# Crystal Towers

> Crystal Towers is a VC fund in New York backing SaaS and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Fund size: $28M
- Last fund: Jun 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.crystaltowersapartments.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystaltowersapts

Crystal Towers is a VC fund backed by several Y Combinator founders. It will start out with between $90 million and $100 million to invest in the most promising YC companies out of every batch. The name Crystal Towers comes from an apartment complex in San Francisco where Y Combinator founders have lived. Crystal Tower has also been referred toas “Y Scraper,” another name that was weighed up for this fund.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Crystal Towers. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Crystal Towers. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/crystal-towers?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $22M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Computer | 1 | 25% |
| Call Center | 1 | 25% |
| Real Estate | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Philippines | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Bangash | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bangash-2 |
| Arianna Simpson | Venture Partner | 37 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arianna-simpson |
| Tikhon Bernstam | Managing Member | 43 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tikhon-bernstam |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MadEats | MadEats is an online restaurant that offers a variety of food products and online delivery services. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Makati, Manila, Philippines. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Eden | Eden provides flexible workplace software for modern companies. Investors include Y Combinator, SV Angel, Bessemer Venture Partners, S28 Capital, Fifth Wall, Quiet Capital, Reshape, JLL, ENIAC, Maven Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, and more. | $25M | Series B | Nov 19, 2019 |  |
| TrueML | TrueAccord is reinventing the relationship between creditors and lenders with a machine learning-driven, digital approach to debt collection. Our technology personalizes outreach to each customer across digital channels, continuously optimizing for performance while delivering a customer experience that builds long-term brand loyalty. | $22M | Series B | Nov 14, 2017 |  |
| Next Caller | Next Caller develops and offers a real time call verification technology solution that provides phone fraud detection services. It offers a caller identification platform that helps businesses and consumers identify unknown callers and detect fraudulent calls. Further, Next Caller offers Advanced Caller ID that flags all forms of call spoofing byproviding caller data and information, such as telephone number, name, address, email, and social profiles in real time, as well as offers threat-level analysis; and Next Caller Fraud API that detects suspicious calls, such as masked numbers. Additionally, it uses a proprietary algorithm VeriCall that analyzes carrier-level metadata; and provides real-time RESTful API for users to custom integrate with their current CTI application. Next Caller also allows users to clean and append existing database and enables users to validate and prioritize their leads. Gianni Martire and Ian Roncoroni founded it on September 6, 2012, with its headquarters in New York City with additional locations in San Francisco in California and Boston in Massachusetts. | $5M | Series A | Aug 28, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Crystal Towers invest in?

Crystal Towers invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Computer startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Crystal Towers's check size?

Crystal Towers typically joins rounds of $22M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Crystal Towers participates in.

### How do I contact Crystal Towers?

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### Who are the partners at Crystal Towers?

The team at Crystal Towers includes Alex Bangash (Managing Director), Arianna Simpson (Venture Partner) and Tikhon Bernstam (Managing Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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