# Ben Casnocha

> Ben Casnocha is a seed investor at New Anchor Foundation backing Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Anchor Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-anchor-foundation)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bencasnocha
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bencasnocha
- Website: http://casnocha.com/

Ben Casnocha is a seed investor at New Anchor Foundation in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Ben is cofounder and partner at Village Global, a $270M+ venture capital firm that invests in startup entrepreneurs across a range of categories: SaaS, consumer internet, robotics, fintech, digital health, and more.Ben is coauthor of the New York Times bestselling management book The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age (with LinkedInchairman Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh). He's also coauthor of the New York Times bestselling career strategy book The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career (with Reid Hoffman).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $370k–$2M |
| Series A | $14M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 27% |
| FinTech | 3 | 20% |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qanooni | Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Forethought | Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $25M | Series D | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Perspective AI | Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback. | $4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| FutureAI | Waymo For Your Interface. FutureAI is an AI layer on top of your database to build your interface generatively instead of by a human. | $5.8M | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| LightBeam.ai | LightBeam.ai is a pioneer in the data security and privacy automation category, LightBeam is on a mission to empower organizations to manage and access their sensitive data securely. Leveraging its identity-centric discovery & classification engine, it ties data cataloging, access, and sharing into a unified privacy control tower. LightBeamempowers privacy and compliance executives to keep their organizations under continuous compliance, while information security executives can finally rest assured that sensitive data is being used and accessed securely. | $17.8M | Series A | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| SimpleX Chat | SimpleX Chat is a decentralized secure chat and applications platform. SimpleX Chat was founded in 2021. | $370K | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2023 |  |
| Type Five | Type Five is a housing company that designs and builds exceptional homes. Our modular design system, paired with software, helps us build homes faster and more economically. We streamline the hard parts of homebuilding so we can focus on what matters most: a seamless process, thoughtful design, and quality craft. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2023 |  |
| Salesroom | At Salesroom our vision is to become the dominant remote selling platform for mid-market and enterprise B2B account executives. We plan to achieve this goal by combining workflow tools and real-time guidance with a rich video experience, allowing buyers and sellers to bring their whole self to the interaction and build authentic relationships.We're backed by Village Global, Seedcamp, and a group of angels. | $8.5M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| HUBUC | A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. 
e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks. | $10M | Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Abhi | Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages. | $2M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WndrCo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wndrco-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PivotNorth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pivotnorth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About New Anchor Foundation

VC Fund



1 contacts available at New Anchor Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Casnocha | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-casnocha |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Casnocha invest in?

Ben Casnocha invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Ben Casnocha's check size?

Ben Casnocha typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $370k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $14M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ben Casnocha participates in.

### When did Ben Casnocha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Casnocha closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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