Avi Fogel
Member @ New York Angels
New York, United States
Avi Fogel is a seed investor at New York Angels in New York focused on SaaS and Internet. Avi is a principal at Majorlee Investment Corp, an asset management firm based in NYC, investing in private equity angel investment, public technology companies and income generating investments. Avi is also an active member in two angel groups - New York Angels, the largest angel group in New York, and Launchpad Venture Group of Boston.Prior to the current role Avi was an Exec-In-Residence at American Capital Strategies, the chairman and CEO at ProActivity, Inc, which he sold to EMC in mid-2006, and a Venture Partner at Infinity Venture Capital
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Avi Fogel invests in
Stages Avi Fogel invests in
Countries Avi Fogel invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$8.5M
- Series B
- $3M–$5.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (22%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Advertising 2 (22%)
- SEO 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 5 (56%)
- Israel 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| AuthMind is an identity security firm that identifies and prevents hidden identity risks through access neural network technologies. The company's platform takes an all-encompassing approach and provides continuous access to risk intelligence. | $8.5M / Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Boundless Mind is an artificial intelligence platform for behavior design. Use our analytics to understand your users' real behavior in your app and our reinforcement API to reward them as they build great new habits. | $1.2M / Seed / Aug 20, 2017 | ||
| Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz. | $850K / Seed / May 20, 2015 | ||
| Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 20, 2014 | ||
| CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York. | Seed / Oct 11, 2012 | ||
| Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professionalservices, and marketing functions within organizations.The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. | $5.5M / Series B / Sep 10, 2012 | ||
| Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.comAltruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and productinventory pages, and higher click-through rates.Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by:1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data | $3M / Series B / Jun 02, 2011 | ||
| Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professionalservices, and marketing functions within organizations.The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. | Series A / Apr 18, 2011 | ||
| Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professionalservices, and marketing functions within organizations.The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. | Seed / May 10, 2010 |
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About New York Angels
New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations.Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly toscreen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies.Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months.The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform.Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues.Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.
New York Angels Contacts
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FAQ
What does Avi Fogel invest in?
Avi Fogel invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Avi Fogel invest in?
Avi Fogel typically joins rounds of $850k–$8.5M at Seed and $3M–$5.5M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Avi Fogel's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Avi Fogel took part in.
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When did Avi Fogel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Avi Fogel closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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