# Ethan Beard

> Ethan Beard is a seed investor at Xoogler (San Francisco) backing Software and Education. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Xoogler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xoogler)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanbeard
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ethanbeard
- Website: https://x.com/ethanbeard
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ethan_Beard/670335864

Ethan Beard is a seed investor at Xoogler 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 35% |
| Education | 3 | 15% |
| Apps | 2 | 10% |
| Gaming | 2 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 55% |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 80% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmology | Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Cosmology | Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Arkive | 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 |  |
| BeetsDAO | 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 | 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 |  |
| Robot Ventures | 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 |  |
| Improvado | Reduce time to insights for Revenue teams by aggregating, cleansing, and normalizing raw marketing data into readable metrics. | $3M | Seed | Apr 24, 2018 |  |
| Seesaw Learning | 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 | 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 |  |
| Latent Space | Latent Space is a developer of virtual reality technology intended to offer a fully artificial intelligence rendered 3D engine. The company's technology lets users manipulate and explore latent space in a 3D context, enabling clients to dynamically build models, track experiments and test different model configurations and architecturesquickly. | $7.5M | Series A | Apr 12, 2017 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chorus One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chorus-one) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HFO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hfo-a7c0) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Informal Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/informal-systems) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lemniscap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemniscap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Xoogler

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Xoogler is a group of Google alumni that comes together to help each other in the startup ecosystem. It brings together current Googlers that are interested in helping ex-Google entrepreneurs. It consists of startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors. Xoogler was founded in 2015.

5 contacts available at Xoogler.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Rabben | Lead Community Admin | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-rabben-fb45 |
| Chel Heler | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chel-heler-12d0 |
| Christopher Fong | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-fong-f21e |
| Don Loeb | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-loeb |
| Ethan Beard | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-beard |

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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.

### 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.

### 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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