Alex Lines
Founder & Partner @ Notation Capital
New York, United States
Alex Lines is a pre-seed investor at Notation Capital in New York focused on Software and Audio. Alex Lines Focuses on hard tech, infrastructure, and product at Notation. Alex is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems and scalability. He has been building products and companies in NY for over 10 years.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Alex Lines invests in
Stages Alex Lines invests in
Countries Alex Lines invests in
Contacts
| Type | Contact | Validation |
|---|---|---|
| Work email | ||
| Personal email | ||
| Work phone | ||
| Personal phone | ||
| Socials |
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (30%)
- Audio 1 (10%)
- Video 1 (10%)
- Mobile 1 (10%)
- Children 1 (10%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 5 (50%)
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educationalinstitutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact.They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible.Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow. | $3.2M / Series A / Nov 24, 2021 | ||
| Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educationalinstitutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact.They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible.Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow. | $11M / Series A / May 14, 2019 | ||
| ARTA is a logistics software and fulfillment service. Their API automates shipping and fulfillment for value and collectible objects. Their resources focused on post-sale fulfillment for online and offline sellers. They specialize in logistical services for art, design, furniture, antiques, jewelry, watches, and collectibles. | $3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2017 | ||
Uru
|
Uru uses computer vision and machine learning to help businesses and brands understand all of the video and other visual media out there, in real time, and then leverage it in more impactful ways. Uru was founded by Brunno Attorre and Bill Marino in May, 2016. It is based in New York. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Dec 30, 2016 | |
| ARTA is a logistics software and fulfillment service. Their API automates shipping and fulfillment for value and collectible objects. Their resources focused on post-sale fulfillment for online and offline sellers. They specialize in logistical services for art, design, furniture, antiques, jewelry, watches, and collectibles. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2016 | ||
| Timber makes logging useful again and is simple to set up, with powerful search and filtering at your fingertips. | Pre-Seed / Apr 05, 2016 | ||
| Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educationalinstitutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact.They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible.Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 05, 2016 | ||
| Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning.Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educationalinstitutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact.They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible.Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow. | Pre-Seed / Nov 23, 2015 | ||
| Bumpers develops an iOS app that allows users to make apodcast direct from their mobile devices, using the phone's built-in microphones. | Pre-Seed | ||
| See all 10 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Notation Capital
Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm that work with technical founding teams. Notation Capital focus on early-stage technical teams, often pre-market or even pre-product, primarily in New York, and provide capital and support to help go-to-market and scale the company.
Notation Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Nicholas Chirls
Partner
|
|||
|
Alex Lines
Founder & Partner
|
|||
Jake Levine
Part Time Partner
|
|||
Mackenzie Regent
Fractional COO
|
|||
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 Lines invest in?
Alex Lines invests primarily in Software, Audio and Video startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
How do I contact Alex Lines?
Public channels for Alex Lines include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
When did Alex Lines last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alex Lines closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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 Sep 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
