# Chris Muscarella > Chris Muscarella is a seed investor at Field Company (Brooklyn) backing B2B and Internet. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Field Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/field-company) - Location: Brooklyn, United States - Total investments: 5 - Last investment: Aug 2021 - Lead investor: 20% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/christmasgorilla - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cm - Website: http://fieldcompany.com - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/muscarella Chris Muscarella is a Founder of the Field Company. He was previously one of the founders of Kitchensurfing. And prior to that was a cofounder of Mobile Commons (sold to Upland Software). ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | B2B | 1 | 20% | | Internet | 1 | 20% | | Software | 1 | 20% | | Training | 1 | 20% | | Consulting | 1 | 20% | 16 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 3 | 60% | | Series A | 2 | 40% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 3 | 60% | | Nigeria | 1 | 20% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Decagon | Decagon is transforming high-potential individuals into the exceptional tech talent that companies need to scale. Its merit-based training program, which only recruits the top 0.5% of tech talent in Africa, produces world-class software engineers for companies globally. The company operates a software engineering academy out of Lagos-Nigeria,producing developers with deploy-ready skills in Node, Java, iOS, Android, C#, Python, and agile methodology.Recruiting and training tech talents, and managing general work infrastructure, Decagon currently serves leading companies in Austin, NYC, Berlin, London and Rome. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 05, 2021 | | | Prefer | Prefer is a referral network for independent professionals to grow their businesses. | | Series A | May 01, 2017 | | | Umi Kitchen | Umi Kitchen offers an application that enables its users to order homemade food from local chefs. The meals are delivered with reheating instructions and an ingredient list.Umi Kitchen enables its customers to rate and review services of the chefs. The company provides chefs with marketing, packaging, and delivery services.Umi Kitchen wasfounded by Khalil Tawil, Derek Gottfrid, and Hallie Meyer in March 2015. It is based in New York. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 26, 2016 | | | Cover | Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $5.5M | Series A | Jul 10, 2014 | | | Cover | Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $1.5M | Seed | May 08, 2013 | | 5 of 5 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oreilly-alphatech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [#Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Grape Arbor VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grape-arbor-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Graph Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graph-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Field Company VC Fund 1 contacts available at Field Company. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Chris Muscarella | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-muscarella | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund - [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Restaurants Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/restaurants-angel-investors-united-states) - [Restaurants Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/restaurants-angel-investors) ## FAQ ### What does Chris Muscarella invest in? Chris Muscarella invests primarily in B2B, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Chris Muscarella last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Chris Muscarella closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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