Chris Gottschalk
Principal @ Blumberg Capital
San Francisco, United States
Chris Gottschalk is a Series B investor at Blumberg Capital in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Chris is a General Partner Mouro Capital, he is based in San Francisco. Chris brings more than 16 years of experience as an investor, entrepreneur, operational executive and investment banker within the technology space.Prior to Mouro, Chris was a Principal at Blumberg Capital for nearly seven years. Before Blumberg, Chris was an investor withMenlo Ventures where he pursued investment opportunities in mobile, Internet, gaming, software, and e-commerce. He has held board or board observer positions at technology startups including Bento, Blender, Earnup, Easyknock, Fundguard, Jassby, Lendio, Parsely, Roam Analytics, Sharegain, Simply Credit, Yotpo and Katapult.Before joining Menlo Ventures, Chris served as the director of corporate development & analytics at PlayPhone. In this role he was responsible for M&A sourcing and execution, strategic partnerships, and improving operational metrics. Chris also worked as an investment banking analyst in the TMT group at Cowen and Company where he completed a number of M&A and equity transactions in the digital media and communications equipment sectors. Chris began his career at Intel as an operations financial analyst within the Flash Products Division. In addition, Chris has consulted for several technology startups including Gilt Groupe and ngmoco.Chris holds a B.A. with a double major in economics and political science from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona. Chris was selected as a Kauffman Finalist in 2012.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Gottschalk invests in
Stages Chris Gottschalk invests in
Countries Chris Gottschalk invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 12 (31%)
- FinTech 11 (28%)
- Software 6 (15%)
- Finance 5 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 9 (23%)
- Series A 7 (18%)
- Series C 7 (18%)
- Seed 6 (15%)
- Series D 4 (10%)
Country
- United States 14 (36%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Mexico 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Transparency Analytics is a company that offers banking and financial services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in. | $27M / Series B / Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| FundGuard is the developer of an AI-powered financial platform for investment management and administration. The company's platform uses cloud technology and artificial intelligence to detect abnormalities, automatically resolve exceptions, and recommend operational changes, allowing asset managers and fund administrators to reimagine productofferings as digital experiences with real-time transparency. | $100M / Series C / Mar 25, 2024 | ||
| Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from. | $14M / Series A / Jun 09, 2023 | ||
| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $19M / Seed / Jun 06, 2023 | ||
| Vesttoo is the world’s first marketplace for non-catastrophe insurance-based risk transfer and investments. Our proprietary AI-based technology facilitates risk transfer between insurance companies and institutional investors, providing insurance-linked investments to asset managers of all types, while enhancing risk transfer and liquidity in theLife and P&C insurance markets.Our platform facilitates risk transfer to the capital markets with a faster time to market, providing insurers with an affordable, accurate alternative or supplement to traditional reinsurance with unlimited capacity from the capital markets, while we offer asset managers a variety of risk remote, uncorrelated investment options that generate sustainable alpha from a catered variety of insurance and reinsurance premiums.We collaborate with leaders in the field to build alternative reinsurance transactions covering a variety of Life and P&C insurance risks in transparent, data-driven alternative reinsurance and retrocession deals - run-off or treaty, parametric or portfolio-specific, standalone or on top of existing reinsurance towers. Our proprietary AI-based Machine Learning models have been developed independently, accepted by regulators, and externally audited by leaders in the field. Vesttoo was selected to participate in IBM Alpha Zone, Citigroup Accelerator, Plug and Play and Fintech Innovation Lab – all prestigious fintech accelerators, and most recently NVIDIA's inception program. Our management team has a diversified professional experience in global business development, investments, technology/systems/algorithms, financial engineering, reinsurance, credit rating and managementAdditional team members include: data scientists, financial engineers, actuaries, product managers, project managers, business development, strategy and marketing professionals. | $80M / Series C / Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port. | $150M / Series C / May 24, 2022 | ||
| Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from. | $7M / Seed / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port. | $60M / Series B / Dec 16, 2021 | ||
| Vesttoo is the world’s first marketplace for non-catastrophe insurance-based risk transfer and investments. Our proprietary AI-based technology facilitates risk transfer between insurance companies and institutional investors, providing insurance-linked investments to asset managers of all types, while enhancing risk transfer and liquidity in theLife and P&C insurance markets.Our platform facilitates risk transfer to the capital markets with a faster time to market, providing insurers with an affordable, accurate alternative or supplement to traditional reinsurance with unlimited capacity from the capital markets, while we offer asset managers a variety of risk remote, uncorrelated investment options that generate sustainable alpha from a catered variety of insurance and reinsurance premiums.We collaborate with leaders in the field to build alternative reinsurance transactions covering a variety of Life and P&C insurance risks in transparent, data-driven alternative reinsurance and retrocession deals - run-off or treaty, parametric or portfolio-specific, standalone or on top of existing reinsurance towers. Our proprietary AI-based Machine Learning models have been developed independently, accepted by regulators, and externally audited by leaders in the field. Vesttoo was selected to participate in IBM Alpha Zone, Citigroup Accelerator, Plug and Play and Fintech Innovation Lab – all prestigious fintech accelerators, and most recently NVIDIA's inception program. Our management team has a diversified professional experience in global business development, investments, technology/systems/algorithms, financial engineering, reinsurance, credit rating and managementAdditional team members include: data scientists, financial engineers, actuaries, product managers, project managers, business development, strategy and marketing professionals. | $15M / Series B / Nov 21, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Blumberg Capital
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies that empower individuals, businesses and society through the innovative use of AI, big data and other transformative technologies. We are passionate about nurturing B2B technology companies from Seed stagethrough their growth journey, as active board members and hands-on advisors. We were among the first investors in industry leaders including Addepar, Braze, Credorax, DoubleVerify, Fundbox, HootSuite, Katapult, Nutanix, Trulioo and Yotpo. Find us in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Miami and New York or at blumbergcapital.com.
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What does Chris Gottschalk invest in?
Chris Gottschalk invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 39 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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The most recent investment recorded for Chris Gottschalk closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 39 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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