# Carmelo Anthony

> Carmelo Anthony is a seed investor at STAYME7O™ Cannabis (New York) backing Mobile and Internet. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [STAYME7O™ Cannabis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stayme7o-cannabis)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelo-anthony
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/carmeloanthony
- Website: http://www.thisismelo.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carmeloanthony

Carmelo Anthony is a seed investor at STAYME7O™ Cannabis in New York focused on Mobile and Internet. Carmelo Kiyam Anthony is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder of STAYME7O™ Cannabis. Carmelo Previously worked at National Basketball Association as a Professional Basketball Player. Carmelo Kiyam Anthony attended Syracuse University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$7M |
| Series A | $500k–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| DIY | 1 | 8% |
| Sports | 1 | 8% |
| Battery | 1 | 8% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unrivaled | Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league. |  | Seed | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Unicorn Auctions | Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Goalsetter | Goalsetter is a goal-based savings and gifting platform, made just for kids and powered by those who love them. It combines the best of goal-based savings platforms like Digit and Acorns with the best of gift-registries like Zola and Honeyfund, and in so doing, targets the millennial mom with a platform that enables families to contribute to kids’future goals instead of buying them more consumer goods. In turn, Goalsetter becomes a savings vehicle for kids, turning first-time savers into all-the-time savers and giving kids healthy financial habits that will last a lifetime. | $24.6M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Back to the Roots | Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes. Founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, BTTR has transformed into a company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households. Their Grow-at-Home Mushroom Garden is completely indoors andcan grow up to 1lb of oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. They provide a simple, eco-friendly, and quick way to have fresh oyster mushrooms right in the kitchen. | $15M | Series D | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| LEUNE | LEUNE is a California born lifestyle brand forged on the principle of transcending the narrative of cannabis culture. Honoring a 3.0 consumer who knows that ‘getting high’ only begins to tell the story of what the plant truly represents, we’re interested in elevating the conversation around cannabis. Through high aesthetic and uncompromisingquality standards, we aim to create the new ideals for the industry. | $5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Myro | Refillable plant-powered bodycare products starting with deodorant. | $7M | Seed | Aug 08, 2019 |  |
| MakeSpace | MakeSpace aims to make storage convenient and consumer-friendly, creating a tech-enabled storage experience. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. The company is now available in 31 markets across North America. | $30M | Corporate Round | Mar 29, 2019 |  |
| Overtime | Overtime is a sports network for the next generation of sports fans. It produces original content across YouTube, Snapchat, and IGTV, as well as highly engaging short-form content on Instagram and TikTok.Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft Ventures as well as industry leaders like Kevin Durantand former NBA Commissioner David Stern. | $23M | Series B | Feb 15, 2019 |  |
| Genies | Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States. | $10M |  | Nov 19, 2018 |  |
| MakeSpace | MakeSpace aims to make storage convenient and consumer-friendly, creating a tech-enabled storage experience. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. The company is now available in 31 markets across North America. | $30M | Series C | Apr 20, 2017 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Loft Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2x-consumer-products-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [640 Oxford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/640-oxford-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Astia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astia-organization) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About STAYME7O™ Cannabis

VC Fund



1 contacts available at STAYME7O™ Cannabis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carmelo Anthony | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carmelo-anthony |

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## FAQ

### What does Carmelo Anthony invest in?

Carmelo Anthony invests primarily in Mobile, Internet and DIY startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Carmelo Anthony's check size?

Carmelo Anthony typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$7M at Seed and $500k–$25M 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 Carmelo Anthony participates in.

### When did Carmelo Anthony last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carmelo Anthony closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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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