# Charlie Pinto

> Charlie Pinto is a seed investor at Google (Austin) backing EdTech and Chemical. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespinto
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/charliepinto
- Website: http://www.charliepinto.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pintocharlie

Charlie Pinto is a seed investor at Google in Austin focused on EdTech and Chemical. Charlie Pinto is the Venture Venture Principal at Bling Capital, General Partner at Fundamental Ventures, and Head of Operations at Google. Prior, he was a Director of Product and was the cofounder of a Y Combinator-backed fintech startup. He attended the University of Maryland where he was a three-year captain and conference champion for thewrestling team.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |
| Chemical | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |
| Data Mining | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Odyssey | Odyssey is the first business to create a product specifically for managing education savings accounts and microgrants. | $4.8M | Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| iMicrobes | Industrial Microbes designs and builds microbes that produce better chemicals with lower costs and lower carbon emissions. We use greenhouse gases as the raw materials, including biogas, natural gas, and carbon dioxide. We scale our process with global chemical producers. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2015 |  |
| Framed Data | Framed Data takes data from businesses and turns it into actionable insights and decisions. They train, optimize, and store productionized models in their cloud and provide predictions through an API, eliminating infrastructure overhead. They provide dashboards and scenario analysis tools that tell you which company levers are driving metrics youcare about. | $2M | Seed | Dec 11, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalanche VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalanche-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRCM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/CRCM) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NYU Innovation Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nyu-innovation-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Google

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Google provides the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser, and a search engine to support global connectivity. Its software suite includes productivity tools such as Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, alongside media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. The firm designs hardware, including the Pixel line of smartphones, tablets, and wearabledevices integrated with Wear OS. Through its research divisions, the company creates generative models and tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Veo 3.1 for image creation, video generation, and conversational assistance. Current features include Agentic Vision for visual reasoning and Personal Intelligence, which utilizes Google Photos for contextual content creation.

5 contacts available at Google.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aashima Gupta | Global Head - Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud Platform | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aashima-gupta |
| Addy Osmani | Senior Staff Software Engineer (Manager) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addy-osmani |
| Alex Okosi | Managing Director, Africa | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-okosi |
| Andrew Golding | Senior research scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-golding-2 |
| Andy Volk | Head of Sub-Saharan Africa Ecosystem | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-volk |

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## FAQ

### What does Charlie Pinto invest in?

Charlie Pinto invests primarily in EdTech, Chemical and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Charlie Pinto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Charlie Pinto closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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