Top 50 Photography Angel Investors in United States in January 2026
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Photography startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Photography Angel Investors in United States in January 2026
| Investor | Photography United States investments |
|---|---|
| Jason Calacanis | 4 |
| Reid Hoffman | 4 |
| Michael Jones | 3 |
| Ned Lamont | 3 |
| Daniel Curran | 3 |
| Leo Chan | 3 |
| Scott Banister | 3 |
| Ronald Conway | 3 |
| Bradley C. Harrison | 3 |
| Safa Rashtchy | 2 |
| Will Herman | 2 |
| Darren Patterson | 2 |
| Shervin Pishevar | 2 |
| Alexis Ohanian | 2 |
| Keith Rabois | 2 |
| Adrian Hanauer | 2 |
| Mason Ng | 2 |
| Giordano Contestabile | 2 |
| Caterina Fake | 2 |
| Garry Tan | 2 |
| Adam D’Angelo | 2 |
| Joi Ito | 2 |
| Derek Andersen | 2 |
| Joi Ito | 2 |
| Joshua Schachter | 2 |
| Marc Randolph | 2 |
| James Hong | 2 |
| Alex Welch | 2 |
| Guy Kawasaki | 2 |
| Cyan Banister | 2 |
| James Vincent | 2 |
| Thomas Lehrman | 2 |
| David Heller | 2 |
| William O. Perkins, III | 2 |
| Matty Soudagar | 2 |
| Roham Gharegozlou | 2 |
| Sofia Vergara | 2 |
| Jenny Lefcourt | 2 |
| Jawed Karim | 2 |
| Greg Slyngstad | 2 |
| Jed Carlson | 2 |
| Naval Ravikant | 1 |
| Christopher Ackerley | 1 |
| Matt Mullenweg | 1 |
| Paige Craig | 1 |
| Justin Waldron | 1 |
| William Lohse | 1 |
| Cal Simmons | 1 |
| Michael Liou | 1 |
| Carlo Pozzali | 1 |
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and also board of directors of Sanmai. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Every Media — A daily newsletter on what comes next in tech. 100K+ readers.
- Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
- Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
- Anagram — Anagram's software platform automates vision insurance eligibility, claims, billing, lab ordering, and instant rebates to help eye care providers differentiate themselves and advance their practices.
- Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. is founder of Campus Televideo.Ned is a twenty-year veteran of the cable television industry and founder of the Company and assists in the management of over one hundred and thirty cable systems nationwide.A graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Management, Ned managed the start up ofCablevision of Connecticut's 50,000 subscriber addressable system in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Lamont joined the board of Directors at Conservation Services Group in 2007 with a hiatus in 2010 while he ran for CT governor.Lamont has also been active in public service as former Chairman of the State Advisory Board overseeing the $20 billion pension fund, a teacher in entrepreneurship to high school in Bridgeport, CT, and a policy member at The Brookings Institution.Lamont is also a politician who in 2006 defeated the prominent incumbent Senator, Joe Lieberman, for Connecticut's Senatorial Democratic nomination.
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Investment focus
- News, Video, Journalism
- Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
- Watchup — Enjoy all of your entertainment, no matter where it lives, plus 50,000+ free titles from us.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- Shred Video — Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work.Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action forsurfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Leo Chan is currently a member at Sand Hill Angels. He has over 25 years of experience in delivering enterprise software to market and building scalable internet applications, most recently with Xignite, the leading financial market data cloud service. Leo had previously launched ConnectedWorld LLC, an enterprise instant messaging software company,and assisted a Silicon Valley venture capital group in the establishment of Savvio.com, an internet travel company. Leo managed the database engineering team at Zip2, an online media firm, until it was acquired by AltaVista, prior to developing start-up companies from the ground up. Leo began his career at Oracle, where he held positions as an engineer and a senior manager, and was a member of the team that helped expand UNIX sales from less than $50 million to over a billion dollars in 1996. He was also a key figure in the development of the first web-based database management system, as well as the award-winning "self-tuning database" idea. Leo graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Master's degree in Operations Research from M.I.T.
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Investment focus
- Audio, Mobile, Hardware
- Seed, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Podo Labs — We created:Podo - The World's First Stick & Shoot Camera Jack - Make Any Headphones Wireless Belle - A Portable Speaker Without CompromiseOur vision is to become the most prolific and authentic source of innovative products for everyday happiness.Our mission is to push the limits of technology and design with passion, detailed care,and respect for every person.
- Siren Care — Siren Care is engaging with providers and payers to transform healthcare for chronic disease and aging. Siren significantly improves patient outcomes and experience by augmenting traditional healthcare with tech-enabled clinical models to provide whole person care. Our flagship program, the Siren Diabetic Foot Program, is a comprehensive servicepowered by our proprietary Siren Socks which monitor foot temperature continuously to deliver superior early detection of diabetic foot ulcers.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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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.
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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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.
Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
- Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
- LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the
boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on
Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health,
consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the
the value proposition for the users.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
- Snapwire — Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.
- Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.
Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
- Pristeem — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
- Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.
Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.
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Investment focus
- Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
- Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
- LocalAgentFinder — Compare real estate agents' fees, commissions, services and local experience across Australia. Find the best real estate agent for you, with our 100% free, no obligation service.
Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
- Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
- NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Jabbr — Jabbr allows to capture boxing matches with a virtual video production.Its goal is to make video production and advanced performance analytics in combat sports available to anyone with a smartphone.
- BirthFund — Standing in the gap for families, one birth at a time.
- Alchemize Fightwear — Alchemize Fightwear is a retail clothing and fashion company.
Keith Rabois is based out of United States and is the Managing Director of Khosla Ventures and also Board of Directors of Spellbook. Keith previously worked at Square as a COO. Keith Rabois attended the Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
- Alliance of American Football — The latest AAF news on players, coaches, rosters, tickets, merchandise, and more.
Adrian is the majority owner of The Seattle Sounders professional soccer club of the United Soccer League, and a part of the ownership group recently granted a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Seattle (beginning play the 2009 season). He is among the largest shareholders in the Cambridge United Football Club and has promotednumerous international soccer matches. Outside of soccer, Adrian has more than 15 years of business success in a variety of industries, and has invested in numerous early stage technology companies in advertising, infrastructure, and wireless communications. He recently co-founded technology incubator Curious Office Partners, which has invested in or developed multiple technology companies. He owns one of the largest picture framing chains in the United States, a chain of pizza restaurants and, with his family, owns the nation's largest manufacturer of pillows and bedding products. Adrian was an early investor in Amazon.com and a seed stage investor in aQuantive Inc, the largest interactive advertising company recently acquired by Microsoft for US$6 billion. He was also an early investor in Amazon.com. Adrian is involved in many organizations in Seattle and sits on the advisory board of The University of Washington Intercollegiate Sports Master's Degree Program. He also is on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of History and Industry.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Tourism, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
- Wishpot —
- Industrial Generosity — Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Mason Ng - Technology and Product Leader @ Verizon Media
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Investment focus
- Venture Capital, Mobile, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- NGINX — NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer.NGINX was incorporated in 2011 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.
- The Fabric — The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in thecloud/IoT infrastructure space.
- Eridan — Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the sameamount of data.
CEO - Bloglovin' (www.bloglovin.com). Mobile veteran, angel investor with focus on consumer mobile and e-commerce companies
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.
- Sellbrite — Sellbrite Multi-Channel Listing Software
- Tablelist — Provides instant access to VIP bottle service, private tables and exclusive events in a growing number of cities across the country.
Caterina Fake is the Co-Founder and General Partner and Investor of Yes VC. She previously worked at Should This Exist? as a Host. Caterina Fake attended The New School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Soxton.AI — Law at the speed of innovation. AI legal services for startups.
- Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- 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.
- Standard Fleet — Software for electric vehicle owners
- 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.
Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Town — Town is building the future of applied AI agents. We make it simple for everyone to build and leverage intelligent agents in their daily lives.
- Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
- Lovable — Lovable is an AI app and website builder that turns ideas into production-ready software without coding. Launch faster with AI.
Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
- Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
- Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++
Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 50+ cities community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. In 2013 Startup Grind will host 20,000 entrepreneurs at 300 events in 20 countries. After founding Vaporware Labs in 2009, he incubated many products (most of which failed spectacularly) including Startup Grind andprofessional social network Commonred. In 2012 Commonred was sold to Income.com.He is also Ex-Electronic Arts where he worked on games like Burnout, Mirror's Edge, The Sims, and Need For Speed. Having spent 8-years living outside the United States, he currently lives in Palo Alto California with his wife and two children.
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- Apps, Photo Sharing, Business Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India
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- Pesto Tech — Hire remote software engineer in India, Pesto curates & train developers to qualify for silicon valley standards which help you get the right candidate.
- Zight — Record and share your screen effortlessly with Zight screen recorder. Record your screen with or without a camera overlay and so much more.
- Cheeze — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
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- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
- Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
- Shibuya — Shibuya is a platform for creators and studios of web-3 content.
Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Canada
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- Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
- Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
- Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.
Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant for numerous early stage tech companies.Prior tofounding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards.
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- Internet, Apps, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- United States, Argentina
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- Revolution RE — JoyHub is a tech integration layer for multifamily operators for workflow automation and data aggregation.
- Wibond — Paga a tu red de clientes en una wallet marca blanca y habilita servicios financieros integrados al momento.
- Overlap — Overlap uses AI to help you extract the best moments from video content.
James Hong
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
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- Athelas — Our breakthrough technologies provide clarity on a patient's most important health metrics, all while increasing revenue for your practice.
- Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
- Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!
Alex Welch - CEO and Co-Founder @ Lasso Media
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- Internet, Information Technology, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States
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- Influential — A Global Leader in Influencer Marketing
- ManCan.Beer —
- Self Financial — Self Financial is a venture-backed fintech startup that helps customers build credit and save money.It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing banks.s services are for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. Itoffers Self Credit Builder Account to help consumers build both credit and savings without relying on credit history and Self Visa Credit Card, a card that helps existing customers build their security deposit in instalments. Self Financial is formerly known as Self Lender.The startup was founded by Conor Swanson and James Garvey in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist of Canva. He previously worked as a co-founder of Alltop.com.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Buffer — Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
- Got It AI — Democratizing Conversational AI: Leveraging TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training and Self Maintaining Conversational AI. Got It AI eliminates tedious manual work with automatically created flows, intent paraphrases, response paraphrases and No code fulfillment, making it easy to deploy and manage conversational solutions.
- Cheeze — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
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- TipTop — TipTop is a crypto startup.
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
James Vincent currently works as the founder & CEO at FNDR. He previously worked at Media Arts Lab as founder. James Vincent attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1985.
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- Apps, Blockchain, Photography
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- Cheeze — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.
Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission.
Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program.
Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.
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- Software, Education, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
- G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
- Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
David B. Heller is the Co-founder and Co-chair of the Raga Investment Committee.
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- FinTech, Organic Food, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- OTHR — Creating the largest library of branded 3D Printing I.P. for the $320B homewares industry.
- Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
- ALOHA — Healthy plant-based foods, snacks & meal replacements. Best organic plant based protein bars, shakes and powders. Nothing artificial. Welcome to ALOHA!
Bill Perkins is the Founder, Managing Partner & CIO of Skylar Capital Management. He previously worked at Brisa Max Holdings VI as a President. Bill Perkins attended the University of Iowa.
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- Video, Apps, Audio
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
- SynMax — We are a geospatial data analytics company specializing in commercial satellite imagery to find and monitor oil and gas assets and provide maritime intelligence.
- SkyFi® — SkyFi makes on-demand, high-resolution satellite images and videos available to anyone who has access to a smartphone, tablet or computer.
Matty Soudagar
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- Apps, Blockchain, Photography
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cheeze — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Italy
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- Code — This is Digital Cash
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
- Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian-American actress and model.Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Subsequently, she appeared in other films, including FourBrothers (2005) and two Tyler Perry films: Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles in films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), Machete Kills (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). In 2012, 2013, and 2016, she was the top-earning actress on US television.Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
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- Mobile, Internet, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Dispo — Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos.
- Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
- Suja Life — Suja Juice offers a variety of cold-pressed organic juices packed with fruits and vegetables. Check out our flavorful juices and functional beverages here!
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Idiomatic — Idiomatic believes that if you can listen to your customers at scale, you will make better business decisions. Its voice-of-customer platform helps companies do just that, by using AI to identify and track all issues and trends that customers bring up in customer support inquiries, NPS survey responses, and app reviews. Idiomatic quantifies thosegranular issues so that their clients have clear, data-driven criteria for prioritizing resources in order to improve their products or services. Beloved companies like Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, and Disney rely on Idiomatic.
- Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
- Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.
Jawed Karim is a Co-Founder of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was a software architect at PayPal. Jawed holds degrees in computer science from UIUC and from Stanford University.
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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Finland
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- Corgea — Corgea is an AI-native security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
- Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Greg is an internet entrepreneur who spent 15 years at Microsoft and was GM/ founder of Expedia.com before leaving to co-found VacationSpot.com. VacationSpot.com was sold to Expedia and Greg rejoined Expedia as Exec VP. Since leaving Expedia in 2002, Greg has invested in and advised multiple startups including Roost.com and Kayak.com where heserves on the boards.
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- SaaS, Travel, Leisure
- Seed
- United States
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- NeoReach — Seamlessly search, manage, and track user-generated content campaigns.
- Industrial Generosity — Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- TurnKey Vacation Rentals — Vacasa professionally manages vacation rentals from coast to coast. Every home meets the highest standards of comfort & cleanliness. Book confidently. Stay comfortably.
Jed is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology and marketing. He is the CEO of Adwerx, a company committed to providing digital marketing tools that are affordable, effective and accessible to everyone. Previous ventures include SmartPrint, a division of AmeriDisc Inc, and ReverbNation, the music-marketing platform with 3.5 million users.Jed is obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also a trusted advisor and investor in the startup community. He has an MBA from Duke University and lives in Durham with his wife and three children.Before earning his MBA from Duke University, Jed was a successful entrepreneur in Minneapolis with a focus on technology and marketing. His past ventures include The Carlson Print Group, a commercial printing and packaging company, and SmartPrint, a division of AmericDisc Inc. Jed continues to be obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also an active angel investor, mentor and advisor to over ten tech startups.Jed Carlson is also a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on technology and digital marketing. Jed’s commitment to leveling the playing field for small businesses is equal only to his devotion to guiding other entrepreneurs to success.
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- iOS, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- WedPics — After nearly 8 years of being the leading wedding photo and video sharing app, WedPics will be shutting down on February 15, 2019. We greatly appreciate you choosing WedPics to be a part of your special day, and want to thank you for being a part of our journey. You can download all your full resol
Chris Ackerley is a co-founder of directors.
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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Photography
- Series A
- United States
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- Stipple — Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers toapply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors.
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- AppFlowy — AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
- Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Iceland
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- StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
- Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
- Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Chile
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- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
- Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
- Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Japan, Canada
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- Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
- SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
- Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
Cal Simmons is the Founder of The Five Star Alliance. He attended The University of Kansas.
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- Hotel, Music, Video
- Seed
- United States
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- ReelGenie — ReelGenie is bringing the power of video storytelling to businesses. Their innovative technology enables customers to transform their photos and stories into videos that can be shared with the world. By empowering people to tell their stories through video, ReelGenie's easy-to-integrate solutions pave the way to better brand engagement andbrand new revenues.
- PointsHound — The best place on the internet to earn TONS of points in your favorite loyalty rewards programs.
I lead Strategy & Growth at Chooch AI, an end-to-end visual artificial intelligence platform. Chooch AI provides fast and accurate computer vision training, image, object and process recognition for retail, media, advertising, healthcare, aviation and security industries. Chooch AI offers an easy-to-deploy API and dashboard for AIoT and CloudAI. Try it free via Chooch.AI/demo and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/chooch-ai/Prior to joining Chooch AI, I have been an active early stage investor in NY, LA, and the Bay Area focused on FinTech, consumer, SaaS, and healthcare having made over 100 investments
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- SaaS, Big Data, Software
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
- Viable — Understand what your customers are telling you in their qualitative feedback with advanced AI and NLP technology for feedback analysis.
Carlo Pozzali is a co-founder of MP & Silva.
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- iOS, Apps, Video
- Pre-Seed
- United States
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- Takes — The only social sport for fans to connect, banter & dissect the game in real-time.
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