# AOL

> AOL is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Internet. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/aol
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aol
- Website: http://www.aol.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aol

AOL is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Internet. AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites. AOL users can publish their statuses, reply to comments on networking sites from their Lifestream tab, and more. It was founded in 1985 and headquartered in New York, United States

## Contacts

5 contacts available for AOL. Shizune tracks 10 team members at AOL. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/aol?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $7.3M–$33M |
| Series C | $15M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 30% |
| Internet | 8 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 11% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 27% |
| Series C | 5 | 14% |
| Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 81% |
| Israel | 3 | 8% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abbi Jacobson | Artist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abbi-jacobson |
| Albert Micheal | Senior Android Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-micheal |
| Dawn Lepore | Member of the Board of Directors | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dawn-lepore |
| Michael Manos | Senior Vice President; Technologies | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-manos |
| Samuel Kim | Senior Manager, Consumer Analytics & Research | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-kim-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holisto | We love travel as much as you do. That’s why we want to make it attainable, so you can make your travel dreams a reality. We believe in making hotel stays more affordable - so that you can save your money for more unforgettable travel experiences. Other travel booking websites, use the same providers and the same old search functions to findyou hotel deals currently available online. We don’t do regular, we do innovative - we spent 3 years developing an award-winning algorithm that goes beyond simple search.We CREATE the best possible deal by combining multiple rate plans into a single booking. Instead of getting your hotel reservation from one provider, we split your hotel search to get over 1.5M booking offers from global distribution systems, wholesalers, and online travel agencies. We then select the best offers and merge them back under one reservation into a unique travel deal at the hotel of your choice, at a silly price.Splitty smart, huh?Travelution Awards 2017: Startup of the Year Eye4Travel Awards 2017: Startup of the Year World's Leading Hotel Booking Website 2018 Nominee World's Leading Hotel Booking Website 2019 Nominee | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 21, 2017 |  |
| Crunchbase | Crunchbase is a prospecting platform for dealmakers who want to search less and close more. With powerful features including personalized account recommendations, lists, territory preferences, intent signals, news notifications, and advanced search, Crunchbase makes it easy to target the right opportunities at the right time. In addition,Crunchbase's best-in-class private company data offers insight into target companies' teams, funding status, growth trends, tech stack, web traffic, investments, and more, to personalize the outreach and increase engagement. | $18M | Series B | Apr 06, 2017 |  |
| Shoppimon | Shoppimon was launched to completely change how eCommerce companies monitor their online stores. In addition to providing store owners and developers with real-time notifications anytime a site issue prevents shoppers from completing a purchase, for the first time, Shoppimon puts those problems into context. Providing developers with theunderstanding both of how issues are experienced by shoppers, and how they impact a store's bottom line. All with zero-setup and integration time. | $2.3M |  | Mar 16, 2016 |  |
| Docady | Docady is a free service that organizes and categorizes all of your personal documents for you. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 26, 2015 |  |
| Shoppimon | Shoppimon was launched to completely change how eCommerce companies monitor their online stores. In addition to providing store owners and developers with real-time notifications anytime a site issue prevents shoppers from completing a purchase, for the first time, Shoppimon puts those problems into context. Providing developers with theunderstanding both of how issues are experienced by shoppers, and how they impact a store's bottom line. All with zero-setup and integration time. | $700K | Seed | Mar 15, 2014 |  |
| Brightcove | Since 2004, Brightcove has been helping customers discover and experience the incredible power of video through its award-winning technology, empowering organizations in more than 70 countries across the globe to touch audiences in bold and innovative ways. Brightcove achieves this by developing technologies once thought impossible, providingcustomer support without parallel or excuses, and leveraging the expertise and resources of global infrastructure. Video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium. Brightcove is Video That Means Business.™ | $59.5M | Series C | Jan 17, 2007 |  |
| Brightcove | Since 2004, Brightcove has been helping customers discover and experience the incredible power of video through its award-winning technology, empowering organizations in more than 70 countries across the globe to touch audiences in bold and innovative ways. Brightcove achieves this by developing technologies once thought impossible, providingcustomer support without parallel or excuses, and leveraging the expertise and resources of global infrastructure. Video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium. Brightcove is Video That Means Business.™ | $16.2M | Series B | Nov 30, 2005 |  |
| KAYAK | KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips,explore, and price forecast.In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories.KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia. | $7M | Series B | Dec 01, 2004 |  |
| KAYAK | KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips,explore, and price forecast.In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories.KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia. | $8.5M | Series A | Jan 14, 2004 |  |
| Mozilla | Mozilla provides internet solutions. It offers firefox, a web browser; thunderbird 2, an email application raindrop, a prototype messaging tool which enables its users to manage a stream of messages coming from sources and rainbow, a developer prototype that brings video and audio recording to firefox 4. | $2M |  | Jul 15, 2003 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

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- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Mayfield Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfield-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Reuters](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reuters) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [2B Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2b-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AOL invest in?

AOL invests primarily in Software, Internet and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 37 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 AOL's check size?

AOL typically joins rounds of $7.3M–$33M at Series B and $15M–$60M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AOL participates in.

### How do I contact AOL?

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### Who are the partners at AOL?

The team at AOL includes Abbi Jacobson (Artist), Albert Micheal (Senior Android Engineer) and Dawn Lepore (Member of the Board of Directors), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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