# Biz Stone

> Biz Stone is a seed investor at Jelly HQ (San Francisco) backing Software and Apps. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jelly HQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jellyhq)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizstone
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/biz
- Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/pages/Biz-Stone/140616699298004?fref=ts

Biz Stone is a seed investor at Jelly HQ in San Francisco focused on Software and Apps. Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $375k–$2M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 23% |
| Apps | 6 | 11% |
| Internet | 6 | 11% |
| Messaging | 6 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 11% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 33% |
| Series A | 14 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 12% |
| Series B | 6 | 11% |
| Series C | 3 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 11% |
| India | 2 | 4% |
| Kenya | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Subtle Computing | Subtle Computing, a voice-first computing company, created subtle voice technology with the goal of making voice the most dependable and effective interface available. | $6M | Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Vantage Discovery | Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. | $16M | Series A | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Yupp | Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Karat Financial | Karat provides a credit card tailored for creators and influencers, enabling them to grow and manage their businesses. Its Karat Black Card aims to aid income creators with a credit card suited to their needs. This is because banks don’t always understand the creator business model which can include unpredictable monthly income and a variety ofrevenue streams and thus prevents burgeoning creators from accessing capital. | $40M | Series B | Jul 19, 2023 |  |
| Config | Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware. | $5M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Ristretto | Ristretto was created in Denver, Colorado in 2019 by Christopher Gerardino and Dominic da Silva as a brand and manufacturer of electric vehicles. Team Ristretto continued to amplify the brand and scale its vision of creating electric vehicles with a focus on design, performance, and technology. Making a positive impact in the community andenvironment through an artistic lens is fundamental to Ristretto’s mission.Ristretto is headquartered in Austin, Texas. |  | Seed | May 02, 2023 |  |
| Kapu | Kapu operates as a B2C Ecommerce start-up. | $8M | Seed | Dec 04, 2022 |  |
| Oxwash | Oxwash is a provider of sustainable on-demand laundry and wet and dry cleaning services for all. It uses a combination of electric cargo bikes as well as its own fleet of electric vans and DPDs electric vehicle service for a nationwide zero-emission logistics footprint. The company's aim is for clinically-clean, net zero carbon emissions forthe whole process, from the collection, through washing and back to delivery.Oxwash was founded by Dr. Kent Grant in 2018 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom. | $11.7M | Series A | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| Chroma | Chroma is the future sound of entertainment. | $5.4M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Tagg | Tagg is an app that lets content-creators earn crypto for being engaging. Our platform uses web3 elements (tokens) to reward content-creators for building personalized profiles, curating links, and posting content. | $2M | Seed | Dec 17, 2021 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Positive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-positive) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Able Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/able-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Centre Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centre-street-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Giant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giant-ventures-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Jelly HQ

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Jelly is a human-powered discovery and search parsing engine driven by images, founded in April 2013 by Biz Stone and Ben Finkel. According to Biz Stone, the jellyfish was chosen to represent their product because it has a loose network of nerves that act as a “brain” similar to the way they envision loosely distributed networks of peoplecoordinating via Jelly to help each other.

1 contacts available at Jelly HQ.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biz Stone | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biz-stone |

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## FAQ

### What does Biz Stone invest in?

Biz Stone invests primarily in Software, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 57 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 Biz Stone's check size?

Biz Stone typically joins rounds of $1M–$9M at Seed, $375k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$20M 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 Biz Stone participates in.

### When did Biz Stone last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Biz Stone closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 57 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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