# Ben Kubota

> Ben Kubota is a seed investor at GAIA (Los Angeles) backing SaaS and Internet. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GAIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaia-2385)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkubota
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/omdb
- Website: https://expedite.ventures/

Ben Kubota is a seed investor at GAIA in Los Angeles focused on SaaS and Internet. Geek, Founder, Builder, Angel Investor

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$4.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |
| Graphic Design | 2 | 13% |
| CRM | 1 | 6% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Poland | 1 | 6% |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vendis.ai | Vendis is the conversation layer for sales. Voice- and chat-first, it treats conversations as data, transforming multi-channel exchanges into autonomous updates and actions. Vendis captures voice, chat, email, meeting transcripts, and calendar data. Unlike CRMs built for management, not sales, it understands sales intents, detects risks, automatesworkflows, enriches data, and recommends next steps—an AI sales companion that understands you. Conversation in, pipeline out. Zero forms. More Deals. |  | Angel | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| Agree.com | Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| ZukunftMoor | ZukunftMoor is a service company that establishes profitable paludiculture to accelerate the rewetting of drained bogs. They promote the re-wetting of drained peatlands at scale by demonstrating the economic viability of agriculture on wet peatlands ("Paludiculture"). |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| GAIA | We want to empower businesses and ignite their potential by eliminating legal complexityIn a world where the complexities of law are constantly increasing, we've identified a crucial need for change. Legal management should not be a hindrance to a business's progress - rather, it should be an enabler, a tool that supports growth andefficiency.This realization was the catalyst for the birth of GAIA Technologies. We saw an opportunity to revolutionize the way inhouse law is done, to transform it from an often burdensome necessity into a powerful asset for businesses. We believe in leveraging technology to digitalize and automate legal processes, making them more accessible, manageable, and effective for businesses of all sizes.Our commitment goes beyond providing a solution. We are dedicated to fostering a new culture in legal management - one that embraces innovation, prioritizes efficiency, and values the power of smart technology. We believe in equipping businesses with the tools they need to confidently navigate their legal affairs, freeing them to focus their energy and resources on their core mission and growth.Ultimately, our journey at GAIA Technologies is about redefining what legal management means for businesses. It's about embracing change and driving progress. It's about turning challenges into opportunities. And at its core, it's about empowering businesses to reach their full potential. This is the vision that fuels our passion and determination every day |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2023 |  |
| Dunbar | Dunbar is a tech startup company. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Serverpod | Serverpod is an open-source, scalable app server, written in Dart for the Flutter community. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Widgetbook | Widgetbook's open-source package allows Flutter developers to catalogue their widgets in one central widget library. With Widgetbook Cloud, your widgets can be synced with Figma and shared with everyone in your team to simplify frontend reviews |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 23, 2022 |  |
| Supernova.io | Supernova connects to popular design editors and interprets design systems into data. These data can then be transformed in powerful ways to create code for product development, for literally any coding stack or platform imaginable. These transformations can be fully automated so that when design changes occur, the code is automatically updatedto reflect the changes. Developers can fully control how the code is rendered, literally down to the individual code characters. An ecosystem of Supernova-developed and community-maintained code export packages is available for popular stacks and platforms via the Supernova Store, or teams can choose to create their own — for instance, to support proprietary frameworks or to customize code output to meet any company guidelines. | $4.8M | Seed | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| BEAT81 | BEAT81 is the most interactive, intelligent and intense group fitness experience on the market. |  | Seed | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Superlist | Superlist is a collaboration tool reimagining workplace productivity through technology. It enables different teams to work on a project at the same time. Superlist can be easily integrated with other tools, enabling teams to boost their productivity while retaining their preferred ways of working. The tool aims to increase the efficiency ofproject teams by providing a solution that combines task management and project management under one roof. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8-Bit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8-bit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico's Angel Programme](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico-s-angel-program) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GAIA

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

We want to empower businesses and ignite their potential by eliminating legal complexityIn a world where the complexities of law are constantly increasing, we've identified a crucial need for change. Legal management should not be a hindrance to a business's progress - rather, it should be an enabler, a tool that supports growth andefficiency.This realization was the catalyst for the birth of GAIA Technologies. We saw an opportunity to revolutionize the way inhouse law is done, to transform it from an often burdensome necessity into a powerful asset for businesses. We believe in leveraging technology to digitalize and automate legal processes, making them more accessible, manageable, and effective for businesses of all sizes.Our commitment goes beyond providing a solution. We are dedicated to fostering a new culture in legal management - one that embraces innovation, prioritizes efficiency, and values the power of smart technology. We believe in equipping businesses with the tools they need to confidently navigate their legal affairs, freeing them to focus their energy and resources on their core mission and growth.Ultimately, our journey at GAIA Technologies is about redefining what legal management means for businesses. It's about embracing change and driving progress. It's about turning challenges into opportunities. And at its core, it's about empowering businesses to reach their full potential. This is the vision that fuels our passion and determination every day

1 contacts available at GAIA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Kubota | Co-Founder, CPO/CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-krause |

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Community Investors in Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/community-investors-germany)
- [Community Angel Investors in Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/community-angel-investors-germany)
- [Community Angel Investors in Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/community-angel-investors-europe)
- [Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/media-entertainment-angel-investors-germany)
- [Music Angel Investors in Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/music-angel-investors-germany)
- [Music Investors in Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/music-investors-germany)

## FAQ

### What does Ben Kubota invest in?

Ben Kubota invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ben Kubota's check size?

Ben Kubota typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$4.8M at Seed and $1.6M–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ben Kubota participates in.

### When did Ben Kubota last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Kubota closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co