Brian Sugar
Founder & Partner @ Sugar Capital
San Francisco, United States
Brian Sugar is a seed investor at Sugar Capital in San Francisco focused on E-Commerce and Retail. Brian Sugar is the Managing Partner of Sugar Capital. He is a Founder at POPSUGAR.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian Sugar invests in
Stages Brian Sugar invests in
Countries Brian Sugar invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $2.6M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 11 (50%)
- Retail 5 (23%)
- SaaS 3 (14%)
- Fashion 3 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (68%)
- Series A 3 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (9%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 15 (68%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Reflex is an online marketplace that helps brands find and connect with retail workers on-demand. | $9.1M / Seed / Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Reflex is an online marketplace that helps brands find and connect with retail workers on-demand. | $4.5M / Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| A no-code platform for NFT commerce. | $6M / Seed / Apr 05, 2022 | ||
| +3X repeat purchase & +10X referral revenue. Launch Apple and Google wallet passes for your brand in minutes. | $6M / Seed / Apr 05, 2022 | ||
| Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $20M / Series A / Mar 04, 2022 | ||
| We're building the infrastructure to bring digital experience into the real world. Starting with an SDK for retail stores, which uses maps, AR and hyper-accurate indoor location. The biggest retailers in the world use our technology to drive customer experience. | $3.4M / Seed / Nov 23, 2021 | ||
| Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $4.3M / Seed / Jun 29, 2021 | ||
| Plumb's mission is simple yet ambitious: to make AI-powered workflow automation accessible to everyone. We're creating a completely new way to design, test, and configure AI-powered workflows. | $1.8M / Seed / Mar 02, 2021 | ||
| Murmur is a collaborative platform that makes private work agreements public, helping startups define, test, improve, and scale how teams work. It enables founders to create policies, documents, and operating norms from scratch, templates, or by borrowing practices from leading company cultures, supporting hiring, vacation, and collaborationframeworks for better teamwork and transparency. widely! | Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | ||
| AirRobe creates a digital platform design to support circular fashion by enabling users to buy, sell, and rent clothing and accessories. The company integrates its technology with fashion brands, allowing customers to track and resell their items. By connecting brands and consumers to the circular economy, it supports efforts in the fashionindustry. The platform helps extend the lifespan of clothing and promotes responsible consumption through a seamless resale and rental process. | $1M / Seed / Oct 12, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sugar Capital
Sugar Capital invests in the brands and technology that power the future of commerce. The firm specializes in the fields of finance, financial services, and financial exchanges. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Sugar Capital Contacts
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Brian Sugar
Founder & Partner
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Krista Moatz
Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Brian Sugar invest in?
Brian Sugar invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Brian Sugar invest in?
Brian Sugar typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $500k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $2.6M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Brian Sugar's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Brian Sugar took part in.
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When did Brian Sugar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Sugar closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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