Ethan Beard
Angel Investor · at Xpring
San Francisco, United States
Ethan Beard is a seed investor at Xpring in San Francisco focused on Software and Education. Previously, Ethan Beard served as Director of the Facebook Developer Network, where he oversaw worldwide developer relations, operations and productmarketing for the Facebook API. Prior, he served as Director of Business Development at Facebook leading the team responsible for creating and managing strategic partnerships. Ethan joined Facebookfrom Google, where he served as Director of Social Media and Director of New Business Development. Prior to Google, he spent several years as Director of Business Development for MTV Online. Earlier in his career, Ethan co-founded BigSoccer, an online community and store for soccer fans, and spent time structuring derivatives at Bank of America.He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from NYU Stern. Ethan supports a variety of non-profits including as a board member for Beyond 12 and represent.us. He is also an active member of the Silicon Valley band Coverflow. Originally from New England, Ethan now resides in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Ethan Beard invests in
Stages Ethan Beard invests in
Countries Ethan Beard invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$5M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (35%)
- Education 3 (15%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- Gaming 2 (10%)
- FinTech 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (55%)
- Series A 5 (25%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 16 (80%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Arkive is building the people’s museum: a collection of art and culture curated by a global community of members and displayed around the world. | $9.7M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| The DAO connecting the world's creativity by incubating, tokenizing and creating shared incentives for creators and audiences in web3 | $1.6M / Seed / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software. It offers a platform that delivers crypto purchasing, commercial register, credit rating information, management, figures, contact and news, trading, and merchant services. BRD serves customers worldwide. Aaron Voisine and Adam Traidman founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Zurich inSwitzerland. | $750K / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 11, 2019 | ||
| Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews. | $1M / Seed / Apr 10, 2019 | ||
| Reduce time to insights for Revenue teams by aggregating, cleansing, and normalizing raw marketing data into readable metrics. | $3M / Seed / Apr 24, 2018 | ||
| Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students, and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate, and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by over 10 millionteachers, students, and family members every month across more than 75% of schools in the U.S. and over 150 countries worldwide. | $8M / Series A / Feb 08, 2018 | ||
| SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16M / Series A / Apr 19, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ethan Beard invest in?
Ethan Beard invests primarily in Software, Education and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 Ethan Beard's check size?
Ethan Beard typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed and $7.5M–$20M 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 Ethan Beard participates in.
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When did Ethan Beard last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ethan Beard closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 20 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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