Cliff Sirlin
Managing Director @ LaunchCapital
New York, United States
Cliff Sirlin is a career entrepreneur who has founded and operates a portfolio of high growth businesses. Cliff is also an active Angel Investor. Cliff received his law degree from New York University School of Law. While at NYU, Cliff also studied at the Stern School of Business. He earned his BA in History from Colgate University. Cliff’saccomplishments have been profiled by CNBC; Inc. Magazine; Success Magazine; and Crain’s Business.Cliff also is a frequent lecturer at the NYU Stern School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Cliff Sirlin invests in
Stages Cliff Sirlin invests in
Countries Cliff Sirlin invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $625k–$3.5M
- Angel
- $300k–$500k
- Series A
- $1M–$1.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Mobile 2 (20%)
- Art 1 (10%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Angel 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Convertible Note 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 9 (90%)
- Spain 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Flyby Robotics
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Flyby Robotics is a developer and operator of autonomous drone delivery systems. the fleet of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles that easily integrate with merchant's native order systems | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jul 05, 2023 | |
Qeepsake
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Qeepsake is a platform for families to capture, collect, and pass down the memories and stories that matter in our lives. It's used by over 300,000 families across the US & Canada. | $2M / Seed / Aug 16, 2022 | |
Greatist
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Greatist is the next-generation media company in health for healthy-minded millenials. With an emphasis on super high-quality fitness, health, and happiness content (every fact cited by a scientific study, every article approved by multiple experts) over quantity, Greatist engages an educated, social, and mobile audience through its uniquelyfriendly, fun, and shareable voice. Launched in 2011, it's now the fastest-growing site in the health space, reaching over 5 million readers every month with its mission to help the world think of health in a healthier way. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 30, 2015 | |
Litographs
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Litographs helps authors connect with fans by producing tasteful, customizable and unique literary merchandise.Litographs creates art from the books you've read and loved. Our posters, t-shirts, and tote bags are all created entirely from the text of classic books.Our designs were created by a team of artists from all over the world. Froma distance, the artwork illustrates a theme, character, or setting from each book. Move closer and the text becomes fully legible.Litographs is committed to promoting literacy, both at home and abroad.We're proud to partner with the International Book Bank to send one new, high-quality book to a community in need for each product we sell. | $100K / Convertible Note / Jan 27, 2014 | |
Domino
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Meet Domino, a Guide to Living with Style | $1.6M / Series A / Mar 27, 2012 | |
InVision
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InVisionApp provides a design collaboration platform for startups, corporations, and design agencies. It lets users research, design, review, and test products offer tools for prototyping, task management, and version control, enables users to create and craft things for Web and mobile platforms, and allows users to design prototyping, sharing andpresentation, feedback, and commenting meetings and whiteboarding, and organization and collaboration. InVisionApp also offers Studio, a screen design platform tool that allows users to extend the product experience; and real-time insights, team activity, project management, team management, workflow integration, enterprise-grade security, single-sign-on integration, custom branding, and asset storage and sharing solutions for enterprises. InVision has more than 5M users, including 100 percent of the Fortune 100, and organizations like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks, and Uber. The company was launched in 2011 by Clark Valberg and Ben Nadel and is one of the largest completely distributed organizations in the world, with employees in 28 countries. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 22, 2012 | |
Pure Cycles
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Pure Cycles is their celebration of bicycling for all that it offers: transportation, health, and righteous good times. With their economy cooled and their planet warming, there is no better way to get around than riding, cost and carbon free, on a fixed gear bike. In a city where transportation is always a challenge, they can help make yourtransit something you look forward to. | $300K / Angel / Jan 01, 2012 | |
BuyYourFriendADrink.com
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BuyYourFriendADrink.com is an ecommerce company. It operates as an automated sampling solution for the beer, wine, and spirits industry. The company offers an e-commerce platform that enables its users to to buy gift certificates for friends from bars within the network. BuyYourFriendADrink.com was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Palma DeMallorca. | $625K / Seed / Apr 10, 2008 | |
Pond5
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Pond5 is the world’s largest, most vibrant video-first content marketplace, providing filmmakers, creators, and producers of all kinds with the content, inspiration, and tools they need to improve their projects. As the only content marketplace that meaningfully shares licensing revenue with its contributing artists, Pond5 is driven by a commitmentto its passionate and growing global community of more than 60,000 professional visual and audio creators, providing a platform where their creative work can flourish, and helping them to make a sustainable living. With groundbreaking features like visual search for video and integrations into all major video-editing software, Pond5 is innovating daily, making it easier to find and use the content that creatives need to bring their vision to life. Pond5 is a venture-backed company funded by Accel Partners and Stripes Group with offices in New York, Dublin, Prague, London, and LA. | $500K / Angel / Jan 01, 2008 | |
Seamless
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Seamless is simply the easiest way to order food for delivery or takeout. Whatever you're in the mood for, wherever you're in the mood for it, you've got it. No menus, no phone calls, no repeating yourself. | $1M / Series A / Dec 15, 2000 |
Co-Investors
About LaunchCapital
LaunchCapital invests in entrepreneurs who build the future. It focuses on the seed and early stages of development. They plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growing.
LaunchCapital Contacts
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Bill McCullen
Director, Boston; Chief Investment Officer
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Cliff Sirlin
Managing Director
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Elon Boms
Founder, Board of Directors
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Jason Gray
Vice President of Portfolio Operations
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Jason Gray
Vice President of Portfolio Operations
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FAQ
What does Cliff Sirlin invest in?
Cliff Sirlin invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Mobile 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 Cliff Sirlin's check size?
Cliff Sirlin typically joins rounds of $625k–$3.5M at Seed, $300k–$500k at Angel and $1M–$1.6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cliff Sirlin participates in.
When did Cliff Sirlin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Cliff Sirlin closed in Aug 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?
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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