# Brian Lee

> Brian Lee is a seed investor at Arena Club (Los Angeles) backing E-Commerce and Software. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Arena Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-club)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-lee/9/467/320
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/honestlee888
- Website: https://x.com/honestlee888

Brian Lee is an entrepreneur. He is co-founder and former president of LegalZoom.com, co-founder and former CEO of ShoeDazzle.com, and co-founder and former CEO of The Honest Company. Formerly an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Brian co-founded LegalZoom in 2001. LegalZoom has since become the nationwide leader inonline legal services.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$5M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 30% |
| Software | 8 | 17% |
| Mobile | 6 | 13% |
| Apps | 4 | 9% |
| Internet | 4 | 9% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 50% |
| Series A | 10 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HostGPO | HostGPO is an industry-specific group purchasing organization for short-term rental businesses. | $6M |  | May 25, 2023 |  |
| Rivet Work | Rivet is an online platform that helps construction companies, trade schools, and labor unions schedule, forecast, acquire and dispatch skilled workers and equipment to jobs and jobsites. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. | $5.6M | Seed | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Maximus | Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $15M | Series A | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Shrapnel | Shrapnel is an AAA Extraction FPS powered by next-gen community-driven tools, built on the blockchain to offer true ownership. |  | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Neon Media | Neon Media produces realtime sets for virtual productions. | $7M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Maximus | Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $5M | Seed | May 31, 2021 |  |
| Air | Air brings your content and collaborators together in a space designed for visual work. By giving your team back those hours previously lost each day on menial tasks, Air not only fundamentally changes team efficiency, but also enables more moments of creativity. Air was designed by creators for creators with the hopes of getting more peopleinvolved in your brand experience. | $12M | Series A | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Emotive | Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $5.5M | Series A | May 20, 2020 |  |
| Sleek | Inserting a Priority Lane, with one line of code. Sleek’s technology lets venues assess real wait times and create a dynamically priced priority lane. From Disney FastPass to highways, priority lanes bring a win-win for both customers who don’t have to wait AND businesses who see a material increase in revenue from the fees they pay.Sleek isbacked by Tier-1 investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, BAM & featured on Forbes AI 50, America's most promising AI companies to watch! | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| MOJO Sports | MOJO Sports trains kids to be good athletes and their parents as their coach. |  | Series A | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BAM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bam-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Arena Club

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Arena Club sells its real, physical cards In a hybrid of the online- and physical- world.

2 contacts available at Arena Club.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Lee | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lee |
| Jesse Glass | Co-Founder, CFO and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-glass |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Lee invest in?

Brian Lee invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 46 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 Brian Lee's check size?

Brian Lee typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$5M at Seed and $2.2M–$15M 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 Brian Lee participates in.

### When did Brian Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Lee closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 46 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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