# Anthony Noto

> Anthony Noto is a Series A investor at SoFi (New York) backing Sports and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SoFi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-finance)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonynoto
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/anthonynoto
- Website: https://x.com/anthonynoto
- Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/anthony.noto44?fref=ts

Anthony Noto is a Series A investor at SoFi in New York focused on Sports and FinTech. Anthony Noto is based out of Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the Chief Executive Officer of SoFi. Anthony previously worked at X (formerly Twitter) as a Chief Operating Officer. Anthony Noto attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 2 | 29% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 57% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $18.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Lendtable | Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $18M | Series A | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Buzzer | Buzzer is scaling its proprietary technology and custom services to support an evolving industry embracing a more fan-centric approach and looking to connect with Gen Z audiences. Buzzer’s technology enables partners’ D2C platforms to be lighter, faster, curated, and personalized while saving on costly manual oversight and editorial resourcing,solving for a content-saturated and disaggregated consumer environment. | $20M | Series A | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Buzzer | Buzzer is scaling its proprietary technology and custom services to support an evolving industry embracing a more fan-centric approach and looking to connect with Gen Z audiences. Buzzer’s technology enables partners’ D2C platforms to be lighter, faster, curated, and personalized while saving on costly manual oversight and editorial resourcing,solving for a content-saturated and disaggregated consumer environment. | $4M | Seed | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Digits | Digits is a fintech company building tools for businesses and finance professionals by leveraging its proprietary Living Model technology. The company was founded by Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $10.5M | Series A | Nov 06, 2019 |  |
| The Action Network | The Action Network is a sports media start-up that builds products and creates content to inform and entertain the sports bettor | $17.5M | Series B | Feb 21, 2019 |  |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $5.1M | Series A | Jan 25, 2008 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Allen & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-and-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pinnacle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pinnacle-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [359 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-sport) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About SoFi

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, andprotect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at SoFi.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Noto | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-noto |
| Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore | President of Sofi Technology Solutions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathleen-pierce-gilmore |
| Mikaal Abdulla | SVP, International | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mikaal-abdulla |
| Chris Lapointe | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-lapointe |
| Darwin Ling | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-ling |

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## FAQ

### What does Anthony Noto invest in?

Anthony Noto invests primarily in Sports, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Anthony Noto's check size?

Anthony Noto typically joins rounds of $5.1M–$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 Anthony Noto participates in.

### When did Anthony Noto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anthony Noto closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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