# James Cash

> James Cash is a seed investor at The Cash Catalyst backing Software, Apps and Marketplace. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Cash Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-cash-catalyst)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

James Cash is a seed investor at The Cash Catalyst focused on Software and Apps. While on the faculty of Harvard Business School from 1976 to 2003, James served as the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing, as well as the chairman of the MBA Program. At HBS, his research focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector, specifically the development of a performance measurement systemfor large information technology organizations. He earned an advanced degree in accounting and has been published extensively in accounting and information technology journals.Currently, he provides management development and consulting services through The Cash Catalyst, LLC, which he formed in 2009. He is also a director of The Chubb Corporation, where he began serving in 1996, and General Electric Company, where he began serving in 1997. James has been a director of a number of other public companies, including Phase Forward Incorporated from 2003 to 2009, and Microsoft Corporation from 2001 to 2009. He has also served on the audit committees of several public companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$2M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| iOS | 1 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Mexico | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Haddy | 3D Printed Furniture Manufacturer |  | Seed | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Wabbi | Secure DevOps (SecDevOps) Infrastructure Platform | $2M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| CLIPr | CLIPr is a premier Video Intelligence Platform (VIP) that leverages AI and machine learning to transform the way users interact with video content. By extracting and organizing key moments from both short- and long-form videos, CLIPr saves users countless hours and enhances productivity. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2020 |  |
| Zubale | Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Omni | Omni provides access to the things you need through its rentals platform. By partnering with local businesses, Omni is bringing rentals to communities so everyone can have access to more items — from bikes and surfboards to camping equipment and air purifiers. Customers can reserve items from local businesses and pick up them instantly, or bookrentals in advance.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $7M | Series A | May 06, 2016 |  |
| Fixt | Fixt (formerly known as Peach Labs) offers IT departments with on-demand mobile device repair and replacement solutions. The company utilizes motion sensors to determine damage and acts by automating device replacements, repairs, upgrades, and other routine troubleshooting for both BYOD and company provided devices, so their teams can prioritizereal work over busywork. Backed by proprietary threat analytical systems, clients also benefit from increased situational awareness and individual risk assessments during and after a repair. Founded in April 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. | $600K | Seed | Mar 26, 2016 |  |
| Fixt | Fixt (formerly known as Peach Labs) offers IT departments with on-demand mobile device repair and replacement solutions. The company utilizes motion sensors to determine damage and acts by automating device replacements, repairs, upgrades, and other routine troubleshooting for both BYOD and company provided devices, so their teams can prioritizereal work over busywork. Backed by proprietary threat analytical systems, clients also benefit from increased situational awareness and individual risk assessments during and after a repair. Founded in April 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. | $800K | Seed | Jan 05, 2016 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cisco Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cisco-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Allegis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegis-nl-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bolt](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bolt-io) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emmeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Florida Opportunity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florida-opportunity-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Cash Catalyst

VC Fund · Sarasota, United States

The Cash Catalyst is an organization that offers financial peer to peer exchange in an open forum format.

1 contacts available at The Cash Catalyst.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James Cash | Management Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-james-cash |

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## FAQ

### What does James Cash invest in?

James Cash invests primarily in Software, Apps and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 James Cash's check size?

James Cash typically joins rounds of $600k–$2M at Seed and $750k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds James Cash participates in.

### When did James Cash last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Cash closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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