# Amanda Eilian

> Amanda Eilian is a seed investor at Tech:NYC (New York) backing Health Care and Travel. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tech:NYC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tech-nyc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-eilian-13025b6/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aeilian

Amanda Eilian is a seed investor at Tech:NYC in New York focused on Health Care and Travel. Amanda Eilian is the co-founder and president of Videolicious, an enterprise mobile video creation platform used by leading brands like IBM, SAP and Canon. Companies use Videolicious to automatically create sophisticated, personalized videos to enhance sales and marketing campaigns. Videolicious has over 4,000,000 users in over 100 countries, andis taught in over 90 journalism schools. Videolicious investors include Amazon.com.Prior to forming Videolicious, Amanda was a founding partner of Capitol Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) that completed a $265 million initial public offering in 2007 and closed a merger in 2009 that led to the formation of Two Harbors Investment Corp., a $3 billion NYSE listed REIT (TWO) and Silver Bay Realty Trust (SBY).Amanda previously worked in private equity and mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch. Amanda is a Truman scholar and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with honors in economics, and received her MBA from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker scholar. Amanda serves on the board of directors of Juice Beauty, the largest organic skincare brand in North America, and on the board of directors of the Melanoma Research Alliance, the largest private funder of melanoma research with more than $88 million in grants awarded to date. Amanda is an active investor and advisor to companies in the healthy living and lifestyle space, including Goop, Daily Harvest, and OneFineStay.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 67% |
| Travel | 1 | 33% |
| Fashion | 1 | 33% |
| Shopping | 1 | 33% |
| Wellness | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juice Beauty | Juice Beauty is an organic cosmetics company that makes products with juice as the base ingredient. |  | Seed | Feb 24, 2018 |  |
| Juice Beauty | Juice Beauty is an organic cosmetics company that makes products with juice as the base ingredient. |  |  | Feb 24, 2018 |  |
| Goop | Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.Launched in the fall of 2008 out of Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen as a homespun weekly newsletter, Gwyneth wanted a place to organize her unbiased travel recommendations, health-centric recipes, and shopping discoveries for friends, and she also wanted to get her own questions—abouthealth, fitness, and the psyche—answered. Now, Goop has become a fully formed lifestyle site, offering a tight curation of products and content. It is a place for Paltrow to introduce some of the incredible experts who have mentored her throughout her life to a wider audience, and a place where readers can find suggestions about where to shop, eat, and stay from a trusted friend—not from an anonymous, crowd-sourced recommendation engine, that's Goop.While the Thursday email remains an inbox staple, Goop has grown significantly since its launch: There’s now a small team of Goop people, more content, a robust shop full of pieces from some of our favorite designers (including exclusive collaborations), and a luxurious, organic skin-care line, Goop by Juice Beauty, which truly represents the values of the brand. | $10M | Series A | Aug 06, 2015 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Felix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tech:NYC

VC Fund · New York, United States

Tech:NYC represents the city’s fast-growing, entrepreneurial high-tech industry with government, civic institutions, in business and public policy forums, and the media. Its primary goal is to continue to attract tech talent and jobs to NYC, to support the growth of the technology sector, and to increase civic engagement by leaders of the New Yorktech community. Tech:NYC mobilizes the expertise and resources of the tech sector to work with city and state government on programs and policies that ensure New York’s pre-eminence in the global innovation economy.

4 contacts available at Tech:NYC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amanda Eilian | Member, Tech:NYC Leadership Council | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-eilian |
| Julie Samuels | Founder & Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-samuels |
| Nathan Richardson | Member, Leadership Council | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nathan-richardson |
| Timothy Armstrong | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-armstrong |

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## FAQ

### What does Amanda Eilian invest in?

Amanda Eilian invests primarily in Health Care, Travel and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Amanda Eilian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amanda Eilian closed in Feb 2018. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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