# Eric Kagan

> Eric Kagan is a seed investor at SierraMaya360 (Boston) backing Apps and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SierraMaya360](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierramaya360-2)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/erickagan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ekagan26

Eric Kagan is a seed investor at SierraMaya360 in Boston focused on Apps and FinTech. Founding Partner of SierraMaya360 and Principal of KGN Holdings. SierraMaya360 makes investments in early-stage companies focused in the high tech industry as well as provides advisory services for companies with a focus on growth and financing. KGN Holdings makes equity investments in Real Estate Portfolios as well as companies at various stagesof financing. Prior to SM360 and KGN Holdings, I founded Access Northeast, a Data Center, Cloud & Managed Services Provider in the Greater Boston region. In addition to founding the company, I served as the Chief Technical Officer and also oversaw financial operations, helping the company grow from startup to over $20M+ in revenue before successfully exiting to a Massachusetts’ Based Private Equity firm in 2012. Access Northeast was then merged with Xand of Westchester County, NY and DBSI of Pennsylvania to form the largest privately-held Data Center Services firm in the Northeast region with more than 500,00SF of Data Center space.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 4 | 29% |
| FinTech | 4 | 29% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 21% |
| Real Estate | 3 | 21% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 71% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HoneyBook | HoneyBook is a client experience and financial management platform designed for independent business owners to manage their client flow and cash flow, streamlining all of the steps needed to sell and deliver personalized contracted services.By combining tools like billing, contracts, and client communication, HoneyBook helps business owners getorganized so they can provide an exceptional experience at every step. HoneyBook is trusted by service providers across the U.S. and Canada who have booked more than $5 billion in business on its platform. Founded in 2013, HoneyBook is based in San Francisco and funded by Tiger Global Management, Norwest Venture Partners, Aleph, Hillsven Capital, Our Crowd, Durable Capital Partners LP, Vintage Investment Partners, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Zeev Ventures and 01 Advisors. | $22M | Series B | Mar 05, 2015 |  |
| Stream | Stream |  | Seed | Sep 26, 2014 |  |
| Dealflicks | Dealflicks is like Priceline.com, but for movie theaters. Every day you can save up to 60% on movie tickets and concessions at your favorite theaters watching your favorite movies with your favorite people.Theaters love us because we get butts in their empty seats. In fact, 88% of movie theater seats are currently empty because of high prices,home entertainment, and internet-based alternatives. At the same time, over 40 billion dollars are spent on movie tickets and concessions each year worldwide, and the market is growing. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 21, 2014 |  |
| Soldsie | Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 16, 2014 |  |
| Opendoor Technologies | Opendoor is an operator of an online real estate marketplace used to streamline the sales process of home buying and selling.It helps sellers to receive an offer without listing or showing their home and buyers to browse for homes on sale and instantly unlock them using the company's application that enables customers to buy and sellproperties in a hassle freeway.Opendoor was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $10M | Series A | Jul 08, 2014 |  |
| ZipZap | ZipZap is a technology platform for moving money around the world. ZipZap brings significant innovations to the remittance industry by leveraging mobile technologies, digital payment solutions and traditional payment rails, to create a remittance app that is fast, easy and cost efficient. |  | Seed | May 17, 2014 |  |
| Learner-Centered Collaborative | AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact inour efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child. | $33M | Series A | Mar 18, 2014 |  |
| LedgerX | LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. It was formerly known as NYBX INC. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2014 |  |
| RealCrowd | RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with otherlike-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing. |  | Seed | Oct 28, 2013 |  |
| UXPin | UXPin is a product design platform that allows product and design teams to easily design, collaborate on, and present both high- and low-fidelity, fully-interactive wireframes and prototypes. Say goodbye to old-school wireframing and prototyping tools that only do one step of the product design process and don't allow you to use yourexisting design work, whether it was produced in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or elsewhere. UXPin let's you take products from concept to beautiful, pixel-perfect prototypes without any compromise. And you can share your work with anyone involved in product -- the design team, developers, clients, etc. -- and even run live usability tests with end-users. | $700K | Seed | Oct 16, 2013 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Expansion Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expansion-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Camber Creek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camber-creek) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chang Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-com-0014) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SierraMaya360

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before theybubble up as global trends.Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.

2 contacts available at SierraMaya360.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Kagan | Co-Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-kagan |
| Amish Shah | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amish-shah-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Kagan invest in?

Eric Kagan invests primarily in Apps, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Eric Kagan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Kagan closed in Mar 2015. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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