# Alex Garden

> Alex Garden is a Series A investor at Zume (San Francisco) backing Shipping and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Zume](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zume-inc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agarden
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/zumeinc
- Website: http://www.zume.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zumeinc/

Alex Garden is a Series A investor at Zume in San Francisco focused on Shipping and Software. Alex Garden is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Zume.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shipping | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Logistics | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Industrial | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series E | 1 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HEN Technologies | HEN Nozzles use fundamentals of fluid dynamics and thermal management to create firefighting nozzles. They are designed to allow the firefighter to alter the solid stream while minimizing the disruption of the thermal balance. | $20M | Series A | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Flock Freight | Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling.Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly poolsany freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed.With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time. | $60M | Series E | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Freshtohome | Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore. |  | Convertible Note | Jan 12, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bracket Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bracket-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GLP Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glp-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kortschak Investments L.P.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kortschak-investments-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/narotam-sekhsaria-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Susquehanna Private Equity Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susquehanna-private-equity-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Zume

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Zume is actively reducing the world’s plastic waste with economically viable substitutes for plastic packaging.

5 contacts available at Zume.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Garden | Founder, Chairman, and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-garden |
| Annette Groenink | EVP North America and Latin America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annette-groenink-9132 |
| Bing Gordon | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bing-gordon |
| Chad Brown | VP Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-brown-520b |
| Dimitri Sirota | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitri-sirota |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Garden invest in?

Alex Garden invests primarily in Shipping, Software and Logistics startups, most often at Series A and Series E stage. Most of the 3 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 Alex Garden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Garden closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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