Advisors.fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Advisors.fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on SaaS and FinTech. Advisors.fund invests in amazing entrepreneurs that are disrupting entrenched legacy incumbents and an accepted status quo. Another way to say this--- we seek early alpha companies that end up becoming what we call exciting lightning in a bottle investments.To date, we've invested in over 100 investments in the SaaS, enterprise software,big data/AI and health tech sectors.We invest opportunistically, at seed or pre A stage, in world-class entrepreneurs and their management teams. We seek those that are building protectable intellectual property and who intimately know their target market and customer they want to serve. We are super active early on with our companies and commit to rolling up our sleeves by recruiting, making incredible game-changing introductions, conducting strategy sessions, helping to close Series A rounds--whatever it takes to best ensure success. Typically, we are the most active early investor/advisor for our companies--thus our name--Advisors.fund. Advisor first, Fund second and our entrepreneurs love it.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Advisors.fund invests in
Stages Advisors.fund invests in
Countries Advisors.fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$3.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$2.5M
- Convertible Note
- $950k–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (18%)
- FinTech 2 (18%)
- Internet 2 (18%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Health Care 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (55%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (18%)
- Convertible Note 2 (18%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 7 (64%)
- Canada 2 (18%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mark Goldstein
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Fondo
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Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Feb 13, 2023 | |
Circle
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Circle is an AI data management and customer relationship SaaS platform that makes it easier for our customers, health plans, value-based care providers, and brokers to get rewarded for better serving their members. | $6M / Convertible Note / Jun 13, 2022 | |
Optina Diagnostics
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Optina Diagnostics develops technology for the early detection of disease through the eye. | $20.1M / Series A / Oct 28, 2021 | |
FirstIgnite
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FirstIgnite helps companies solve their toughest scientific problems by matching them with university experts to help them make better decisions. FirstIgnite aligns highly regarded academic experts and seamlessly manages the process with an integrated team approach. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 22, 2021 | |
OpenUnit
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OpenUnit is an internet company that features a set of tools that gives storage operators the things they need such as online presence, reservation system, merchant solutions, and management software. It specializes in the fields of information technology, internet, and software platforms.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto,Ontario. | $1M / Seed / May 20, 2021 | |
Buzz Solutions
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Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 26, 2020 | |
WellPay
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Wellpay is a platform that helps providers streamline and give a lot of context to patients around their billing, and, on the patient side, provides them with a very modern approach to getting a lot of their bills in a single place, getting all the data that they need on what they’re being billed for and what they’re paying. | $3.8M / Seed / Apr 09, 2020 | |
Chi Botanic
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Chi Botanic creates plant stem cells that we can grow into plant products and ingredients at industrial scale. We generate plant cell cultures representing just the parts or components that we want. Plant cell cultures grow much faster than whole plants. Also, while a fraction of a normal plant makes what we want, our entire cultures can synthesizethe desired product. We can grow without the limitations of climate, weather, geography, or season and without fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides with far less water, energy, or shipping requirements to provide safer, and often enhanced natural productsWe make plant stem cells that we can grow into plant products and ingredients at industrial scale. We generate plant cell cultures representing just the parts or components that we want. Plant cell cultures grow much faster than whole plants. Also, while a fraction of a normal plant makes what we want, our entire cultures can synthesize the desired product. We can grow without the limitations of climate, weather, geography, or season and without fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides with far less water, energy, or shipping requirements to provide safer, and often enhanced natural products | $950K / Convertible Note / Mar 06, 2020 | |
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Optina Diagnostics
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Optina Diagnostics develops technology for the early detection of disease through the eye. | $2.9M / Seed / Oct 10, 2018 | |
Candex
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Candex collaboration apps manage payments between companies and their vendors. Blockchain technology benefits are realized with phenomenal ease of use, speed and security. Their solution is trusted by Fortune 500 leaders like BP, First Data and Pfizer. They fulfill all of their control and reporting requirements, while users are able to executetransactions in a chat interface. Candex is growing rapidly by modernizing how organizations pay. They cut out red tape, boost employee management capabilities, and enhance spend visibility for better decision making. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 23, 2018 | |
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FAQ
What does Advisors.fund invest in?
Advisors.fund invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Advisors.fund's check size?
Advisors.fund typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.8M at Seed, $1.2M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $950k–$6M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Advisors.fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at Advisors.fund?
The team at Advisors.fund includes Mark Goldstein (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 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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