# #Angels

> #Angels is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Health Care. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/-angels/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HelloAngels
- Website: https://hashtagangels.com/

#ANGELS is an investment collective. In addition to investing in phenomenal companies, their mission is to get more women on the cap tables of successful startups. As investors, they back ambitious founders pursuing bold ideas. They collectively have a portfolio of 80+ companies across a wide range of industries.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for #Angels. Shizune tracks 6 team members at #Angels. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/-angels?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 26% |
| Health Care | 7 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 14% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Internet | 5 | 12% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 35% |
| Series A | 14 | 33% |
| Angel | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 77% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chloe Sladden | Founding Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chloe-sladden |
| Jana Messerschmidt | Founding Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jana-messerschmidt |
| April Underwood | Founding Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/april-underwood |
| Jessica Verrilli | Founding Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-verrilli |
| Katie Stanton | Founding Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katie-jacobs-stanton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flikforge | Monetization and royalties platform for GenAI images and video. Featuring 3 key components: 1) Flikforge API that registers unique user, brand and celebrity likeness in the GenAI ecosystem, 2) the Fliktok mobile app for consumers to consent to their likeness being used, to generate images and videos featuring themselves and their friends, and topublish to any channel of their choosing, and 3) the Flikforge creator platform for creators, celebrities and filmmakers to share their generated images and videos with one another, ensuring that royalties and residuals for like are shared as agreed. | $1.3M | Series A | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| Flikforge | Monetization and royalties platform for GenAI images and video. Featuring 3 key components: 1) Flikforge API that registers unique user, brand and celebrity likeness in the GenAI ecosystem, 2) the Fliktok mobile app for consumers to consent to their likeness being used, to generate images and videos featuring themselves and their friends, and topublish to any channel of their choosing, and 3) the Flikforge creator platform for creators, celebrities and filmmakers to share their generated images and videos with one another, ensuring that royalties and residuals for like are shared as agreed. | $100K | Angel | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Convex | Convex is a serverless infrastructure company. It was founded in 2020 by James Cowling, Jamie Turner, and Sujay Jayakar. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Blinkpad | blinkpad is a software as a service (SaaS) company changing the way individuals find opportunities and how businesses find the best talent. | $1M | Seed | Aug 15, 2021 |  |
| growPack | growPack designs and manufactures bio‑based, compostable packaging for consumer and industrial brands, enabling circular, low‑carbon alternatives to plastic. | $1.3M | Seed | May 21, 2021 |  |
| Plasmic | Plasmic is a modern visual builder for the web that empowers anyone in your team to build stunning visual content and pages. Our headless CMS can be seamlessly integrated into any tech stack. Boutique brands through Fortune 500s use Plasmic to unblock their teams and ship lightning fast. | $4M |  | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Plasmic | Plasmic is a modern visual builder for the web that empowers anyone in your team to build stunning visual content and pages. Our headless CMS can be seamlessly integrated into any tech stack. Boutique brands through Fortune 500s use Plasmic to unblock their teams and ship lightning fast. | $4M | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Compaas | Compaas helps growing companies make smarter decisions around compensation, communicate better with their employees, and avoid mistakes.It offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform that helps companies manage their operating expense: employee compensation. The platform provides compensation analytics and strategy tools for startups andenterprise companies.In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California. | $4.3M | Seed | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| Trade Republic | Trade Republic is a mobile-only and commission-free broker that brings the opportunity to invest easily. The company works as a broker for a new generation for a more mobile, more intuitive, faster - and permanently free of commission. Trade Republic was founded in 2015 and based in Berlin, Germany. | $75M | Series B | Apr 16, 2020 |  |
| Alexi | Alexi empowers law firms to build an enduring competitive advantage with AI | $215K | Pre-Seed | Jun 26, 2019 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Arrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrive-361a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does #Angels invest in?

#Angels invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact #Angels?

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### Who are the partners at #Angels?

The team at #Angels includes Chloe Sladden (Founding Partner), Jana Messerschmidt (Founding Partner) and April Underwood (Founding Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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