Charlie O'Donnell
Partner @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Brooklyn, United States
Charlie O'Donnell is a seed investor at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in Brooklyn focused on Software and Health Care. Charlie O'Donnell has been an active member of the NYC startup community for over 15 years, with a reputation of being the most accessible early stage investor in New York. After being hired as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures and helping to open First Round Capital's first NYC office, he founded Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in 2012. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has made over 60 investments since it was founded, making it one of the most active funds investing in pre-seed and seed rounds in the city. It often leads or co-leads, investing in a wide variety of startups founded by a diverse pool of founders including The Wing, Petal, Clubhouse, Hungryroot, Canary, goTenna and Imagen, among others. The fund was the first to be launched in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised. He competes in triathlons, bikes to work, and founded the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse--a free kayaking program on the East River.
- Total investments:
- 57
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 68%
Last updated:
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Industries Charlie O'Donnell invests in
Stages Charlie O'Donnell invests in
Countries Charlie O'Donnell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (25%)
- Health Care 8 (14%)
- FinTech 4 (7%)
- Internet 4 (7%)
- E-Commerce 4 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 46 (81%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (12%)
- Series A 1 (2%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 50 (88%)
- Trinidad and Tobago 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Itselectric is a curbside EV charging system designed especially for urban areas and to advance the adoption of electric vehicles. They increased access to public charging, which encourages the adoption of EVs and leads to cleaner air and healthier communities. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2022 | ||
| Fairchain is a title management, authentication, and transaction platform for art, organized around a high-impact social mission. | Pre-Seed / Apr 09, 2021 | ||
| Base is a data-science app that bringing the labs right to the consumer and giving them convenient, accessible, and potentially life-changing solutions to managing their health through our app. Base is health tracking you can take on the go. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 09, 2021 | ||
| Base is a data-science app that bringing the labs right to the consumer and giving them convenient, accessible, and potentially life-changing solutions to managing their health through our app. Base is health tracking you can take on the go. | $900K / Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2020 | ||
| WeStock develops a crowd stocking platform to let shoppers request products at their local retailer. WeStock helps brands by supporting their customers as they streamline the product request process. The platform also helps users to discover and appeal to new and emerging brands and turn them into actionable data sets. | Seed / Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| Esembly is a designer of baby products used for urban families who want to use cloth diapers. It specializes in baby products like soft cotton Inners, adorable outers, storage bags, organic skincare, and its proprietary washing powder providing parents with a wide range of options in baby accessories. | Seed / Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| RoadPower Systems is a developer of a clean power-generation platform used to produce clean power from wasted vehicular energy. Its power generation platform converts vehicular energy into clean electricity and transforms power from vehicles in motion on roadways into grid-grade electricity that enables commercial and industrial enterprises togenerate their own grid- grade electricity using the energy recovered from vehicles in motion on their property. | Seed / Sep 30, 2019 | ||
| Careswitch is rethinking the home care industry to increase opportunities and wellbeing for all those involved. They provide a single software platform that streamlines and automates the operations of a home care company to enhance its efficiency. Care planning, scheduling, documentation, and payroll are handled by this surprisingly straightforwardsoftware. It also contains the sole carer app that has been shown to facilitate caregiving tasks and reduce errors. | $2M / Seed / Aug 02, 2019 | ||
| Chorus offers matchmaking and dating roulette through an app. That makes dating human again and restores accountability to it. A bystander who has heard the friends' horror stories about online dating or an irregular online dater who has been defeated and depleted by swiping | Seed / Jul 08, 2019 | ||
| Magellan AI is an advertising platform developer for publishers, agencies, and brands to succeed in the rapidly changing world of advertising. They enable to analyze and organize podcast data for use by allowing them to control their entire podcast advertising program in a single platform, with features such as automated airchecks, detailedvisualizations for flight, and one-click introductions to advertisement sellers. | Seed / Jun 12, 2019 | ||
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About Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is a seed stage investor who is NO longer actively seeking investments.
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Charlie O'Donnell
Partner
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What does Charlie O'Donnell invest in?
Charlie O'Donnell invests primarily in Software, Health Care and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 57 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Charlie O'Donnell last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Charlie O'Donnell closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 57 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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