# Christopher Varelas

> Christopher Varelas is a Series A investor at Riverwood Capital backing Software. See 10 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Riverwood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverwood-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-varelas-16644134

Christopher Varelas is a Series A investor at Riverwood Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Christopher Peter Varelas is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Co Founding Partner of Riverwood Capital. Christopher previously worked at Citi as a Global Head of Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking. Christopher Peter Varelas attended Occidental College. Christopher Peter Varelas received the Occidental SEAL Award.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$9.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 30% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Security | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| France | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeez | Indeez is an European insurtech focused on everyday needs of independent workers, by providing them with better income protection. | $9.2M | Series A | Jan 27, 2022 | https://indeez.eu/ |
| AUI (Augmented Intelligence) | Controllable AI Agents | $22M |  | Jan 03, 2021 | http://www.aui.io |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $170M | Series H | May 14, 2019 | http://nextdoor.com |
| Influential | Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategicpartnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post.Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries. | $5M | Series A | Jul 26, 2016 | https://influential.co/ |
| Spoken Communications | Spoken Communications offer these businesses Spoken ConversationCenter, the first conversation-centric solution for the contact center. It provides a single AI-enabled platform for channeling, managing, and analyzing digital conversations – including voice, thanks to TrueMeaning, Spoken’s patented real-time digital voice channel.SpokenConversationCenter let’s service providers meet the demands of the modern digital consumer now and in the future while optimizing service delivery costs with AI, Big Data, and cloud-first performance. | $28.8M | Series D | Aug 05, 2015 | http://www.spoken.com |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. |  | Series F | Aug 14, 2014 | http://nextdoor.com |
| Influential | Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategicpartnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post.Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 09, 2014 | https://influential.co/ |
| Good Technology | Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access thecorporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $50M |  | Apr 29, 2013 | http://www.good.com |
| Kiteworks | Kiteworks is a cybersecurity company that provides secure communication and file-sharing solutions for businesses and organizations. The company focuses on protecting sensitive information by offering a secure platform that enables safe and compliant sharing of files, emails, and other forms of communication. Kiteworks offers a comprehensiveplatform that integrates a variety of communication and file-sharing tools designed to ensure the security and compliance of data exchanges. The platform allows users to securely share files both internally and externally, adhering to various data protection regulations. It provides end-to-end email encryption, safeguarding sensitive information during transmission. Additionally, Kiteworks facilitates secure managed file transfer (MFT), enabling the transfer of large files and sensitive data with detailed audit trails and compliance features. Organizations can also leverage secure APIs to embed file sharing, email, and communication functions directly into their existing applications. Furthermore, Kiteworks aids in meeting regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP by offering robust compliance and reporting features, ensuring comprehensive audit trails and adherence to industry standards. | $12M | Series C |  | http://www.kiteworks.com |

9 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bond](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bond-57ec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ECA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/europlay-capital-advisors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K2 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k2-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Meyer Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meyer-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Riverwood Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Riverwood Capital is a growth-stage technology investment firm that invests in technology companies in need of financial and intellectual capital to scale.

5 contacts available at Riverwood Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caitlin Mitchell | Director, Marketing & Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-mitchell |
| Eric Ma | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-ma-5 |
| Francisco Alvarez-Demalde | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-alvarez-demalde |
| Jeffrey Parks | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-parks |
| Anant Goel | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-goel-6d35 |

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## FAQ

### What does Christopher Varelas invest in?

Christopher Varelas invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Christopher Varelas invest in?

Christopher Varelas typically joins rounds of $5M–$9.2M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Christopher Varelas's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Christopher Varelas took part in.

### How do I contact Christopher Varelas?

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### When did Christopher Varelas last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christopher Varelas closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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