# Doug Renert > Doug Renert is a seed investor at 444 Capital (San Mateo) backing Apps and Shoes. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [444 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/444-capital) - Location: San Mateo, United States - Total investments: 4 - Last investment: May 2019 - Lead investor: 50% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougrenert - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dougrenert Doug Renert is a seed investor at 444 Capital in San Mateo focused on Apps and Shoes. Doug Renert is the co-founding partner at Tandem Capital and 444 Capital. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Apps | 1 | 25% | | Shoes | 1 | 25% | | Fashion | 1 | 25% | | Computer | 1 | 25% | | E-Commerce | 1 | 25% | 14 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 2 | 50% | | Series A | 2 | 50% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TruckLabs | TruckLabs is a trucking technology company with a mission to transform the industry through combining a first-hand understanding of trucking with technology. With more than one hundred million miles driven, we are hardware engineers, software developers and data scientists who are serious about trucking. | $10.5M | Series A | May 01, 2019 | | | Shoe Lovers | Shoe Lovers is the world’s largest online community for shoe fashionistas, curated with love. We have grown to 38+M Facebook fans in a little over a year and a half by offering a uniquely disruptive social entertainment and commerce platform to help passionate women who love shoes to find offers, discover trends around the world, and share theirpassion with others. Discovering shoes that match personal taste is difficult for many women with the immense set of offers distributed across thousands of sites, and attempts to personalize the user experience and capture user preferences through contests often result in offers which don’t quite match the user’s fashion sensibilities. The power of social commerce resides in the network effect of recommendations, and ShoeLovers was built to maximize the network effect of the community interactions, and automatically capture the fans’ preferences with unprecedented accuracy to provide an outstanding user experience. | | Series A | Mar 01, 2018 | | | TruckLabs | TruckLabs is a trucking technology company with a mission to transform the industry through combining a first-hand understanding of trucking with technology. With more than one hundred million miles driven, we are hardware engineers, software developers and data scientists who are serious about trucking. | $2.5M | Seed | May 01, 2017 | | | Sixa | Sixa is a full computer that operates right from the cloud through a client app. It supports various devices and is capable of running the most demanding applications. With it, users can easily deploy a cloud computer developed for different tasks and access a powerful virtual computer without hardware upgrades.Sixa was founded on 2015 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 09, 2016 | | 4 of 4 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [FusionX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusionx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Root Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rootvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Autotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [AVentures Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventures-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Calibrate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calibrate-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Taver Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gagarin-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About 444 Capital VC Fund · Norwalk, United States 444 Capital is a venture capital firm with a specialization in minority- and women-owned enterprises. With the formation of a new venture capital firm, 444 Capital, the D'Amelio family, which includes TikTok stars and digital innovators Charli D'Amelio and sister Dixie, is formalizing their investments in businesses. In order to supporthigh-growth businesses with strong end-user brands, including those in the direct-to-consumer sector, fintech, edtech, healthcare, insurtech, and other B2B2C platforms, the family is working with producer Jeff Beacher of Beacher Media Group and Doug Renert of Tandem Capital. 2 contacts available at 444 Capital. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Doug Renert | Co-Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-renert | | Charli D’Amelio | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charli-d-amelio | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Doug Renert invest in? Doug Renert invests primarily in Apps, Shoes and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Doug Renert last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Doug Renert closed in May 2019. 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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