# Chad Fowler

> Chad Fowler is a seed investor at otto-js (Little Rock) backing DevOps and Finance. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [otto-js](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dev-con-detect)
- Location: Little Rock, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chad-fowler/0/246/379
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/chadfowler
- Website: http://chadfowler.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chadefowler?fref=ts

Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world's largest companies and most admired software developers. He loves to program computers and, as part of his role as CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problemsfor customers in the Ruby language.He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including "The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development" and the upcoming "Rails 3 Recipes".

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| DevOps | 1 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 50% |
| Database | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 1 | 50% |
| Germany | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agnostic | Agnostic develops a blockchain data cloud platform. The company platform is an app development and analytics technology that helps businesses bring proper blockchain data to customers, DevOps, and executives. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Cookies App | Cookies wants to become the Venmo of Europe. Forget about complicated bank transfers. Save time and energy—send and receive money from your phone like you chat with your friends. Settling debts with friends can be awkward and unpleasant. Cookies will do it for you, letting you off the hook! | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 01, 2015 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atka](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atka) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dominance Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominance-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stake Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stake-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TRGC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trg-token-research-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About otto-js

VC Fund · Memphis, United States

otto-js automates the hard work of managing script compliance for security frameworks like PCI DSS v4, SOC2, third-party risk, and client-side monitoring. Whether you're an ASV in need of backend gap solutions or a risk manager needing an easy solution to manage your new script compliance and security, otto provides Visibility, Protection andControl that provides covers the gaps in your script compliance auditing, justifications, policy enforcement, monitoring, protection and alerting. Keeping your scripts compliant by default and your evidence up to the minute. Integrates easily with compliance software, ASVs, CDNs, application security suites and PaaS ecommerce platforms.

5 contacts available at otto-js.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Nunn | VP of Publisher Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-nunn-2 |
| Casey Hester | Co-Founder, COO, and Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/casey-hester |
| Chad Fowler | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-fowler |
| Deborah Dreyfuss-Tuchman | Vice President Of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deborah-dreyfuss-tuchman |
| Jason Fukura | UX Designer & Front-End Web Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-fukura |

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## FAQ

### What does Chad Fowler invest in?

Chad Fowler invests primarily in DevOps, Finance and Database startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chad Fowler's check size?

Chad Fowler typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$2.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chad Fowler participates in.

### When did Chad Fowler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chad Fowler closed in Mar 2024. 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?

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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