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Top 50 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United States

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Mobile advertising startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile advertising companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United States

Investor	Mobile Advertising United States investments
Richard Braddock	2
Jim Swartz	2
Ben Barokas	2
Alex Rainert	2
Auren Hoffman	2
Geoff Judge	2
Michael Kassan	2
Michael Barrett	2
Joshua Schachter	2
Scott Petersen	2
Clark Landry	2
Paul Sethi	2
John Richards	2
Dave Hanson	1
John Keister	1
Diaz Nesamoney	1
Jared Young	1
Sarah Behr	1
Jim Warner	1
Eyal Gura	1
Daniel Recanati	1
Matthew Welty	1
David Levin	1
Rohit Sharma	1
Chris Kelly	1
Scott Kurnit	1
Grant Gregory	1
Christian Edler	1
Tina Daniels	1
Elon Musk	1
Jared Hecht	1
Peter Naylor	1
Mike Katz	1
Jordan Mclain	1
Thomas Lehrman	1
Tim Koogle	1
Erik Matlick	1
Frans Vermeulen	1
Ihar Mahaniok	1
Jonathan Carson	1
Alex Gezelius	1
Leo Hindery Jr.	1
Scott McNealy	1
Matt Bostock	1
Matthew Greitzer	1
Jonah Goodhart	1
Erik Juhl	1
Bill Wise	1
Steve Kantor	1
Don Dodge	1

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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 is a location intelligence company helping organizations make better business decisions with enterprise location analytics.
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.

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 developing smart, versatile, lifesaving ventilators for critical care. The company's first product, the CorVent™ Single-Use Ventilator, was designed in partnership with Design Catapult, an industrial design firm recognized for their rapid ideation of medical and commercial products. The ventilator is currently pendingEmergency Use Authorization (EUA) issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ventilators, tubing connectors and accessories, which authorizes its use for the duration of the U.S. Health and Human Services COVID-19 public health emergency declaration.

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 — Traverse leverages data and the power of the email channel to generate new customers for marketers and incremental revenue for publishers.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Finexio — Accounts Payable Software | B2B Payments.
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.

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.

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!

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 — Hidden Door is an online game platform for youngsters to delight themselves by discovering, playing, and creating stories.

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.

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.

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 — Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to.

John Richards - CEO / Founder @ Startup Ignition

Investment focus

Social Media, Augmented Reality, Software
Seed, Pre-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.

Investor / YouTuber

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Sales, Sporting Goods
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

HipPocket — It takes too long to find or to sell a home—10 weeks on average to search for a home to buy and 12 weeks to sell a home. AI can improve this but seller-focused property websites and Multiple Listing Service (MLS’s) have no incentive or ability to change. Zillow does not want to disrupt $750M of ad revenues and the 850 MLS’s are agent-only tools andeach organization does not have the ability, funds and scale to introduce AI. Buyers and Sellers will continue to suffer if this status quo is not broken.At HipPocket we’re developing an intelligent real estate platform that reduces search and sale times by matching buyers faster to more relevant homes using machine learning, and powering rapid collaboration between buyer, agents and seller through AI enhanced messaging.
TickerTags — TickerTags believe that the social web provides investors with the means to keep up with the evolving landscape of culture and news more efficiently than any conventional form of financial media or research.
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.

John Keister is the CEO at MixMode. John Keister attended Occidental College.

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

WeDo — With the collaborative platform WEDO, prepare your meetings in teams, write the minutes in real-time, and follow the tasks assigned to your colleagues.
Prism — Prism is a smartphone application that enables individuals to manage their bills and personal finances. Available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Kindle platforms, the application connects its users directly with their billers to facilitate automatic notifications when new bills are found as well as to schedule payments using their credit and debitcards, and bank accounts. Prism also offers a dashboard enabling users to check and manage their account balances in order to make educated financial decisions.
SquareTwo — SquareTwo is a mobile games publisher that creates simple yet compelling games where points have real value, leveraging their own Media and Rewards platform. Their initial title verydice has a simple game loop that compels users to share, engage and redeem points for actual goods.Founded in 2016, the team experimented with retention andmonetization around simple game play dynamics. By mid 2017, they had launched their first title on iOS, verydice, and were able to generate monthly profit. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power ofdata to power enterprise and consumer applications.Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization.Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition.Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Seed, Series C, Series E
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jivox — Deliver a relevant message consistently across all channels in real time. Serving dynamically created ads personalized to individual consumers means more sales.

Jared Young

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A
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.
Sk3w Technologies — Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions.

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.

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.

Eyal Gura is the Board Member of Imagene AI. He previously worked at Zebra Medical Vision Ltd as a Co-Founder, President and Chairman of the Board. Eyal Gura attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Theator — Discover the world's first surgical intelligence platform from theator. Continually perfect your craft with AI & computer vision technology.
Taranis — Taranis provides farmers with innovative and accurate precision agriculture solutions, powered by AI and machine learning, to optimize crop yields and streamline farm operations. Learn more about our cutting-edge technology. Request a demo today.
Imagene AI — Image-based H&E Biomarkers Profiling in Real-time

Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .

Investment focus

Internet, Analytics, Advertising
Seed, Series B, Series A
Israel, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Yo! Egg — At Yo Egg, we're on a mission to become the largest and most sustainable egg producer in the world, without the use of chickens.
Solutum — Solutum is a Cleantech start-up that develops a unique formula for plastic bags to dissolve in water.The company's team of chemical engineers have developed a unique compound that replaces the plastic with a cost-efficient, strong and eco-friendly solution. Solutum biodegradable products are environmentally friendly. These products aim toreplace plastic which is polluting our surroundings, causing devastating harm to nature and our own health.Each year around 350M ton of plastics are being produced around the world. About half of it is single-use products - resulting in mass pollution of the land and sea.The plastic that reaches the sea kills more than 1 million marine animals a year. This plastic also comes back to us in the food and water, causing major health problems. Translated into money - $139 Billion globally is being spent on the overall social and environmental costs of plastic pollution every year.Completely dissolving in water to natural and eco-friendly components, our product is a perfect and cost efficient solution to the plastic pollution.
Helios — HELIOS is developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.

Matthew Welty

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Mobile Advertising
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Appington — Add the Power of Voice to your mobile app with Appington!Apps are simply better with professional sounding voice!Appington is the fastest and easiest way to add professional quality voice prompts to your mobile app. Typically used to boost retention and drive more sales, their service allows you to create professional quality voice prompts,deliver multiple versions, analyze their effectiveness, and make changes on the fly without issuing new updates. And the Appington SDK is small, requiring only a few lines of code. To learn more or get started for FREE, log on to Appington.com and let the Power of Voice start working for you!

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.

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.
Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.

Chris Kelly is the COO at Inverted Edge. He attended Harvard Law School, Yale University, and Georgetown University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Social Media, Video
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

EverPresent — Photo, video, and audio conversion company serving all 50 states by mail and locations in MA, NY, RI, NH, ME & CT. Let us preserve your memories.
Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!
Snickerdoodle Labs — Snickerdoodle is a data exchange built for the web3 era. People own and lease their data anonymously to brands in exchange for rewards.

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 — Design mobile apps, websites, and UIs in minutes with Uizard, the world's first AI-powered UX/UI design tool! Sign up today.

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 — Coder - Your Self-Hosted Remote Development Platform
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.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

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.

Elon Musk is the Co-Founder, Product Architect, and CEO of Tesla. Elon Musk attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

FinTech, SMS, Transportation
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cmax System — Cmax System designs, manufacture, and distributes an innovative system of emergency shelters to improve the living conditions and enhance the dignity of the millions of refugees.It is designed with many unique characteristics: foldable, mobile, affordable, reusable, and more. It is the lightweight, All-in-One solution fully equipped with survivalnecessities, and assembles tool-free in just 11 minutes. The rigid and raised floor design prevents collapse and makes Cmax an innovative replacement to the primitive tent.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
Quarterly Global — Quarterly Global is an established leader of targeted marketing and advertising solutions. We enable companies and individuals to excel in their respective industries.Our portfolio of products and solutions offer clients competitive intelligence, advertising, training, consulting, marketing, lead generation and readership. Our solutions liketargeted advertising, marketing, training and consulting are based on Quarterly Global’s track record of helping companies grow through organic brand discovery strategies.Our marketing and advertising portfolio include the brands like Network Story, Keywords Today, Trade and Money, Bouncegate, Socialyk, Sparterr, Wheels and Bikes, Gears and Tools, Better Ad Spend, Better Adverts, Peprfeed, Curation Land, Community Cult, Politixer, Funcxnal, Be Bollywood, Insane Hollywood, The Cricket Hub, Read to Code, Voucher Bird and 100 others.Quarterly Global delivers proprietary content, digital products, insights, training, branding, targeted advertising and marketing excellence through these brands.Quarterly Global’s products provide customers with competitive advertising and marketing intelligence. Exclusive reports, insights and case studies by Quarterly Global help clients outgrow their competition. These insights and reports are actionable and independently verified from various trusted sources.Our products help the marketing and advertising needs of various industries through engagement with over 75 million targeted readers across all our brands. We help companies Discover. Connect. Convert.

Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging servicethat in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, he led Business Development at Tumblr where he focused on international expansion and strategic partnerships. Jared currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings, and TransferWise. Jared received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University where he served as the publisher and managing director of Inside New York.

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.

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.

After spending eight years in New York City as an entrepreneur and investor, Mike joined Battery in 2011 and focuses on investments in digital media and Internet applications. Mike is currently involved with HotelTonight, J. Hilburn, KeyMe, Kontagent, SumAll, and Viddy.Prior to Battery, he was Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives atConductor, Inc. where he ran the early development of what is now the company’s core product. Conductor is a portfolio company of FirstMark Capital (previously known as Pequot Ventures), where Mike worked as an Associate and assisted with the firm’s investments in StubHub (acquired by eBay), Navic Networks (acquired by Microsoft), and Flarion Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm). He was also an Analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the Global Markets & Investment Banking division.Mike currently serves on the Board of Venture for America, a Manhattan-based nonprofit placing undergraduates with startups in cities traditionally underserved by technology investors. He has a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Business Intelligence
Series A, Seed, 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.
Joymode — Joymode was founded in the summer of 2015 and is based in downtown Los Angeles. They work and play in a Willy Wonka-esque warehouse filled with giant Jenga sets, old-fashioned popcorn machines, stand-up paddleboards, and a bounce house.
Prokeep — Prokeep is the easy-to-use texting app designed for distributors. We turn your counter computer into a "mission control" for modern text messaging.

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.

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
G2 — G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.The company was founded in 2012 andis based out of Chicago, Illinois.
Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.

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 specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has thecreamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Erik Matlick is the CEO at Bombora.

Investment focus

B2B, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Octane11 — Octane11 is a B2B marketing analytics platform that connects, enriches, and transforms siloed enterprise data to drive sales & marketing impact.
lockr — lockr is the first consumer-focused platform for identity, consent and data.
CaliberMind — CaliberMind connects your go-to-market tech stack for better marketing attribution, engagement scoring, pipeline conversion rates, and more.

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.

Ihar Mahaniok is the Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. Ihar Mahaniok attended Belarusian State University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Localie — No guides here. No boring tours. Just real locals. Localie is just like visiting a friend all over the globe who can't wait to show you around as their guest.
Workee — Workee is a software platform that builds business for freelancers. Scale and autopilot business routing as bookings, payments, client, and work management.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

Jonathan Carson is the Co-Founder and CEO of ANTENNA. He attended Georgetown University.

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.

Alex Gezelius

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement

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.

Scott McNealy is the Co Founder & Board Member at Curriki.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nightfall AI — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
Single Origin — Single Origin is a cloud platform where cross-functional teams define, manage, discover and consume metrics and ML features in a singular web portal. There are some use cases that Single Origin can be applied to:* Smarter Catalog - standardize data definitions across systems in multi-cloud: Single Origin's semantic management identifiesduplicate or similar data pipelines/SQLs running in single/multi-cloud and loops in corresponding users to review and standardize data definitions. * Better Collaboration - empower operators to collaborate over data in one place for Data Quality, Governance and more without going to several tools. * Seamless Orchestration - orchestrate vertical data stacks: stitching fragmented vertical solutions (catalog, semantic management, computation, governance, quality and lineage) is a formidable challenge. Single Origin provides all-in-one package or modular components that are missing and can “plug and play” in your data stacks.We are a group of engineers and product people, who founded, led and scaled uMetric and Databook of Uber and multiple ML platforms at Snap, Reddit, Amazon and Microsoft. Please reach out to us and find out how Single Origin can power "metrics and ML features as a service" for you.
REX - Real Estate Exchange — Keep the equity when you sell and get more savings when you buy. REX is everything you need to buy, sell, finance, manage, insure, and save on your next home.

Matt Bostock

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.

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.

Jonah Goodhart is the Co-founder at Montauk Labs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ophelos — Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health.
Recast — Recast is a modern media mix modeling platform. Optimize your channel mix, forecast reliably, and eliminate wasted marketing spend (every week).
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

Entrepreneur, Investor and Operator. Built multiple unicorns from zero revenue up. Love building and helping the community advance.

Investment focus

Gaming, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

GawkBox — GawkBox enables content creators to build a community with their audience.- Creators can recruit their audience onto their team and play games together. A new game starts every 24 hours. - Compete against other creators for the highest team score in daily competitions. Prizes are awarded to the top teams. - Cultivate a community through safe anddedicated live chat. Community members who play the most are recognized through a system of ranks and rewards. - Collect donations from the community and win prizes to support the channel. Teams have a chance to win every single day!
Libation Labs — Libation Labs, Inc. is a technology-focused game studio founded in early 2022.

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.

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.

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.

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