# Derek Andersen

> Derek Andersen is a seed investor at Startup Grind (Palo Alto) backing Apps and SaaS. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Startup Grind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-grind)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/derekjandersen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/derekjandersen
- Website: https://x.com/derekjandersen

Derek Andersen is a seed investor at Startup Grind in Palo Alto focused on Apps and SaaS. Derek Andersen is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bevy. Derek previously worked at Vaporware Labs as a Co-Founder and Head of Product.Derek Andersen attended Brigham Young University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Video | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zight | CloudApp is the all-in-one visual sharing platform that lets you record, host, and share short videos, GIFs, and visuals (images, annotated screenshots) to make team and customer conversations faster and more succinct. Enhancing conversations visually means that messages don't get lost in translation! With CloudApp, team collaboration is abreeze. | $9.3M | Series A | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Cheeze | A minting studio for photographers. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Cheeze | A minting studio for photographers. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Pesto Tech | About PestoWe believe in taking opportunities to places where talent exists. Our mission is to change the lives of 5.2 million Indian software engineers. Creating access for them to great career opportunities using remote work. We train and upskill India's top talent for fast-paced product organizations. Our comprehensive training programhelps software engineers in India to advance their programming and being remote ready. We unlock your potential and provide global opportunities, remotely. We started our journey in 2017 and since then we have helped more than 100+ candidates to find their first remote job opportunity. To get our candidates placed, we have partnered with more than 200 global product based organizations.We are backed by Matrix Partners and a bunch of angels from Silicon Valley (list includes Ryan Hoover, Sahil Lavingia, Hiten Shah and many others).Key highlights • Pesto creates overseas opportunities for Indian Developer. • Apply for India's simplest Remote development program • Become A remote Developer – Apply Now – ZERO upfront fee • High Paying Remote opportunityApply now - https://bit.ly/33BgZ30 Hire software developers of Silicon Valley caliber: https://pesto.tech/become-a-developer | $4M | Seed | Oct 08, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Olive Tree Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olive-tree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RAA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forward Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grayhawk Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grayhawk-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Startup Grind

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reachingover 3.5 million individuals worldwide.The company hosts monthly events in more than 600 cities and 125 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. The company's monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. Started by Derek Andersen and Spencer Nielsen in February 2010 in a small office in Mountain View California, the original goal to bring together friends who would help each other has spread across the world.

5 contacts available at Startup Grind.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kateryna Dehtyar | Director of Kiev Chapter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kateryna-dehtyar |
| Marian Gazdik | Director, Europe | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marian-gazdik |
| Rui Ma | Director of BeiJing Chapter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rui-ma-2 |
| Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit | Barcelona Chapter Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bacardit |
| Can Kagitcibasi | Country Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/can-kagitcibasi |

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## FAQ

### What does Derek Andersen invest in?

Derek Andersen invests primarily in Apps, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Derek Andersen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Derek Andersen closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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