Dennis Crowley
Co-founder @ Foursquare
New York, United States
Dennis Crowley is a seed investor at Foursquare in New York focused on Software and Mobile. Dennis is the co-founder and executive chairman of Foursquare. Dennis has been a pioneer in imagining ways to help people discover the world around them using data and social encouragement. Today, he oversees Foursquare Labs, the R&D arm of the company that's focused on leveraging location technology in new and innovative ways. Hepreviously founded Dodgeball, one of the first mobile social services, which was acquired by Google in 2005.He holds degrees from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He is also a winner of the "Fast Money" bonus round on the TV game show Family Feud and the Founder and Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team in the Hudson Valley.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Dennis Crowley invests in
Stages Dennis Crowley invests in
Countries Dennis Crowley invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $550k–$4M
- Series A
- $5M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (33%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- Productivity Tools 2 (22%)
- Local 1 (11%)
- Gaming 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (67%)
- Series A 3 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Almanac
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Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration.A modern doc editor with version control to manage changes across docs and automated workflows for reviews, revisions, and suggestions.Built to give innovative companies, distributed teams, and the world's most ambitious people power, organization, and transparency—so they cancan collaborate with focus and speed.Join us in a world with less meetings and messages! | $34M / Series A / Sep 22, 2021 | |
Gowalla
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Gowalla builds social games played in the real world. | $4M / Seed / Jan 28, 2021 | |
Jackpocket
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Jackpocket is creating a more convenient, fun, and responsible way to play the lottery. The first licensed third-party lottery app in the United States, Jackpocket offers players an easy, secure way to order official state lottery tickets, such as Powerball, Mega Millions, from their phone. Lottery players use Jackpocket to place ticket orders fortheir favorite games, check lottery results, join lottery pools with other Jackpocket players, and turn on Autoplay so they never miss a drawing. Jackpocket is available in Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, D.C. with many new markets on the horizon. | $2M / Seed / Apr 28, 2015 | |
Electric Objects
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Electric Objects is a startup that makes picture frame-like computers that can display high-resolution artwork from the internet. It is the maker of the EO1, a computer designed to bring the beauty of the Internet into your home. The EO1 is a digital canvas that is created by using an inexpensive monitor and a computer called a Raspberry Pi.The display is controlled by a simple web app that allows users to select images online and to change them instantly, with a click.Jake Levine, Electric Objects' CEO and founder, started the company as a side project: Levine couldn't find a way to display art on his walls the way he wanted to, so he hacked one together himself. When a user orders an EO1, the user receives a 23-inch, high-definition screen with an integrated computer, an Android operating system, and a single cord. It comes with a custom white or black frame. Users can use the Electric Objects mobile app locations to control what art appears on the screen. However a user will never be interact directly with the screen itself, because it's not meant to be like a tablet, a phone, or a television. | $1.7M / Seed / Apr 30, 2014 | |
Thredhq
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Use THRED to make multi-image creations for anything from web comics, to logging your tropical vacation, to useful how-tos... or just as a platform for your infamous snark. THRED gives you the tools you need to make whatever you're into. So make it. | $5M / Series A / Sep 18, 2013 | |
Timehop
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Timehop aggregates past content (photos, tweets, statuses, etc.) and presents it on a daily basis to users' mobile devices. It's an innovative way to recall your past in a way that ties it to the current calendar day. Timehop also offers Nimbus, a best-in-class mobile, in-app header bidding solution. | $1.1M / Seed / Jan 24, 2012 | |
Svpply
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Svpply is a social shopping site. The site allows you to register, start keeping track of products you like. Based on your friends on twitter and facebook you will start seeing products they like. Svpply is dedicated to helping you discover things you would not otherwise come across to purchase. | $550K / Seed / Nov 22, 2010 | |
Metamarkets
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Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use theMetamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 01, 2010 | |
Block
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Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. | $10M / Series A / Nov 01, 2009 |
Co-Investors
About Foursquare
Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. The platform leverages a deep understanding oflocation intelligence to unlock valuable insights about customers, enabling brands to understand and connect to targeted audiences as well as to measure foot traffic and advertising success. Its toolkit includes Foursquare Analytics; Placed powered by Foursquare; Pinpoint audiences; and Pilgrim SDK and Places API. Together, these products empower brands to analyze trends; measure foot traffic lift via multi-touch attribution; optimize advertising campaigns across hundreds of audiences; and drive deeper engagement via Foursquare’s industry-leading developer tools.Co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai established the company in New York, New York in 2009.
Foursquare Contacts
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Dennis Crowley
Co-founder
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Gil Elbaz
Co-Executive Chairman
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Kris Minkstein
Director, Business Development and Product Partnerships
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Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales
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Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production
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FAQ
What does Dennis Crowley invest in?
Dennis Crowley invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Productivity Tools startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Dennis Crowley's check size?
Dennis Crowley typically joins rounds of $550k–$4M at Seed and $5M–$34M 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 Dennis Crowley participates in.
When did Dennis Crowley last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dennis Crowley closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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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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