# Benny Joseph

> Benny Joseph is a seed investor at v1.vc (San Francisco) backing Software and Data Visualization. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [v1.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v1-vc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bennyvenatjoseph
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bvj
- Website: http://www.goodapril.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/benny.tester.5

Benny Joseph is a seed investor at v1.vc in San Francisco focused on Software and Data Visualization. Benny Joseph is Chief Technology Officer at Allbirds.He attended University of Michigan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Data Visualization | 2 | 67% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Payments | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mermaid Chart | Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Mermaid Char | Mermaid Chart, founded by Knut Sveidqvist and Open Core Ventures, emerged from the Mermaid open-source project. Lead developers from Mermaid have joined, strengthening the project's connection. Mermaid Chart bolsters open-source Mermaid development, enabling professional usage, while maintaining open-source functionality. It supports Mermaidsignificantly, but also offers commercial services to fund project growth and expand the developer team. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper,Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet.Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $68M | Series B | Jul 09, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Streamlined](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/streamlined-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anorak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anorak-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elefund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elefund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Firebrand Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebrand-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Good Friends](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodfriends) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About v1.vc

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

V1.VC offers in investing in early-stage internet, B2B software, consumer, financial, crypto, and deep tech businesses. They support aspirational founders as long-term, patient capital partners. Our objective as present and previous operators is to be the investor who is most supportive of a founder.

3 contacts available at v1.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bart Lorang | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-lorang |
| Benny Joseph | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benny-joseph |
| Brett Jackson | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-jackson-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Benny Joseph invest in?

Benny Joseph invests primarily in Software, Data Visualization and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Benny Joseph last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benny Joseph closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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