# Bobby Brannigan

> Bobby Brannigan is a seed investor at NextGen Venture Partners backing Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextGen Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextgenvp)
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bbrannigan
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ValoreBobby
- Website: https://x.com/bobbymercato?lang=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bobby.brannigan

Bobby Brannigan is a seed investor at NextGen Venture Partners in San Diego focused on Software and Information Technology. Bobby is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mercato, an innovative online grocery marketplace that facilitates connections between consumers and independent grocery stores. Prior to Mercato, he spearheaded ValoreBooks, an acclaimed online platform for college textbooks, where he served as Founder and CEO. His entrepreneurial journey began in 2002 whilepursuing his education at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he established ValoreBooks.com. This venture culminated in a successful acquisition by Simple Tuition, Inc. in 2012. Subsequently, in 2015, Bobby co-founded Mercato to revolutionize the grocery shopping experience. Beyond his roles as an entrepreneur, Bobby is actively engaged as an investor and advisor to burgeoning technology startups, leveraging his wealth of experience to foster innovation and growth within the industry.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 24% |
| Wellness | 3 | 14% |
| Mobile | 2 | 10% |
| Internet | 2 | 10% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Season Health | Season is a platform that offers personalized nutrition planning for consumers. It integrates technology with advice from users' registered dietitians to help them get more out of their nutrition and make the most out of mealtime every day. The platform recommends what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner based on nutritional needs, foodpreferences, and budget. |  |  | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Season Health | Season is a platform that offers personalized nutrition planning for consumers. It integrates technology with advice from users' registered dietitians to help them get more out of their nutrition and make the most out of mealtime every day. The platform recommends what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner based on nutritional needs, foodpreferences, and budget. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Tuned | Tuned is an emerging Fintech company focused on capital markets innovation. The company is helping every trader build a successful trading business, by providing them powerful enterprise-grade trading infrastructure and access to capital. With Tuned's all-in-one platform, traders can design strategies leveraging hundreds of built-inindicators, run thousands of permutations of their strategy to optimize performance and automate trading on leading exchanges with millisecond response time and no trading fees. Quantitative traders looking to develop new income streams use Tuned to license their strategies to other traders without ever revealing their intellectual property. |  | Seed | Dec 22, 2020 |  |
| APERIO | APERIO Systems is a group of multidisciplinary researchers, engineers, thinkers and hackers. They are hands-on technologists who think fast and brainstorm original solutions whenever they are needed. Each member of their team has proven accomplishments in their domain of expertise, be it software engineering, machine learning, signal processingor cybersecurity. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Upshift | Upshift is an on-demand staffing platform that connects businesses to pre-vetted W2 Upshifters in the light industrial and hospitality sectors. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 07, 2019 |  |
| Upshift | Upshift is an on-demand staffing platform that connects businesses to pre-vetted W2 Upshifters in the light industrial and hospitality sectors. |  | Series A | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Returnalyze | Returnalyze is an ecommerce analytics company focused on helping retailers understand their product returns data. Returnalyze is the return optimization platform that increases top-line and bottom-line while allowing for a better consumer experience |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2018 |  |
| Deckard Technologies | Deckard Technologies offers software that helps governments monitor and manage properties. Its platform provides real-time data and AI insights to oversee short-term rentals, long-term rentals, and vacant or foreclosed properties. It collects data from many listing and record sources, supports automated compliance workflows, and enablesjurisdictions to improve tax collection and enforcement accuracy. The company also maintains standards around data security and supports municipalities with tools for resident reporting, outreach, and oversight. Deckard is the only provider that monitors over 10,000 STR websites every single day, identifying and validating more than 35% more STRs than any other company. | $499.3K | Seed | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| influence.co | influence.co empowers the influencer generation. By providing a platform that enables influencers, creators and the businesses who work with them to have a professional presence online, we help everyone in the influencer economy pursue their passion and grow their business through inspiring content, supportive community, and collaborative commerce. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jan 25, 2018 |  |
| Mercato | Mercato is a technology start-up that connects consumers to local specialty food shops. Consumers can order fresh local groceries online from the stores they love, and have them delivered to their door. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Company Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Healthy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Springbank Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soringbank-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tet Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tet-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CoCoon Ignite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cocoon-ignite-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NextGen Venture Partners

VC Fund · Baltimore, United States

NextGen Venture Partners invests $1-2M in seed-stage companies with the participation of 1,800+ Venture Partners. The firm specializes in the fields of private equity, business strategy, start-up acceleration, and fundraising.

5 contacts available at NextGen Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Hansen | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hansen |
| Frank Ambrose | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-ambrose |
| Lauren Knausenberger | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-knausenberger |
| Lisa Cuesta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-cuesta |
| Ajay Kapoor | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-kapoor-70dc |

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## FAQ

### What does Bobby Brannigan invest in?

Bobby Brannigan invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 Bobby Brannigan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bobby Brannigan closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 21 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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