# Bobby Lent

> Bobby Lent is a seed investor at Cyhawk Ventures (San Francisco) backing Payments and Messaging. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cyhawk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyhawk-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbylent
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bobbylent
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bobbylent

Bobby Lent is a seed investor at Cyhawk Ventures in San Francisco focused on Payments and Messaging. Bobby Lent is the Managing Partner at Hillsven.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payments | 2 | 22% |
| Messaging | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Video | 1 | 11% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. | $25M | Series B | Oct 30, 2019 |  |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. |  | Series A | Aug 02, 2018 |  |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2016 |  |
| Yodas.com | Helping top developers manage their careers by connecting with the best opportunities at the right time |  | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2015 |  |
| INTURN | INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory. The company's first vertical focus is specifically built for fashion and apparel brands. This marketplace provides automated tools to replace what is a manual, painstaking, error-prone process. The result is a solution thatprovides a powerful opportunity to increase profitability.INTURN is designed and led by retail industry veterans and technology experts. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 20, 2015 |  |
| Mobilize | Mobilize helps professional networks maximize member engagement, with a unique combination of community social space, CRM, and manager outreach tools. The company's modern community solution is purpose-built for engaging members in an information-saturated era. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all community providers that confuse, overwhelm,and annoy members, their solution combines community social space, outreach tools, member directory, and CRM in a unique way that amplifies engagement by making members feel seen, heard and valued.Mobilize was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 25, 2014 |  |
| Peer5 | Peer5 operates the world’s largest peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network. Peer5's P2P CDN improves content delivery for live and on demand video streams. As video streaming continues to become more mainstream and the streams themselves become HD and 4K, traditional CDNs struggle to deliver high quality viewing experiences. Manypublishers try to keep up with peak demand by paying for more servers, many of which are almost never used and struggle with video playback. Not only is this expensive, but it's also inefficient, which is why at Peer5, they have created a P2P CDN to boost your video streaming capabilities. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2014 |  |
| Threadbox | Threadbox, formerly CC:Betty, is currently in public beta. Just cc betty@ccbetty.com on any email, and "she" will create a mailspace for your entire email thread. She'll parse important things such as dates, times, people, places, files and format them all in one place. It saves people time and eliminates confusion in group email. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 09, 2009 |  |
| Mint Bills | Mint Bills is an application that enables its users to set reminders to pay bills.It utilizes proprietary account aggregation technology for secure payment technologies in its mobile applications. Mint Bills' primary service allows users to pay bills and track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions and balances through aprovided mobile application. It currently has applications for iOS and Android platforms. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2008 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hillsven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillsven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Align Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alignventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beanstalk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beanstalk-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cyhawk Ventures

VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Israel

Cyhawk Ventures offers pre-seed- and seed-stage investment services to firms in the media and advertising industries. It was founded in 2001 by Kfir Moyal and Assaf Ben Ashar and is based in Tel Aviv.

3 contacts available at Cyhawk Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Assaf Ben Asher | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assaf-ben-asher |
| Bobby Lent | Partner and Member of Investment Committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-lent |
| Kfir Moyal | General Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kfir-moyal |

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## FAQ

### What does Bobby Lent invest in?

Bobby Lent invests primarily in Payments, Messaging and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 Lent last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bobby Lent closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 9 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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