Barokas is the Founder and CEO of Sourcepoint Technologies, Inc. Ben attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Virginia Tech.

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, Brand Marketing
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
Traverse Data — Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (DMS) drives better business results through our innovative digital performance advertising solutions.

Paul Sethi is a co-founder and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, the Founder and Managing Partner at Trajectory Capital Partners, and the Co-founding Partner of OpenFortune. For 7+ years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of, the leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acquired by List Partners). He alsoco-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice, with a real-time alerts and data extraction engine built for the enterprise. Paul has been a first-check angel for over a decade, including in Flexport, SeatGeek, Transfix, Knotel and LearnVest. He serves as Advisor to Transfix and OpenFortune and graduated with honors from Wharton (UPenn) and Columbia. Early in his career, he was a public company investor focused on the tech sector.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mantl — MANTL helps banks and credit unions open more accounts across more channels with the highest-performing origination software on the market.
Slash Keyboard — 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.
JOANY — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Anton Gaufﬁn is the Founder of Sumoing.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Finland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Gotiva — Darvin lets you design and build real mobile apps using just your ideas. No coding skills needed. Fast, easy, and ready for Google Play and App Store.
Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
Benjamin — Start saving more money with our cash back app that automates the cash back earnings for people and businesses.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Jon Claydon

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, App Marketing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zumo — Digital assets platform engineered with a focus on compliance and sustainability. Get in touch to learn more.
Be Nosy — Nosy is wearable tech with data play that helps you breathe purified air anywhere at any time. Our state of the art patented technology developed by former Dyson engineers is more effective at protecting you from pollution, viruses and allergens than any other solution in the market. While our particles and breathing sensor technology will help youknow exactly what is going into your body.
Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...

Scott Petersen is the Chief Academic Officer at RevRoad. He attended Ottawa University.

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ocavu (formerly Seek) — SeekView brings AR directly to websites--no app required. Seek has worked with Fortune 500 companies all over the world to deliver best-in-class AR content and services, but now focuses primarily on web-based AR solutions for e-commerce.
Cardagraph — Allocate resources based on data to execute better and faster.

Tjaart van der Walt is the Co-founder & Director at Tyme. He attended Stellenbosch University.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

Michael Barrett joined Magnite as Chief Executive Officer in 2020.

Investment focus

Mobile Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
Unacast — Build better products and make smarter decisions with real-world location data.
Fresco News — Visit FrescoNews today to find informative and engaging insights, news, and trends in technology and business. Check out the website for more details!

Partner iNovia CapitalGeoff was a co-founder of 24/7 Media; previously the President of Interactive Imaginations, 1 of 3 companies that merged to form 24/7 Media in 1997. 24/7 Media went public in August 1998 and was acquired by WPP in 2007 for $649MM. He was at iMarket prior, a venture backed start-up, where he was on themanagement team as VP Marketing. Geoff Judge spent nine years at American Express in the Card Division in several roles including VP and GM, Travel & Corp. Insurance Group. He was an investor in IndustryBrains (sold to Marchex), on the Board of Fetchback (sold to GSI), Oggifinogi (sold to Collective) and current board member of Global Cash Access (NYSE: GCA), Collective, PexCard, Spanfeller Media, and Lenddo, and an observer on Chango, Resonate, Routehappy, 33 Across, and others. He’s a founding board member of Children for Children, and a Trustee for the Sacred Heart School in Manhattan for 6 years. Education: M.B.A. from Columbia, B.A. in Economics from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Advertising, Marketing, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ask Alex — Ask Alex transforms data into dialogue. Our AI analytics tool lets businesses interact with their data, uncovering customer trends and driving operational efficiency and revenue.
Identifee — Identifee is purpose-built financial services platform that replaces the need for multiple solutions, simplifying workflows and delivering a seamless engagement.
ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Alex Rainert is a founder of In 2009, he joined former Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley's newstartup, Foursquare as head of product. In late 2013, he left Foursquare. In February 2014 he joined Project Florida as Head of Design.

Investment focus

Private Social Networking, Mobile Advertising, Apps
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Timehop — Timehop helps you celebrate the best moments of the past with your friends. It's like #tbt every day! Download for free today for iOS and Android.
Foursquare — Foursquare is the leading location technology platform, providing businesses the opportunity to list on City Guide, & consumers can search for places they love.

Matt is the Co-founder of Actable where he leads corporate strategy and operations. Prior to Actable, Matt was Co-CEO of Amnet, the $400MM programmatic arm of DentsuAegis Network. Matt is a graduate of Bowdoin College.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Credit, Events
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

Tim Koogle joined Cadence Health as Investor, Board member, and Chairman in 2017.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Mobile, Ad Retargeting
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

OLLY — At OLLY, we believe happiness is an inside job. We know that the right blend of nutrients can help us stay strong, balanced and energetic.
Liftoff — Liftoff is the leading mobile app optimization marketing and retargeting platform for running true CPA optimized mobile app install campaigns to get new, quality users.
Ripple Foods — Ripple Foods offers a nutritious & delicious milk alternative that is 100% dairy-free, vegan, nut-, lactose- & gluten-free. Discover more about Ripple milk!

Jordan Mclain

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Sales, Computer Vision
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Reveel Technologies — Join the media REVEELution!Reveel is the first company to allow audiences to view an interactive media experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media on any browser – without downloading an app or producing additional creative. Reveel's patent pending cloud-based platform allows brands, agencies and media outlets to increaseaudience engagement and revenue by seizing the moment of interest and converting it into measurable action. Consumers go to Reveel.it on their mobile browser and snap a photo of print or broadcast media or click on digital media displayed on websites or online video to explore, learn and buy. Anyone can create a custom Reveel landing page online in minutes, then publish it across media channels so it can be viewed on mobile and desktop devices.
Fixd Repair — Fixd Repair is a Dallas-Fort Worth HVAC and Appliance Services Company, Providing Appliance Repairs, HVAC Repairs, Service and Installation. HVAC services include AC & Heating. Appliances Include Refrigerators, Dishwashers, Washers and Dryers. Call Today to Schedule.
OrderMyGear — OrderMyGear (OMG) is different from other online store platforms because it's tailor-made to meet the specific needs of dealers, distributors, and decorators.

Noah Goodhart is the Co-Founder at billions.org.

Investment focus

Advertising, SaaS, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ophelos — Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health.
Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.

Bill Wise is the founding CEO of Mediaocean. Bill has spent over a decade unleashing the potential of revolutionary advertising technologies, overseeing more than $5 billion in mergers, acquisitions and public offerings, including the $720 million sale of Mediaocean to Vista Equity Partners in August 2015. He comes to Mediaocean from his role asCEO of advertising software provider MediaBank, one of Mediaocean’s two founding companies along with Donovan Data Systems (DDS).Prior to MediaBank, Bill served as an executive at Yahoo, overseeing global advertising platforms – a role he achieved after serving as president of Right Media, which he helped guide to an $850 million acquisition by Yahoo in 2007. His other executive leadership positions have driven success at companies including DoubleClick, MaxOnline and Ask, which became part of IAC Advertising Solutions.Bill is on the board of directors of the Ad Council and the Centre for Social Innovation. He is also chairman of MediaWallah. Bill is an avid and active angel investor through Click Ventures. Business Insider ranked him as a top digital professional four times, he was listed among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and he was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology. Bill is a sought-after speaker and frequently writes articles for AdWeek, Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He holds a B.S. in accounting and business from the University at Albany and is a CPA. He is the proud father of Connor, Kate and Charlotte.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

boostr — Boostr helps companies gain the visibility necessary to effectively manage, maximize, and scale omnichannel ad revenue. #CRM #OMS
Unacast — Build better products and make smarter decisions with real-world location data.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.

Don Dodge

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nimble CRM — A G2 Crowd Market Leader, Nimble helps you build relationships everywhere you engage -- from your inbox to across the web. Try it free - no credit card required.
Propensity — The ABM library of tools and workflows designed to maximize your ABM strategy. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to scale.
Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.

Scott Kurnit was the Founder, Chairman, CEO at About, Inc.

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
Balloon — Enabling insights to move freely.
Uizard — UI design for apps, websites, and desktop software in minutes. If you can use Google Slides or PowerPoint, you can use Uizard!

Ben Lewis is the co-founder of Tapjoy. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, and his first job out of college was working as an engineer on Xbox Live. After spending some time at Microsoft, he returned to Michigan for his MBA where he focused on entrepreneurship and technology. Ben then moved to Googlewhere he spent 4 years as a Product Manager, working on products such as the Toolbar, Search, and Checkout. Ben left Google to found Tapjoy, which began with the launch of TapDefense. Ben now leads the Tapjoy product team and manages accounts for the top publishers.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, News
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Distill — Distill strive to take the pain out of hiring and recruiting. They're building hiring tools to maximize the interview process as well as rethinking the optimal ways to screen candidates. Developing data-driven products that work for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers and candidates.
Elly — The first empathetic audio companion for patients living with a chronic disease.
Motive, ex KeepTruckin — Streamline your fleet with a suite of tools that makes your team more efficient and increases safety.

James Warner has served as a member of our board of directors and as chairman of the compensation committee since February 2013, and as our lead independent director since December 2013. Since January 2009, he has been a Principal of Third Floor Enterprises, an advisory firm specializing in digital marketing and media. From January 2000 untilDecember 2008, Warner served in various leadership roles at aQuantive Inc., including as Executive Vice President at Razorfish Inc. (formerly Avenue A), which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in August 2007. Prior to aQuantive, he held leadership positions at HBO, CBS and Primedia. James is also a member of the board of directors for Merkle, Inc., Invision, Inc., Zoom, Inc. and Healthline Networks, Inc. From 2011 to 2012, James served as a member of the board of directors of MediaMind, Inc.James received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Yale University and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. The board of directors believes that James’s experience in the consumer and digital marketing and media industries allows him to make valuable contributions to the board of directors.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Sales Automation
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

An investor, engineer and entrepreneur.Ben is a Managing Director at Coral Reef. He works with and invests in tech entrepreneurs, startups and growth companies. He also works on a number of social impact and art projects such as TradeRelief, Root Matter and Exhibition Collective. Prior to this Ben held investment director roles at 3i Group plcand Barclays Private Equity where he managed investments, exits and sat on the board of 10 companies. In 2008 Ben helped set up and now manages TradeRelief - a charity investing in social enterprises in developing countries.Ben holds a 1st class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA, and obtained a Chartered Accountancy qualification from ICAS

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Casual Games
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
Fliplet — Create custom apps using Fliplet's app editor. Chances are Fliplet has already built 90% of your app. Features include no-code / low-code CMS, mobile/desktop/tablet support, data management, security, analytics and more.
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
Mancano And Associates — Explore our domain marketplace to buy, lease, or secure your ideal domain name with flexible payment plans and lease-to-own options. Find premium domains and start your online journey effortlessly with options tailored to fit your budget and needs! - Synergy_Technologies_LLC

Rohit Sharma is a partner at True Ventures. He began his career as founder and CTO of ONI Systems, which pioneered the use of optical switching and real-time signal processing technologies in optical networks. ONI Systems was acquired by Ciena, where Rohit served as SVP and CTO of Metro Networks Group.Rohit holds a bachelor’s degree inelectronics and communications engineering from India’s National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He also holds Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, where he endowed a professorship in digital communications in 2004. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the President of India at NITK’s 50th anniversary convocation.Rohit is fascinated by many aspects of innovation and technology. He believes all rabbit holes, especially across technology and society, are worth exploring. He is also a keen student of the many ways in which startups evolve into thriving companies. Rohit firmly believes that the “people part” of a startup is just as, if not more, critical to a company’s success than the technology piece of the business.

Investment focus

Robotics, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chocolate — Chocolate is a global leader in mobile video advertising. Chocolate offers two core products, Chocolate Marketplace, a global programmatic buying and selling platform for mobile video advertising and Chocolate Mediation, an end-to-end monetization solution for app developers & publishers.Chocolate Marketplace integrates top technologypartners from across the spectrum to give a unified one-stop platform for complete planning, buying, and measurement of mobile video ad campaigns. Vdopia's clients include Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, McDonald's, Intel, Microsoft, Ford and hundreds of other leading global brands. Chocolate Mediation is an end-to-end mediation platform that creates sustainable business revenues with industry-leading CPMs and Fill Rates. The platform offers universal auction technology, combined with unified reporting, single-point billing, MOAT viewability reporting, branded video demand and support for all major video ad formats & ad networks.Vdopia Inc. (DBA Chocolate) is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in San Francisco, CA, and India.
Cassette — Cassette is the best way to record, transcribe & search important conversations like user interviews, meetings, lectures and video calls.
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

Sig Mosley is the Managing Partner at Mosley Ventures.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

in/PACT — We offer integrated cloud base Social Good Loyalty Solutions that enable millions of customer loyalty members to donate their loyalty currency to thousands of local Nonprofit Organizations across the company to make a meaningful impact in their community.
SwipeLoyalty — SwipeLoyalty provides small- and medium-sized merchants and their customers with access to a loyalty network. It was founded in March 2014 and is based in Georgia, United States.
Ionic Security — Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management. Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) enables the use of cloud services by protecting sensitive data anywhere it travels and wherever it resides, whether on the corporate network, in the cloud or on mobiledevices. The first unified data security platform of its kind, Ionic Security takes a comprehensive approach to secure data in today’s borderless enterprise by providing access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management, without proxies or gateways or changes in user behavior. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and is backed by leading venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, TechOperators, and ff VC as well as industry experts Christopher Klaus, Ken Levine, Phil Dunkelberger, and Dr. Paul Judge.

Leo Hindery, Jr. is an American businessman, author, political activist and philanthropist. He is currently the Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a private equity fund located in New York. Previously, he was CEO of The YES Network, which he founded in 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees. In 1999, Leo was CEO of AT&TBroadband.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Software
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Snaps — Quiq is the leading conversational AI platform. Business messaging and chatbots power better conversations for support and commerce teams.
MobileLogic — MobileLogic is a provider of complete mobile business solutions.MobileLogic's mission is to be the nation's leading provider of wireless solutions that help corporations improve out-of-office productivity, reduce costs, increase revenues and leverage their current information technology. In addition to technology, they deliverconvenience and customer satisfaction - the industry's only solution provider that assesses the customer's need for wireless remote access, that provides the right software and hardware, that integrates the wireless technology with the customer's wireline network, and that ensures the wireless solution works to the complete satisfaction of the customer and its mobile workers.Their services and products deliver wireless access to LAN-based enterprise data from wherever and whenever mobile workers need to conduct business. MobileLogic wireless solutions include optimizing software, gateway access, modem hardware, security, data airtime and comprehensive customer support. Each customer solution is three-phased, with strategic consulting, product selection and product integration. MobileLogic's strategic consulting determines the extent to which wireless technologies can help a company achieve its goals. They then help the company select the appropriate products for a customized wireless solution that enables performance improvement. Lastly, they integrate the wireless solution with the company's wireline network. They are the only wireless provider that offers consulting and product integration in addition to products. This is key. With the wireless landscape changing weekly, MobileLogic's industry-experienced consultants help companies navigate the many products from which to choose. And while competitors offer only data security, enhanced performance or ease of use, MobileLogic combines all three in its wireless solutions. Most importantly, their client service is guided by ongoing communication, accountability and total customer satisfaction.MobileLogic brings both deep industry experience and a single-source provider of both product and product integration to the wireless data industry. Founded in 1993 as Wireless Telecom Inc., the company was for years the largest wireless data systems integrator in the United States. During this period, it forged partnerships with leading technology companies and assembled a dynamic management team. Today, MobileLogic boasts single-source, best-of-breed wireless solutions, a recent infusion of significant capital, and a nimble operating structure that enables a speed-to-market unrivaled in the wireless industry segment.

Pradip Madan is the Managing Partner at Great North Ventures and an Advisor at Cognito Networks. He previously worked as an Advisor at Virtue Analytics, Applied Spectra, and Echelon and the CEO, COO, and Co-Founder at Rivio. Pradip attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

AgTech, Mobile, Farming
Seed, Angel
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nativex — Nativex is dedicated to driving ROI and growth for all sectors of business in a digital and mobile-first world. Nativex enables marketers to create strong, sustainable growth through universal access to digital channels across China and the rest of the world. In addition to this, Nativex offers all the integrated tools needed for marketers tothrive and create a meaningful impact on their audiences. The Nativex Trading Desk is a cloud-based trading desk connected to various media platforms via marketing APIs as well as RTB technologies. Its functionality marks a first for marketers and advertisers as they can buy and optimize media campaigns as a managed service via ad exchanges, ad networks, programmatic buying platforms and other key inventories such as the US and Chinese top media. Part of Mobvista, Nativex has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide. Learn more at www.nativex.com.
Soiltech Wireless — Soiltech Wireless is a developer of ag-tech solutions to design electronic devices for agricultural professionals. Its product provides real-time data to drive efficiency and optimize quality. It also provides actionable data without installation hassles and creates scalable monitoring solutions for farmers.The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Rupert, Idaho.

David Levin

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Mobile
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Snaps — Quiq is the leading conversational AI platform. Business messaging and chatbots power better conversations for support and commerce teams.
Citymaps — Citymaps, a TripAdvisor company, is a social mapping platform for travel, featuring a purpose built and industry-leading travel map that can be used both online and offline. The platform also offers a suite of travel-related tools including the ability for end-users to create and share itineraries and map collections. Its patent-protectedPOI-centric map interface makes this the perfect mapping companion for every traveler. Its product can be used online and offline without a data connection.

Jochen Tuchbreiter servers as a CEO at Hetzner Cloud GmbH.

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Digital Media
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wagawin GmbH — Discover LivingAds, the world's leading audience engagement technology that enables meaningful conversations between brands and consumers. In order to do so, our technology gets users to engage with mobile ads, allowing us to identify and activate audiences with the highest affinity to the brand, product or service, generating impressive results. Check it out!

Jared Hecht is a Builder and Investor at Magellan. He attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.

Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning. Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
DigiBuild — DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages.
Upright — Meet Upright, the good for you go-to. Our first product is a category-defining high-protein, allergen-free Instant Oatmilk in three creamy, delicious flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. Each tasty cup of our oatmilk packs the same key nutrients as dairy, without the unwanted allergens or environmental impact.

Grant Gregory is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Partner at GRA CPA. He attended the University of Florida.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Digital Media
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Coder — The #1 self-hosted cloud development environment with over 50M open source downloads. Discover faster build times & reduce cloud costs with Coder today.
ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

Tina Daniels is a Google Managing Director - Analytics & Measurement, Board Member, Advisor at Google. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Sales Automation
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

Sarah is a Financial Planner at Simplify Financial and a Board Member for the Community Engagement and Social Impact of the City Hope San Francisco.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Sales Automation
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

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 provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States

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.

Peter Naylor

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Sales Automation
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.

Steve Kantor is currently the Executive Managing Director and Co-Founder of Cantor Fitzgerald Commercial Real Estate. He previously served as an Executive Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald. Prior to working at Cantor Fitzgerald, Steve worked as Managing Director of Credit Suisse New York. Prior to workingat Credit Suisse, Steve worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Paine Webber and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Most recently, Steve made a transfer from Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Banking to Cantor Commercial Real Estate, a venture he helped create.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Snaps — Quiq is the leading conversational AI platform. Business messaging and chatbots power better conversations for support and commerce teams.

Frans Vermeulen

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Sales Automation
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

ArcSpan Technologies — ArcSpan is an innovative audience monetization platform focused on the needs of the world's finest publishers. Unlock the most value from your first-party addressable audiences while providing advertisers the targeting performance they need and consumers the privacy and transparency they expect.