Alexia Bonatsos
Founder, Managing Director @ Dream Machine
San Francisco, United States
Alexia Bonatsos is a seed investor at Dream Machine in San Francisco focused on Software and Apps. Alexia Bonatsos - Founder, Managing Director @ Dream Machine
- Total investments:
- 5
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (40%)
- Apps 1 (20%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
- Beauty 1 (20%)
- Wedding 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Mad Realities is reimagining entertainment for the modern world, powered by ownership incentives of the new internet. | $6M / Seed / Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Launch House is the social club helping emerging leaders level up and live better. The Launch House community is a curated group of founders, engineers, and investors who are building the future.Community membership includes access to our intimate IRL coliving residencies in major cities, desirable destinations, and at conferences all over theworld. Membership also includes executive coaching opportunities, fundraising support, unlimited access to our digital cohort-based courses, and coworking clubhouses in major cities. Launch House helps foster learning and professional development as well as deep, authentic relationships rather than transactional networking opportunities.Selection for the community is through a competitive process, with thousands of applicants per year. Launch House currently has locations in Los Angeles, New York City, and the metaverse. | $3M / Seed / Aug 19, 2021 | ||
| Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular. | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 26, 2021 | ||
| Berbix is a document identity verification solution that helps businesses accelerate growth and stay compliant at the same time by instantly and accurately validating photo IDs, driver licenses, and passports. Berbix helps to improve customer acquisition funnels with its automated and multifaceted verification solution that can confirm a user’sidentity in 2 seconds and be implemented in as little as one afternoon. Berbix was founded in 2018 by the former product and engineering leaders of Trust & Safety at Airbnb and is backed by Y-combinator, Initialized Capital, Mayfield Fund, and others. Berbix supports businesses in the micro-mobility, fintech, age-restricted goods, and healthcare industries in customizing the way they fight fraud, stay compliant, and accelerate growth. Founded by the former product and engineering leaders for Trust & Safety at Airbnb and backed by Y Combinator and Initialized Capital, Berbix sits at the intersection of identity and fraud. They take an industry-specific approach to help customers customize and control the way they fight fraud through scalable hosted tools.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.5M / Seed / Jul 17, 2019 | ||
| Joy is a wedding company that gives couples a smarter way to plan their big day. Using Joy, couples can create a beautifully-designed wedding website and mobile app, build their All-in-One Registry, manage guest lists and RSVPs, send online or printed Save the Dates, invitations and eCards, provide travel and accommodations options for guests, hostvirtual wedding events, create a shared virtual wedding album and virtual guest book, and more. Wedding guests can purchase registry gifts, book travel plans and accommodations, get directions to wedding events via a Google Maps integration, order a ride to wedding events via ride-sharing integrations, add wedding events to their calendar with a click, and more.Based in San Francisco, Joy launched in 2016 through Y Combinator. Visit withjoy.com and follow @withjoy to see why couples around the world are planning their weddings with Joy. | $4.5M / Seed / Nov 08, 2016 |
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About Dream Machine
Dream Machine is an oppotinistic seed fund, interested in AI, voice, AR, VR, IoT, and blockchain.It is founded by Alexia Bonatsos, the former co-editor-in-chief of TechCrunch and one of the earliest reporters to write about Whatsapp, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest.With Dream MAchine, she hopes to help exceptional founders make science fictionnon-fiction.
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What does Alexia Bonatsos invest in?
Alexia Bonatsos invests primarily in Software, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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