# Alex Hartz

> Alex Hartz is a seed investor at Shine Capital (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shine Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shine-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhartz/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |
| PaaS | 1 | 9% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Background Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/background-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Industrious Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrious-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mischief](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mischief-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Notable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notable-capital-e2dd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Shine Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Shine is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs to build iconic businesses.

5 contacts available at Shine Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Hartz | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-hartz |
| Amanda Niu | CFO & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-niu-c972 |
| Elie Seidman | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elie-seidman |
| Ethan Daly | Partner; General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-daly-5522 |
| Jenna Greenspan | Head of Investor Relations & Comms; Head of Investor Relations & Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenna-greenspan-4842 |

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## 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.

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