# Aaron Epstein

> Aaron Epstein is a pre-seed investor backing Artificial Intelligence. See 135 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 135
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 74%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-epstein-a97105
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aaron_epstein
- Website: http://creativemarket.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crtvmrkt

Aaron Epstein is a pre-seed investor in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Aaron co-founded Creative Market in 2012 to help independent creators around the world make a living doing what they love. He has nearly two decades of experience founding and leading startups through bootstrapping, fundraising, Y Combinator, acquisition, spinout, and everything in between. He also supports other founders as a Part-time Partner atY Combinator, and has a degree in Business from the University of Maryland.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 76 | 56% |
| Software | 45 | 33% |
| SaaS | 22 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 16% |
| B2B | 17 | 13% |

151 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 103 | 76% |
| Seed | 27 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 101 | 75% |
| France | 3 | 2% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |
| Sweden | 2 | 1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Klaimee | Klaimee is a startup that develops insurance and certification infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| HeyClicky | HeyClicky develops a Mac desktop AI assistant that lives next to the user’s cursor and interprets on-screen context and spoken requests. The application captures visual data from the Mac display and voice input to answer interface questions and guide users through software workflows. It supports creators, developers, and knowledge workers usingcomplex tools by providing step-by-step assistance without leaving their active workspace. Through its agent capabilities, HeyClicky can launch background tasks to build software, research topics, manage files, or interact with other applications. The product also connects with native apps to handle actions such as managing notes, calendars, email, and reminders. HeyClicky focuses on reducing friction in everyday computer use through conversational, on-device assistance. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Sazabi | Sazabi provides an AI-native observability platform that uses artificial intelligence to help engineering teams understand and operate production systems. The platform offers autonomous alerts that learn system behavior, investigate issues, and escalate only significant problems. It supports conversational debugging so users can ask plain-languagequestions, explore logs, and review past incident threads through chat interfaces and a command-line tool. Sazabi focuses on logs as the primary signal, reconstructing metrics and traces as needed, and generates dynamic visualizations such as charts, tables, and diagrams. It includes features like error clustering, system status views, and integrations with tools such as Slack, PagerDuty, and incident management platforms. The product also integrates with coding agents and exposes APIs so agents and automation can query logs, trace requests, and manage observability workflows programmatically. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Twolabs | Twolabs develops humanoid robots for caregiving, helping senior living communities with assistance, monitoring, and companionship. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Akkari | Akkari provides AI-powered customer operations platform that automates follow-ups, workflows, and account management. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Amboras | Amboras offers an AI-native ecommerce platform that builds, operates, and optimizes online stores. The platform generates complete storefronts, including layout, branding, product pages, and checkout, from simple text prompts and product data. It includes an AI-driven shop system for managing inventory, orders, and fulfillment, as well as tools forAI SEO, reviews, AI-generated transactional and marketing emails, and built-in analytics. Amboras also provides agentic A/B testing that creates and runs experiments on copy, layout, pricing, and bundles, promoting winning variants automatically. First-party analytics and real-time event tracking are integrated directly into the store backend. The service is designed for merchants who want an all-in-one system to launch new stores, migrate existing stores, and manage day-to-day ecommerce operations with AI assistance. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Panacea | Panacea is a biotech focused platform that helps biotech companies accelerate FDA submissions and streamline drug approval workflows. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Interfaze | JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Parrot | Parrot is the AI management platform for collision repair shops, handling customer interactions, insurance claims, and shop operations. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Arctic Health | Arctic Health provides credentialing and contracting services for healthcare organizations, including telehealth providers, clinics, group practices, RCM companies, and CVOs. The company manages provider credentialing and payer enrollment, handling documentation collection, CAQH profile management, application preparation, and submissions tocommercial and government payers. Arctic Health supports payer enrollment and contracting tasks such as new practice setup, contract negotiation, rate optimization, multi-state licensure, appeals, and revalidation. Its platform offers automated onboarding, status tracking, and re-credentialing, with applications reviewed by credentialing specialists. For organizations operating at scale, Arctic Health provides API-based integration, custom workflows, AI-powered document extraction and error detection, and white-label credentialing under client brands. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |

10 of 135 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Palm Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palm-drivecapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aaron Epstein invest in?

Aaron Epstein invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 135 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Aaron Epstein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Epstein closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 135 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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