Alex Hartz
General Partner @ Shine Capital
San Francisco, United States
Alex Hartz is a General Partner at Shine, based in San Francisco. He joined Shine after eight years of working at SciFi VC. He attended Caltech.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Alex Hartz invests in
Stages Alex Hartz invests in
Countries Alex Hartz invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (18%)
- Apps 1 (9%)
- PaaS 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (36%)
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (18%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Antares
|
Designing and building fission microreactors | $370M / Series C / Jul 27, 2026 | |
|
Antares
|
Designing and building fission microreactors | $71M / Series B / Dec 02, 2025 | |
Audioshake
|
Audioshake makes sound more usable for both humans and machines by separating sound into its component parts. Used by some the world's largest media, entertainment, and tech companies, AudioShake is used in audio editing workflows, Voice AI, and multimodal training. | $14M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | |
iVerify
|
IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy. | $12M / Series A / Jun 26, 2024 | |
BinIt
|
BinIt is working to bring the power of data-driven decision making to waste management. Founded in 2019, BinIt is headquartered in New York. | $6.4M / Seed / Jan 29, 2024 | |
Supergood Systems
|
Supergood Systems is a single-line code tool that monitors the cost and performance of the third-party APIs. | Seed / Aug 08, 2023 | |
Ganymede
|
Ganymede is a low-code bio-aware PaaS for biotech software engineering that enables users to connect apps, ingest data, and construct pipelines. Ganymede allows software engineers to create integrations, link software and hardware, and move data around using easy versioning. Ganymede is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ and was founded in 2022. | $2.9M / Seed / Apr 15, 2022 | |
Ownit
|
Ownit's mission is to make commerce at the point of discovery work for brands, creators, and shoppers.Ownit's Connected Checkout links increase conversion for direct-to-consumer brands by enabling a one-tap purchase of any product in paid ads, email, text, and influencer marketing. Ownit's frictionless checkout experience helpsshoppers quickly make the best purchase decision by showing pricing and purchase options all in one place. Ownit brings together some of the biggest companies that generally do not work together. Ownit integrates with commerce platforms including Shopify and Amazon, payment gateways like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Shop Pay and PayPal to allow direct-to-consumer brands to grow their business on social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Founded in 2021 by eCommerce veterans Payman Nejati, Evan Shiue, and Joel Tan, the company’s founders bring 50 years of combined experience creating the world’s most innovative checkout experiences, including at Amazon, Walmart, Standard Cognition, and Anycart. We’ve assembled a team of mission-driven people that love working together and solving hard problems. Ownit is backed by leading eCommerce & FinTech VCs Caffeinated Capital, SciFi VC, GGV Capital, Abstract Ventures, and industry leaders from Meta, Pinterest, Walmart and Honey.To request a demo or join our team, visit Ownit.co | $8M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 | |
Peach Finance
|
Peach Finance is a SaaS company that provides modern, end-to-end loan management and servicing software for lenders.The platform is built in modern infrastructure, a white-label website, and communications that complement the brand's visuals and voice, with customer care experts ready to assist at any time along with smartmachine-learning-based algorithms optimized for debt collection, providing businesses with tools that simplify training, supervision and success analysis, while technology-driven oversight ensures best practices for quality assurance and risk management.The San Francisco, California-based company was launched by Eran Sandler, Edward Oistacher, and Gur Brosh in 2018. | $20M / Series A / Sep 14, 2021 | |
|
Ganymede
|
Ganymede is a low-code bio-aware PaaS for biotech software engineering that enables users to connect apps, ingest data, and construct pipelines. Ganymede allows software engineers to create integrations, link software and hardware, and move data around using easy versioning. Ganymede is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ and was founded in 2022. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed | |
| See all 11 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Shine Capital
Shine is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs to build iconic businesses.
Shine Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Alex Hartz
General Partner
|
|||
Amanda Niu
CFO & General Partner
|
|||
Elie Seidman
Venture Partner
|
|||
Ethan Daly
Partner; General Partner
|
|||
Jenna Greenspan
Head of Investor Relations & Comms; Head of Investor Relations & Communications
|
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Alex Hartz invest in?
Alex Hartz invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
When did Alex Hartz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alex Hartz closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
