Curtis Lee
Vice President, Global Payments & Cash @ Microsoft
New York, United States
Curtis Lee is a co-founder and CEO of Luxe, Founder of Pinwheel, Angel Investor, and Partner at Primary Venture Partners.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Curtis Lee invests in
Stages Curtis Lee invests in
Countries Curtis Lee invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $2M–$2.1M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 4 (22%)
- Software 4 (22%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (17%)
- Retail 2 (11%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (39%)
- Series A 4 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
- Corporate Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 14 (78%)
- Pakistan 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Aside
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Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform. | $17.1M / Series A / Feb 08, 2022 | |
Sounder.fm
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Sounder is the cutting-edge technology platform at the forefront of AI/ML-driven content classification and data extraction for the audio industry. By providing contextual intelligence and brand safety solutions to audio publishers, advertising marketplaces, and brands & agencies, Sounder enables significant monetization opportunities atscale | $1.8M / Seed / Mar 10, 2020 | |
Bandit
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Bandit is a new retail coffee brand for the next generation of consumers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 11, 2020 | |
Behave Candy
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Behave Candy makes delicious, low sugar, all-natural ingredients, guilt-free candy. | Pre-Seed / Nov 07, 2019 | |
Airlift Technologies
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Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing. | $12M / Series A / Nov 02, 2019 | |
Dadi
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Dadi offers sperm storage, male fertility report, and at-home collection kit. Dadi is reimagining male fertility by providing a modern, accessible option directly to men. No clinics, no unnecessary costs, just $99 for the kit and fertility report then $99 a year for storage. | $5M / Seed / Aug 08, 2019 | |
Bloomscape
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Bloomscape is an online plant shopping platform that offers home ready plants and tools for plant care. The company makes buying plants easy by delivering ready-to-go plants to its customer's door. It is a DTC company with a mission to drastically improve the entire plant buying and care experience in every area of the home and garden. | $7.5M / Series A / Aug 01, 2019 | |
Carpay
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Carpay is a loan management software for BHPH dealers. It helps them manage their portfolio by giving their borrowers multiple options to pay, automating all reminders to their borrowers, and giving the dealers a suite of tools to keep their loans performing. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Venice, California. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2019 | |
Outer
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Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand on a mission to bring life outside. The products are designed by former head furniture designer of Pottery Barn, Terry Lin and manufactured in CEO Jiake Liu's family-owned factory. Since its inception in 2017, Outer has increased its revenue 11 times by 2020 and tripled its workforce in thepast nine months. | Seed / Jul 24, 2019 | |
Punch List
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Punch List makes it easy for independent contractors and homeowners to complete successful remodels together. With a simple app that offers messaging, photos, client approval of progress, and payment tracking, Punch List is the first modern tool for simple and efficient home remodeling. For contractors, Punch List simplifies client communicationsand helps them get paid faster with quick and easy digital invoicing. For homeowners, Punch List provides a real-time view into the status of their home remodel—gone are the days of feeling in the dark. Punch List offers them peace of mind with automatic invoices that are generated when each big task is completed, so the agreed-upon budget doesn’t go out the window.In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Punch List launched a new app called Specialist (https://special.ist/) in April 2020. Specialist is the easiest way for professionals and their customers to connect over video chat from their home or office. It’s the SAFE, SIMPLE, and TRANSPARENT way for specialists to make money and for customers to get the help they need. | $2M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Microsoft
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
Microsoft Contacts
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Aparna Chennapragada
Corporate VP
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Bay Gross
Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI
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Bobby George
Creative Strategist
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Brandon Dixon
Product and Intel Strategy Leader
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Brandon Middaugh
Sr. Director, Climate Innovation Fund
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FAQ
What does Curtis Lee invest in?
Curtis Lee invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Curtis Lee's check size?
Curtis Lee typically joins rounds of $150k–$5M at Seed, $2M–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$17M 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 Curtis Lee participates in.
When did Curtis Lee last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Curtis Lee closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 18 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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