# Edward Zimmerman

> Edward Zimmerman is a seed investor at Lowenstein Sandler (New York) backing Mobile and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lowenstein Sandler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowenstein-sandler)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edgrapenutzimmerman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EdGrapeNutZimm
- Website: https://x.com/EdGrapeNutZimm
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edward.zimmerman.52

Edward Zimmerman is a seed investor at Lowenstein Sandler in New York focused on Mobile and FinTech. Ed is a venture lawyer and co-founded and Chairs the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, a leading law firm. During his more than 20 years at Lowenstein Sander, he has represented hundreds of start-ups, growth companies and venture funds. He has angel invested in roughly 50 companies and invested as an LP in more than a dozen families of venturefunds. Ed has taught VC to MBA students at Columbia Business School for 8 years, has published more than 60 columns on venture/tech (and sometimes wine or music) on the ACCELERATORS page of the WSJ and founded and runs www.VentureCrush.com which includes FIRSTGROWTHVC and AngelVineVC.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $93k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$9.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 25% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guava | Guava is a digital bank designed for and by black small business owners. It is to help close the racial wealth gap by providing equitable financial products to black entrepreneurs. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Guava | Guava is a digital bank designed for and by black small business owners. It is to help close the racial wealth gap by providing equitable financial products to black entrepreneurs. | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| WellCapped | WellCapped allows customers to discover emerging long-tail brands. Its first focus is on hyper-consumers who purchase and rent high-quality, lace-front wigs. They make data-driven decisions to select inventory, and provide a netflix-esque suggestion list of emerging long-tail brands to their users. | $93K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| The Vendry | The Vendry is a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry. By joining The Vendry, event professionals get free access to RFP tools that help them source venues and vendors for their events, an exclusive jobs board, discussion forums and networking opportunities, and other resources to keep up with industry news and seekinspiration for their own events. As of September 2021, The Vendry has over 17,500 members and has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events. | $6.5M | Seed | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| Shine.fr | Shine is a mobile bank that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers. It offers freelancers a multitasking solution platform that combines online banking with contract and invoice management, streamlining administrative and financial tasks for those who work independently.The company was established inyear 2017 in Paris, France. | $9.3M | Series A | Sep 04, 2018 |  |
| Cover | Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $5.5M | Series A | Jul 10, 2014 |  |
| Delectable | Delectable is a team of technologists, designers, winemakers and artists building technology to reinvent wine. As both wine consumers and wine professionals they know firsthand that understanding wine is hard. They believe it should be easy. Using groundbreaking technology, and with a keen understanding of wine's inherent complexity,they've built a platform and tools that help consumers share, discover and drink awesome wine. | $7M | Seed | May 07, 2014 |  |
| Cover | Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $1.5M | Seed | May 08, 2013 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backstage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backstage-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bethnal Green Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethnal-green-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grape Arbor VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grape-arbor-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heron Rock Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heron-rock-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oreilly-alphatech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lowenstein Sandler

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Lowenstein Sandler provides law practice in the areas of technology, life sciences, and financial management and fund industries that fuel economic growth.

5 contacts available at Lowenstein Sandler.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Zimmerman | Technology Chair | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-zimmerman |
| Anthony Pergola | Partner and Vice Chair, Tech Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-pergola |
| Anthony Pergola | Partner and Vice Chair, Tech Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-o-pergola |
| Christopher Henry | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-henry |
| Mark Kesslen | Chair IP Practice Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-kesslen |

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## FAQ

### What does Edward Zimmerman invest in?

Edward Zimmerman invests primarily in Mobile, FinTech and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### What is Edward Zimmerman's check size?

Edward Zimmerman typically joins rounds of $800k–$7M at Seed, $93k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$9.3M 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 Edward Zimmerman participates in.

### When did Edward Zimmerman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Edward Zimmerman closed in Jul 2022. 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.

### 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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