Abe Burns
Partner @ Sound Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Abe Burns is a seed investor at Sound Ventures in Los Angeles focused on E-Commerce and Apps. Abe Burns was a former Partner at A-Grade Investments.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Abe Burns invests in
Stages Abe Burns invests in
Countries Abe Burns invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$5.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (26%)
- Apps 3 (16%)
- Internet 3 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (16%)
- Logistics 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (68%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (63%)
- United Kingdom 2 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Nitrility is a platform facilitating the peer-to-peer transfer of intellectual property (IP) rights and licenses, which include materials protected under copyright, trademark, and patent. On Nitrility, all transactions are handled through smart contracts, and licenses are sold as verifiable tokens with an immutable transaction history, providing alayer of authentication and transparency previously unseen in the industry. Exchange and authentication of rights and licenses, which used to take weeks, now take seconds. | $7M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M / Seed / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
| Ask Alex is an AI-powered data and marketing software providing customer insights and automated reporting of essential business metrics. | $2M / Seed / Feb 18, 2024 | ||
| Kangaroo brings you closer to your favorite celebrities and characters through interactive storytelling. | $3.3M / Seed / Apr 21, 2022 | ||
| Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners. | $2.8M / Seed / Apr 13, 2022 | ||
| WeLoveNoCode is a program development firm that provides applications to firms faster and affordably with no-code developers. WeLoveNoCode is the creator of an automated platform for swiftly testing hypotheses and creating new applications. The company offers a subscription-based platform through which users can submit any task, such as thedevelopment of landing pages, mobile apps, web apps, automation, and design, and will be assigned a developer to complete those tasks, allowing businesses to get unlimited, high-quality app development services at a low cost. | $3M / Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Incredible Dream is building a portfolio of iconic game IP for the next generation. | $2M / Seed / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Alter is a platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse. Developers can pipe avatars into their apps, games, and websites. They offer computer vision, 3d technology, web3, machine learning, avatars, rendering engines, blockchain, and NFTs. | $3M / Seed / Oct 07, 2021 | ||
| Coco is a last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers. Its robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston, paving the way for a more optimistic future of delivery that benefits local communities.Launched inFebruary 2020, the company has partnered with national restaurant brands like SBE (Umami Burger) and is actively scaling across many locations. It serves a wide range of family-operated restaurants like Bangkok West Thai in Santa Monica and San Pedro Brewing Company in Los Angeles. | $36M / Series A / Aug 25, 2021 | ||
| Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent. | $1.8M / Seed / Aug 12, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sound Ventures
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
Sound Ventures Contacts
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Maaria Bajwa
Principal
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Ashton Kutcher
General Partner
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Effie Epstein
Managing Partner
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Guy Oseary
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Kelly Donnelly
Sound Ventures
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FAQ
What does Abe Burns invest in?
Abe Burns invests primarily in E-Commerce, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Abe Burns's check size?
Abe Burns typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$5.3M 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 Abe Burns participates in.
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When did Abe Burns last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Abe Burns closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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