Top 50 Non Profit Angel Investors in April 2025

Investor	Non Profit investments
Nihal Mehta	4
Bob Bickel	4
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	3
Eric Ries	3
Jere Doyle	2
Marat Kichikov	2
Michael Coors	2
Daniel Schryer	2
Habib Haddad	2
Tabreez Verjee	2
David S. Rose	2
Michael Birch	2
Oleg Ayupov	2
Zachary Smith	2
Ramesh Chandra Majithia	2
Sean Glass	1
Will Anderson	1
Shahed Khan	1
Sam Parr	1
Matt Avril	1
Cheng-Ling Chen	1
John Sculley	1
Tom Brown	1
Dave Balter	1
Maja Kristin	1
Jay Love	1
Kristian Andersen	1
Jenny Bloom	1
Emmanuel Caeymaex	1
Garry Tan	1
Alan Tisch	1
Allen Gannett	1
Adam Berman	1
Tim Kendall	1
Alan Matthew	1
Fabio Cannavale	1
Joshua Schachter	1
Jocelyn Leavitt	1
Winshall Walt	1
Bá Minuzzi	1
Elena Gomez	1
David Cummings	1
Wayne Chang	1
Julian Shapiro	1
Zack Rinat	1
Kamran Pourzanjani	1
Shaan Puri	1
Ronald Conway	1
Hadi Partovi	1
Deborah Ellinger	1

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.

Bob Bickel is the Founder and CEO at RunSignUp.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Non Profit
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

GiveSignup — GiveSignup is the nonprofit technology leader that provides nonprofits the technology to generate revenue and engage supporters.
RunSignUp | TicketSignup | GiveSignup — RunSignup is the leading all-in-one platform for endurance and fundraising events. More than 17,000 races, supporting over 7,000 nonprofits, use RunSignup’s free and integrated solution to save time, grow their events, and raise more. Built on a powerful CRM, RunSignup delivers the art of technology to power the entire race cycle, with promotionaltools, registration, a full fundraising platform, and a suite of RaceDay products – including the runner-tracking app RaceJoy and race timing software, RaceDay Scoring. For more information, visit www.runsignup.com
Launchable — Shorter test runs, smarter test triaging, test health insights, and test failure analysis. Remove friction from the dev-test loop to iterate & ship faster.

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

Investment focus

Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.

Jere Doyle is an adviser, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He helps people grow their companies and nurture success—which he defines broadly as “living the life you want to live.” His basic message is that people can do this by learning how to leverage five personal assets, five ingredients of a truly successful life. He calls these the “FivePs”—Passion, Patience, Persistence, Principles, and Pride.As an entrepreneur, Doyle has built two startup companies—Prospectiv and Global Marketing—into recognized industry leaders. Now, as a consultant, he is helping to build winning teams, launch innovative products, and spearhead effective marketing strategies. And, he is inspiring audiences with stories of how those five personal qualities can drive success in any project, career, or venture.

Investment focus

Analytics, Education, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Veem — Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
QL Gaming Group — The QL Gaming Group (QLGG) is a direct to consumer sports data and iGaming affiliate platform. QLGG operates three consumer facing data/analytics brands: BetQL (for betting), RotoQL (for daily fantasy) and SquadQL (for season long fantasy). QLGG has over half a million users across these products and tens of thousands of paying customers.QLGG holds a gaming license in New Jersey to act as an affiliate to sportsbook operators such as DraftKings, FanDuel, BetStars and more.
Sea Machines Robotics — Sea machines is revolutionizing marine technology with data-driven intelligence, autonomy, and connectivity. Learn more about autonomous marine technology.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Michael Coors - Co-CEO @ CoorsTek Sensors

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, Water
Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

PowWow Energy — PowWow provides a decision support tool for farms to do more with less. We give them relevant information throughout the season by crunching all the data available using our data-mining platform, and boiling them down to actions that they can take on the field.
Bright Funds — All-in-one CSR platform for companies of all sizes: employee giving, volunteering, and grants management. Bring purpose and impact to your workplace.
Maxwell Financial Labs — Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Panama

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
SOS Hydration — Rescue yourself from dehydration with SOS, doctor formulated rapid hydration with 80x less sugar than sports drinks and only 3g carbs and 10 calories.
Evry Health — Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.

Habib is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, recently turned VC. He is currently the CEO of Wamda.com and the managing partner of Wamda Capital. He founded Yamli.com the Arabic search and transliteration startup that licensed its technology to Yahoo. He also started a number of non-profits including YallaStartup, INLET and ReliefLebanon.In2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader and the ArabianBusiness named him one of the top 30 influential Arabs under 30 as well as of the most 500 powerful Arabs. He currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on innovation. He is an advisor to several US and Middle Eastern startups and non-profits. Habib is behind the original idea behind Yamli, and today drives Yamli's vision of empowering the Arabic language and users on the web. His responsibilities span from product strategy and design to business development. The World Economic Forum recently recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader for 2009.Prior to Yamli, he worked as a senior engineer at ATI (later acquired by AMD); and before that he was part of the early engineering team at Mok3 (now Everyscape), a startup out of the MIT CSAIL lab.Habib co-founded INLET (International Network of Lebanese Entrepreneurs and Technologists), an organization geared towards promoting entrepreneurship and leadership for the Arab world in general and Lebanon in particular. He also founded Relief Lebanon, a grass roots effort aimed at supporting the relief operations in Lebanon during the July 2006 war. Relief Lebanon was featured by the "101 Stories to Tell" initiative by the UNDP in February 2009.Habib often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship, and has spoken at venues such as the Harvard Business School, Boston College and the American University of Beirut. He currently sits on the advisory board of Meedan, a non-profit startup that aims to enable cross-cultural dialogs online.Habib holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Internet, Non Profit, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
ProBueno — ProBueno (http://www.probueno.com) is a new way to raise money for charity; built for the social web, ProBueno enables anyone to offer his or her talents in exchange for donations. For example, a musician can offer to give a piano lesson to any fan that donates $30 to the Red Cross
Rally — RallyPay and Rally.org use innovative payments and data technology to connect donors to causes and companies with their clients. It is an easy to use storytelling platform that's designed to empower technical and non-technical users to fundraise and build social awareness on a large scale. To date, Rally has enabled millions of individuals andorganizations to share, connect to, and broadcast their passions, provide solutions to problems, leverage social networks, and mobilize communities. Rally's users vary in size and scope and address a wide range of topics. The site has been used by everyone from political candidates for campaign fundraising to Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit foundation to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Others have created Rally campaigns to help cover the cost of medical expenses, pay for tuition, start companies, fund films and everything in-between.

Tabreez Verjee is a three-time entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Uprising to invest in and relentlessly support mission driven technology entrepreneurs pursuing epic endeavors that matter. Some of the recent superheroes that he has backed include the people behind Change.org, Upworthy, Amicus, Calm, ClassDojo, Lumo Body Tech, and Purpose.Tabreez is also an active member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world's first crowdsourced lending platform dedicated to connecting people for the purpose of alleviating poverty, where he was also one of Kiva’s first financial backers.Tabreez began his career at Bain & Company and left to co-found a boutique finance company that raised $150 million for innovative media financings and completed landmark deals including a $30M securitization of music royalties for heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He then moved over to the technology and internet space where he helped lead the internet music company Sonique to be the fifth most downloaded application on the Internet in 1999 and was responsible for spearheading its sale for over $70 million. After Sonique, Tabreez co-founded Global Asset Capital which began incubating start-ups and making angel investments and grew over six years into a venture capital firm with $500 million in committed capital and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe.Outside of work Tabreez loves being a dad, spending time with people he loves, playing tennis and other competitive sports, building tribes, planning clever pranks and grand gestures, adventuring outdoors, and experiencing life to the fullest

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
Worklife — WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards.WorkLifeis founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Classy — Classy's fundraising solutions help you transform transactions into relationships. Discover why thousands of nonprofits choose Classy.

David S. Rose is the Founder and Executive Chairman at Gust.

Investment focus

Mobile, Marketplace, Financial Services
Angel, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Miner App — Ciri-ciri situs judi online terpercaya seperti tempat yang nyaman untuk bermain game judi online uang asli, menyediakan aplikasi yang mudah di akses untuk daftar.
Tobly — Aerial Equipment Rental - Boom Lift, Scissor Man Lift Rentals | Tobly
Next Gen HQ — Next Gen HQ is the #1 community for the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs. Become a Member today to experience the empowering community, education, resources, and mentorship.

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
Whatifi — Whatifi provides a new way to make and consume interactive experiences on your phone with friends. Whatifi unlocks the ability to discuss, debate and decide what happens next in the movies you watch with friends and family, offering dozens of plotlines, character arcs, and endings.

Oleg Ayupov

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BixBeta Inc — Meet BixBeta - the perfect template for your next SaaS, Dashboard, App or Software website. BixBeta provides crypto transactions that flawlessly integrate with the accounting system of your choice. Embark on your crypto journey today.

Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Innovation Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Qubitro — Secure, scalable IoT platform for enterprise device management, data collection, and real-time analytics.

Ramesh Chandra Majithia

Investment focus

Innovation Management, Non Profit, Mobile
Seed, Angel
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Pursuit — Pursuit is not a short-term coding bootcamp. Our intensive Fellowship program in NYC builds meaningful software developer careers in the tech industry. Learn how to code with no upfront costs at Pursuit, transform your career, and launch future you.
Pursuit — Pursuit is not a short-term coding bootcamp. Our intensive Fellowship program in NYC builds meaningful software developer careers in the tech industry. Learn how to code with no upfront costs at Pursuit, transform your career, and launch future you.
Payswiff — Payswiff is a leading merchant platform that empowers businesses to accept multiple modes of payments, get in-depth customer insights, and grow business using working capital solutions through business loans without collaterals.

Sean Glass is the Founder and Partner of Y Startup Index. He previously worked at Advantia Health as a Member Board Of Directors. Sean Glass attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Angel
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.
Elaborate — Lab results, illuminated.
Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.

Will Anderson is an experienced operating executive with 10+ years of experience in the technology space. After starting his career as a strategy Consultant with Monitor Group, Will joined Constellation Software’s Jonas Operating group in 2003. While with Constellation, Will led divisions in both North America and Europe, and completed three highROI acquisitions in the club, construction and logistics software spaces. In 2010 will joined Iron Data Solutions as an Executive Vice President, becoming the General Manager of the 430 person Public Sector Division in early 2012.Will’s role at Klass Capital is as the CEO of Klass Software where he is searching for mid-sized mission critical solution providers to acquire. Will holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree from Queen’s University. He lives in Toronto, with his wife of 7 years and their two children.

Investment focus

SaaS, GovTech, Podcast
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

New/Mode — New/Mode is the multi-channel advocacy & civic engagement platform that organizations, campaigns & causes use to win. Join the New/Mode Community.
LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are

Shahed Khan is a Co-founder and President of Loom. He previously worked as an Investor at Upfront Ventures, a Los Angeles based venture capital firm. Prior to Upfront Ventures, Shahed was a Product Designer at Weebly (acquired by Square) and Backplane.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Bangladesh, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

NexHealth — Join thousands of doctors, hundreds of developers, and millions of patients using NexHealth for EHR-integrated real-time online scheduling, patient communications, digital paperwork, and more.
Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.
Equi — Grow your wealth faster and with less volatility by investing in alternative investments. Equi is the first Robo-family office, closing the wealth gap by helping individuals invest like the ultra-wealthy.

Sam is the founder & CEO of The Hustle – one of America’s fastest-growing media companies with a focus on millennials, tech, and culture. He also runs Hustle Con, an annual conference in San Francisco that showcases non-technical startup founders.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Auction.io — Auction.io provides real-time bids and suggested retail pricing, as well as a detailed view of the product quality, location, and time left before you submit a bid
Popup — Popup is the no-code commerce platform that lets you control the customer journey, visually.
Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!

Matt Avril

Investment focus

Non Profit, Enterprise Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zentila — The meetings and conventions industry is a $45B market that still books the old fashioned way; offline using phones, faxes, and spreadsheets. Zentila is the first end-to-end solution for booking meetings and conventions online- those that have both guest rooms and meeting space.Zentila's intuitive interface enables meeting planners - bothprofessional (eg. Meeting Managers, Dir of Meetings) and part-time (eg. Executive Assistants, Dir of Training) to plan, price, and book meetings of all sizes, faster and more cost effectively than current manual processes.Zentila's enterprise solution enables companies to easily add transparency to their meeting spend, helping to control costs, increase savings, and mitigate substantial risk.Zentila monetizes through a standard 10% commission paid by hotels who book Zentila meetings. Zentila is live and booking meetings.

Cheng-Ling Chen - Creator and Writer @ HERliograph

Investment focus

Internet, Non Profit, Financial Services
Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bright Funds — All-in-one CSR platform for companies of all sizes: employee giving, volunteering, and grants management. Bring purpose and impact to your workplace.

John Sculley joined RxAdvance Corp as Chairman and CMO, Investor in 2015. John Sculley is a partner in Sculley Advisors LLC, a private family office founded by John Sculley and his wife, Diane Sculley.John Sculley was Chief Executive Officer of Apple Computer. John Sculley joined Apple in 1983 when the Company had $600 million in revenues; bythe time he left, Apple's revenues exceeded $8 billion. Prior to joining Apple, Sculley was CEO of Pepsi from 1973 to 1983.

Investment focus

Mobile, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nirvana health — The PBM industry, which manages over $300B in prescription drug-spending, provides limited and fragmented services forcing plan sponsors to outsource critical functions to multiple vendors making it difficult to manage avoidable drug-impacted medical risk. To accomplish optimal utilization of drug benefit, reduction in overall pharmacy costs,reduction in avoidable drug-impacted medical costs, and optimize specialty spend it is critical to engage members, physicians, pharmacists, and plan sponsor’s clinical/pharmacy staff in the decision making process. At RxAdvance, such collaboration is delivered through Collaborative PBM Cloud™, resulting in a new paradigm of collaboration in the PBM industry. Collaborative PBM Cloud™ revolutionizes the delivery of actionable intelligence to the physicians at the point of care, pharmacists at the point of sale, members through mobile cloud, while effectively engaging the plan sponsor’s clinical/pharmacy staff through case/care management workflows. The Collaborative PBM Cloud™ is also enabling RxAdvance to run at 40% less operating costs than any other PBM. This cost savings provide additional reduced administrative fees, reduced drug unit costs, and increased rebate income to plan sponsors.RxAdvance, a national full service PBM, leverages disruptive Collaborative PBM Cloud™ to manage standard & specialty drug benefits with unmatched regulatory compliance and transparency. In addition, RxAdvance is willing to share global pharmacy risk standing shoulder-to-shoulder with plan sponsors. This risk model has never been offered by any other PBM.
WorldMate — WorldMate is a global leader in the field of itinerary management and mobile travel services. The WorldMate product and platform are the most sophisticated, comprehensive and widespread mobile travel itinerary management services worldwide. WorldMate has over 10 millions of mobile users and manages millions of itineraries in over 20 languagesworldwide. The WorldMate app provides users with a convenient and centralized location for managing all aspects of their travel plans. WorldMate's patent-pending technology, branded TripCatch, automatically identifies (catches) incoming travel-related emails and updates the traveler's itinerary and mobile calendar. The WorldMate app is widely-accessible and can be downloaded on any iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows device. It has received numerous industry awards, including 2012 EyeforTravel's Winner of The Best Mobile Travel App ,Android Market Editor's Choice award, 2011 Meffys Best Blockbuster App Winner, the 2010 NBTA/WSJ Business Travel Innovation Award, Engadget Best Apps (for both iPhone and Android), 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner, ANDREWSEYBOLD Most Innovative Consumer Application, among others.WorldMate works with a wide range of partners, including device manufacturers and travel providers, and markets directly to consumers through a variety of channels and means of distribution. As a testament to our successful business model, WorldMate boasts customers such as travel industry giants American Express Business Travel, as well as Research in Motion (the manufacturer of BlackBerry devices).WorldMate is a privately-held enterprise by the world's largest travel management company, Carson Wagonlit Travel. CWT is a global leader in the managed travel market, and services the travel needs of thousands of client companies.WorldMate, Inc. was founded in 2000. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has an R&D center in Tel Aviv. WorldMate is a small company with the agile dynamics and environment of a start-up, while also being one of the largest direct to consumer Israeli companies. WorldMate is a strong, well-recognized and highly appreciated brand throughout the global mobile and travel industry. With a strong commitment to improvement, our goal is to make WorldMate even bigger and stronger, to reach more users and to make traveling a more effective and efficient experience.
Eternalhealth — eternalHealth understands Medicare can be complicated, but it doesn't have to be. We have Medicare Advantage plans starting at $0/month and include value adding benefits to fit your lifestyle!

Tom Brown is a consultant for Camp One Ventures, LLC. He has more than fifteen years experience in the payment industry, including a stint at Visa U.S.A. Inc., where he worked on the company’s reorganization and eventual IPO (NYSE: V). Tom has counseled a number of the market leaders in the payment industry and has been described by the FinancialTimes as charting the future of mobile payments. He is a partner at a global law firm with offices in, among other places, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Seoul and Bejing, and serves as co-chair of the firm’s global payment systems practice. He serves as a non-lawyer advisor to a number of companies, including Zooz, LevelMoney, and Upstart. Thomas Brown holds a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

FinTech, Transaction Processing, Payments
Series A, Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
TenureX — Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion.
Rally — RallyPay and Rally.org use innovative payments and data technology to connect donors to causes and companies with their clients. It is an easy to use storytelling platform that's designed to empower technical and non-technical users to fundraise and build social awareness on a large scale. To date, Rally has enabled millions of individuals andorganizations to share, connect to, and broadcast their passions, provide solutions to problems, leverage social networks, and mobilize communities. Rally's users vary in size and scope and address a wide range of topics. The site has been used by everyone from political candidates for campaign fundraising to Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit foundation to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Others have created Rally campaigns to help cover the cost of medical expenses, pay for tuition, start companies, fund films and everything in-between.

Dave Balter is the Founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto. He previously worked at Broadlume as a Board Member. Dave Balter attended Skidmore College.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Frond — Building new spaces for communities that can't share a place.
Unstack — Deploy high performance eCommerce storefronts and websites without the engineering overhead using Unstack's no-code CMS
evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community

Maja Kristin Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Environmental Engineering
Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Sustainable Ocean Alliance — SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs

Jay B. Love is a Co-Founder and current Chief Relationship Officer at Bloomerang.He has served this sector for 33 years and is considered the most well-known senior statesman whose advice is sought constantly.Prior to Bloomerang, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of eTapestry for 11 years, which at the time was the leading SaaS technology companyserving the charity sector. Jay and his team grew the company to more than 10,000 nonprofit clients, charting a decade of record growth.Prior to starting eTapestry, Jay served 14 years as President and CEO of Master Software Corporation. MSC provided a widely used family of database products for the non-profit sector called Fund-Master.He is a graduate of Butler University with a B.S. in Business Administration. Over the years, he has given more than 2,500 speeches around the world for the charity sector and is often the voice of new technology for fundraisers.He is past Chairman of the AFP Ethics Committee. He was the Founding Chairman of NPower Indiana, Founding Member of TechPoint Foundation and Founding Member of the AFP Business Member Council. He is still an active board member of Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, The Butler University Innovation Fund, The United Methodist Foundation of Indiana, TechPoint Foundation for Youth, and The Fundraising Effectiveness Project.He and his wife Christie served as Co-Chairs for the Indianapolis YMCA 2011 Capital Campaign and are the proud parents of three children as well as five grandchildren.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Marketing
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Chezuba — Chezuba enables companies to build employee volunteering and employee giving programs through it's high-quality software and an NGO partner network spread in 76 countries
Emerged — Increase your sales pipeline with automated prospecting & nurturing. Our sales automation platform increases healthcare sales effectiveness for scalable, cost-effective growth.
Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.

Kristian Andersen is a co-founder and partner at High Alpha and was a Co-founder at Octiv. He attended Anderson University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

The Bee Corp — The Bee Corp’s product, Verifli applies data analytics to beehives to help growers ensure effective pollination through infrared inspection technology. The Bee Corp increases yield for farmers by monitoring the number, health and distribution of pollinating bees.
The Prepared — Expert guides and deeply researched reviews to help you get prepared for emergencies without wasting time or money.
Sportsman Tracker — Sportsman Tracker is a cross-platform digital toolset designed to increase success opportunities for hunters and fishermen and allow them to quickly share their experiences. Powered by W.I.T. (Wild Life Intelligence Technology), the tracker calculates the variables that directly affect wildlife behavior. The platform lets track species and getsadaptive features that are specific only the species.Founded in 2012 by Jon Schwander and Jeffrey James Courter, Sportsman Tracker is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jenny Bloom

Investment focus

Software, Non Profit, Event Management
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.

Caeymaex Emmanuel, Executive Vice President Immunology Solutions & Head of US at UCB.

Investment focus

Security, Non Profit, Association
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kaspard — Kaspard is a non-intrusive system that provides more security to residents while respecting their privacy.

Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Odyssey — Odyssey operates as an AI start-up, provides hollywood-grade visual AI.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Alan Tisch

Investment focus

Shoes, Fashion, Jewelry
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Every — Every connects investors and curators who share a passion for alternative assets. Start investing with as little as $5, and grow your knowledge and community along the way.

Allen Gannett is an active pre-seed and seed angel investor. He is the author of The Creative Curve (Penguin 2018). Previously, he was founder/CEO of TrackMaven (merged with Skyword) and a former co-founder/GP of Acceleprise Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Shopgenie — The all-in-one marketing solution to grow your auto shop. Attract high-quality customers and keep them coming back for repairs with our digital toolbox.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.

Adam Berman, former Executive Director at the Haas School of Business.

Investment focus

Internet, Non Profit, Social Network
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Impala — Business Intelligence for the nonprofit world. Powerful insights for grantmakers and fundraisers who want to make more impactful decisions.

Tim Kendall is the Co-Founder of Moment.He attend to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2004.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pendulum — Improve glucose control, metabolic health, gut function, and support a healthy weight. The only brand with Akkermansia. Pendulum Metabolic Daily | Optimizes metabolism Pendulum Akkermansia | For gut health Pendulum Glucose Control | For A1C management Pendulum GI Repair | For occasional gut discomfort
Alto Neuroscience — Alto Neuroscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that integrates the biology of the patient into drug development to improve the lives of people with mental health conditions. Through its AI-enabled biomarker platform, Alto Neuroscience combines rich sources of information on patients’ brain activity and behavior to rapidly develophighly-effective medicines for targeted populations. Alto Neuroscience aims to replace today's trial-and-error clinical approach by aligning the right Alto drug with the right patient, redefining psychiatry at a time when the world needs it most.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Alan Matthew is an Active Angel Investor, investing in over 24 companies in the past year and a half. He has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1977 and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for over 30yrs.As a published photographer in the New York Times, Alan has explored over 85 countries in his life and has been a ShamanicHealer for over 17yrs. His company, Tribal Ventures, LLC invests in a vast array of companies and their core values lie within investing in the people of the company, not just the idea. This has been proven to be very successful for him and Tribal thus far.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

CFX Markets — CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringingliquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest.
Popular Pays — Popular Pays is your one-stop-shop for all things content creation & influencer marketing. Easily manage & optimize your campaigns to reach your goals.
Edovo — Edovo provides robust correctional programming featuring educational, vocational, and rehabilitative content and curriculums at no cost to incarcerated Learners. We strive to lower recidivism, increase safety, and drive positive outcomes for incarcerated people and their families.

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Short-term rental management software at low costs. Get the app to manage home maintenance for easy, remote hosting without hiring a property manager.
Contents.com — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

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 — A new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.

Jocelyn is a former teacher at Dalton. Since her undergraduate days at Dartmouth, she’s been excited about the power of project-based learning to transform educational experiences. She wished she had studied engineering and is making this product to compensate. She grew up in Honolulu, HI and really, really enjoys swimming in natural bodies ofwater.

Investment focus

Hardware, Recycling, Non Profit
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Revivn — Revivn is a social enterprise focused on the repurposing of used technology for social good and empowerment. Revivn uses outdated electronics from companies to build out various initiatives helping people gain computer access. By connecting companies to communities through social impact programs, Revivn helps raise awareness about the power ofrepurposing and impact technology can have for good.

Winshall Walt

Investment focus

Mobile, B2B, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.

Bá Minuzzi currently works as the Founder and General Partner for UMANA House of Funds. He previously worked at Top2You as a Mentor. Bá Minuzzi attended The Wharton School in 2021.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Seeds — Seeds Investor is a B2B platform that empowers advisors to create customized portfolios that align investor EPI values with financial goals.
Charityvest — Charityvest is a world-class donor-advised fund for individuals and employees, making tax-smart charitable giving simple for all.
Vantage Point — Vantage Point's immersive training and HCM platform leverages Virtual Reality (VR) and focuses on Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training.Vantage Point was founded under the belief that while technology can cause apathy, immersive technology can drive empathy and fundamentally make the world more human. Webelieve that the heart of all we do is human. The way we make the world more human is by using technology to teach and inspire people to become the very best versions of themselves they always hoped to be. Today Vantage Point is actively developing the platform and the products to train people on EQ-driven and Soft Skills that matter, with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to unlock their full potential.Vantage Point is used by the top Fortune 500s, Global Law Firms, Startups, and more.Vantage Point is a female led company with executive leadership including the former Chief Software Architect of SAP SuccessFactors.We are "The Next Frontier in Immersive Enterprise Training".

Gomez has served as our Chief Financial Officer since May 2016. From July 2010 to April 2016, Elena Gomez served in senior finance roles at salesforce.com, inc., a software company, including Senior Vice President Go To Market Distribution from July 2015 to April 2016, Vice President Sales and Support and Marketing Finance from June 2011 to June2015, and Senior Director Marketing and General and Administrative Finance from July 2010 to June 2011. Prior to that she held finance roles at Visa Inc., a financial services company, and The Charles Schwab Corporation, a brokerage and banking company. Elena Gomez holds a B.S. in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Training, Consulting
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

HumanQ — Human Performance, Together Enterprise Small Teams Individuals
Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.

David Cummings is the CEO and Founder of Atlanta Ventures. He previously worked at Pardot as a Founder and CEO. David Cummings attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.
Gridline — Gridline is the only platform that enables you to invest with top tier fund managers across venture, buyout and real assets.
Laudable — We handle everything for you, creating high quality 4k video testimonials remotely with a customer's phone and our app, and deliver creative branded video content.

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.

Zack Rinat Founder & Strategic Advisor at Model N.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Impala — Business Intelligence for the nonprofit world. Powerful insights for grantmakers and fundraisers who want to make more impactful decisions.
Driveroo — Streamline asset inspection and digitize any process. Driveroo Platform helps organizations seamlessly build digital workflows and operate at top efficiency
Maya Health — Maya Health is a psychedelic therapy software solution for researchers, providers, and participants. Click to learn more about how Maya can support you.

Kamran founded Bestcovery.com in 2008 to help consumers quickly and easily find the best of everything. Kamran oversees the day to day operations and growth of the company and is responsible for its overall vision and strategic direction.Prior to Bestcovery, Kamran was the co-founder, President and CEO of PriceGrabber.com, where his visionfostered a culture of success and achievement. PriceGrabber was consistently recognized by critics and consumers alike as the leading and most innovative comparison shopping engine. With a strong reputation for consumer advocacy, PriceGrabber became the most trusted comparison shopping service for over 24 million users per month.PriceGrabber was acquired by Experian in December of 2005 for approximately $500 million. In recognition of the company’s growth and performance, Kamran was named Ernst & Young’s 2005 “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Los Angeles area.Kamran is a member of the board of directors for Legalzoom.com and Oversee.net. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

CloudSight Inc. — CloudSight is a global leader in image captioning and understanding. CloudSight delivers the most superior and state-of-the-art solution to people and companies around the world.CloudSight has two breakthrough consumer apps - CamFind, the world's first successful mobile visual search engine that allows you to "Search the PhysicalWorld" and find information about anything just by taking a picture from your mobile device; and TapTapSee, an app for the blind and visually impaired that utilizes a mobile device's camera and VoiceOver to photograph and record objects to identify them out loud for the user.In addition, CloudSight offers its very own CloudSight API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.CloudSight Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
Invested.in — Invested.in is an enterprise white-label solution that provides crowdfunding software solutions for its users. The platform allows businesses to deploy their own crowdfunding websites to support its clients in launching both fundraising campaigns and crowdfunding portals. Invested.in was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, C.A.
Younity — Younity provides users with a personal cloud where they are given access across all computing and mobile devices. Its platform unifies all media like photos, video, and music as well as assists users to stream, access, or share media anytime, from any device that enables consumers to access their personal media and content seamlessly.It wasfounded in 2010 and is based in Encinitas, California.

Shaan Puri is the Owner at Twitch . Shaan Puri attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Shopgenie — The all-in-one marketing solution to grow your auto shop. Attract high-quality customers and keep them coming back for repairs with our digital toolbox.
Forum — Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Israel, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Statsig — Statsig is your modern product development platform, with an integrated toolkit for experimentation, feature management, product analytics, session replays, and much more. Trusted by thousands of companies, from OpenAI to series A startups.
Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends

Deborah Ellinger has served as a director since November 2011. She has been the chief executive officer or president of three private-equity backed companies, each of which yielded three to seven times return on capital to investors.Ellinger brings extensive experience in international retail and consumer products, serving as the former chiefexecutive officer of The Princeton Review, a company which assists students in test preparation, from 2012 to 2014, former president of Restoration Hardware, a luxury home furnishings retailer, from 2008 to 2009 and former chief executive officer of Wellness Pet Food, a natural pet-food company, from 2004 to 2008.Ellinger led each of those companies while they were owned by private equity firms, and successfully grew each business before transitioning it to new ownership. Previously, she served as an executive vice president at CVS Pharmacy, a senior vice president at Staples and a partner at The Boston Consulting Group; she began her career with Mellon Financial Corporation. She also serves on the board of Interpublic Group and The Commonwealth Institute, a nonprofit, and is a former director of The Princeton Review, Sealy Corporation, National Life Group, and several private companies. Her assignments have taken her all over the world; she has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and America.Ellinger is qualified as a Barristerat- Law in London, as a member of the Inner Temple. She holds an M.A. and B.A. in Law and Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England.Board ExperienceDirector of Interpublic Group, a public company, and The Commonwealth Institute, a nonprofit; former director of Sealy Corporation, National Life Group, and several private companies, including The Princeton Review, RenewLife, Restoration Hardware, and Malden Mills Industries.Senior Leadership ExperienceCEO of The Princeton Review; president of Restoration Hardware, CEO of Wellness Pet Food, EVP of CVS Pharmacy, SVP of Staples, and a partner at The Boston Consulting Group.

Investment focus

Art, Apps, SaaS
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cuseum — Cuseum helps museums, attractions, and nonprofits drive visitor, member, and donor engagement. Learn more about how Cuseum's mobile engagement app platform and digital membership card solution is helping organizations around the globe.