# Andy Appelbaum

> Andy Appelbaum is a seed investor at RiverPark Ventures backing E-Commerce. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [RiverPark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverpark-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-appelbaum/7/623/330

Andy Appelbaum is a Managing Partner at RiverPark Ventures. Andy previously worked at Co-Founder at Managing Partner as a AC Angel Fund. He attended New York University School of Law and Binghamton University.Andy is a career entrepreneur who has founded a portfolio of high growth businesses in industries ranging from Dry Cleaning to FoodDelivery to Energy. Andy began his career as an attorney for Latham & Watkins. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law and graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Binghamton. Andy is also an active Angel Investor and a member of New York Angels.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $450k–$4.3M |
| Angel | $300k–$500k |
| Series A | $1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 25% |
| Internet | 5 | 21% |
| Mobile | 4 | 17% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 42% |
| Series A | 6 | 25% |
| Angel | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 67% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GibsonAI | GibsonAI is your AI-powered database engineer, enabling you to design, build, deploy, and scale production-ready databases effortlessly. The inputs are simply what you want to build in plain English, and GibsonAI takes care of the rest. The outputs include an ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagram), data models, schemas, a fully deployed hosted database,and a CRUD API, complete with API documentation for seamless integration. Plus, you can update this database anytime just by talking to Gibson, making iteration and scaling easier than ever. It's free to get started. | $3.5M | Seed | May 08, 2024 | https://x.com/heygibsonai |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $35M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 10, 2023 | https://www.petalcard.com/ |
| Disco | Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $20M | Series A | Mar 04, 2022 | https://www.coopcommerce.com |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $140M | Series D | Jan 05, 2022 | https://www.petalcard.com/ |
| Disco | Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 29, 2021 | https://www.coopcommerce.com |
| MarketerHire | MarketerHire’s mission is to make expert marketing accessible to everyone. Our platform gives companies on-demand access to a global network of amazing, pre-vetted marketing talent and it is used by early-stage startups, billion-dollar unicorns, and Fortune 100 companies alike. By giving all companies access to amazing marketers - entrepreneurs andenterprises can focus on building great products.We are also contributing to the future of work for our talented marketers. Our platform helps them earn significant additional income while maintaining their full-time job or taking a lot of the hassle and risk out of being full-time freelance. All of our jobs are default-remote, enabling our talent to work anywhere in the world. | $3M | Seed | Oct 29, 2020 | https://marketerhire.com/ |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $55M | Series C | Sep 24, 2020 | https://www.petalcard.com/ |
| Disco | Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2020 | https://www.coopcommerce.com |
| Sweet Reason Beverage | Sweet Reason is a hemp and cannabis beverage company that launched with three naturally flavored, CBD-infused sparkling waters (Grapefruit, Cucumber Mint, and Strawberry Lavender) made in the USA. Each 12 oz bottle CO2-extracted CBD from Colorado organic hemp and contains no sugar, sweeteners, sodium, carbohydrates or artificial ingredients and isjust five calories. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 02, 2019 | https://drinksweetreason.com/ |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $30M | Series B | Jan 29, 2019 | https://www.petalcard.com/ |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Indicator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indicator-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rosecliff Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rosecliff-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Story Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/story-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About RiverPark Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

RiverPark Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in the future of enterprise technology and the evolution of consumer behavior.

5 contacts available at RiverPark Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Conrad van Tienhoven | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conrad-van-tienhoven |
| Erik Diamond | Assistant Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-diamond |
| Gary Schnierow | Director of Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-schnierow |
| Jim Brophy | Head Trader/Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-brophy |
| Justin Simon | Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-simon |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Appelbaum invest in?

Andy Appelbaum invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Andy Appelbaum's check size?

Andy Appelbaum typically joins rounds of $450k–$4.3M at Seed, $300k–$500k at Angel and $1M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andy Appelbaum participates in.

### How do I contact Andy Appelbaum?

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### When did Andy Appelbaum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Appelbaum closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 24 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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