# Brett Martin

> Brett Martin is a seed investor at Fonzi (New York) backing Internet and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fonzi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fonzi)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettlucasmartin/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/brett1211
- Website: https://x.com/brett1211

Brett Martin is a seed investor at Fonzi in New York focused on Internet and Software. Brett Martin is based out of New York, New York and is the Investor and Co-founder of Charge Ventures. Brett Previously worked at Primary Venture Partners as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Brett Martin attended Dartmouth College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Collaboration | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Queen One | Queen One is creating innovative technology that, in a far more meaningful way than WeChat, texting, or email, links individuals with brands and brands with people. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Slate | Slate is a content creation platform that creates on-brand social content for real-time social media. The platform allows companies to quickly overlay content with their own branded fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations from a custom mobile app, and then post directly to platforms like Instagram Stories. It gives social teams the toolsto quickly prepare content for Stories and Feed without having to get their computers out or send media back to a designer.Slate also allows for social media content to be sponsored in new and exciting ways. It increases the ability to sponsor the most engaging real-time content and opens up a whole new menu of sponsorable assets. The platform is trusted by teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, MLB as well as major brands in media and entertainment. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Kumospace | Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across variousdevices and locations in a single meeting. | $21.9M | Series A | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Minerva | Minerva is a developer of a process sharing platform used to help capture and share dynamic workflows for any website. Its product allows users to create clickable instructions on properties they don't own and also supports native experiences through their software development kit (SDK) and browser extension that enable businesses to createdocumentation easily and efficiently.Minerva was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |
| Minerva | Minerva is a developer of a process sharing platform used to help capture and share dynamic workflows for any website. Its product allows users to create clickable instructions on properties they don't own and also supports native experiences through their software development kit (SDK) and browser extension that enable businesses to createdocumentation easily and efficiently.Minerva was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |
| Stream Club | Stream Club, a San Francisco-based company that enables users to easily create and broadcast studio-quality live streams. Stream Club's platform enables customizable live streaming experiences via its API and SDK for developers, and also provides a drag-and-drop studio experience for designing, customizing, and broadcasting lives streamswithin minutes. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | May 18, 2020 |  |
| Electric | Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $1M |  | Sep 15, 2017 |  |
| Electric | Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $2M | Seed | Nov 17, 2016 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bowery Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bowery-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New York Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Primary Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/primary-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Silicon Badia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silicon-badia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Fonzi

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Fonzi.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brett Martin | President and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-martin |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Brett Martin invest in?

Brett Martin invests primarily in Internet, Software and Collaboration startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Brett Martin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brett Martin closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co
