# 415

> 415 is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Internet and Content. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://415.com/

415 is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Internet and Content. Founded in 2014 by Owen Van Natta and Grace Stanat. 415 provides seed funding for and advises (primarily early stage) companies. 415 assists in the areas of strategy, funding, deals/partnerships, social, e- and m-commerce, operations, user acquisition/engagement, culture and growth.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for 415. Shizune tracks 2 team members at 415. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/415?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 4 | 31% |
| Content | 2 | 15% |
| Consumer | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Analytics | 2 | 15% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 77% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Byron Alsberg | Partner | 4 | — |
| Owen Van Natta | Founder and Managing Partner | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/owen-van-natta |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holloway | With hundreds of hours of research, writing, and editing, Holloway's comprehensive Guides help readers make better decisions. | $4.6M | Seed | Aug 01, 2019 |  |
| SmarterX | SmarterX helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better. Our customers are the places you shop everyday like Costco and Albertsons, as well as brands like Lysol, Miracle-Gro and Colgate. They use our product intelligence to identify how to best handle regulated consumer products across the supply chain toremain compliant, avoid fines and reduce their environmental impact. We have brought together a passionate team of math nerds, chemistry wizards and retail pros. We work smart and we get stuff done. Because when we know more, we do better. | $10.9M | Seed | Feb 28, 2019 |  |
| Manus Bio | Manus Bio develops an advanced fermentation technology to recreate plant processes in microorganisms. Its technology helps in manufacturing complex and bioactive natural products such as flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, bio-pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. | $19.4M | Series A | Jul 04, 2018 |  |
| Prellis Biologics | Prellis Biologics is building human tissues for drug development, and ultimately, developing human organs for transplantation. Bioprinting vascularized human tissue and organs will revolutionize healthcare. Prellis Biologics'​ technology leverages massive gains in print speed and resolution to break the microvasculature barrier.The companywas founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 13, 2017 |  |
| MetaBrite | MetaBrite is the next generation of consumer behavioral insights. Started with a simple goal in mind: leverage technology and great design to get a more complete, long term picture of consumer behavior across millions of households, rather than only thousands. the company make data available to customers in real-time and across all productcategorie,. MetaBrite takes business intelligence to a whole new level. | $13.3M | Series A | Jun 26, 2017 |  |
| Talech | Talech is a simple yet powerful point of sale system that combines rich analytics and deep insights to help merchants run their businesses better. The product consists of an iPad based POS experience combined with a web-based dashboard. It focuses on retail and restaurant segments. |  | Series B | Oct 27, 2016 |  |
| Begin | Create full-featured, globally scalable applications. Go far beyond static with dynamic SSR, SSD-backed databases, background tasks, global CDNs, and more. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 |  |
| Talech | Talech is a simple yet powerful point of sale system that combines rich analytics and deep insights to help merchants run their businesses better. The product consists of an iPad based POS experience combined with a web-based dashboard. It focuses on retail and restaurant segments. | $15M | Series B | Nov 01, 2015 |  |
| Tractable | Tractable is a software company that develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Through the use of deep learning to automate visual damage appraisal, Tractable's AI looks at photos of the damage and predicts repair costs. By providing its AI to the largest insurers worldwide, Tractable helps to settle claims quicklyand efficiently, which in turn impacts livelihoods.Tractable AI Review and AI Estimating products help them improve their claims processes and produce live, end-to-end estimates of vehicle damage. Tractable’s pitch is that AI appraisals of damage to vehicles/property can take place via its platform “in minutes”, thereby allowing for repairs to begin sooner and people’s livelihoods to be restored more quickly. It also automates image recognition tasks with Deep Learning.The company was established in 2014 and is based in London, England. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 30, 2015 |  |
| NewCo | NewCo is an organizer of forums and conferences used to connect people with businesses on a mission. Its events are city-specific festivals and create unique partnerships to offer a cross-platform publication that enables clients to connect to its audiences with their stories and shape business, politics, and culture. | $1.7M | Seed | Feb 18, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Morado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morado-ventures-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- 415 Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does 415 invest in?

415 invests primarily in Internet, Content and Consumer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 415?

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### Who are the partners at 415?

The team at 415 includes Byron Alsberg (Partner) and Owen Van Natta (Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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