# Art Reidel

> Art Reidel is a seed investor at Band of Angels backing SaaS, Software and Recruiting. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Band of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/band-of-angels)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Art Reidel is a seed investor at Band of Angels focused on SaaS and Software. Art Reidel has helped build and scale profitable businesses in the electronic design automation, pharmaceutical software, semiconductor, and communications industries for more than 30 years.In January 2011, he retired after as CEO of Scintera, a mixed signal wireless IC company he joined in 2006, and was previously co-founder, chairman andchief executive officer of Pharsight Corporation (now part of Tripos International), the leader in modeling and simulation for pharmaceutical development, where he led its IPO in August 2000. Art previously held executive positions with Sunrise Test Systems (acquired by Viewlogic Systems) where he served as its president and chief executive officer, Weitek, Interactive Training Systems, and Schlumberger Computer-Aided Systems. In addition to his management roles, Art is well connected to the investment community. From 2003 through 2005 Art was a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he provided management assistance to portfolio companies and was responsible for several new investments. From 1984 through 1991 he served as a general partner at ABS Ventures Limited Partnerships, where he invested in and was a director of numerous technology-based companies. Art is a limited partner in several venture funds, has made numerous personal “angel” investments, and serves on several boards. He has been an active member of the Band of Angels since 1995, and is a partner in the Band's Acorn fund. He has a BS in Mathematics from MIT.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 100% |
| Human Resources | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Comeet | Comeet is a cloud-based collaborative hiring platform that provides structured, streamlined workflows to enable companies to make better hires, faster.The system is based on a team-centric approach that involves the entire hiring team, not just the recruiters. It offers an elegantly simple, user-friendly design that makes it easy for companies todeploy and customize for hiring teams to use, with little to no training required.Features and functionality cover every activity necessary to build high performance teams, including: sourcing, coordinating, communicating, sharing, scheduling, preparing, engaging, evaluating, hiring and reporting. | $730K | Seed | Apr 15, 2013 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Band of Angels

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Band of Angels is an investment firm that offers financial and advisory services to start-up companies. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit.

5 contacts available at Band of Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Art Reidel | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/art-reidel |
| Christian Dahlen | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-dahlen |
| Manthi Nguyen | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manthi-nguyen |
| Tom Carroux | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-carroux |
| VK Rajaram | Member & Screening Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vk-rajaram |

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## FAQ

### What does Art Reidel invest in?

Art Reidel invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Recruiting startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Art Reidel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Art Reidel closed in Apr 2013. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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