# Erik Torenberg

> Erik Torenberg is a seed investor at Andreessen Horowitz backing Software. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erik-torenberg/27/642/708
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/raptfm
- Website: http://eriktorenberg.blogspot.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607493312

Erik Torenberg is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on media and networks. Previously, he was the founder of Turpentine, co-founder and partner at Village Global, founder and chairman at On Deck, and founding employee at Product Hunt. Erik Torenberg attended the University of Michigan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |
| Mobile Apps | 4 | 14% |
| Consumer | 3 | 10% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 10% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 28% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 76% |
| Kenya | 2 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Convoke | Convoke is curating high-quality datasets, automating workflows, and building a software platform. | $8.6M | Seed | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Forethought | Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $25M | Series D | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Elemind Technologies | Elemind Technologies is a neurotechnology company that shapes brainwaves and changes brain states using novel neuromodulation techniques. The company was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $12M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| ValueBase | ValueBase is a software provider that focuses on offering cutting-edge options for real estate assessment.ValueBase's mission is to provide the most complete and accurate data and tools possible to property appraisers and other professionals in order to aid them in making educated judgments. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Pogo | At Pogo, our goal is to make you more money by unlocking the power of your data. | $12.3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Pogo | Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. | $12.3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Plural.com | Plural.com is the first AI-driven marketplace for human talent. Our disruptive approach cuts 80% of the boring work and captures the market horizontally. We achieve this through a holistic understanding of humans, collecting rich data sets that niche incumbents cannot access. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2022 |  |
| Leather Corp | The New Sound of Entertainment | $685K | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2021 |  |
| Omneky | Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Traba | Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. | $3.6M | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Buckley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buckley-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Catalyst Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catalyst-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Andreessen Horowitz

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services,consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

5 contacts available at Andreessen Horowitz.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-chen |
| Anish Acharya | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-acharya |
| David George | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-george-2 |
| Emily Bennett | investing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-bennett |
| Gabriel Vasquez | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-vasquez-db03 |

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## FAQ

### What does Erik Torenberg invest in?

Erik Torenberg invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 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 Erik Torenberg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Erik Torenberg closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 29 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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