# Adam Goldstein

> Adam Goldstein is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Internet and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-goldstein-510bbb22/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/adamjgoldstein
- Website: https://x.com/adamjgoldstein

Adam Goldstein is a Visiting Scientist at Levin Lab. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2010.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $7M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 30% |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 20% |
| Travel | 2 | 20% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 80% |
| Turkey | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scotty | Scotty is a logistics firm that provides distribution services. With its technological infrastructure and widespread courier network, scotty provides distribution services to its users. | $2.5M | Convertible Note | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Scotty | Scotty is a logistics company that provides delivery services and package tracking solutions. The company develops a motorcycle-hailing application to provide people with bike transportation and logistics services to save time. It also offers cargo tracking, same-day, next-day, and day-to-day delivery services. | $3.5M | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Arist | Arist is a tool that helps enterprise L&D and HR teams rapidly create, deliver, and analyze message-based courses, which are bite-size learning experiences delivered in the flow of SMS, Slack, and MS Teams.Along with saving over $200/employee/year with more efficient training, Arist helps companies create and track clear behaviorchange and performance improvement outcomes while delivering learning with an NPS of >90 and adoption rates that are 5x higher than traditional learning tools. | $1.9M | Seed | Oct 15, 2020 |  |
| Balloon | Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2019 |  |
| Binti | Binti builds modern software to help every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. 300+ child welfare agencies across 33 states use Binti's tools to care for over 30% of children in child welfare in the US. Our software covers the end-to-end of child welfare, from helping agencies efficiently recruit, license, and match foster parents,to supporting families of origin in getting back on their feet and reunifying with their children. Our products are designed specifically to address the complexities of child welfare. Agencies working with us have licensed 80% more families on average in their first year on Binti, with a 16% reduction in time to approve and 20-40% savings in social worker time. Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven company. Investors include Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, and others. | $10M | Series A | Apr 24, 2019 |  |
| Clara Labs | Clara did inventive work on human-in-the-loop NLP systems and built one of the earliest well-loved conversational UX products. In 2019, the business was acquired by TopFunnel (https://topfunnel.co) who continues to operate the service, and Twitter acquired the R&D talent and some IP to apply towards content moderation. | $7M | Series A | Jul 19, 2017 |  |
| Travelstride | We connect people with well-planned, experiential trips.PURPOSE: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.MISSION: Fostering a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.INVESTORS: Backed by top travel and tech investors including NFX, JetBlue Ventures, StanfordStartX Fund, Sand Hill Angels, New York Angels, Plug n Play Ventures, and the cofounders of Hipmunk, TripIt, Get There, Trulia, Sherman's Travel, Lastminute.com, JetBlue and Google Now.TEAM: The founding team and advisors were previously leaders at Viator, Intrepid, Bain, Starwood Hotels, Kayak, Yelp, Liftopia, All Trails, TripIt, Trainline, Hotels.com, OneFineStay, and Flight Network.RECOGNITION: Winner of the Phocuswright Innovation Battleground - travel tech's premier startup competition. "Top 6 Travel App" Washington Times, "Top resource for tours" Frommers.Travelstride is the most comprehensive search engine and reviews platform for all professionally planned vacations and trip planners - the Airbnb or Houzz of the category. We were all born to explore and yearn to connect more deeply with people and places, yet the hassles of planning the logistics stops millions of people from their dream trips each year. Whatever wonderful travel means to you, Travelstride provides the simplest path to finding your perfect trip with the right balance of comfort and adventure.We are building the most engaged community marketplace for wonderful travel, made easy. We've influenced over 3 million travelers so far and host more than 50,000 professionally-planned trips - from private tailor-made vacations to group tour packages, to expedition cruises, to independent adventures. With itineraries across every continent planned by 1,500+ of the best local experts and global companies, everyone can find the perfect trip for their style and budget. Powered by expert advice and real traveler reviews, the Travelstride community enables travelers to explore places near and far with curiosity, confidence, and connections.VISION: Become the most useful and active travel community, where people of all stripes find, share, and book wonderful trips. |  | Seed | Feb 22, 2016 |  |
| Echo AI | Echo AI transforms how organizations engage with their customers with its groundbreaking Conversation Intelligence platform. Leveraging advanced generative AI, Echo AI autonomously processes millions of customer interactions, enabling businesses to act on real-time intelligence and insights. This empowers not only customer-facing teams but entireorganizations to understand and act upon every customer interaction. Headquartered in San Francisco, Echo AI, formerly known as Pathlight, is supported by investors including Kleiner Perkins, Insight Partners, and Quiet Capital. Discover the future of Conversation Intelligence and request a demo at www.echoai.com. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| Skurt | Skurt is a technology and logistics platform that offers the easiest way to get access to a car, and drive. With just a few taps users can have a car delivered right to their home, hotel or office and drive, anywhere. Customers request a rental on their phone and can have a car delivered to them within 60 minutes of booking. When they’re done, theyset up a pick-up time and someone comes to get the car from wherever they are. Skurt is currently operating in Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami on both iOS and Android, and has delivered “tens of thousands of cars.” | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 06, 2015 |  |
| Roomstorm | Roomstorm (Formerly WalkSource) is a next generation Business-to-Business network for hoteliers looking to run operations more efficiently and generate more revenue. Roomstorm empowers revenue teams to have more sellout nights by taking in last minute guest relocations from other nearby hotels as well as airlines in need of housing guestsovernight. Roomstorm proudly services over 400 Bay Area hotels and continues to grow with the recent edition of our first airline partner, San Francisco based Virgin America. Our hotel partners confidently overbook their properties, exchange lower priced guests for higher priced ones, find good deals for a relocated guest end-to-end within 5 minutes. By eliminating the pain of dealing with a relocations, we make the market much more efficient. | $1.3M | Seed | May 05, 2015 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Goldstein invest in?

Adam Goldstein invests primarily in Internet, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Adam Goldstein's check size?

Adam Goldstein typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$3.5M at Seed and $7M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Adam Goldstein participates in.

### When did Adam Goldstein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Goldstein closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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