# Blaine Vess

> Blaine Vess is a seed investor at Semblance (Los Angeles) backing Software and FinTech. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Semblance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/semblance)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blainevess/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blainevess
- Website: https://www.immeasurable.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blainevess

Blaine Vess is a seed investor at Semblance in Los Angeles focused on Software and FinTech. Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$8M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$9.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 22% |
| FinTech | 9 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 14% |
| SaaS | 6 | 12% |

82 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 8% |
| Series A | 3 | 6% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 53% |
| India | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Peru | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Promoted.ai | Promoted unifies organic search, promotions, and ads in one optimized system for marketplaces. They sort your marketplace search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue. | $2M | Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |
| Milk Video | Milk Video is a platform that turns your webinar into video highlights. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Yummy | Yummy develops a food delivery app that operates across Latin America. The app allows users to order and pay for their orders through their mobile application or website platform and offers different payment methods such as foreign credit cards and cash, that conveniently enable users to enjoy their food at a location of their choice.VicenteZavarce founded Yummy in 2020 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2021 |  |
| Great Question | Great Question is a customer research platform designed to automate research tasks and gain consumer insights. Great Question allows its users to recruit participants, run their preferred methods, and synthesize and share their findings all in one collaborative platform. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Kredi | Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online. | $3.1M | Seed | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| Terra API | Terra makes it easy to access fitness and health data from wearables and sensors. | $2.8M | Seed | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Haystack | Our mission is to bring the competitive advantage data-driven engineering teams like Google have to everyone. We help teams track their delivery process and optimization opportunities instead of relying solely on gut feelings - resulting in 40% faster delivery on average. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Kodo | Kodo is a fintech startup focused on serving the corporate card and B2B payments needs of small businesses. The company offers credit cards for startups. It can be used for services such as business expenses, money transfers, online/offline purchases, and more. Kodo was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | $8.7M | Seed | May 27, 2021 |  |
| Milk Video | Milk Video is a platform that turns your webinar into video highlights. |  | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Albedo | Albedo is the full-stack VLEO company. We deliver exquisite performance with resilient, agile architectures at a fraction of traditional costs. Our Precision platform supports a variety of mission types - just bring your payload. Clarity-1 is flying in VLEO today. | $10M | Seed | Apr 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Four Cities Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fourcities-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Semblance

VC Fund · West Hollywood, United States

Semblance is a retailer of a non-alcoholic sparkling wine to enjoy anytime.

1 contacts available at Semblance.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blaine Vess | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blaine-vess |

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## FAQ

### What does Blaine Vess invest in?

Blaine Vess invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 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 Blaine Vess's check size?

Blaine Vess typically joins rounds of $150k–$8M at Seed and $4.8M–$9.7M 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 Blaine Vess participates in.

### When did Blaine Vess last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Blaine Vess closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 49 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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