# Baris Akis

> Baris Akis is a seed investor at Human Capital backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Human Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/human-capital-da7c)
- Location: Stanford, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 85%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barisakis/

Baris Akis is a seed investor at Human Capital in Stanford focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Baris Akis is the Co-Founder, President and Managing Partner of Human Capital. He attended Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Gaming | 1 | 8% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloaked | Cloaked provides privacy-focused digital identity and data protection tools for individuals and businesses. The company offers a platform that generates alternative identities such as emails, phone numbers, and payment details to limit exposure of personal information. Its system enables users to manage, share, and revoke access to these identitiesacross online services and transactions. It also includes monitoring features that help track data usage and detect potential exposure risks. The platform integrates with applications and services to support secure authentication and communication. The organization focuses on helping users control how their personal data is shared and stored across digital environments. | $375M | Series B | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Natural | Payments for AI agents. | $9.8M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Tenet | Tenet is a climate financing marketplace that lets customers save money while saving the climate, starting with Electric Vehicle financing. We provide easy, fast, and innovative financing nationwide so that consumers can achieve their climate goals and institutional investors get access to high quality ESG assets. | $18M | Seed | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Courted | Courted is a professional network for residential real estate helping agents connect with one another to grow their business through data-driven marketing and referral generation. With Courted, agents can stay informed about data and trends, find mentorship, power cross-market referrals, and connect with other agents in an automated way. | $6M | Seed | Apr 29, 2022 |  |
| Kangaroo | Kangaroo brings you closer to your favorite celebrities and characters through interactive storytelling. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Kangaroo | Kangaroo brings you closer to your favorite celebrities and characters through interactive storytelling. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Cloaked | Cloaked provides privacy-focused digital identity and data protection tools for individuals and businesses. The company offers a platform that generates alternative identities such as emails, phone numbers, and payment details to limit exposure of personal information. Its system enables users to manage, share, and revoke access to these identitiesacross online services and transactions. It also includes monitoring features that help track data usage and detect potential exposure risks. The platform integrates with applications and services to support secure authentication and communication. The organization focuses on helping users control how their personal data is shared and stored across digital environments. | $25M | Series A | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Sanas | Sanas is a real-time speech-understanding platform that modulates accents while preserving voices and emotions for natural interactions. The platform assists multilingual speakers with accent correction, allowing them to communicate effectively without language barriers. Sanas's technology is utilized by contact centers and enterprises toenhance communication, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce miscommunication. | $32M | Series A | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Cloaked | Cloaked provides privacy-focused digital identity and data protection tools for individuals and businesses. The company offers a platform that generates alternative identities such as emails, phone numbers, and payment details to limit exposure of personal information. Its system enables users to manage, share, and revoke access to these identitiesacross online services and transactions. It also includes monitoring features that help track data usage and detect potential exposure risks. The platform integrates with applications and services to support secure authentication and communication. The organization focuses on helping users control how their personal data is shared and stored across digital environments. | $4M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| Yendo | Yendo provides a credit card product that utilizes vehicle equity to offer consumers credit limits at various rates. The company's service works like a regular card, is accepted anywhere, and includes features like cash access and credit building options. Yendo offers a simple application process that results in a virtual card before thephysical card arrives. | $4M | Seed | Oct 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [All Turtles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allturtles) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Assurant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assurant-growth-investing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Human Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Human Capital is a venture firm for builders. We believe ambitious builders turn great ideas into great companies. We invest in founders, teams, and startups that share this mindset.In the last 6 years, that mantra has led us to invest in 15 companies before they became unicorns, including Snowflake, Anduril, Livongo, and Brex (where we wrote thefirst check). We have over $1.3B in total capital committed and we've built a community of over 5,000 incredible, driven, ambitious builders.

5 contacts available at Human Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adelia Curtis Duarte | Talent Advisor & Head of Portfolio Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adelia-curtis-duarte |
| Baris Akis | Co-Founder, President and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baris-akis |
| Armaan Ali | Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armaan-ali-2 |
| Brian Blond | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-blond |
| Jim Baaden | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-baaden |

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## FAQ

### What does Baris Akis invest in?

Baris Akis invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Baris Akis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Baris Akis closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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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