# Andreas Stavropoulos

> Andreas Stavropoulos is a Series B investor at Samsung Electronics backing Software. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Samsung Electronics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-electronics)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasstavropoulos
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/astavropoulos

Andreas Stavropoulos is a Series B investor at Samsung Electronics in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Andreas is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where, in addition to the TrustedID Board, he serves on the Boards of Akimbo, AppStream, everdream, H5 Technologies, MeetUp, Mobile 365, Pronto Networks, SilverPop, Technorati and Wavemarket.In addition, he led the firm's investments in Centerpost, ePocrates, 4info, Mimeo and PolarisWireless. Andreas focuses primarily on software investments (enterprise infrastructure and consumer/internet), wireless networking, and technology-enabled services. Prior to joining DFJ, Andreas Stavropoulos was with McKinsey & Company's San Francisco office, where he worked with senior management teams of corporate clients with an emphasis on information technology.Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Analyst at Cornerstone Research, a financial and economic consulting firm that helps resolve complex issues arising in high-profile business litigation. Andreas Stavropoulos is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College in computer science. He also holds an MS degree in computer science from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and graduated first in his class.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 11% |
| Internet | 4 | 9% |
| Mobile | 3 | 7% |
| Advertising | 3 | 7% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 24% |
| Series D | 9 | 20% |
| Series C | 8 | 18% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Seed | 2 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 40% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Numa | NumberAI develops artificial intelligence software Numa. It enables small businesses to connect their landline numbers digitally and interact with them in a lot of the same ways consumers expect today. Andrew Ruff, Joel Grossman, and Tasso Roumeliotis founded NumberAI in 2016. It has its headquarters in Oakland in California. | $32M | Series B | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Morphoses | Morphoses is an edtech company that is changing the way kids learn and develop their employability skills. Our innovative end-to-end solution engages and educates learners aged 6-17 in a fun and efficient manner through weekly 1hr live sessions in collaborative groups led by top-notch tutors specialized in soft skills.The offering is currentlyavailable to medium-large companies as a way to provide a valuable benefit to parent employees, as well as through educational institutions to expand their range of tutoring and offerings. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Forward Networks | Forward Networks delivers an innovative platform that provides network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling. Designed to help network teams eliminate costly network outages, the Forward Networks platform enables engineers and operators to easily visualize and search complex networks, quickly debug problems, verify network-widepolicy correctness, and predict network behavior prior to making changes to production equipment — for legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments. Fortune 100 financial institutions, telcos, and IT service providers use Forward Networks to de-risk business operations and drive operational efficiency. Founded by a team of PhDs who helped pioneer SDN at Stanford, Forward Networks is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, A Capital, and several luminaries in the networking and systems space. | $50M | Series D | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| CircleCI | CircleCI’s continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. It lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day.Velocity is critical for software teams in today's competitive landscape, but maintaining speed canbe difficult as apps and systems grow larger and more complex. CircleCI enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. Thousands of leading companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, Shyp, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate the delivery of their code and enable developers to focus on creating business value fast.CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2018 award winner from the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in beautiful downtown San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital. | $100M | Series F | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Forward Networks | Forward Networks delivers an innovative platform that provides network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling. Designed to help network teams eliminate costly network outages, the Forward Networks platform enables engineers and operators to easily visualize and search complex networks, quickly debug problems, verify network-widepolicy correctness, and predict network behavior prior to making changes to production equipment — for legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments. Fortune 100 financial institutions, telcos, and IT service providers use Forward Networks to de-risk business operations and drive operational efficiency. Founded by a team of PhDs who helped pioneer SDN at Stanford, Forward Networks is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, A Capital, and several luminaries in the networking and systems space. | $35M | Series C | Oct 08, 2019 |  |
| CircleCI | CircleCI’s continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. It lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day.Velocity is critical for software teams in today's competitive landscape, but maintaining speed canbe difficult as apps and systems grow larger and more complex. CircleCI enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. Thousands of leading companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, Shyp, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate the delivery of their code and enable developers to focus on creating business value fast.CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2018 award winner from the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in beautiful downtown San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital. | $56M | Series D | Jul 23, 2019 |  |
| Triparound | Founded by established travel professionals and backed by an all-star team of angel investors across five continents and Silicon Valley, Triparound is a travel tech company with a mission of bringing travel planning into the future through a holistic ecosystem of products and services.Triparound is a software platform (SaaS) for travel companiesthat seek to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and ease of use on their day-to-day business operations. In turn, data will become an asset through which we can provide insights and leverage market expansion opportunities, connecting the dots under our vision of 360⁰ travel and building on the macro trend of millennials’ needs for curated experiences. Our ultimate goal is to commoditize both the efficiency of travel professionals as well as the consumers’ ability to effortlessly create and execute their trips. Effectively, we will be substituting the sluggish “human algorithm” with tech-enabled travel solutions.The company was founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 18, 2019 |  |
| Numa | NumberAI develops artificial intelligence software Numa. It enables small businesses to connect their landline numbers digitally and interact with them in a lot of the same ways consumers expect today. Andrew Ruff, Joel Grossman, and Tasso Roumeliotis founded NumberAI in 2016. It has its headquarters in Oakland in California. | $10.5M | Series A | Jan 28, 2019 |  |
| CircleCI | CircleCI’s continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. It lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day.Velocity is critical for software teams in today's competitive landscape, but maintaining speed canbe difficult as apps and systems grow larger and more complex. CircleCI enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. Thousands of leading companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, Shyp, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate the delivery of their code and enable developers to focus on creating business value fast.CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2018 award winner from the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in beautiful downtown San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital. | $31M | Series C | Jan 17, 2018 |  |
| Numa | NumberAI develops artificial intelligence software Numa. It enables small businesses to connect their landline numbers digitally and interact with them in a lot of the same ways consumers expect today. Andrew Ruff, Joel Grossman, and Tasso Roumeliotis founded NumberAI in 2016. It has its headquarters in Oakland in California. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 12, 2017 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mobius Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobius-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Samsung Electronics

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company headquartered in South Korea that operates in various areas of the electronics industry, including consumer electronics, information technology, mobile communications, and device solutions. The company is involved in the development, manufacturing, and sale of a wide range of consumer products,such as mobile phones, tablets, TVs, home theater systems, digital cameras, and home appliances like refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, and ovens. Additionally, it offers PCs, peripherals, printers, memory and storage products, healthcare and medical equipment, telecommunications infrastructures, and LED lighting solutions. The company is also involved in semiconductor manufacturing, cyber game match hosting, venture capital investments, sponsoring sports teams and games, credit management, and logistics services. Samsung Electronics operates in various regions worldwide, including Korea, China, North and Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Africa. The company also provides repair services and consultation for electronic devices and communication systems.

5 contacts available at Samsung Electronics.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aloknath De | Corporate VP & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aloknath-de |
| David Lee | Head of Samsung Next and Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-lee-106e |
| In-Ho Lee | Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-ho-lee |
| Jong Hee Han | Vice Chairman & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-hee-han |
| Sebastian Stoddart | Head of Group: Insight & Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-stoddart |

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## FAQ

### What does Andreas Stavropoulos invest in?

Andreas Stavropoulos invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 45 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 Andreas Stavropoulos last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andreas Stavropoulos closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 45 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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