# Eduardo Vivas

> Eduardo Vivas is a seed investor at Curated (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Big Data. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Curated](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curated-6efa)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eduardo-vivas/7/534/84
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vivas.eduardo

Eduardo Vivas is a seed investor at Curated in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Big Data. Eduardo Vivas is the founder of Bright.com which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014, and also the founder of Social Hour, a startup acquired for $51.5M by PlayPhone in 2012. Despite dropping out of high school over 10 years earlier, Vivas is now the Head of Talent Solutions at LinkedIn and an active angel investor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Big Data | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 80% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 90% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dex | Dex offers purpose-built devices, software and content to help young children reach their full potentials. | $4.8M | Seed | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Cococart | Cococart is an e-commerce platform with tools for creating online stores easily with no code, no design and no app downloads. The company offers a suite of tools for online orders and reservations, marketing, payments, and fulfillment. | $4.1M | Seed | Feb 25, 2022 |  |
| Hurry | Hurry is a delivery-as-a-service for DTC brands and brick-and-mortar retailers. Hurry enables shoppers to find whatever they are looking for, and Hurry locates it in a nearby store, saving consumers time and money and allowing brick-and-mortar retailers to compete with Amazon. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Neon For Life | Neon offers Buy Now Pay Later for essential bills | $3.7M | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Drivetime | Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive. It develops interactive audio games that are non-distracting and voice-driven gameplay, enabling users to play hands-free games while driving the car. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4M | Seed | Nov 07, 2018 |  |
| Truework | Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs. | $2.9M | Seed | Apr 11, 2018 |  |
| Heirloom Technology | Heirloom, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of a new platform that transforms photographic prints into digital images and allows people to connect privately over shared memories. Heirloom has just released its app, available to download for free on iOS (Apple App Store) and Android (Google Play) which allows users to capture and store images inalbums, enjoy them with other users in private, invite-only groups, or share them to more public networks such as Facebook. | $1M | Seed | Nov 17, 2014 |  |
| Indicative | Indicative connects to your data sources, synthesizes them into a one complete view of your customer, and gives you the actionable insights you need to optimize customer acquisition, engagement, and retention. | $2M | Seed | Oct 14, 2014 |  |
| Pixalate | Pixalate is a global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council certified vendor for display ad viewability. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $4.6M | Series A | Dec 10, 2013 |  |
| SHRED | SHRED is a technology company specializing in elite digital training experiences. The company also offers personalized training programs for home or gym, step-by-step coaching & tracking, and fun motivation from a hardworking community around the world. It was founded in 2918 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. | $4M | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acadia Woods Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acadia-woods-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Access Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clay VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clay-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Embedding VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/embedding-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Curated

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases. The company's platform matches customers with experts for high-consideration purchases: items that have some degree of complexity, enabling shoppers to get access to unbiased product recommendations and good deals,handpicked by real experts.

5 contacts available at Curated.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eduardo Vivas | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claudia-bosworth |
| Alexandra Cerf | General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandra-cerf |
| Alex Crosby | General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-crosby-2 |
| Alex Vauthey | CTO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-vauthey |
| Annabel Liu | VP of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annabel-liu |

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## FAQ

### What does Eduardo Vivas invest in?

Eduardo Vivas invests primarily in FinTech, Big Data and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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 Eduardo Vivas's check size?

Eduardo Vivas typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Eduardo Vivas participates in.

### When did Eduardo Vivas last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eduardo Vivas closed in Aug 2025. 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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