# Cory Levy

> Cory Levy is a pre-seed investor at Humaning backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 75 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Humaning](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/humaning)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 75
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/clevy
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cory
- Website: http://www.corylevy.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clevy

Cory Levy is a pre-seed investor at Humaning in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Cory Levy is the Founder of Z Fellows. He previously worked at DoSomething.org as a Board Member. Cory attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he took Computer Science.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $14M–$72M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 21% |
| Software | 14 | 19% |
| Advertising | 4 | 5% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 5% |
| Apps | 3 | 4% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 42 | 56% |
| Seed | 17 | 23% |
| Series A | 5 | 7% |
| Grant | 1 | 1% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 51% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fun | Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain. | $72M | Series A | May 01, 2026 |  |
| TradeForm | TradeForm is the AI-native platform for building and orchestrating your manufacturing workforce. We automate operations, capture high-intent deal inbound, and convert operational data into real action and continuous improvement.We replace manual coordination, inbox chaos, and spreadsheet silos with an AI operating system that plugs directly intoyour existing ERP and communication stack. TradeForm runs work end-to-end: managing multi-channel vendor communication, parsing dense technical documentation, surfacing revenue opportunities, and triggering autonomous follow-through. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| The New Era® of Shopping | The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Anzen Industries | Anzen Industries focuses on biotech innovation, engineering molecular resilience by stabilizing enzymes for industrial reactions. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Ciridae | Ciridae provides AI consulting and product development services that help enterprises incorporate machine learning into core operations. The company advises executive teams on AI strategy, use‑case selection, and organizational readiness, then translates those plans into technical roadmaps. Engagements often include evaluating data assets, choosingmodel architectures, and defining integration patterns with existing software systems. Ciridae also offers hands‑on engineering support, such as building prototypes, productionizing models, and setting up experimentation workflows. The firm focuses on practical applications like process automation, decision support, and predictive analytics that align with measurable business outcomes. Ciridae’s approach emphasizes collaboration with internal teams so that knowledge transfer, governance practices, and long‑term maintainability are built into AI initiatives from the start. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Initium Aerospace | Developing the INITIUM I: a small-lift launch vehicle designed to delivery small payloads to LEO quickly and affordably. | $512K | Pre-Seed | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Omen AI | Omen AI develops an AI-powered asset intelligence platform that monitors equipment health through real-time fluid analysis and predictive diagnostics. The company provides sensor technology and portable testing systems that analyze fluids in machinery to identify wear, contamination, and potential equipment issues before failures occur. Omen AIcombines hardware sensors with AI-driven data analysis to help organizations monitor industrial machines and infrastructure systems. The platform supports applications such as industrial equipment maintenance and data center fluid monitoring by providing continuous insights into machine conditions. | $10.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Greptile | Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions. | $25M | Series A | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Hilt | Security Layer for Vibecoding |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Hilt | Data Movement Governance | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |

10 of 75 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [JAM Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jam-fund) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Z Fellows](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z-fellows) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Thiel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thiel-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Humaning

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Humaning operates a media company intended to provide movie-like trailers to promote games. It was started in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

2 contacts available at Humaning.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Callahan | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-callahan |
| Cory Levy | Founding Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cory-levy |

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## FAQ

### What does Cory Levy invest in?

Cory Levy invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Advertising startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 75 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 Cory Levy's check size?

Cory Levy typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$11M at Seed, $200k–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $14M–$72M 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 Cory Levy participates in.

### When did Cory Levy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cory Levy closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 75 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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