# Adam sah

> Adam sah is a seed investor at Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts backing Software. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsah

Adam sah is a seed investor at Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Senior ex-Google engineering leader with 8 successful startups and 25 patents in web, database, image processing, healthcare. UC Berkeley PhD dropout.Mentor/advise/invest in garage-stage startups for 3 accelerators, incl SaaS, B2B, B2C, hardware, logistics/food.My passion is shipping product - don't care about titles orcompany stage: - expert: go to market strategy, protect & eng mgmt incl saving projects, remote teams, estimation, recruiting, PostgreSQL, design process, ads/search. - reasonably knowledgeable: MySQL, SQLite and NoSQL databases, scale up/down and optimization incl AWS, GCP and on-prem, Python 2/3, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/unix, CI/CD, C/C++, responsive HTML/CSS/JS, image processing, raspberry pi. - excited to learn more: games and gamification, Keras/TF, golang.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 33% |
| B2B | 2 | 22% |
| Smart Home | 2 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 22% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flikforge | Monetization and royalties platform for GenAI images and video. Featuring 3 key components: 1) Flikforge API that registers unique user, brand and celebrity likeness in the GenAI ecosystem, 2) the Fliktok mobile app for consumers to consent to their likeness being used, to generate images and videos featuring themselves and their friends, and topublish to any channel of their choosing, and 3) the Flikforge creator platform for creators, celebrities and filmmakers to share their generated images and videos with one another, ensuring that royalties and residuals for like are shared as agreed. | $1.3M | Series A | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| Germ Network | Germ Network is building the secure communications layer for the social internet.Our end-to-end encrypted messenger is a smart, secure hub for all of your social identities and connections, creating a personal HQ for the conversations that matter.We're led by cofounders Tessa Brown, CEO, a former Stanford communications scholar, and MarkXue, CTO, the former Apple privacy engineer for iMessage and FaceTime. Our name irreverently invokes a new paradigm of digital connection that prioritizes care, community, research, and healthy growth. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Zephyr Cloud IO | The first and only enterprise scale software as a service for the orchestration and observability of composable frontend systems. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| CodeSee | CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software to help users master the understanding of code. | $3M | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Pristeem | The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today. |  | Seed | Jul 15, 2019 |  |
| FirstCut | FirstCut is building artificial intelligence for video creation |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 2018 |  |
| Kiwibot | Kiwi Campus, often referred to as Kiwi, is an on demand convenience service that delivers what you need, day or night. Our Kiwibots - cute little delivery robots - deliver right up to your doorstep. Kiwibot is making deliveries more affordable and accessible for communities. We're helping people with deliveries that are cheaper and faster thanever before. Kiwibots mesh seamlessly within the fabric of our sidewalks and empower anyone to get anything they want in under 30 minutes. |  | Angel | Jul 01, 2017 |  |
| PayJoy | PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and card offerings, customers gain access to amodern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B as of 2026 while achieving solid profitability and growth. | $2M | Seed | Aug 31, 2015 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ninja Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ninja-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alpha Bridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-bridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [#Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Club Italia Investimenti 2](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/club-italia-investimenti) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts

VC Fund

Usdan is an award-winning not-for-profit day camp for the arts.

1 contacts available at Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam sah | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-sah |

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## FAQ

### What does Adam sah invest in?

Adam sah invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Adam sah invest in?

Adam sah typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Adam sah's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Adam sah took part in.

### How do I contact Adam sah?

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### When did Adam sah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam sah closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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