# Adam Schwartz

> Adam Schwartz is a seed investor backing Software and Social Media. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GetAdam
- Website: http://adamschwartz.com

Adam Schwartz is a seed investor in New York focused on Software and Social Media. Founder and executive chairman of Articulate.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $205k–$4.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Social Media | 3 | 30% |
| Marketing Automation | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Events | 2 | 20% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octane AI | Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify and Shopify plus brands, Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Merchants use Octane AI to connect, convert, and retain customers by personalizing the customer journey and giving customers the confidence to purchase.OctaneAI is backed by top Silicon Valley investors, including Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst, FJLabs, M Ventures, and the founders of Hipmunk, Hearsay Systems, and Articulate. The company is all-remote and employs team members in 10+ countries. It was founded in 2016 by Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks. | $4.3M |  | Aug 21, 2020 | http://octaneai.com |
| Octane AI | Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify and Shopify plus brands, Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Merchants use Octane AI to connect, convert, and retain customers by personalizing the customer journey and giving customers the confidence to purchase.OctaneAI is backed by top Silicon Valley investors, including Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst, FJLabs, M Ventures, and the founders of Hipmunk, Hearsay Systems, and Articulate. The company is all-remote and employs team members in 10+ countries. It was founded in 2016 by Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks. | $4.3M | Seed | Aug 21, 2020 | http://octaneai.com |
| Embedly | Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ustream, Picassa, Hulu, Twitpic, Quantcast, and CrunchBase. It automatically convert links from these sources into embedded mediaon the fly. | $450K | Seed | Jun 09, 2011 | http://embed.ly |
| DoubleDutch | DoubleDutch develops event management software for the events industry worldwide. It provides live engagement platform that includes applications, integrations, and performance metrics which, allows orchestrating live events; and online event registration solution that enables to create custom event registration pages, collect registrantinformation and payments online, manage pre-event activity and correspondence, and optimize registrant data. DoubleDutch offers solutions for external events, internal meetings, and associations. It serves customers ranging from brands to local association for their external and internal corporate meetings, tradeshows and expos, associations, and conferences. Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad founded DoubleDutch in 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California and additional offices in Phoenix in Arizona and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It operates as a subsidiary of Cvent as of June 10, 2019. | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 22, 2011 | http://doubledutch.me/ |
| Chirply | Chirply is a platform for crowd-sourcing & crowd-curating design. Chirply's mission is to build engagement, stickiness, and virality through crowd-sourcing design. Initially the company focused on the launch of a marketplace for crowd-sourced design for paper goods - an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the advent of theprinting press. Chirply then launched a B2B platform for crowd-sourced design for brands to help engage users and use design to make daily products inspiring. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 07, 2011 | http://www.chirply.com |
| Mobilestalk | AntiTasse.com - Know in Depth about Mobile Phones, Laptops, and Chipsets | $205K | Seed | Mar 24, 2011 | https://mobilestalk.net/ |
| Humanoid | Humanoid is the world's first human brainpower API.Humanoid offers computer programmers a reliable way to use human intelligence in software applications. Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineers can swiftly create tasks and send instructions to humans.Proprietary software breaks the tasks into small pieces and routes them to workersacross the globe. Meanwhile, Humanoid’s artificially intelligent workforce manager ensures accuracy and prevents fraud without human oversight. When the task is complete, developers receive the resulting data through a simple programming interface, known as an API. | $1.1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2010 | http://gethumanoid.com |
| Unbounce | Unbounce is a provider of conversion optimization tools and technology for marketers that help small and mid-size businesses optimize conversions and accelerate growth. | $850K | Seed |  | http://www.unbounce.com |
| Humanoid | Humanoid is the world's first human brainpower API.Humanoid offers computer programmers a reliable way to use human intelligence in software applications. Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineers can swiftly create tasks and send instructions to humans.Proprietary software breaks the tasks into small pieces and routes them to workersacross the globe. Meanwhile, Humanoid’s artificially intelligent workforce manager ensures accuracy and prevents fraud without human oversight. When the task is complete, developers receive the resulting data through a simple programming interface, known as an API. |  | Angel |  | http://gethumanoid.com |
| Chirply | Chirply is a platform for crowd-sourcing & crowd-curating design. Chirply's mission is to build engagement, stickiness, and virality through crowd-sourcing design. Initially the company focused on the launch of a marketplace for crowd-sourced design for paper goods - an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the advent of theprinting press. Chirply then launched a B2B platform for crowd-sourced design for brands to help engage users and use design to make daily products inspiring. |  | Series A |  | http://www.chirply.com |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hinge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hinge-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bullpen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullpen-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Schwartz invest in?

Adam Schwartz invests primarily in Software, Social Media and Marketing Automation startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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 Schwartz's check size?

Adam Schwartz typically joins rounds of $205k–$4.3M 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 Adam Schwartz participates in.

### How do I contact Adam Schwartz?

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### When did Adam Schwartz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Schwartz closed in Aug 2020. 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?

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