# Charleston Angel Partners

> Charleston Angel Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Biotechnology. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Charleston, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/charleston-angel-partners/
- Website: https://www.chapsc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charleston-angel-partners-569034949940124

Charleston Angel Partners is a VC fund in Charleston focused on Software and Biotechnology. Charleston Angel Partners is the Charleston's longest-tenured, most established angel investment group. The top priority of Charleston Angel Partners is to make investing simple and profitable, both for investors and for entrepreneurs. We believe a transparent investment process for both our investors and our entrepreneurs is an importantpart of our organization. Charleston Angel Partners believes that meaningful economic impact happens when great people support great ideas. Investing in innovation will accelerate Charleston and the Southeast into the future, creating an environment of aspiration and excitement.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 26% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 16% |
| Mobile | 2 | 11% |
| Medical | 2 | 11% |
| Hardware | 2 | 11% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 26% |
| Seed | 3 | 16% |
| Angel | 3 | 16% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Malpeli | Partner & Executive Committee Member | 0 | — |
| Diane Szoke | Member | 0 | — |
| Frank Silva | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-silva |
| John Osborne | Executive Administrator | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-osborne-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LevelFields | LevelFields™ Al scours millions of events to reveal outsized investment opportunities for investors. Our easy-to-use interface shows patterns of how events affect stock prices so you can invest faster and smarter. | $604K | Angel | Jan 06, 2025 |  |
| RealSeq Biosciences | RealSeq Biosciences’ core expertise includes innovative proprietary technologies for bias-free small RNA/miRNA NGS library construction. |  | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Ecotone Renewables | Ecotone Renewables make sustainable food and agriculture systems more accessible and prevalent outside the industrial scale. Ecotone is dedicated to building the tools necessary to empower communities to redevelop and grow through sustainable food practices.Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant wastedisposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion. Ecotone aims to close the food loop by transforming otherwise wasted food and energy into nutrients that restart the food loop. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| New View Surgical | New View Surgical is an emerging medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of the VisionPort™ System, a novel surgical imaging and access system for minimally invasive surgery. The company is led by an experienced team of medical device innovators and commercial experts who have come together to design andcommercialize impactful solutions that meet a variety of unmet market needs. The company’s proprietary VisionPort™ system combines multiple imaging and access devices into just one simple, easy-to-use device that is disposable and is expected to bring a variety of clinical and economic advantages to minimally invasive surgery operating rooms around the world. | $9M | Series B | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Reveal Mobile | Reveal Mobile provides location-based marketing, analytics, and attribution for agencies, brands, media companies, and app publishers. Customizable reporting helps advertisers and agencies easily understand the audiences that visit the locations they care about and the profile of that audience. A powerful user interface makes it easy to buildlocation-based audiences and then reach them through digital advertising and social media. Post-campaign reporting simplifies the process of understanding the increase in foot traffic as a result of the campaigns. The company’s privacy-compliant approach has earned the company membership in the Network Advertising Initiative, undergoing annual privacy certifications. Its platform serves location-based content and creates highly targeted audience segments that enable publishers and developers with mobile audience data to improve their products and advertising performance. | $2M | Series A | Apr 28, 2020 |  |
| Dynepic | Dynepic is powering corporate digital innovation, training, and engagement with its DX-Platform technology. The DX-Platform is a fully immersive app and training creation, distribution, and management platform. Founded originally as a product design firm in 2011, Dynepic had the pleasure of developing a number of products for clients, helpingtake them from a seed of an idea to released products. In the course of this work, Dynepic even reinvented the common handle and spun out its patented Spiral Strength grip technology to Dynepic Sports, LLC where it is the basis of a number of sporting good products. | $675K | Seed | Jun 19, 2018 |  |
| ENGAGE Talent | ENGAGE is the world’s first AI-powered recruiting platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Talent Targeting and Engagement engine.ENGAGE is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps companies identify and target new talent that they were not finding viatraditional methods and in traditional pools.ENGAGE aggregates data from over 30K sources to create talent profiles on 100M professionals and 13M companies. ENGAGE's AI and machine learning engine predicts the likelihood that a candidate will respond to a conversation about a potential job change, and recommends personalized messaging based on factors like their career progression, skills, peer actions, and the news and events surrounding their company.ENGAGE's product helps recruiters connect with new talent pools, at the right time, with the right message. The result is a more efficient and productive talent acquisition team who fills roles proactively by engaging qualified talent instead of waiting for the right applicant to come to them. By leveraging ENGAGE predictions and recommendations, our customers have identified candidates for difficult-to-fill roles in a fraction of the time and doubled their candidate response rates. | $1.3M | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |
| ENGAGE Talent | ENGAGE is the world’s first AI-powered recruiting platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Talent Targeting and Engagement engine.ENGAGE is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps companies identify and target new talent that they were not finding viatraditional methods and in traditional pools.ENGAGE aggregates data from over 30K sources to create talent profiles on 100M professionals and 13M companies. ENGAGE's AI and machine learning engine predicts the likelihood that a candidate will respond to a conversation about a potential job change, and recommends personalized messaging based on factors like their career progression, skills, peer actions, and the news and events surrounding their company.ENGAGE's product helps recruiters connect with new talent pools, at the right time, with the right message. The result is a more efficient and productive talent acquisition team who fills roles proactively by engaging qualified talent instead of waiting for the right applicant to come to them. By leveraging ENGAGE predictions and recommendations, our customers have identified candidates for difficult-to-fill roles in a fraction of the time and doubled their candidate response rates. | $1M | Seed | May 04, 2016 |  |
| Baebies | Baebies was founded in 2014 by Richard West and Vamsee Pamula, following the successful development of digital microfluidics technology, the development and launch of multiple products, and the eventual sale of Advanced Liquid Logic to Illumina, Inc. Baebies has now licensed its core technology, acquired product and manufacturing assets, and builtseasoned management and technical teams to pursue opportunities in newborn screening and near-patient diagnostic testing. Baebies newborn screening platform, SEEKER, is FDA authorized and CE marked. The FINDER and FINDER 1.5 platforms are CE marked and the FINDER 1.5 SARS-CoV-2 test received emergency use notification from the FDA. Baebies’ digital microfluidics technology is a recipient of multiple awards, including the coveted Disruptive Technology Award from AACC in their ‘search for the next innovative testing solution that will transform patient careBaebies' mission is to save lives and make lives better by bringing new technologies, new tests, and new hope to newborns, patients, and healthcare professionals worldwide. | $13M |  | Jul 28, 2015 |  |
| Zipit Wireless | Zipit Wireless is a Greenville, SC based company that focuses on delivering fully connected, wireless IP devices that use the company's unique strengths in wireless connectivity, user-friendly device software, and server infrastructure to enable administration, and access to Internet services. | $2.6M | Convertible Note | May 15, 2012 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- South Carolina Research Authority — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [New York Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sunbridge Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunbridge-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Trinity Healthcare Development — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Upstate Carolina Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upstate-carolina-angel-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Charleston Angel Partners invest in?

Charleston Angel Partners invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Charleston Angel Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Charleston Angel Partners?

The team at Charleston Angel Partners includes Christian Malpeli (Partner & Executive Committee Member), Diane Szoke (Member) and Frank Silva (Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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