Top 50 Non Profit Angel Investors in January 2026

Investor	Non Profit investments
Nihal Mehta	4
Bob Bickel	4
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	3
Eric Ries	3
Zachary Smith	2
Jere Doyle	2
Oleg Ayupov	2
Michael Birch	2
Ramesh Chandra Majithia	2
Michael Coors	2
Marat Kichikov	2
Habib Haddad	2
Daniel Schryer	2
David S. Rose	2
Tabreez Verjee	2
Deborah Ellinger	1
Frederik Fleck	1
Sacha Labourey	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Julian Shapiro	1
Luca Ferrante Carrante	1
Marcel Hermann	1
Matt Avril	1
Fabio Cannavale	1
Joshua Schachter	1
Jay Love	1
Adam Berman	1
Winshall Walt	1
Joe Graziano	1
Jeremy Foster	1
Bill McKiernan	1
Cheng-Ling Chen	1
John Sculley	1
Ariel Poler	1
Jocelyn Leavitt	1
Bá Minuzzi	1
Brooke Waupsh	1
Troy Carter	1
Jody McCrary	1
Emmanuel Caeymaex	1
Alan Tisch	1
Ronald Conway	1
Tope Awotona	1
Colin Angle	1
Zack Rinat	1
Randy Befumo	1
Jaan Tallinn	1
Karen King	1
Scott Banister	1
Payam Zamani	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.
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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 — Launchable is an intelligence platform layer for all software testing that shortens wait times for testing, speeds up and optimizes CI pipeline efficiency, leading to shipping higher-quality software faster. Through machine learning in Lauchable’s SaaS, developers and Dev teams can test what matters and find bugs faster, reduce risk, increasecommit frequency, and decrease time-to-production, all leading to Continuous Quality. Test what matters at launchableinc.com

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.
CRE Venture Capital — Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

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 workflows
Manifold Labs — Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.

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.

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.

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London.

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.

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 the leading Indian International Fintech player that provides omni-channel electronic payments acceptance solutions to Enterprises, SMEs, Banks, and Mobile Service Operators across 12 countries spanning Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe. Payswiff is a payment facilitator, provider of outsourcing and white label solutions forelectronic payments. Payswiff is also licensed GST Suvidha Provider (GSP), providing convenient tax filing services to businesses In India.The co-founding team comprising of seasoned professionals with 13+ years’ experience in the payments industry launched Paynear in 2013. Their dream was to empower small & medium businesses with a simple, hassle free and secure payment transaction solution, which fulfills their day-to-day payment processing requirements. In 2015, the company launched its first flagship product - Paynear ONE, an omni-channel payment transaction solution that lets business owners accept payments from their customers in-store, at home deliveries, online and on-the-go using mPOS and POS solutions.Within a short span, in 2017 Paynear acquired Singapore headquartered Goswiff International and the trade name was re-branded as Payswiff Solutions. In the same year, Payswiff also become a licensed GST Suvidha Provider (GSP), that provides convenient tax filing services to businesses & other stakeholders through its invoicing and GST filing application - 'Taxngo'. Payswiff ONE – the company’s flagship plug ‘n’ play payment transaction solution helps its businesses accept payments through multiple modes, including debit cards, credit cards, net banking, payment gateway, e-wallets and UPI. Payswiff TaxnGo solution lets small & medium businesses automate their GST return filing needs along with managing their customers, products, vendors, credit/debit memos, create sales & purchase invoices and generate printable invoices seamlessly. Payswiff through its innovative solutions, has played a vital role in supporting the Indian Government's drive towards a digital Indian economy. The company has successfully served customers around the world since 2013, bagging multiple industry awards like, Telangana Brand Leadership Awards, Best Use of Mobile Technology in Financial Services at Asia Banking, Financial Services & Insurance Excellence Awards in Singapore, The 2017 Times Network National Awards etc. Recently, Payswiff attained the jury award for being the best IT Company at the 2018 HMTV Business Excellence Awards.At present, Payswiff has partnered with 50+ banks globally, has more than 450+ associates in 11 different countries and is listed in the Top 50 FinTech Companies in India.

Michael Coors - Co-CEO @ CoorsTek Sensors

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AgMonitor — 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.

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.
Metatable.ai — Metatable.ai simplifies software development with AI. It removes unnecessary complexity from coding to create high-quality software faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Metatable.ai lets you direct AI to write functions for your project. After stating your request LLM writes code for your function and checks it with the compilerfor errors. You can adjust code by asking AI or editing it by yourself. Once error-free, the funciton is built, deployed, and ready for production performance, all without worrying about DevOps. Metatable.ai allows you to develop your SQL database by stating the required tables and columns in plain English. AI will then create SQL requests and deploy them to the platform. You can work with your database using the Text-to-SQL feature, creating requests, new tables, or even plotting charts with simple commands. Your project is presented on a Figma-like canvas, where you can manage your functions, database tables, and make data entries to the database. Metatable.ai streamlines development processes, reducing the time and resources required to bring ideas to life.

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.

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.

David S. Rose is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Gust. He previously worked at Tekserve as a Board Member. David S. Rose attended Yale University.

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.

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 is a social enterprise that helps nonprofits maximize their impact through a suite of world-class online fundraising tools. The company also hosts the Collaborative and Classy Awards to recognize excellence in social innovation.Since 2011, they've powered tens of millions of donations from over 190 countries and raised over $2 billionfor social good.

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.

Frederik Fleck is a serial entrepreneur.In 2007 he started his own investment company. Richmond View Venture incubates businesses (Crowd Guru, expertcloud) and invests in early stage start-ups. His portfolio includes Reputation.com, Sipegood, Simfy, an online video advertising network, and a rapidly growing fashion rental site.In 2005 FrederikFleck founded Ostrich Media, an interactive quiz TV production company that he built into an international organization operating in five countries. London based Ostrich Media has been acquired in 2007 by Buongiorno. Previously Frederik Fleck was part of the senior management team of 9Live interactive TV, where he was responsible for the Sales and Marketing Division. In 2005, Germanyâ€™s largest TV group ProSiebenSat.1 acquired 9Live. Frederik Fleck began his career as part of a startup team that developed the Berlin-based expert advice platform Questico. He was responsible for business development and implemented Queticoâ€™s TV strategy.

Investment focus

Credit, Retail, Shopping
Angel, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dizinga — Dizinga a marketplace where artists from around the world can upload their artworks and quickly publish them for sale as popular products such as Prints, Posters, Phone Cases and Apparel. We take care of promoting these designs to customers around the world across marketplaces and search engines. When a customer buys a product we produce it onthe artist's behalf, on demand, and ship it to the customer from a local manufacturer saving delivery time and shipping cost.
SwipeGood — SwipeGood allows users to enroll their credit or debit cards and automatically round up every purchase to the nearest dollar for charity. By aggregating your credit and debit card transactions, rounding up each purchase to the nearest dollar, and distributing the difference to your favorite charities, SwipeGood enables you to do a small amount ofgood every time you swipe your card.

Sacha was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and graduated in 1999 from EPFL. It was during Sacha’s studies in 1996 that he started his first consulting business - Cogito Informatique. In 2001, he joined Marc Fleury’s JBoss project as a core contributor and implemented JBoss’ original clustering features. In 2003, Sacha founded the Europeanheadquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company’s growth in that region. While in this position, he led the recruitment of some of JBoss’ key talent and acquisition of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, Inc. and oversaw all of JBoss engineering. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc. was acquired by Red Hat (NYSE:RHT). After the acquisition, Sacha remained JBoss CTO and played a crucial role in integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division. He ultimately left Red Hat in April 2009 and founded CloudBees in April 2010.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Droople — We are completely blind to what happens after the main water meter in any residential, commercial or industrial buildings. More than 36 billion water assets such as sanitary ware, water treatment systems and appliances are off radar today where their performance, lifetime and maintenance rely on water quality and usage. We build the Internet ofwater to connect those assets to monitor them, predict their maintenance needs and enable water-energy savings. Droople is the Internet of Water to connect 36BN water assets off radar today such as water treatment systems, sanitary ware, appliances to monitor them, predict their maintenance, automate the procurement of their consumables and enable water-energy savings for service operators and indirectly for manufacturers and end-customers.
GiveSignup — GiveSignup is the nonprofit technology leader that provides nonprofits the technology to generate revenue and engage supporters.
Gridline — Gridline is the only platform that enables you to invest with top tier fund managers across venture, buyout and real assets.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

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.

Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group

Investment focus

Shoes, Retail, Travel
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

WeRoad — We organise group tours on the road to more than 150 destinations around the world. We leave all year round, in similar groups of age and travel mood.
Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
CharityStars — The groundbreaking fundraising platform offering one destination for all. Together we stand strong, dream big and create greater change for causes worldwide.

Marcel Hermann

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Graziano was formerly CFO of Apple

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Security
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pertino — Cradlepoint unlocks the power of LTE and 5G to wirelessly connect fixed and temporary sites, vehicles, field forces, and IoT devices, anywhere. Learn more!
Talk City — Talk City is a telecommunication services company. It provides online communities and interactive services for businesses and consumers. For businesses, Talk City's services, includes designing integrated customized communities, producing online events, conducting online market research, and facilitating online meetings. The company offersconsumers a combination of chat rooms, home pages, web-based clubs, online events, discussion boards, and other community tools.Talk City was founded by Bernard Bernstein and is headquartered in North Andover, Massachusetts.

Jeremy Foster

Investment focus

SaaS, EdTech, Internet
Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swoovy — Swoovy takes the pain out of finding volunteering opportunities, and connecting with others through shared interests to volunteer. Corporate service make easy to increase employee engagement, and track community impact.
Upswing — Upswing provides colleges and universities with an integrated student services platform to increase student retention. Colleges are able to integrate their various student support operations in a virtual environment to allow students to easily find and meet with staff in support functions like advising, counseling, student success coaching, andtutoring. Additionally, Upswing's virtual assistant connects students via SMS to college reminders and information. By streamlining student services, college administrators are able to manage support staff in a single location, oversee communication with students, and access streamlined reporting and insights.

William S. McKiernan, Bill founded CyberSource Corp. in 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from December 1997 to January 1, 2010. Mr. McKiernan served as Chief Executive Officer of Beyond.com corp., from 1994 to March 1998. From 1992 to 1994, he was employed by Network Associates (formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc.) a developerof computer security software, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer during its initial public offering since October 1992. Prior to joining McAfee Associates in 1992, Mr. McKiernan served as Vice President of Princeton Venture Research, Inc., an investment banking and venture consulting firm from 1990 to 1992. He also held management positions with IBM/ROLM, a telecommunications company, and Price Waterhouse. He is the Founder of CyberSource Limited and serves as its Executive Chairman. He served as Chairman of the Board of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. He Founded Beyond.com, an online reseller of computer software, in 1994 and served as its Chairman of the Board since March 1998. He serves as a Director of Vertical Software, Inc. He served as a Director of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. Mr. McKiernan holds a B.S. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Bitcoin
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

ChangeX — <p>Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!</p>
Signifyd — Put CX at the heart of ecommerce operations. Strike the perfect balance between conversion and fraud prevention.
Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.

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!

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
Reloadly — Unlock global access with Reloadly's powerful API for digital gift cards and mobile top- ups.Simplify payouts, boost engagement, and grow your business with customizable, easy- to - integrate solutions.
Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.

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.

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".

Brooke Waupsh

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Non Profit
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swoovy — Swoovy takes the pain out of finding volunteering opportunities, and connecting with others through shared interests to volunteer. Corporate service make easy to increase employee engagement, and track community impact.

Troy Carter is the Founder and CEO of Venice Music. He previously worked at Atom Factory as a Founder and CEO. Troy Carter attended Fairfield University.

Investment focus

Social Media, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Therabody — Therabody is a developer of medical devices for targeted vibration therapy and pain relief.
MobileCoin — Download the Sentz App to send and receive payments globally from anyone you can text in under five seconds for (basically) free!
Moment House — Elevated Digital Experiences

Jody McCrary

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Non Profit
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swoovy — Swoovy takes the pain out of finding volunteering opportunities, and connecting with others through shared interests to volunteer. Corporate service make easy to increase employee engagement, and track community impact.

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.

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.

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.

Founder and CEO of Calendly

Investment focus

Software, Non Profit, Event Management
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vowel — Vowel aims to make meetings and post-meeting actions better than ever before. Our vision: build a meeting OS and make meetings more productive, efficient and valuable. Plan, host, transcribe, search, and share your video meetings all in one browser window.
Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.

Colin Angle is incurably optimistic about the future of people and robotics. A robot builder from MIT who wanted to change the world by making practical robotics a mainstream reality, Colin envisions a world where intelligent and and purpose-first robots help people do more. As a visionary at the forefront of the growing home robot industry, todayColin serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the iconic consumer robot company he founded in 1990: iRobot. He is an industry pioneer and one of the world’s leading authorities on practical robots.Under Colin’s leadership, iRobot has grown from a MIT startup to become the global leader in consumer robots, with $884 million in revenue and more than 1,000 employees in twelve countries. In 2002, iRobot established the home robot category with the creation of the award-winning Roomba robot vacuum. The company’s product line, including the Roomba and the Braava family of robot mops, made practical home robots a reality for the first time and have become the most successful consumer robots in history, with more than 25 million sold worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Art, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

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.
Striiv — Striiv, a Redwood City, CA-based start-up that develops portable fitness devices.
Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults

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.

Randy Befumo

Investment focus

Non Profit, Technical Support
Series A
Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

GiveSignup — GiveSignup is the nonprofit technology leader that provides nonprofits the technology to generate revenue and engage supporters.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Karen King joined Silver Lake in 2004 and is a Managing Director. As the Chief Legal Officer, she oversees a team of lawyers in Menlo Park, New York, London, and Hong Kong. Ms. King and her team are involved in all aspects of the Firm's business from fundraising to deal execution to portfolio management and liquidity, as well as riskmanagement. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Ms. King worked for a number of years at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in its Palo Alto, New York, and London offices. During her time there she worked on capital markets transactions, such as initial public offerings and high yield debt financings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, including representing several private equity firms. Ms. King holds an A.B. from Duke University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School and serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Marketing
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Momentum — Finally, a real solution for major gift fundraising. Powered by AI.

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.

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

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
Glass | Government Ecosystems — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai