# Ariel Emanuel

> Ariel Emanuel is a Series A investor at Endeavor backing Personal Health and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Endeavor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wmeimg)
- Location: Beverly Hills, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariemanuel

Ariel Emanuel is a Series A investor at Endeavor in Beverly Hills focused on Personal Health and FinTech. Ariel Emanuel is the CEO of Endeavor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6.1M |
| Series A | $13M–$53M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Personal Health | 3 | 25% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 92% |
| Norway | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Las Vegas Raiders | Las Vegas Raiders is a professional football team in the National Football League. It specializes in the fields of sports, professional services, and American Football. It was founded in 1960 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. |  |  | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Flocean | Flocean delivers subsea pumping systems for providing clean drinking water in the region. | $22.5M | Series A | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Blueprint Bryan Johnson | Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M | Angel | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Polymarket | fka Union.market | $150M | Series C | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Function Health | Function Health is a health platform offering lab tests to help individuals monitor their health. | $53M | Series A | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Rumi.ai | Waitroom is a video communication platform that allows people to share their thoughts and interact with others in a live video environment. | $3M | Seed | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| CommonStock | CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to shareholdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing their own amount, and compete to see who performs best,enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions.Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming).The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M | Series A | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| Polywork | Polywork is a social networking platform that allows professionals to collaborate with other professionals. It is a network that doesn’t restrict people from telling their stories through a list of arbitrary job titles. It doesn’t let any random stranger they've never even met endorse them for skills they never knew they had. They want tobuild a network that empowers people and gives them control over their identity and their future opportunities. | $13M | Series A | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Bitski | Bitski is a developer-focused platform that simplifies the creation, sale, and purchase of NFTs for creators, brands, and platforms. By connecting communities through ownable digital content, Bitski aims to make blockchain technology accessible to mainstream brands and celebrities. | $19M | Series A | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Gusto | Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado. | $6.1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2012 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ribbit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ribbit-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Endeavor

VC Fund · Beverly Hills, United States

Endeavor is an entertainment, sports, and content company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events, and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; sports, fashion, events, and media company IMG; and premier mixed martial arts organization UFc.

5 contacts available at Endeavor.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Weyenberg | VP of Design | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-weyenberg |
| Lloyd Braun | Chairman of WME; President of Endeavor Client Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lloyd-braun |
| Maura McGreevy | Chief Communications Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maura-mcgreevy-1e15 |
| Ori Birnbaum | Senior Vice President of Product and Technology | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ori-birnbaum |
| Tobias Sherman | Global Head of eSports | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobias-sherman |

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## FAQ

### What does Ariel Emanuel invest in?

Ariel Emanuel invests primarily in Personal Health, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Ariel Emanuel's check size?

Ariel Emanuel typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.1M at Seed and $13M–$53M 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 Ariel Emanuel participates in.

### When did Ariel Emanuel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ariel Emanuel closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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