# Carly Strife

> Carly Strife is a seed investor at BARK backing FinTech and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: BARK
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carly-strife/b/199/2b6
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BrooklynCarly
- Website: https://x.com/BrooklynCarly

Carly Strife is a seed investor at BARK in Brooklyn focused on FinTech and Software. Carly Strife is founder at Bark & Co.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |
| Real Estate | 1 | 50% |
| Sustainability | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Simply Homes | Simply Homes is working to solve the affordable housing crisis by leveraging it's proprietary ML-powered automated sourcing and underwriting platform to identify, value, and acquire homes that need some love, and are ready for their next family - primarily those eligible for HUD's Housing Choice Voucher program. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| EcoCart | EcoCart is a climate and sustainability-focused eCommerce enablement startup pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions for free at select merchants. The company offers two core carbon offsetting products: an eCommerce plugin for merchants to offer a carbon neutral order option at checkout and a free-to-use Google Chrome extensionthat calculates the carbon footprint of users' orders at over 10,000 stores and automatically offsets that impact by donating to independently verified carbon offsetting projects. | $3M | Seed | Apr 12, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Base10 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base10-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gutter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gutter-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Leap Forward Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leap-forward-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LongShot Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longshot-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Raven One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raven-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sugar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sugar-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BARK

VC Fund



3 contacts available at BARK.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carly Strife | Co-Founder | — |
| Matt Meeker | Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer | — |
| Henrik Werdelin | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-werdelin |

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## FAQ

### What does Carly Strife invest in?

Carly Strife invests primarily in FinTech, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Carly Strife?

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### When did Carly Strife last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carly Strife closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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