# Amanda Bradford

> Amanda Bradford is a seed investor at XFactor Ventures (San Francisco) backing LGBT and Dating. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [XFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfactor-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-bradford-a648904
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/amandabradford

Amanda Bradford is a seed investor at XFactor Ventures in San Francisco focused on LGBT and Dating. Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$1.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LGBT | 1 | 20% |
| Dating | 1 | 20% |
| Social | 1 | 20% |
| Health Care | 1 | 20% |
| Social Media | 1 | 20% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nucleus | Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform. | $14M | Series A | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Lex | Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2020 |  |
| Lex | Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2020 |  |
| Lex | Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2020 |  |
| Lex | Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Female Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/female-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tusk Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tusk-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [XFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfactor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Asylum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asylum-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Common Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/common-metal-cd02) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About XFactor Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

5 contacts available at XFactor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maia Bittner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maia-bittner |
| Aihui Ong | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aihui-ong |
| Allison Kopf | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-kopf |
| Amanda Bradford | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-bradford |
| Anna Palmer | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-palmer-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Amanda Bradford invest in?

Amanda Bradford invests primarily in LGBT, Dating and Social startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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.

### What is Amanda Bradford's check size?

Amanda Bradford typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$1.5M at Seed and $1.5M–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amanda Bradford participates in.

### When did Amanda Bradford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amanda Bradford closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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