# Aaron Iba

> Aaron Iba is a seed investor at Symmetry Group backing Software and iOS. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Symmetry Group
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroniba/
- Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Iba

Aaron Iba is a seed investor at Symmetry Group in New York focused on Software and iOS. Aaron Iba is the Co-Founder of PayGarden. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| iOS | 3 | 25% |
| Mobile | 3 | 25% |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 25% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 83% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Red Planet Labs | Pioneering a programming tool that radically changes the economics of software development | $5M | Seed | Apr 03, 2019 |  |
| Kamcord | Kamcord is a social media platform allowing its users to post and interact through video content. The company is based in San Francisco, California. | $15M | Series B | Dec 11, 2014 |  |
| Boosted USA | Boosted USA designs and builds powerful lightweight electric vehicles that are extremely fun to ride and perfect for the last mile of your commute. Boosted is a young company driven by a passion for longboarding, electric vehicles, and great design.Boosted Boards builds the world's most powerful and portable electric longboards, startingwith incredible Loaded bamboo/fiberglass decks and Orangatang premium race urethane wheels. Perfect for recreational riding or to free your commute. |  | Seed | Aug 06, 2013 |  |
| Filestack | Filestack is a Content Ingestion Network - seamlessly integrating edge content within an applications cloud - reliably, scalably and securely. It is the #1 file uploading tool in the world. Developers love Filestack because of its third party integrations, easy to use API, and ability to upload, transform and deliver documents, images, videos andmore. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 18, 2013 |  |
| Kamcord | Kamcord is a social media platform allowing its users to post and interact through video content. The company is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 19, 2012 |  |
| LightTable | Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work. |  | Seed | Aug 22, 2012 |  |
| PlanGrid | PlanGrid provides a cloud-based construction document collaboration platform that allows plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneously shared with everyone on a construction project. Its platform lets contractors and architects collaborate from their desktop or mobile devices across all their project plans, specifications, photos, RFIs,and punchlists. Major construction firms use the platform of PlanGrid. Kenny Stone, Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Tracy Young founded Loupe in 2011 that later became PlanGrid, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $1.1M | Seed | May 29, 2012 |  |
| Imgix | Nobody should have to employ expensive imaging scientists and engineers for their business to get the most out of their images. This is where imgix has your back. imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering your existing images so that you can meet the demands of your business and your team can stay focusedon what they do best.The business demands on web images can blindside even the most hyper-aware content teams and developers. Just to be competitive on the Internet, you need your images to be sized perfectly to every device, served in one of any of a half dozen web formats, optimized to the absolute best perceptual quality while maintaining pinpoint performance, and distributed to wherever your users are, anywhere in the world. And that is just the baseline. Next-level imaging concerns like copyright, licensing, accessibility, moderation, illegal or explicit content, "fake news", and more, can threaten your business at any moment if not handled properly. Get any of these things wrong and you are shedding revenue, ceding ground to competitors, and potentially exposing your business to extreme liability.By working with imgix's powerful APIs, SDKs, user interfaces, and integrations, you can rest assured that any demands on your images will always be met, now and into the future, without you having to invest in building it yourself or patching together a mishmash of open source and third-party technologies. Our platform is designed to ensure that your images are always working for your business and never against it.imgix is venture-backed, with about $11 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Lyft, Kickstarter, AirBnb, Coursera, Bonobos, Spotify, Vimeo, Bustle, and many others. | $500K | Angel | May 01, 2012 |  |
| Apollo | Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. |  | Seed | Oct 11, 2011 |  |
| Apollo GraphQL | Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. |  | Seed | Oct 11, 2011 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Merus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Start Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/start-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Background Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/background-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Symmetry Group

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Symmetry Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Iba | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-iba |

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## FAQ

### What does Aaron Iba invest in?

Aaron Iba invests primarily in Software, iOS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aaron Iba's check size?

Aaron Iba typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aaron Iba participates in.

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### When did Aaron Iba last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Iba closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 12 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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