Alex Payne
Angel Investor
Portland, United States
Alex Payne is a seed investor in Portland focused on Food Processing and Software. Alex Payne the co-founder and CTO of BankSimple, an online banking disruption startup. Previously he was an Engineer at [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter) and led the API team.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Alex Payne invests in
Stages Alex Payne invests in
Countries Alex Payne invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $6.3M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food Processing 3 (50%)
- Software 2 (33%)
- Food and Beverage 2 (33%)
- Data Visualization 2 (33%)
- iOS 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 4 (67%)
- Singapore 1 (17%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extracellular channels biology, digitalisation and biomanufacturing expertise to accelerate developments in biotech. We use our scale up experience and our deep insights into cellular behaviour to produce biomass for cultivated meat companies more efficiently. We're digitalising process development, pulling together huge quantities of data tomake better decisions faster and at scale. | $1.2M / Seed / Mar 28, 2023 | ||
| Next Level Burger is an Americas first 100% plant-based burger company located in Bend. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Shiok Meats is cellular aquaculture and cell-based meat company. With a mission to bring clean and healthy meats and seafood by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats that are animal-, health- and environment-friendly.Shiok Meats was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Central Region,Singapore. | $12.6M / Series A / Sep 29, 2020 | ||
| Reflect is the data visualization platform for developers. Our building blocks make it easy to add data visualization to any web or mobile application in minutes. We handle all of the hard parts so developers can focus on creating a great user experience for their customers. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 23, 2016 | ||
| Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services.This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across anydistance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform.The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California.Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards. | $6.3M / Series A / Aug 20, 2014 | ||
| Lucky Sort is building a Big Data visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch for exploring emergent patterns in live text streams. TopicWatch equips analysts to explore and dissect the Big Picture by visualizing news, comments, and social media. It transforms the burden of text overload into an opportunity for insightful and actionableinformation. | $500K / Seed / Apr 01, 2012 |
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FAQ
What does Alex Payne invest in?
Alex Payne invests primarily in Food Processing, Software and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Alex Payne invest in?
Alex Payne typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.5M at Seed and $6.3M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Alex Payne's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Alex Payne took part in.
How do I contact Alex Payne?
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When did Alex Payne last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alex Payne closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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