# Empire Angels

> Empire Angels is a VC fund in New York backing Mobile and Analytics. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Fund size: $400k
- Last fund: Jun 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/empire-angels
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EmpireAngels
- Website: http://www.empireangels.com

Empire Angels is a Member-led, NYC seed fund and angel group of young professionals investing in early-stage ventures. The company operates funds that invest by majority vote, as well as a diverse network of young professionals who invest directly in companies they’re excited about. It was founded in 2012 and is located in New York, New York.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $90k–$2M |
| Angel | $450k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $900k–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 5 | 15% |
| Analytics | 5 | 15% |
| Software | 4 | 12% |
| Apps | 3 | 9% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 33% |
| Series A | 6 | 18% |
| Angel | 4 | 12% |
| Series B | 4 | 12% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 73% |
| Egypt | 1 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christina Bechhold Russ | Co-Founder & Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-bechhold |
| Graham Gullans | Co-Founder, Founding Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-gullans |
| Lalit Kapoor | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lalit-kapoor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plstka | Plstka is solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app. | $90K | Seed | May 17, 2025 |  |
| Enertiv | Enertiv is a real estate technology company that transforms building data into asset value. Our platform streamlines building operations by digitizing the physical infrastructure of commercial real estate portfolios. We collect better data, faster and more affordably than anyone else, enabling owners and operators to eliminate waste within theirlargest and most controllable operating expenses.In addition to utilizing existing data sources, we deploy IoT devices to continuously track every critical piece of equipment, tenant space, and indoor environmental condition to enable operators to ensure peak performance of their assets around the clock. |  | Grant | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Popsy | Popsy is one the fastest growing AI-powered mobile application to buy & sell locally building the next generation of classifieds. You can buy everything from electronics, to baby clothing, housing, cars and furniture. Using Artificial Intelligence, selling any item is as simple as taking a photo. Popsy's image recognition technologysuggests in real time a title, price and category. |  | Angel | Oct 01, 2020 |  |
| Superpedestrian | Superpedestrian is a venture-backed robotics company that develops lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms. It provides a wealth of data to enhance cycling, from physical wellness to safety. The Copenhagen Wheel is now in mass production and shipping in volume. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge,Massachusetts. | $20M | Series C | Nov 20, 2019 |  |
| Zoomcar | Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars tounlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 100 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board. | $3.6M | Debt Financing | Aug 03, 2018 |  |
| Weven | Weven is a two-sided venue management system that generates dynamic planning experiences for clients. Weven saves venue operators time, lowers costs and creates happier clients. The venue management system leverages venue specific data, spatial parameters, owner preferences and more to generate a personalized planning account for each client,specific to their venue, event size, date, budget and more. | $450K | Angel | Jul 03, 2018 |  |
| Quantum Lending Solutions | Our Mission Empower the small business economy by enabling banks, B2B vendors and suppliers and the other critical institutions that SMBs rely on.Our Story "Fundation was founded on the premise of re-engineering the credit delivery process to small businesses through technology and advanced analytics. Over time we did just that by combiningthe talents of professionals with deep financial services and lending expertise with building a platform on modern digital technology. Today, companies ranging from super regional banks to community banks to a variety of B2B companies trust us to be their exclusive partner to serve their small business clients. Our innovation agenda is always determined by a simple foundation - what can we do to enhance our partners' ability to serve their small business clients better."Sam Graziano \| Chief Executive Officer | $120M | Debt Financing | May 17, 2018 |  |
| Orionis Biosciences | Orionis Biosciences operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business and innovation.The company is an early-stage drug discovery and development biotechnology company fueled by a suite of disruptive technologies to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs – with an initialinternal focus in oncology and immunotherapies.Orionis Biosciences has research facilities in the Boston area (Headquarters in Waltham, MA, USA) and Ghent (Belgium), and is operated by a world class team of entrepreneurs, scientists and transatlantic network of investors, in concert with strategic research and development collaborations. The latter includes collaborations with VIB (Belgium), Orionis Biosciences co-founding institution. |  | Series B | Apr 30, 2018 |  |
| Mirow | Mirow is an award-winning start-up in retail and hospitality space featured in Financial Times and a part of Retail Tech Map by CB Insights.Mirow develops smart mirrors-as-a-service for the fitting rooms that help customers to get AI-driven recommendations, call for assistance and get their items in desired size or color, and provide improvedquality of service, confirmed sales uplift and completely unique big data on customer behavior and identity.List of our clients include top level brands and we're currently expanding both in the US and the EU. | $790K | Convertible Note | Jan 15, 2018 |  |
| Farmer Willie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer | Farmer Willie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer based on the secret, homemade recipe of Farmer Willie Fenichel. |  | Series A | Dec 15, 2017 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Empire Angels invest in?

Empire Angels invests primarily in Mobile, Analytics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 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 Empire Angels's check size?

Empire Angels typically joins rounds of $90k–$2M at Seed, $450k–$1.1M at Angel and $900k–$8M 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 Empire Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Empire Angels?

Public channels for Empire Angels include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Empire Angels?

The team at Empire Angels includes Christina Bechhold Russ (Co-Founder & Founding Partner), Graham Gullans (Co-Founder, Founding Managing Director) and Lalit Kapoor (Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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