AGO Partners
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
AGO Partners is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on FinTech and Financial Services. AGO invests in entrepreneurs building companies that create a better world
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries AGO Partners invests in
Stages AGO Partners invests in
Countries AGO Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$3.8M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.5M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (11%)
- Financial Services 4 (11%)
- Mobile 3 (8%)
- Internet 3 (8%)
- Software 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (35%)
- Convertible Note 3 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series A 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 20 (54%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Pom
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Matt Salzberg
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Kappa Biosciences
|
Kappa Biosciences is an early-stage biotechnology and life sciences startup with a vision to deliver big solutions to existing problems. It is currently in the R&D phase. | $8.5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 05, 2023 | |
| Minimum provides a real-time platform that serves as a single source of truth for carbon accounting as well as a command and control hub for all carbon management activities. Its software complements a solid Carbon Accounting core with a comprehensive suite of capabilities, allowing an organization to easily meet its Carbon Management goals. | $2.6M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| MINIMUM LTD provides carbon accounting software that measures and manages greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1, 2, and 3. The platform ingests activity and spend data from systems such as energy meters, travel tools, and finance platforms to build audit-ready inventories. Emissions factors and methodologies align to common standards, withoutputs structured for disclosures like CDP and TCFD. Features include supplier data collection, reduction planning, and progress tracking against science-based targets. Dashboards, workflows, and exports support internal reporting and external assurance. Services include onboarding support and climate reporting assistance for organizations. | $2.7M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $50M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2021 | ||
| Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $135M / Series C / May 21, 2020 | ||
| Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $47M / Series B / Dec 07, 2017 | ||
| Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to check frauds and make identity management effective and simple for banks and financial institutions. Alloy is an API for regulated companies to collect and manage customer data from many different sources. It also engages in helping financial institutions and FinTech companies solveidentity and compliance problems. The service allows banks and FinTechs to make better risk and identify decisions, using a single API and dashboard to manage AML, fraud, KYC, and more.The company also offers an API to help financial services companies access various aggregated identity databases and a dashboard through which to organize and analyze customer onboarding data. It also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel, reduce risk and fraud, and speed up previously manual back-office processes.Alloy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $3.8M / Seed / Oct 18, 2017 | ||
| Bright Funds is the next generation platform for individual and workplace giving, empowering everyday donors to become strategic philanthropists. Bright Funds supports thousands of individuals in their personal giving, and partners with the world's leading companies to bring impact-focused workplace giving to employees on a global scale.Bright Funds helps companies realize the true potential of a comprehensive corporate social responsibility strategy that takes into account the demands and expectations of a new generation of donors. | Convertible Note / Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| FairClaims is the most efficient, cost-effective online dispute resolution platform for enterprise. | $285K / Seed / Jul 31, 2016 | ||
| Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs. It was founded by top experts in genomics, computational biology, and software design to sell an industry-leading dog DNA test. They use a clinical-grade CLIA-certified SNP chip to provide the most accurate and comprehensive results (200,000+ genetic markers) available on themarket. Their data contributes to proprietary genetics research that will help dog owners optimize nutrition, exercise, allergies, and prevent a variety of heritable conditions. Their technological advantage, intellectual capital, and research-focus enable them to push canine health toward our shared vision of preventative veterinary care. | $1.8M / Seed / May 31, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does AGO Partners invest in?
AGO Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note 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 round sizes does AGO Partners invest in?
AGO Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.8M at Seed and $1.5M–$50M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not AGO Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds AGO Partners took part in.
How do I contact AGO Partners?
Public channels for AGO Partners include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at AGO Partners?
The team at AGO Partners includes Alex Pom (Co-Founder & Partner) and Matt Salzberg (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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