# Alison Lange Engel

> Alison Lange Engel is a seed investor at Greycroft backing Software and Information Technology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonlangeengel/

Alison Lange Engel is a Partner at Greycroft and was an Advisor at Eskalera. She attended The Wharton School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Gaming | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesh | Mesh is like Plaid for business identity. We help companies verify the identity, legitimacy, and compliance of SMBs and sole proprietorships in real time–cutting friction, risk, and non-compliance.We built the first real-time API for Professional License Verification (PLV), and a suite of solutions to radically simplify SMB onboarding andmonitoring (e.g., B2B customer onboarding, contractor compliance, merchant compliance). In a world where 1-2% of onboarding conversion gains are considered a big win (e.g., in ecommerce, marketplaces, financial services), Mesh’s proprietary capabilities help companies increase business onboarding conversion by 10-50% and ensure ongoing compliance in auto-pilot. | $5.7M | Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Klasha | Klasha is a global technology company, building a platform and APIs to move money to and from emerging markets frictionlessly. With Klasha, businesses can collect, send money and hold exotic and hard currencies through our extensive API stack. Enterprise businesses use our rails and infrastructure to power their cross-border payments. Founded in2021 by Jess Anuna, Klasha collects and sends over 120 currencies, saving merchants time and money. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Bamboo | Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones. | $15M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Spectrum Labs | Spectrum Labs is a technology company, platform, and community that focuses on making the internet a safer and more valuable place for all. The company identifies toxic behaviors across text, voice, and languages enabling trust and safety teams to reduce content moderation costs and increase the detection of brand-destroying behaviors. | $32M | Series B | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Klasha | Klasha is a global technology company, building a platform and APIs to move money to and from emerging markets frictionlessly. With Klasha, businesses can collect, send money and hold exotic and hard currencies through our extensive API stack. Enterprise businesses use our rails and infrastructure to power their cross-border payments. Founded in2021 by Jess Anuna, Klasha collects and sends over 120 currencies, saving merchants time and money. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Spectrum Labs | Spectrum Labs is a technology company, platform, and community that focuses on making the internet a safer and more valuable place for all. The company identifies toxic behaviors across text, voice, and languages enabling trust and safety teams to reduce content moderation costs and increase the detection of brand-destroying behaviors. | $10M | Series A | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Cloud Paper | Cloud Paper is a tree-free paper manufacturer that makes paper products made with 100% bamboo. The company's paper products are made with sustainable, super-soft, bamboo. With no trees harmed along the way. The company aims to end the deforestation cycle caused by the traditional paper industry. It also uses plastic-free packaging.It wasfounded in 2019 and is based in Seattle, Washington. | $3M | Seed | Sep 22, 2020 |  |
| WayScript | WayScript is a software company that offers a visual programming platform that helps build software tools, workflow automation, and data sets. Its platform enables developers to write code in a web-based, drag-and-drop scripting environment and run their code through a workflow builder that displays the output in real-time. It aims to build aproduct that developers could easily access and can also support programming languages like Python and integrates with more than 40 services, such as Slack, Zendesk, and Twitter.The company was founded in Mineola, New York in 2018 by developers Orshan and Lane Eden. | $5M | Seed | Aug 11, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Berrywood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berrywood-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Presight Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presight-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Greycroft

VC Fund · New York, United States

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.With offices in two of the most important business hubs in the world, New York and Los Angeles Greycroft uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. The firm leverages an extensivenetwork of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses. Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 200 investments since its inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Bird, Botkeeper, Bright Health, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit, and Yeahka.Greycroft has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

5 contacts available at Greycroft.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alison Lange Engel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alison-lange-engel |
| Bo Peabody | Board Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-peabody |
| Kamran Ansari | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kamran-ansari |
| Marcie Vu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcie-vu-7bc8 |
| Peter Saperstone | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-saperstone-b302 |

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## FAQ

### What does Alison Lange Engel invest in?

Alison Lange Engel invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Alison Lange Engel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alison Lange Engel closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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