# AJ Frank

> AJ Frank is a seed investor at Meta (New York) backing Software and Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Meta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meta)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajfrank
- Website: https://x.com/uvajfrank
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ajfrank

AJ Frank is a seed investor at Meta in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. AJ Frank is based out of Washington, District of Columbia and currently works as a Senior Director of Product Management for Meta. AJ previously worked at Dropbox as a Director of Product Management. AJ Frank attended the University of Virginia.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Local | 1 | 20% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Notch | Notch provides AI-powered ad generation, animated ad building, competitor ad cloning, and ad performance optimization. | $8M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Parabola | Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $24M | Series B | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Aside | Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform. | $17.1M | Series A | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Morty | Morty is a consumer app uniting people around IRL, interactive experiences. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Morty | Morty is a consumer app uniting people around IRL, interactive experiences. | $165K | Angel | Jan 02, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ANIMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrive-361a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CoFound Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cofound-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [double jump.tokyo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doublejump-tokyo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Meta

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.

5 contacts available at Meta.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AJ Frank | Senior Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-frank |
| Anders Bo Pedersen | Engineering Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-bo-pedersen |
| Andreas Gross | Product Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-gross |
| Christopher Chedeau | Front-end Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-chedeau |
| David Fischer | Vice President of Advertising and Global Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-fischer-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does AJ Frank invest in?

AJ Frank invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did AJ Frank last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AJ Frank closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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