# Eric Kanowsky

> Eric Kanowsky is a seed investor at Entrada Ventures (Santa Barbara) backing Apps and Big Data. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Entrada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrada-ventures)
- Location: Santa Barbara, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erickanowsky
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/eric_kanowsky
- Website: http://www.entradaventures.com

Eric Kanowsky is a seed investor at Entrada Ventures in Santa Barbara focused on Apps and Big Data. Eric Kanowsky - Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Entrada Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Consumer | 1 | 17% |
| PropTech | 1 | 17% |
| Security | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 17% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prophetic | Prophetic Software provides real estate development tools designed to help users analyze zoning maps, property data, FEMA flood zones, wetlands, and more. Their AI-powered technology, known as "SiteAi," generates site plans and calculates the maximum yield for parcels, streamlining the development research process. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Billy | billy provides an end-to-end insurance platform to protect the company from risk. Billy is the time-saving tool that helps to verify all the subcontractors have the right insurance coverage on every project, every time. Request, verify, track, and renew insurance certificates. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 14, 2023 |  |
| MixMode | MixMode is a Cybersecurity platform powered by a cloud-native, self-learning AI with next generation anomaly detection and predictive capabilities. MixMode ingests and monitors large data volume environments (e.g. Cloud, Enterprise, 5G) in real time to discover zero-day threats and attacks with no signature, including those from ransomware, supplychain attacks and insider threats on Zero Trust Architecture. MixMode can be used in the cloud or on premise to deliver increased productivity and efficiency.MixMode’s platform is powered by its patented self-supervised AI, which includes contextual reasoning to explain why threats are highlighted for investigation. This AI is unique in requiring no rules, no intel feeds, and no historical training data in order to operate, avoiding the bias and blindspots that impact legacy systems. MixMode AI is capable of high speed consumption of numerous big data feeds for processing in real-time and is the only DARPA-defined Third Wave AI in Cybersecurity. | $45M | Series B | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| MixMode | MixMode is a Cybersecurity platform powered by a cloud-native, self-learning AI with next generation anomaly detection and predictive capabilities. MixMode ingests and monitors large data volume environments (e.g. Cloud, Enterprise, 5G) in real time to discover zero-day threats and attacks with no signature, including those from ransomware, supplychain attacks and insider threats on Zero Trust Architecture. MixMode can be used in the cloud or on premise to deliver increased productivity and efficiency.MixMode’s platform is powered by its patented self-supervised AI, which includes contextual reasoning to explain why threats are highlighted for investigation. This AI is unique in requiring no rules, no intel feeds, and no historical training data in order to operate, avoiding the bias and blindspots that impact legacy systems. MixMode AI is capable of high speed consumption of numerous big data feeds for processing in real-time and is the only DARPA-defined Third Wave AI in Cybersecurity. | $45M | Private Equity | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| MixMode | MixMode is a Cybersecurity platform powered by a cloud-native, self-learning AI with next generation anomaly detection and predictive capabilities. MixMode ingests and monitors large data volume environments (e.g. Cloud, Enterprise, 5G) in real time to discover zero-day threats and attacks with no signature, including those from ransomware, supplychain attacks and insider threats on Zero Trust Architecture. MixMode can be used in the cloud or on premise to deliver increased productivity and efficiency.MixMode’s platform is powered by its patented self-supervised AI, which includes contextual reasoning to explain why threats are highlighted for investigation. This AI is unique in requiring no rules, no intel feeds, and no historical training data in order to operate, avoiding the bias and blindspots that impact legacy systems. MixMode AI is capable of high speed consumption of numerous big data feeds for processing in real-time and is the only DARPA-defined Third Wave AI in Cybersecurity. | $4M | Series A | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| WeDo | WeDo is like the Google Analytics of your life. By taking out the friction of tracking your life, we can offer powerful correlations that are proven to improve your overall wellness. | $825K | Convertible Note | Apr 26, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PSG Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/providence-strategic-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PSG Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/psg-86fb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blu Venture Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blu-venture-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Central Cost Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/central-cost-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crosscut Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosscut-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Entrada Ventures

VC Fund · Santa Barbara, United States

We're proven founders and investors driving early-stage, visionary enterprise and industrial tech teams to success.

5 contacts available at Entrada Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jason Spievak | Co-Founder and Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-spievak |
| Alexander Fang | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-fang-2 |
| Eric Hall | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-hall-3 |
| Eric Kanowsky | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-kanowsky |
| Greg Fish | Co-founder & Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-fish |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Kanowsky invest in?

Eric Kanowsky invests primarily in Apps, Big Data and Consumer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Kanowsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Kanowsky closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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