# Chris Sinton

> Chris Sinton is a seed investor at StartOut (San Francisco) backing LGBT and Rental. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StartOut](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startout)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: May 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissinton
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ChrisSinton
- Website: http://www.chrissinton.com

Chris Sinton is a seed investor at StartOut in San Francisco focused on LGBT and Rental. In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LGBT | 1 | 100% |
| Rental | 1 | 100% |
| Travel | 1 | 100% |
| Leisure | 1 | 100% |
| Tourism | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| misterb&b | Misterb&b is an operator of a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ community. Its marketplace offers a searchable database of short-term rentals of homes, rooms, and apartments for its users as per their preferred locations that enable LGBTQ individuals and allies to monetize from their spare space whileproviding affordable houses in a hassle-free manner.Misterb&b was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2M | Seed | May 04, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelVest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [China Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MicroVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microventure-marketplace) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pole Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pole-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [U-Start](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-start) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About StartOut

VC Fund · New York, United States

StartOut is a non-profit organization that promotes LGBTQ equality and combats discrimination in America’s LGBTQ entrepreneurial community. It offers more than 70 events to a nationwide network of approximately 15,000 members with various programs, including networking, education, research, and access to capital.StartOut permits a new communityof professionals with economic resources and personal support to help the entire LGBTQ community as well as local groups. Headquartered in New York, N.Y., the organization was established in 2009 by Lorenzo Thione, Darren Spedale, and Joe DiPasquale.

5 contacts available at StartOut.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Sinton | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sinton |
| Andres Wydler | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andres-wydler |
| Angelic Williams | Senior Program Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelic-williams |
| Elena Itskovich | Mentor; Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elena-itskovich |
| Irene Tang | Director of Data and Insights | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irene-tang-44c5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Sinton invest in?

Chris Sinton invests primarily in LGBT, Rental and Travel startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Sinton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Sinton closed in May 2015. Shizune tracks 1 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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