# George Godula

> George Godula is a seed investor in Shanghai backing Health Care and Information Technology. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgegodula/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Polymathochist
- AngelList: https://angel.co/p/george-godula

George Godula is a seed investor in Shanghai focused on Health Care and Information Technology. Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $970k–$11M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$49M |
| Series B | $12M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 13% |
| Mobile | 5 | 10% |
| Software | 5 | 10% |
| Apps | 4 | 8% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 35% |
| Series A | 9 | 19% |
| Series B | 6 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 46% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Algeria | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mila Cares | Our goal is simple: to make the absolute best air purifier on the market. That means top-notch performance, design and technology, all at a price every family can afford.Mila was built by three dads who wanted clean air for their kids but saw major flaws in the air purifiers that dominated the market. So they did what nobody else thought to do —fix the problems.Mila is the largest air purifier launch in Kickstarter history, raising over $1.7M. Electrolux invested in the company in 2019. | $10M | Series A | Dec 23, 2022 |  |
| Yassir | Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria. | $150M | Series B | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Truck It In | is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential | $13M | Seed | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| Rain AI | Rain AI is a semiconductor company specializing in developing energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Rain AI focuses on creating neuromorphic chips inspired by the human brain's architecture. The company's hardware is designed to be more energy-efficient than traditional AI processors, addressing thegrowing demand for sustainable computing solutions. Rain AI's technology is adaptable across various AI applications, from data centers to edge devices, facilitating widespread adoption. | $25M |  | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Rain AI | Rain AI is a semiconductor company specializing in developing energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Rain AI focuses on creating neuromorphic chips inspired by the human brain's architecture. The company's hardware is designed to be more energy-efficient than traditional AI processors, addressing thegrowing demand for sustainable computing solutions. Rain AI's technology is adaptable across various AI applications, from data centers to edge devices, facilitating widespread adoption. | $25M | Series A | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Life Biosciences | Life Biosciences is a developer of drugs designed to promote longevity and find treatments for age-related diseases. Developer of drugs designed to promote longevity and find treatments for age-related diseases. The company's drugs help to combat the eight pathways of age-related decline and it's work addresses health decline due to agingas a systemic breakdown of the body, rather than a series of isolated events and conditions, enabling senior citizens to tackle age-related diseases with a view to ultimately extending healthy life spans. | $82M | Series C | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| Massive | As AI systems consume the public web faster than it can be cleanly delivered, Massive operates the access layer that keeps that data flowing. The demand has two shapes. First, training: frontier and applied models need web data at a scale and geographic spread that ordinary collection methods cannot sustain without getting blocked or geo-cloaked.Second, grounding: agents, retrieval pipelines, and AI answer engines need real-time access to live pages so their outputs reflect what is actually on the web right now, not a stale index. Massive serves both from one foundation. A network of real consumer devices in 195+ countries routes requests as organic local traffic, so destination sites return the same content a real user in that geography would see. On top of that network sits the Web Render API, which delivers fully rendered pages, search-engine results with AI Overview and People-Also-Ask retrieval, and completions from frontier models returned with their sources, all available as first-class markdown built for LLM prompts. The network is ethically sourced, with every device opted in through the Massive SDK, and the platform is SOC 2 audited, GDPR compliant, and AppEsteem certified, with a full audit trail from source to request. Massive helps AI labs, agent builders, answer-engine and RAG teams, and large-scale data operations turn the live web into clean, dependable input without fighting blocks, geo-restrictions, or the brittleness of stale data. | $11M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Density | Density measures how people use space in real-time without invading privacy. Using proprietary depth sensors and deep learning algorithms, the platform accurately and anonymously counts people in real time. Organizations use Density to improve efficiency and enhance occupant experience in buildings, workplaces, and real estate. Unlike a camera,Density's platform doesn't capture personally identifiable information and is purpose-built for accurately measuring how people use physical space. | $125M | Series D | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Republic | Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more. | $150M | Series B | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Yassir | Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria. | $37.4M |  | Oct 13, 2021 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does George Godula invest in?

George Godula invests primarily in Health Care, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 48 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 George Godula's check size?

George Godula typically joins rounds of $970k–$11M at Seed, $6.3M–$49M at Series A and $12M–$150M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds George Godula participates in.

### When did George Godula last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for George Godula closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 48 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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