# Animal Capital

> Animal Capital is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Financial Services. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 2%
- Fund size: $15M
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/animalcapital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/animalcapitalco
- Website: https://www.animalcapital.co

Animal Capital is a venture firm driving growth by leveraging proprietary marketing channels and increasing consumer awareness. The firm will focus on consumer and financial technology, health and wellness, and media.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Animal Capital. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Animal Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/animal-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 9% |
| Apps | 3 | 7% |
| Retail | 3 | 7% |
| Finance | 3 | 7% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 34% |
| Series A | 14 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 14% |
| Series B | 5 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Griffin Johnson | Advisor | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/griffin-johnson |
| Dylann Berger Katz | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dylann-berger-katz |
| Marshall Sandman | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marshall-sandman |
| Michael Gruen | Founder and General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gruen |
| Noah Beck | Advisor | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noah-beck |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Breakaway Group | Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. | $48.9M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Array Labs | Array Labs designs and operates space-based radar systems and delivers 3D Earth imagery and geospatial data services. The company develops modular radar payloads and distributed radar satellite clusters that capture multi-angle data to generate detailed three-dimensional models of terrestrial surfaces and objects. It provides standalone radarinstruments for integration on satellite platforms, fully integrated satellite systems for customers that require dedicated sensing assets, and processed 3D data products via APIs or delivery channels. Array Labs also works with partners to support simulation and modeling of distributed radar constellations and to co-develop enriched datasets that combine radar and other sensing modalities. Its offerings support applications such as geospatial intelligence, infrastructure monitoring, and analytical workflows reliant on volumetric surface data. | $20M | Series A | Jan 05, 2026 |  |
| BuyWander | BuyWander is a platform connecting consumers with returned products. The company appears to operate across various categories, including automotive, beauty & health, clothing, electronics, food & grocery, and home & kitchen. | $2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Platter | Platter provides a toolkit designed to increase profitability for Shopify stores. It offers an integrated Shopify theme and app pairing that can be customized to fit a brand's unique needs. The platform aims to enhance the e-commerce experience by providing tools that streamline operations and boost sales performance. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 07, 2025 |  |
| Footprint | Footprint is an onboarding platform that solves KYC, Security, Auth, and Fraud with five lines of code. By utilizing novel technologies such as nitro enclaves, passkeys, and app clips, Footprint has helped companies generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer LTV by boosting their conversion while also preventing fraud attacks throughpropriety deterministic signals. | $13M | Series A | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Breaking | Breaking is a plastic degradation and synthetic biology company. | $10.5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Array Labs | Array Labs designs and operates space-based radar systems and delivers 3D Earth imagery and geospatial data services. The company develops modular radar payloads and distributed radar satellite clusters that capture multi-angle data to generate detailed three-dimensional models of terrestrial surfaces and objects. It provides standalone radarinstruments for integration on satellite platforms, fully integrated satellite systems for customers that require dedicated sensing assets, and processed 3D data products via APIs or delivery channels. Array Labs also works with partners to support simulation and modeling of distributed radar constellations and to co-develop enriched datasets that combine radar and other sensing modalities. Its offerings support applications such as geospatial intelligence, infrastructure monitoring, and analytical workflows reliant on volumetric surface data. | $10M | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Lolli | Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY. | $8M | Series B | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Trips | Trips provide content creators with the tools they need to achieve financial stability by protecting their intellectual property and converting their copyrights into valuable assets. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Series | Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises. |  | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Buckley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buckley-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Animal Capital invest in?

Animal Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Financial Services and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Animal Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Animal Capital?

The team at Animal Capital includes Griffin Johnson (Advisor), Dylann Berger Katz (Partner) and Marshall Sandman (Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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