# Cue Ball

> Cue Ball is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and Health Care. See 75 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 75
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 24%
- Fund size: $55M
- Last fund: Apr 2011
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1489213
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cueballcapital
- Website: http://www.cueball.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CueBallCapital

Cue Ball is a Boston-based venture and early growth equity firm focused on recurring revenue platforms in business information services, digital media, and specialty consumer opportunities.The firm is built on a human capital centric philosophy: the belief that enduring value creation is all about the people. The people in their partnership andinvestor membership base share a fundamental belief that their collective intelligence can yield value creation opportunities. The partnership brings together operators with track records for leading companies in the consumer and media sectors. This experience includes running the largest information media company in the world and founding some Internet and consumer businesses. Cue Ball is further bolstered by a unique brain trust (The Cue Ball Collective) of industry and though business leaders - all of whom are investors in their fund.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 23% |
| Health Care | 9 | 12% |
| Analytics | 6 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 8% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 19 | 25% |
| Seed | 17 | 23% |
| Series A | 17 | 23% |
| Series B | 9 | 12% |
| Series C | 7 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 53 | 71% |
| France | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Audrey Carson | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audrey-carson |
| Chaeyeon Song | Summer Associate - Venture Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaeyeon-song |
| Mats Lederhausen | Special General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mats-lederhausen |
| Richard Harrington | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-j-harrington |
| Ali Rahimtula | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-rahimtula |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starface World | Starface World is reinventing the way they care for acne-prone skin. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Miniluxe | Miniluxe operates as a nail and beauty lounge that offers manicures, pedicures, warm oil treatment, waxing, and hands and feet therapies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $34.2K | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Forum | Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it. | $5.3M | Seed | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Covey | Covey is an analyst-led community dedicated to identifying and rewarding the world's next generation of top money managers. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| ianacare | ianacare is a health care company that encourages, empowers, and equips family caregivers. They are a passionate team of caregivers, supporters, patients, and medical professionals. Their perspective continues to be shaped from all angles of this complex journey. | $12.1M | Series A | Jan 04, 2022 |  |
| Recycle Track Systems | Recycle Track Systems (RTS) is changing the way companies manage waste and recycling by combing technology with high-touch service to make disposal easier, smarter and more responsible. RTS helps companies easily track and optimize their pickup, from on-demand removal to fully integrated waste management solutions. Using this data insight, RTSempowers companies with visibility into their waste habits and tangible figures on their climate impact to improve their waste and recycling practices.RTS is a certified B-Corporation, reflecting its dedication and commitment to meeting stringent standards of environmental transparency and performance. | $35M | Series C | Jun 24, 2021 |  |
| WaitWhat | WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format.By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories withtheir content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale. | $12M | Series B | Jun 21, 2021 |  |
| Tea Drops | Tea Drops is a Los Angeles-based, woman-owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO-free, Gluten-Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California. | $5M | Series A | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Pex | Pex specializes in digital rights technology. It ensures transparency and accuracy in attribution by bringing together all stakeholders and industries to license and manage content. Its advanced technology operates at unprecedented speed and scale, enabling transactions that were previously thought impossible. By radically simplifying licensingon a global scale, Pex empowers digital platforms to make real-time decisions about content, enables creators to utilize copyrighted content without fear, and ensures rightsholders can be properly credited and compensated. Pex builds solutions and technologies that are inclusive and equitable. | $57M | Series A | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Codeverse | Codeverse is the world's first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 75 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Colle Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colle-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BECO Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beco-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hillsven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillsven-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Able Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/able-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cue Ball invest in?

Cue Ball invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Analytics startups, most often at Funding Round 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.

### How do I contact Cue Ball?

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### Who are the partners at Cue Ball?

The team at Cue Ball includes Audrey Carson (Investment Associate), Chaeyeon Song (Summer Associate - Venture Capital) and Mats Lederhausen (Special General Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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