Gabe Karp
Partner @ Detroit Venture Partners
Detroit, United States
Gabe Karp is a seed investor at Detroit Venture Partners in Detroit focused on Software and Advertising. Gabe Karp is the Partner of Detroit Venture Partners. He attended the University of Michigan.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 88%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (25%)
- Advertising 2 (25%)
- B2B 1 (13%)
- Music 1 (13%)
- Video 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Investments
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| Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app, and digital signage applications. Their core applications include music, a mobile app for customer engagement, digital signage, and overhead messaging. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California. | $1.2M / Seed / Aug 27, 2014 | ||
| 3D Cloud is a cloud-based 3D digital asset management platform for 3D product visualization designed for furniture, kitchen, bath, outdoor, and office configuration. The 3D Cloud platform specializes in combining 3D visualization with a suite of AR and VR technology to help configure, design, and visualize eCommerce products, allowing clients toconfigure and customize high-consideration, big-ticket products to increase buyer confidence and sales. Clients include a major US home improvement retailer, Kingfisher plc., Ashley, La-Z-Boy, HNI, and MillerKnoll. | $500K / Seed / May 16, 2014 | ||
| Quikly is a digital marketing platform that empowers marketers to consistently acquire, activate, and retain customers, which leads to superior ROI. Leveraging elements of consumer psychology, their solutions deliver highly effective and measurable results across nearly every marketing initiative. Quikly’s technology provides an immediate way forbrands to boost digital activation and engagement within existing channels like email, social, and mobile to deliver meaningful revenue over a short period of time. Quikly was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. | $570.6K / Series B / Feb 27, 2014 | ||
| Quikly is a digital marketing platform that empowers marketers to consistently acquire, activate, and retain customers, which leads to superior ROI. Leveraging elements of consumer psychology, their solutions deliver highly effective and measurable results across nearly every marketing initiative. Quikly’s technology provides an immediate way forbrands to boost digital activation and engagement within existing channels like email, social, and mobile to deliver meaningful revenue over a short period of time. Quikly was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. | $1M / Series A / Mar 13, 2013 | ||
| We’re on a mission. At Waymark, we believe great video should be accessible to everyone and we’re building the tools to make that a reality.Whether you're a brand, enterprise, media platform, agency, or even a small business, Waymark’s anyone-can-edit video technology makes it easy to scale video and accelerate your business. With Waymark,anyone can make beautiful videos effortlessly. No creativity required.We’re a team of tenacious people who don’t take no for an answer and live at the intersection of design and technology. We launched Waymark in 2017 and have been building it with care ever since. | $2.3M / Series A / Mar 04, 2013 | ||
| Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app, and digital signage applications. Their core applications include music, a mobile app for customer engagement, digital signage, and overhead messaging. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 12, 2012 | ||
| 3D Cloud is a cloud-based 3D digital asset management platform for 3D product visualization designed for furniture, kitchen, bath, outdoor, and office configuration. The 3D Cloud platform specializes in combining 3D visualization with a suite of AR and VR technology to help configure, design, and visualize eCommerce products, allowing clients toconfigure and customize high-consideration, big-ticket products to increase buyer confidence and sales. Clients include a major US home improvement retailer, Kingfisher plc., Ashley, La-Z-Boy, HNI, and MillerKnoll. | $1M / Seed / Jun 20, 2011 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Detroit Venture Partners
We're a Detroit-based Venture Capital firm on a crazed mission. We back seed and early-stage technology companies who have a purpose. Our purpose is to help rebuild the Detroit area through entrepreneurial fire. We view business building as a palate for creative expression and an opportunity to make a difference and change the world. If not, why bother? We are creative business builders, not money managers. We are entrepreneurs helping other entrepreneurs build and grow meaningful companies. It's not just about the idea or the industry. To us, it's about backing passionate entrepreneurs that can both dream and execute. Great thinking trumps fancy diplomas. Imagination beats pedigree. Looking for investment opportunities in these sectors: internet, digital media, marketing technology, direct-to-consumer, sports & entertainment, social media, e-commerce, software. Your biotech or advanced manufacturing idea may be groundbreaking, but that's not our focus. We'd just screw it up if we got involved.
Detroit Venture Partners Contacts
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Brian Hermelin
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Cory Tincher
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What does Gabe Karp invest in?
Gabe Karp invests primarily in Software, Advertising and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Gabe Karp closed in Aug 2014. Shizune tracks 8 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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