Ben Orthlieb
Co-Founder and General Parnter @ Blue Moon
San Francisco, United States
Ben Orthlieb is a seed investor at Blue Moon in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Ben Orthlieb - Head of Corporate Development @ LinkedIn
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Ben Orthlieb invests in
Stages Ben Orthlieb invests in
Countries Ben Orthlieb invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $900k–$6.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$6.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (43%)
- SaaS 7 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (21%)
- Financial Services 5 (18%)
- FinTech 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (68%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (14%)
- Angel 2 (7%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 24 (86%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Syrup Tech is a machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory in commerce. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decreaseunnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) reduce the time spent on manual tasks for stretched merchandising and planning teams. | $6.3M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| MindsDB utilizes machine learning so its users can ask predictive questions of their data and receive accurate answers from it. Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres founded the open source company with a mission to democratize machine learning.MindsDB was a graduate of YCombinator's recent Winter 2020 batch and was recently recognized by Forbes asone of America's most promising AI companies. | $6.8M / Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| MindsDB utilizes machine learning so its users can ask predictive questions of their data and receive accurate answers from it. Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres founded the open source company with a mission to democratize machine learning.MindsDB was a graduate of YCombinator's recent Winter 2020 batch and was recently recognized by Forbes asone of America's most promising AI companies. | $6.8M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| The Alectio platform is the first full-stack, end-to-end, ML-driven self-serve DataPrepOps platform® enabling ML teams to prepare, curate, annotate, manage, version and visualize their training data in a few clicks, in near-real-time and quasi-automated manner.Alectio's proprietary technology is based on the fundamental belief that ML modelscan be trained with the same (sometimes better) performance with just a fraction of the data (which means lower labeling, storage and compute costs, and eventually the possibility of training on the edge). Data Scientists wrap their regular model and raw data with the Alectio's SDK and the Alectio curation engine guides the training process strategically so that the model gets trained on the most informative data; they'll never have to spend a minute on data preparation again!We're neither a labeling company nor an MLOps company: we're building a new category providing the entire workflow to prepare data during training which allows ML experts to build models and datasets simultaneously, reducing time to market, and a new training paradigm that will lead orgs to actual AI profitability.Alectio uncovers the smart data inside your big data, unlocking model performance and saving machine learning experts both time and money. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 04, 2021 | ||
| AI Powered Contract Lifecycle Management Software for the Enterprise | $4M / Seed / Dec 21, 2020 | ||
| Developer of an e-commerce platform designed to power and improve checkout experiences. Facing operational challenges late in 2022, the CEO took the company on an exit path and a transaction was recorded later in 2023. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2020 | ||
| Warmly is the first autonomous revenue orchestration platform purpose built for SMB sized revenue teams. The platform orchestrates metadata from sales enablement tools, B2B intent, and enrichment tools to identify, track, and connect with website visitors who are ready to convert. By automatically aggregating data and integrating insights fromvarious platforms, Warmly orchestrates the most effective next step to drive qualified conversations for the sales team. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 13, 2020 | ||
| Even the best Self Storage operators often miss nearly 49% of all incoming communication that can turn into a sale, while wasting time on answering repetitive questions, instead of focusing on revenue generating activities.Introducing the Only AI Assistant in Self Storage. With an industry leading Natural Language Processing model, swivl cananswer hundreds of questions regarding different self storage topics.swivl augments operating teams to understand what works and automatically tune property-level decisions every day to attract ready-to-lease customers. Operators leverage swivl's Proptech automation to power things like digital assistants, online self-service automation, website inventory recommendations, call center routing, and omnichannel experiences. swivl’s AI Assistant averages an 80% automation rate, with more than 50,000 assisted reservations across 2,500 Self Storage locations. | Seed / Jul 13, 2020 | ||
| AccessBell Expand your Zoom experience with features including real-time collaboration, personal notes, and agendas that sync with tools you already know and love. Take personal & collaborative notes and assign action items during the meeting. Organize your meetings with an agenda to indicate the progress of the meeting. Integrate seamlesslywith Slack, Drive, Email, and other productivity tools. Track user engagement and better understand your meeting participation. | $1.2M / Seed / May 25, 2020 | ||
| Aesthetic's mission is to make the world more well designed by giving every business creative superpowers. To do this, we're automating all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics. Social media is an important marketing channel for businesses, but creating quality content is hard. Our productcreates the social marketing posts your brand needs without doing any design work. | $3.1M / Seed / Apr 28, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Blue Moon
Blue Moon' goal is to be the highest value-add to Founders per dollar invested. We invest pre-seed / seed companies in the Enterprise space. We also make extensive use of AI and automations across all our operations: sourcing and vetting (agent Agatha), deal assessment (agent Da Vinci), Founder support (agent Sherpa), portfolio companiestracking (agent Kojak), automated operations (agent Slash).
Blue Moon Contacts
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Ben Orthlieb
Co-Founder and General Parnter
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Olivier Legrand
Limited Partner
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FAQ
What does Ben Orthlieb invest in?
Ben Orthlieb invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 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 Orthlieb invest in?
Ben Orthlieb typically joins rounds of $900k–$6.3M at Seed and $100k–$6.8M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ben Orthlieb's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ben Orthlieb took part in.
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When did Ben Orthlieb last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ben Orthlieb closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 28 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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