# Carl Treleaven

> Carl Treleaven is a seed investor at Westlake Ventures backing SaaS and Digital Media. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Westlake Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westlakeventures)
- Location: St. Petersburg, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-treleaven-65b0a54

Carl Treleaven is a Principal at Westlake Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Digital Media | 1 | 100% |
| Brand Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Video Streaming | 1 | 100% |
| Content Syndication | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Switchboard Live | We've developed a cloud-based product named Switchboard that simplifies the management of distributing multiple live streams to social media destinations, platforms, and web pages in a single unified dashboard. Switchboard empowers IT, marketing, and communication teams successfully manage the three stages of a live stream; pre, during, andpost-stream. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-franklin-technology-partners-of-southeastern-pennsylvania) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mosley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mosley-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [venVelo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venvelo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Westlake Ventures

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

Their focus is investing in early stage technology startups while introducing Chinese resources and markets to American entrepreneurs and companies. Making co-investments with other funds, their company mainly invests in the technology sector, such as biotech, healthcare, loT, blockchain, enterprise software, robotics, cyber security, andVR/AR.Unique to their firm is Cross-border Technology Investment Consortium, or CTIC. This newly established investment platform specializes in bridging US startups with Chinese capital, industries, and markets by providing professional assistance in necessary paperwork required for landing. Also provided are in-house resources of over 100 investment firms and Chinese leading public companies, deep market adaption strategies, and other services. So far, they have already helped 80 US startups land in China to start a new chapter in their businesses. They welcome all, so please contact us if you have any comments, questions, or concerns.

2 contacts available at Westlake Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carl Treleaven | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-treleaven |
| Dirk Wakeham | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dirk-wakeham |

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## FAQ

### What does Carl Treleaven invest in?

Carl Treleaven invests primarily in SaaS, Digital Media and Brand Marketing startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Carl Treleaven last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carl Treleaven closed in Dec 2017. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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