Christina Brodbeck
Founding Partner @ Rivet Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Christina Brodbeck is a seed investor at Rivet Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Software and Mobile. Prior to Rivet Ventures, Christina A. Brodbeck was a founding team member at YouTube, where she was the company's first UI Designer. While at YouTube, she was the lead designer for YouTube Mobile. Christina, a passionate advocate for innovation in education, launched YouTube EDU as her official side project. Before YouTube, Christina worked atMRL Ventures, NASA, and Keynote Systems. Most recently, Christina co-founded Pickvee, a startup focused on using technology to improve health and well-being. The company's first product, TheIceBreak, is an app and Web site that helps couples grow in their relationships. She is a seasoned angel investor with investments in approximately 20 companies, and has mentored at various places including 500 Startups and The Designer Fund. Some investments include: Cue, HeyZap, Matterport, and Vayable. She speaks globally on women in technology, design, investing and entrepreneurship. She is originally from the Chicagoland area, and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and holds a master's degree in Instructional Multimedia Design from San Francisco State University.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Christina Brodbeck invests in
Stages Christina Brodbeck invests in
Countries Christina Brodbeck invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Type | Contact | Validation |
|---|---|---|
| Work email | ||
| Personal email | ||
| Work phone | ||
| Personal phone | ||
| Socials |
Round size
- Seed
- $650k–$5M
- Angel
- $500k–$700k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (60%)
- Mobile 3 (30%)
- Blockchain 2 (20%)
- Marketplace 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (80%)
- Angel 2 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry. | $5M / Seed / May 01, 2019 | ||
| The Safely App lets potential partners share their verified STD and COVID status in a way that's trusted, private, and secure. More than an app, Safely is a movement to disrupt the spread of STD's and make the world a safer (and more fun) place to be. Behind it's sexy exterior, Safely is a fully vertically integrated healthcarecompany with partnerships and proprietary integrations with many of the world's leading healthcare companies, including Quest, Labcorp Mayo Clinic, EPIC, CVS, and more. SAFE works in partnership with the CDC, many of the world's top nonprofit organizations and influencers, plus social media platforms and dating apps, to empower this and future generations to know and show their status. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 30, 2018 | ||
| Zesty provides regular office catering to companies in San Francisco and the Peninsula.Curated by in-house dietitians, Zesty works with hundreds of high quality Bay Area restaurants such as Nopalito, Dosa, Souvla, Woodhouse Fish Co., Little Star Pizza, Wise Sons, providing nutrition facts on every dish. Every meal is delivered by Zesty's ownCatering Captains, offering all the reliability and service quality of an in-house caterer as well as the variety of dozens of cuisines. Zesty works with hundreds of companies including Salesforce, Twitch, Uber, Lyft, Github, Everlane and TechCrunch, serving breakfasts, lunches, dinners, happy hours and special events.Zesty is aiming to make a real impact on the world by significantly improving the health of employees. They start by empowering their own own team to live healthfully by offering a gym membership of your choice, on-site sports massage, bi-annual retreats, an open vacation policy...and a kombucha kegerator! They are proud to not just have a work hard, play hard attitude, but strive for first class execution in everything they do.They have raised over $20M in funding top Silicon Valley investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Their office building is located in the sunny Potrero Hill district of San Francisco. | $3.7M / Seed / Mar 25, 2014 | ||
| FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics.FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront,and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes. | $1.6M / Seed / Oct 18, 2012 | ||
| Imgix combines cutting-edge AI, data, and visual intelligence to help businesses grow through impactful visual media. With over 60,000 customers and serving more than 8 billion image requests daily, Imgix delivers tools that optimize visual content for performance, accessibility, and personalization. Leveraging AI-powered features like intelligentcropping, background removal and replacement, text-to-image and image-to-video, Imgix empowers brands such as Porsche, Unsplash, Skims, and thousands more to create engaging experiences, improve SEO, and scale content delivery effortlessly. By uniting innovation with a relentless focus on customer success, Imgix is redefining how businesses harness visual media to drive results. | $500K / Angel / May 01, 2012 | ||
| Egomotion are the creators of the context aware apps Status, Trigger and Agent. | $1.1M / Seed / Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Based in San Francisco, California, inDinero creates software solutions to help small businesses track and manage their finances. It aims to provide its users with instant insights into the finances of their companies, leading them to save on unnecessary expenses and to earn more money for their companies. With a flat pricing model and financialdashboard, SMEs can manage books, review and categorize transactions, perform month and year end reconciliations, and handle tax preparation and filing. Launched in 2009, the company was founded by Jessica Mah, Andy Su, and Andrea Barrica. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 10, 2010 | ||
| Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, contacts, and calendar. People can see their entire day at a glance or simultaneously search across all of their accounts with Cue. | $700K / Seed / Aug 31, 2010 | ||
| GameCrush is the first social gaming site that allows users to meet, match and play online games with other users to enhance their gaming experience. Users can create profiles that include rich social networking content tools such as text chat, interests, pictures, blogs, video clips, and more. Users can also define the types of games they areinterested in. The GameCrush platform enables users to choose who and what to play and offering a way to monetize the social aspect of gaming. Credits on GameCrush can be purchased and used to send virtual gifts which have a transferable value. The recipient can convert the virtual gift for real-world value.Users can also play for a charity or social cause. Upon the completion of a game, users can rate their experience with those who receive higher ratings being rewarded with increased site visibility.GameCrush is owned by parent company WhamSpot, Inc. | $700K / Angel / Aug 24, 2010 | ||
| Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love. Heyzap’s SDK for Android and iOS apps allows both well-established app producers and innovative indie developers to monetize and bring their apps to a wide audience. It currently provides advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services tomobile developers worldwide.Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund. | $650K / Seed / May 27, 2009 |
Co-Investors
About Rivet Ventures
Rivet Ventures invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making, and purchasing are crucial to company growth, and backs both male and female founders.
Rivet Ventures Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Christina Brodbeck
Founding Partner
|
|||
Shadi Mehraein
Managing Partner
|
|||
Rebeca Hwang
Co-Founder
|
|||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Christina Brodbeck invest in?
Christina Brodbeck invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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 is Christina Brodbeck's check size?
Christina Brodbeck typically joins rounds of $650k–$5M at Seed and $500k–$700k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Christina Brodbeck participates in.
How do I contact Christina Brodbeck?
Public channels for Christina Brodbeck include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
When did Christina Brodbeck last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Christina Brodbeck closed in May 2019. 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?
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
