Fred Luddy
Angel Investor
San Diego, United States
Fred Luddy is a seed investor in San Diego focused on Software and Agriculture. Fred founded Service-now.com in early 2004 and has served as Chief Executive and Technology Officer since inception. Prior to Service-now.com, Fred was employed at Peregrine Systems from 1990 to 2003 where he held the position of Chief Technology Officer (note that during that time Peregrine also owned the Remedy Corporation, subsequently sold toBMC). Prior to Peregrine, Fred founded Enterprise Software Associates (ESA), and worked at Boole and Babbage, and the Amdahl Corporation. His products are used by thousands of corporations worldwide and have generated revenue well in excess of one billion dollars. At the age of eighteen, his very first software program automated supply chain and maintenance purchasing processes for a business unit of American Standard. Later work involved writing an operating system competing with IBM's mainframe offering, performance and management improvements to the IBM mainframe environment, a PC video conferencing / collaboration system, and UNIX / Linux based application development environments. Fred tried to attend Indiana University and Sir George Williams University, but found part-time programming for these institutions to be far more compelling than the classroom experience.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Fred Luddy invests in
Stages Fred Luddy invests in
Countries Fred Luddy invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $350k–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (67%)
- Agriculture 2 (67%)
- Fruit 1 (33%)
- AgTech 1 (33%)
- Farming 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| OnePointOne (“OPO”) is a technology company that licenses vertical farming hardware and software to many different industries. The Opollo® Farms board a patent-protected, automated plant production system based on a world-leading indoor logistics platform. The farm provides a pristine environment for reliable year-round production. Whether you’regrowing leafy greens or strawberry seedlings, the Opollo Farming Platform is the plant production solution for the future. | $12M / Seed / Jun 30, 2019 | ||
| Merchant's Garden AgroTech provides revolutionary and sustainable ways to feed communities with local produce and right now, we are feeding Tucson, Arizona.The Merchant’s Garden’s execution of urban aquaponics makes low cost and high volume production possible rendering direct and indirect competitors frail in the open markets. Bringingaquaponics into the capital markets will change the way people acquire their food. Also, aquaponics technology yields a superior product to any other source of food production. There is virtually no one other way to provide fresher produce to consumers at a low cost. | $350K / Seed / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
| DarkLight develops cybersecurity AI software that fuses sensor data and client context. The company was founded to bridge the gaps and help organizations realize the full potential of AI. | $2M / Seed / Aug 01, 2014 |
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FAQ
What does Fred Luddy invest in?
Fred Luddy invests primarily in Software, Agriculture and Fruit startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Fred Luddy invest in?
Fred Luddy typically joins rounds of $350k–$12M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fred Luddy's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fred Luddy took part in.
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When did Fred Luddy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Fred Luddy closed in Jun 2019. Shizune tracks 3 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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