Ben Lewis
Angel Investor @ Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, United States
Ben Lewis is a seed investor at Sequoia Capital in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Ben Lewis is the co-founder of Tapjoy. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, and his first job out of college was working as an engineer on Xbox Live. After spending some time at Microsoft, he returned to Michigan for his MBA where he focused on entrepreneurship and technology. Ben then moved to Googlewhere he spent 4 years as a Product Manager, working on products such as the Toolbar, Search, and Checkout. Ben left Google to found Tapjoy, which began with the launch of TapDefense. Ben now leads the Tapjoy product team and manages accounts for the top publishers.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
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Industries Ben Lewis invests in
Stages Ben Lewis invests in
Countries Ben Lewis invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (30%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Analytics 2 (20%)
- Logistics 2 (20%)
- Health Care 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (60%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Limbix is a prescription digital therapeutic company passionate about creating mental health treatments for adolescents. The Limbix team is uniquely suited to develop prescription digital therapeutics, as its diverse team of clinicians, product designers, researchers, and engineers understand the value of pairing clinical expertise withtechnological innovation. Their first digital therapeutic, SparkRx by Limbix, is available for licensed healthcare professionals to offer to patients nationwide. For more information about Limbix and SparkRx, please visit limbix.com and SparkRx.com. | $9M / Series A / May 05, 2020 | ||
| Elly is the world's first empathetic audio companion for patients living with chronic disease. | Pre-Seed / Dec 10, 2019 | ||
| Limbix is a prescription digital therapeutic company passionate about creating mental health treatments for adolescents. The Limbix team is uniquely suited to develop prescription digital therapeutics, as its diverse team of clinicians, product designers, researchers, and engineers understand the value of pairing clinical expertise withtechnological innovation. Their first digital therapeutic, SparkRx by Limbix, is available for licensed healthcare professionals to offer to patients nationwide. For more information about Limbix and SparkRx, please visit limbix.com and SparkRx.com. | $3M / Seed / Nov 01, 2016 | ||
| Distill strive to take the pain out of hiring and recruiting. They're building hiring tools to maximize the interview process as well as rethinking the optimal ways to screen candidates. Developing data-driven products that work for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers and candidates. | $1.3M / Seed / Sep 17, 2013 | ||
| KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve thetrucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide. | $2.3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2013 | ||
| Motive develops technology that connects and automates physical operations for businesses across various industries. The company provides a platform that combines telematics, fleet management, compliance tools, equipment monitoring, and AI-powered safety solutions. Its products help companies track vehicles, monitor driver behavior, automateworkflows, and ensure regulatory compliance through real-time data and analytics. Motive also offers integrated solutions for spend management and maintenance, enabling businesses to control costs and improve operational efficiency. The platform supports diverse sectors including trucking, construction, oil and gas, and agriculture by centralizing data and enabling actionable insights. Through automation and visibility, Motive helps organizations optimize asset utilization and enhance decision-making in day-to-day operations. | $2.3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2013 | ||
| Fond is a SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results.Fondis headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at https://www.fond.co. | $1.4M / Mar 11, 2013 | ||
| Fond is a SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results.Fondis headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at https://www.fond.co. | Seed / Mar 11, 2013 | ||
| Vungle is the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. Its mission is to deliver the highest value users through engaging video ads. Advertisers depend on Vungle's LTV and creative optimization technologies, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-value users worldwide. Vungle was incubated at** | $2M / Seed / May 02, 2012 | ||
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About Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital provides capital alongside strategic guidance, supporting areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. The firm engages with a limited number of companies at a time, working closely with leadership teams throughout the business lifecycle. Sequoia Capital focuses on long-term partnerships, often entering at the idea or formation stage and remaining involved as companies scale and mature. Its approach emphasizes collaboration among its internal team and portfolio founders, drawing on shared experience to address operational and strategic challenges.
Sequoia Capital Contacts
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Anas Biad
Partner
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Andrew Lee
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Carl Eschenbach
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Caroline Fu
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Donald Valentine
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FAQ
What does Ben Lewis invest in?
Ben Lewis invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 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 Ben Lewis invest in?
Ben Lewis typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$3M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ben Lewis's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ben Lewis took part in.
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When did Ben Lewis last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ben Lewis closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 10 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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