# Bootstrapped Debt Financing

> Bootstrapped Debt Financing is a pre-seed investor backing Software and Information Technology. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Bootstrapped Debt Financing is a pre-seed investor focused on Software and Information Technology. Bootstrapped Debt Financing

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$1.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $11k–$1.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 21% |
| Apps | 5 | 15% |
| SaaS | 5 | 15% |
| FinTech | 5 | 15% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 44% |
| Seed | 11 | 32% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 50% |
| Canada | 3 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| India | 2 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 6% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kornem Energy | Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou | $87K | Pre-Seed | Oct 05, 2020 |  |
| Tactii | We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies. | $10.6K | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2020 |  |
| SymbaSync | SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences. | $41.1K | Seed | Mar 31, 2020 |  |
| RIVN | RIVN was created to help companies meet compliance standards for regulations such as GDPR and CCPA with respect to consumer deletion functionality. Most companies have home grown platforms or have recently purchased a cloud based platform still find certain key functions missing (e.g. deletion requests), RIVN fills the gap in an automated fashionfor those companies. The functional benefit for our customers is an easy to use automated API based solution that can be operationalized within companies large and small to ensure consumer deletion requests and processing can be leveraged for audit reporting. For more information, visit www.rivn.com | $575K | Seed | Feb 27, 2020 |  |
| 3rdDegree App | The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt. Singles found themselves feeling more alone now than ever. Couples, who once stood strong during their greatest challenges, are now crumbling under the weight of the stresses the pandemic has brought. The pandemic forced us all to change how we live our lives and to think about what’s mostimportant: the need and desire for a deeper connection with someone. Singles need help connecting during actual dates (because this is where dating apps fail) and couples need help starting conversations beyond work, finances, schedules and kids. So how do you form a connection and maintain it?For singles looking to form a genuine connection on actual dates and couples looking to maintain their connection, 3rdDegree is the ice-breaking game that facilitates new levels of open communication. It’s a connection building app that takes honesty and vulnerability to create high quality conversations. It encourages face to face communication to build a connection by two people getting to ask the date questions we all want to know. Through game-like quizzes that score you based on your effort to open up, you will find out new, fun tidbits about your person. With questions that foster a deeper connection to help reveal the true essence of a person, singles can see if they truly are a good match beyond surface level and couples are motivated by the delight in unexpected discoveries of one another. Dig deeper with 3rdDegree on first dates, following dates, or throughout a lifetime together. | $160K | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |
| QUBER | QUBER is a money saving application that helps users take control of their finances and reach their saving goals. It uses smart algorithms to track daily, weekly or monthly savings, recommend budget goals, and create custom expenditure plans based on one's income and spending behavior.QUBER allows users to set goals for their savings andchannel the saved-money towards things that really matter and encourage them to spend less on things they don't need. | $450K |  | Aug 19, 2019 |  |
| blizzl media | blizzl is a media company that connects cannabis consumers with cannabis brands, through an online platform, multiple print publications, and several other marketing vehicles. blizzl is all about “the happy.” Whether someone is using cannabis for pain relief, to sleep better, to deal with the effects of chemotherapy, to improve appetite, or, yes,just to get high, it’s all about trying to be happier. We carry this feeling through all we do, and we create a positive, fun environment wherever we are.blizzl offers dispensaries and cannabis brands several effective tools for promoting their products and services to a highly targeted audience of cannabis consumers. Cannabis consumers are our lifeblood, and through blizzl, they gain the benefit of easily discovering local cannabis brands and dispensaries and learning about promotions and deals, all in one easy-to-use platform. | $10K | Pre-Seed | Jun 21, 2019 |  |
| Pluto | Pluto is a SaaS company that uses assistive ai to help businesses deepen and sustain relationships with their customers over SMS. They're known for creating light-touch participatory moments that connect the offline and online experience, measurably increasing retention and revenue with an approach of authenticity, respect, and fun. Thefounders are ex-Googlers who met while at MIT, sharing a vision to build software that revives true human connection and facilitates moments of delight in novel ways. Pluto is a Techstars Boston 2019 and MIT Delta V 2018 company.The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. |  | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2019 |  |
| Xclaim | XCLAIM is building the first-ever marketplace for e-trading the debt of bankrupt companies. More than $2 trillion of this type of debt has traded over the last decade, all on paper. They connect distressed debt investors with the vendors, supplies, landlords, and any other party with unpaid receivables due from a bankrupt company. By increasing theefficiency of trading, XCLAIM is creating liquidity in an illiquid market.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $845K | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2019 |  |
| Pluto | Pluto is a SaaS company that uses assistive ai to help businesses deepen and sustain relationships with their customers over SMS. They're known for creating light-touch participatory moments that connect the offline and online experience, measurably increasing retention and revenue with an approach of authenticity, respect, and fun. Thefounders are ex-Googlers who met while at MIT, sharing a vision to build software that revives true human connection and facilitates moments of delight in novel ways. Pluto is a Techstars Boston 2019 and MIT Delta V 2018 company.The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 08, 2019 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Bootstrapped Debt Financing invest in?

Bootstrapped Debt Financing invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 Bootstrapped Debt Financing's check size?

Bootstrapped Debt Financing typically joins rounds of $120k–$1.1M at Seed and $11k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bootstrapped Debt Financing participates in.

### When did Bootstrapped Debt Financing last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bootstrapped Debt Financing closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 34 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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