# Casey Neistat

> Casey Neistat is a seed investor in New York backing Artificial Intelligence and Apps. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-neistat-12462abb
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CaseyNeistat
- Website: http://casey.nyc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cneistat

Casey Neistat is a Youtube sensation with 9.5 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Neistat is also the co-founder of Beme, a video-editing social app.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$9M |
| Series A | $9.5M–$27M |
| Series B | $15M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 25% |
| Apps | 3 | 19% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 63% |
| Israel | 2 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Self Protocol | Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information. | $9M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Opal | Making it better at capturing incredible low-light video. Even in dimly lit room, you’ll get a level of detail and color that wasn’t possible before.The Opal C1 comes with MicMesh™, an array of beamforming microphones that find and focus on the sound of your voice. And with intelligent noise cancellation, every ding, drop and dog bark is filteredout to get an audio experience that clearly speaks for itself. | $17M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Nothing | Nothing is a consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures smartphones, earbuds, and other connected devices. The company focuses on product integration and user experience, aiming to create a digital ecosystem through hardware and software development. | $6.8M | Equity Crowdfunding | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Notch | AI Customer Support Platform, Built for Operational Leaders Who Care About Outcomes |  | Seed | Mar 11, 2022 |  |
| Commsor | Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more. | $50M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Creator Now | Creator Now is the Online educational platform for digital creators. | $3M | Seed | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Able | Able is a mobile app that allows the users to manage their income. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| MagicLabs | Get peace of mind with secure, extensible passwordless authentication that’s built to scale. All with a few lines of code. | $27M | Series A | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Riverside | Riverside (formerly Riverside.fm) is the all-in-one platform for recording, live streaming, editing, repurposing, and publishing studio-quality videos and podcasts. Creators and businesses use it to produce broadcast-quality content without the production maze of multiple tools, expensive studios, or technical expertise. Record up to 4K video anduncompressed audio locally on every participant’s device, so quality holds up even on bad internet. Edit by editing the transcript. Turn long recordings into clips, captions, show notes, and translations with AI. Webinars scale to 10,000 attendees. Trusted by independent podcasters like Tim Ferriss, Mel Robbins, and Guy Raz, and by brands including Spotify, Marvel, HubSpot, Microsoft, and Intuit. | $9.5M | Series A | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Lolli | Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY. | $5M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ambridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brand Foundry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brand-foundry-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Color Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/color) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dream Machine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dream-machine-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Casey Neistat invest in?

Casey Neistat invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Apps and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Casey Neistat's check size?

Casey Neistat typically joins rounds of $3M–$9M at Seed, $9.5M–$27M at Series A and $15M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Casey Neistat participates in.

### When did Casey Neistat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Casey Neistat closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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