# Chris Fanini

> Chris Fanini is a seed investor at Weebly backing Software and iOS. See 8 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Weebly
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfanini

Chris Fanini is a seed investor at Weebly in San Francisco focused on Software and iOS. Fanini is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anyone to create a website, blog or online store. More than 20 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month.Chris grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennsbury High School. While in high school he started a web hosting company, followed by one of the area’s first wireless ISP's, which provided high-speed internet and voice services to small businesses who couldn't get access to Cable or DSL. Chris went on to study IST at Penn State, then moved to San Francisco with his co-founders to start Weebly. Chris has a passion for technology, infrastructure, and the web. He's an avid snowboarder, angel and real estate investor, and hours away from obtaining his private pilot’s license.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |
| PaaS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Legal | 1 | 13% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Myria | Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Fathom | An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Maker Wine | Maker is a wine marketplace featuring premium wines in innovative formats, so you can bring it and drink it anywhere. Maker Wine was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Marin, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Inflect | Inflect's mission is to make the buying and selling of internet infrastructure frictionless. Inflect has two primary products. Routefinder, enabling the research and quoting of connectivity options between cloud regions, data centers and enterprise locations like an online flight search. And the Inflect Global Marketplace, enabling search forthe most relevant data center location based on powerful filters. | $3M | Seed | Dec 06, 2017 |  |
| Torch | Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level.Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build highgrowth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 04, 2017 |  |
| Atrium LTS | Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products. | $10.5M | Series A | Jun 15, 2017 |  |
| InvitedHome | InvitedHome set out to transform the vacation rental experience by combining the high standards and service of fine hotels with beautiful private homes in amazing destinations. And that’s just what we’ve done. With more than 50 location-based employees, centralized guests services, and effortless online reservations, we manage 100+ handpicked homesin 6 must-visit resort mountain destinations. Discover why more than 50,000 people create lasting memories with InvitedHome every year. Visit InvitedHome.com for more. | $350K | Convertible Note | Nov 25, 2012 |  |
| Parse | Parse offers cloud-based software developer kits that enable users to create apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product portfolio is comprised of Parse Core to save data in the cloud; make the app social; run custom app code in the Parse Cloud; schedule recurring tasks such as sending engagement emails, updating data, and longrunning computation; share data between platforms; and get a local datastore and Parse dashboard.The company also provides Parse Push for creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications; and Parse Analytics to find and fix crashes, measure app usage, optimize push campaigns, track custom analytics, and measure growth analytics.Parse is based in San Francisco, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Facebook. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 04, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxone-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Weebly

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Weebly is a website and eCommerce platform founded on the belief that the world improves with the exchange of more creativity.Their simple but powerful tools let people build beautiful, mobile-optimized sites, sell their products and manage eCommerce, even grow their business with integrated marketing tools. All to make it easy for entrepreneursto go from idea to success.Weebly has the templates, tools, apps and pricing options for any kind of business – so it can be as flexible and specialized as the entrepreneurs who use it. It even allows them to build and edit websites from their phones with the Weebly App (the highest rated website-building app in the Google Play and App Store.) Weebly was started in 2007 and currently powers more than 50 million entrepreneurs around the world. Weebly is based in San Francisco and is proud to be back by Sequoia Capital, Tencent Holdings, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate, Felicis, Ron Conway and Y Combinator.

5 contacts available at Weebly.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Fanini | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-fanini |
| Alexis Contos | VP of Brand | — |
| Chris Sheridan | Head of Channel Sales | — |
| Dan Veltri | Founder & CPO | — |
| Darian Shimy | VP of Engineering | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Fanini invest in?

Chris Fanini invests primarily in Software, iOS and PaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Chris Fanini last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Fanini closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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