# Christina Brodbeck

> Christina Brodbeck is a seed investor at Rivet Ventures (Los Angeles) backing Software and Mobile. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rivet Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rivet-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/christinabrodbeck
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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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$5M |
| Angel | $500k–$700k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Mobile | 3 | 30% |
| Hardware | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 20% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 80% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Golden | 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 |  |
| Safely Health | 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 | 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 | 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 | Nobody should have to employ expensive imaging scientists and engineers for their business to get the most out of their images. This is where imgix has your back. imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering your existing images so that you can meet the demands of your business and your team can stay focusedon what they do best.The business demands on web images can blindside even the most hyper-aware content teams and developers. Just to be competitive on the Internet, you need your images to be sized perfectly to every device, served in one of any of a half dozen web formats, optimized to the absolute best perceptual quality while maintaining pinpoint performance, and distributed to wherever your users are, anywhere in the world. And that is just the baseline. Next-level imaging concerns like copyright, licensing, accessibility, moderation, illegal or explicit content, "fake news", and more, can threaten your business at any moment if not handled properly. Get any of these things wrong and you are shedding revenue, ceding ground to competitors, and potentially exposing your business to extreme liability.By working with imgix's powerful APIs, SDKs, user interfaces, and integrations, you can rest assured that any demands on your images will always be met, now and into the future, without you having to invest in building it yourself or patching together a mishmash of open source and third-party technologies. Our platform is designed to ensure that your images are always working for your business and never against it.imgix is venture-backed, with about $11 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Lyft, Kickstarter, AirBnb, Coursera, Bonobos, Spotify, Vimeo, Bustle, and many others. | $500K | Angel | May 01, 2012 |  |
| Egomotion | Egomotion are the creators of the context aware apps Status, Trigger and Agent. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 14, 2011 |  |
| inDinero | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthem Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Base Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caivis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caivis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rivet Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

3 contacts available at Rivet Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christina Brodbeck | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-brodbeck |
| Shadi Mehraein | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shadi-mehraein |
| Rebeca Hwang | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebeca-hwang |

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## FAQ

### What does Christina Brodbeck invest in?

Christina Brodbeck invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Hardware 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.

### When did Christina Brodbeck last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christina Brodbeck closed in Jan 2018. 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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