Cyriac Roeding
Angel Investor
Portola Valley, United States
Cyriac Roeding is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur (co-founder, former CEO of shopkick, acquired for $250M in cash) who invests in and works with startups and venture capitalists that drive change in the world at scale. Focus areas: consumer network effects, mobile, human-machine interfaces and AR, robotics, software meeting biology. LimitedPartner in Founders Fund, Andreesen Horowitz, KPCB, IVP, ZhenFund (China), SV Angel, SVB. Direct investor and advisor in over a dozen startups, including Karma Science (acquired by Facebook), Cardspring (acquired by Twitter), Grofers, Curbside, Zumper, Brilliant. The World Economic Forum named Roeding a Previously, Cyriac co-founded and led shopkick, the shopping app that rewards users just for walking into retail stores, as CEO to over 20 million users and its $250M acquisition by SK Telecom/SK Planet (Fortune 100 from South Korea). Fast Company ranked it one of the world's Previously, Cyriac founded and led CBS Mobile (Prior to CBS, Cyriac was the co-founder of 12snap, a European mobile marketing and entertainment company working with Coca-Cola, McDonald's, L'Oreal, adidas, Nokia, Vodafone and MTV Europe among others. Before that, he was at McKinsey & Company in the media, software and high-tech sector. Cyriac co-authored the Harvard Business School Press book
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Cyriac Roeding invests in
Stages Cyriac Roeding invests in
Countries Cyriac Roeding invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (42%)
- Mobile 4 (33%)
- Retail 3 (25%)
- Marketplace 3 (25%)
- Biotechnology 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Series C 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 9 (75%)
- India 2 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Brilliant Home Technology is a home automation company. | $21M / Series A / Oct 11, 2017 | ||
| Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.2M / Seed / May 24, 2017 | ||
| Brilliant Home Technology is a home automation company. | $3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2016 | ||
| Grofers is a low-price online supermarket that gets products across categories like grocery, beauty, and wellness, household care, baby care, pet care delivered to your doorstep. Grofers provides over 3,000 products at prices lower than supermarkets every day.Grofers currently operates in a total of 26 cities across India: Agra, Ahmedabad,Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Mysuru, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam. | $120M / Series C / Nov 26, 2015 | ||
| Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasinglymobile centric customers. | $25M / Series B / Jun 25, 2015 | ||
| Zumper is the largest private rental platform in North America—supporting over 75 million people every year find their next place. We believe finding your new apartment is more than just a move. It’s something bigger. A step forward. A new beginning. A fresh start. Whether you’re moving across the country or across the street, you deserve to lovewhere you land.But today’s rental experience is broken. It’s outdated, exhausting, and slow. We spend hours of our lives searching just to settle for places that don’t feel like home. Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next.To date we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by BuiltIn SF. | $6.4M / Series A / Jun 25, 2015 | ||
Sparks
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Sparks develops a platform that enables users to create memes on mobile. Users can find a picture or animated gif through their image search engine, type in a short message, adjust its typeface and placement, and then publish it to friends. | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 01, 2013 | |
| Cardspring is creating an application platform that will allow Web and mobile developers to write applications for credit cards and other types of payments. Cardspring attaches itself to the payment network in a secure fashion on one side, and on the other it presents itself as a platform for developers to create payment apps via Web-standard APIs.It is a bridge between the two networks.These applications could include things like electronic coupons, loyalty cards, virtual currencies, or yet-to-be-imagined commerce apps. | $10M / Series A / Jan 31, 2012 | ||
| Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, Founded by Lee Linden, and Ben Lewis; Karma aims to give users the option to give friends gifts on the go via iOS and Android apps. While there are a number of mobile, social gifting apps on the market, Karma’s service combines intelligence, social discovery, and the easyof gift giving in a sleek app that’s definitely worth a look. | Jan 01, 2011 | ||
| Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables the acceleration of life science research and development in the pursuit of improved human health.The company leverages machine learning, automation, and gene editing to build platforms for science at scale. With its foundations in engineering disciplines, the company’s full-stack platformvertically integrates proprietary hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology to advance both basic research and therapeutic development programs.By providing both commercial and academic researchers and therapeutic developers with unprecedented access to cutting-edge genome engineering, Synthego is at the forefront of innovation, accelerating the development of truly engineered biology.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California. | $110M / Series C | ||
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What does Cyriac Roeding invest in?
Cyriac Roeding invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Cyriac Roeding last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Cyriac Roeding closed in Jan 2012. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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