Bart Swanson
Advisor @ Horizons Ventures
New York, United States
Bart Swanson is a Series A investor at Horizons Ventures in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Bart Swanson invests in
Stages Bart Swanson invests in
Countries Bart Swanson invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$8.3M
- Series A
- $5.7M–$20M
- Series B
- $7.2M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (15%)
- SaaS 5 (12%)
- Big Data 4 (10%)
- Marketplace 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (32%)
- Seed 8 (20%)
- Series B 6 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (10%)
- Series C 3 (7%)
Country
- United States 12 (29%)
- United Kingdom 10 (24%)
- Belgium 3 (7%)
- Canada 2 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Xampla creates plant protein material for commercial use. Our next generation material performs like synthetic polymers, but decomposes naturally and fully, without harming the environment. | $14M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | ||
| Xampla creates plant protein material for commercial use. Our next generation material performs like synthetic polymers, but decomposes naturally and fully, without harming the environment. | $7.2M / Series B / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Xampla creates plant protein material for commercial use. Our next generation material performs like synthetic polymers, but decomposes naturally and fully, without harming the environment. | $7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Part3 was founded by Jack Sadler, Jessica Luczycki and Corey Stanford to help architects and engineers reduce inefficiencies throughout construction administration and focus on achieving design excellence.As a former construction administrator and project manager, Jess is acutely aware of the challenges associated with CA. With 10 years ofexperience Jess has worked on over $1bn worth of construction and felt frustrated by the time-consuming, and error-prone nature of manually tracking changes, submittals, and RFIs. Jack and Corey were able to comprehend the pains through years of technology consulting experience and, with a designer's mind, began assembling a solution to this problem utilizing cutting-edge cloud technology.Collectively, the team was able to take a human-centered approach to construct an elegant, cost-saving workflow that promotes collaboration as an approach to minimizing waste. Customers' and partners' voices are heard as the platform goes through rapid cycles of continuous improvement. The result is an innovative solution that provides architects, engineers, and owners with an integrated platform to manage construction administration with a fraction of the waste. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 31, 2023 | ||
| Laced is a marketplace for the buying and selling of authentic sneakers, connecting thousands of buyers and sellers worldwide. | $12M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| Keel Labs (formerly AlgiKnit) is a biomaterials company creating ocean-focused materials built from renewable resources. | $13M / Series A / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Making life easier for the service industry. Better jobs, better hires, and the only community exclusively for the service industry in your city. | $18.7M / Series A / Nov 09, 2021 | ||
| Modern Meadow is developing fundamentally new approaches to growing animal products. This includes cultured leather and meat products that require no animal slaughter and much lower inputs of land, water, energy, and chemicals. | $130M / Series C / Apr 29, 2021 | ||
| Keel Labs (formerly AlgiKnit) is a biomaterials company creating ocean-focused materials built from renewable resources. | $2.4M / Seed / Mar 25, 2021 | ||
| Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. Otter Voice Notes is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich, easily searched, and shared notes. Otter is based on proprietarytechnologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. | $40M / Series B / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Horizons Ventures
Horizons Ventures focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. The firm was founded in 1999 and is based in Hong Kong. Some of the latest exits are Skype, Siri, Facebook, Summly, and Waze.
Horizons Ventures Contacts
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Bart Swanson
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Chris Liu
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Patrick Poon
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Debbie Chang
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Frances Kang
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FAQ
What does Bart Swanson invest in?
Bart Swanson invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bart Swanson's check size?
Bart Swanson typically joins rounds of $500k–$8.3M at Seed, $5.7M–$20M at Series A and $7.2M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bart Swanson participates in.
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When did Bart Swanson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bart Swanson closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 41 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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