# Ashley Stinton

> Ashley Stinton is a seed investor at Second Century Ventures backing Marketplace and Fashion. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Second Century Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/second-century-ventures)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Ashley Stinton is a seed investor at Second Century Ventures focused on Marketplace and Fashion. Ashley Stinton

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 40% |
| Fashion | 1 | 20% |
| Consumer | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guest House | Guest House is a home staging and home furnishing marketplace that provides real estate services. The company's platform simplifies the entire staging process, with real interior designers who provide in-person installations, furnishings from premium brands and local makers, and free listing photography delivered in as little as one week.Itallows homebuyers to scan a QR code to purchase anything inside staged properties – from a few products to a full room to the entire interior, making furnishing more convenient than ever before. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Foyer | Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership | $6.2M | Seed | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| Pixlmob | Pixlmob designed software that connects photographers and videographers with authorized editors that give image alterations to increase the quality and visibility of images and films. | $500K | Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Chirpyest | Chirpyest is a social shopping and sharing platform allowing anyone to earn money while they shop. Chirpyest was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Beverly Hills California. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Purlin | Purlin makes the homebuying experience better, helps real estate professionals succeed, and improves the businesses of brokerages and lenders, through intelligent personalization.We use image-based AI to create the best possible real-estate experience from finding to buying a home. We take users on an exploration of home styles and design and letthem “peek” inside to find what they like so that we can deliver home matches that they want. We create profiles that combine personal style with life, geographic, and budgetary inputs, and continually enrich them as buyers interact with our AI. We guide them through the entire dynamic process, with automated intelligence and deep real estate and mortgage expertise. Our intelligent real estate experience was created to make finding the right home more satisfying for buyers, more efficient for RE professionals and more profitable for brokers and lenders. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 08, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ANIMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clocktower Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clocktower-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Detroit Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/detroit-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hometeam Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hometeam-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ResilienceVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resiliencevc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Second Century Ventures

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Second Century Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on promoting innovation in the real estate industry and helping to enable the entrepreneurial spirit of real estate to thrive. SCV has been fully capitalized by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR). With over 1.4 million members, NAR is a trade association in the country. NAR canprovide immediate strategic value to SCV portfolio companies by allowing them access to the vast resources of a 300-person organization with expertise, influence, and power that comes only by being ingrained in an industry for over 100 years.

5 contacts available at Second Century Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Stinton | Senior Director, Marketing & Communication | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-stinton |
| Bob Gillespie | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-gillespie |
| Bob Goldberg | Chairman & Pres. | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-goldberg |
| Dave Garland | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-garland-2 |
| Desiree Patno | Member Board Of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desiree-patno-8aaf |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashley Stinton invest in?

Ashley Stinton invests primarily in Marketplace, Fashion and Consumer startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Ashley Stinton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashley Stinton closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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