# Curtis MacDonald

> Curtis MacDonald is a seed investor at Happiness Ventures backing Mobile. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Happiness Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/happinessventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/macdonaldcurtis
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CurtisMacDonal

Curtis MacDonald is a founding partner at Happiness Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $11.5M | Series A | May 01, 2020 | http://www.hypersonix.ai |
| Verbz.ai | Verbz instantly tasks, emails, or messages teams using voice. Verbz makes it easy to be more productive while working from your mobile.Verbz is developing a voice-based communication and collaboration application for executives, business professionals and salespeople. It combines voice, text and AI to deliver instantaneously communication acrossmultiple systems. Its vision is to make remote work as quick and easy as talking. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2019 | https://www.verbz.ai/ |
| Verbz.ai | Verbz instantly tasks, emails, or messages teams using voice. Verbz makes it easy to be more productive while working from your mobile.Verbz is developing a voice-based communication and collaboration application for executives, business professionals and salespeople. It combines voice, text and AI to deliver instantaneously communication acrossmultiple systems. Its vision is to make remote work as quick and easy as talking. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2019 | https://www.verbz.ai/ |
| ZaiNar | ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything. The company's platform uses radio signals including cellphones, IoT sensors, and chipless RFID tags for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective and accurate than existing alternatives, enabling enterprises to track locations with over 200 meters range andsub-meter accuracy. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 20, 2018 | http://zainartech.com/ |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 | http://www.hypersonix.ai |
| Pylba | Pylba is the developer of 'Simply News', the highest rated news app globally. Pylba also provides all features of Simply in a white label model to content owners (e.g. publishers). Pylba, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California. | $1.7M | Angel |  | http://www.pylba.com |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firebolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebolt-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sherpalo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherpalo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Follow\[the\]Seed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/follow-the-seed) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Happiness Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Happiness Ventures invests in early stage technology companies lead by entrepreneurs who have a passion and mission to make the world a happier place.The fund group concentrates on both early stage (Seed and Series A) start-ups and growth stage companies.Happiness Ventures invests with a long-term view and supports their startups throughouttheir entire lifecycle.

2 contacts available at Happiness Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Curtis MacDonald | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-macdonald |
| Ajay Ramachandran | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-ramachandran |

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## FAQ

### What does Curtis MacDonald invest in?

Curtis MacDonald invests primarily in Mobile, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 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 Curtis MacDonald?

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### When did Curtis MacDonald last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Curtis MacDonald closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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