# George Krautzel

> George Krautzel is a Series A investor at MissionOG (Philadelphia) backing Software and SaaS. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MissionOG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/missionog)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgekrautzel
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/georgekrautzel
- Website: http://missionog.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/george.krautzel

George Krautzel is a Series A investor at MissionOG in Philadelphia focused on Software and SaaS. George Krautzel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of MissionOG. He previously worked at Tethr as an Observer, Board of Directors. George Krautzel attended Villanova University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.4M–$15M |
| Series B | $5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| SaaS | 4 | 17% |
| Robotics | 2 | 9% |
| Analytics | 2 | 9% |
| Compliance | 2 | 9% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Seed | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlastPoint | BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. Its user-intuitive software platform is customizable, interactive, and stays constantly up to date. It provides services to customers in retail, the utility industry, emerging franchises, and nonprofit organizations.The company was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $10.6M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Yardstik | Yardstik is a background screening platform designed to help you run fewer background checks. Our mix of screening, fraud, and compliance products helps organizations properly vet candidates to accelerate their business. We're changing the game to help thousands of companies save time, money, and their sanity. Yardstik: Measurably better. | $12M | Series A | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Apkudo | Apkudo enables companies that sell or manage connected devices to maximize value from resale, repair, and reuse while eliminating e-waste.Instead of relying on extensive labor and a patchwork of re-purposed systems, Apkudo provides a fully integrated solution to ensure that items such as mobile phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and wirelessearphones move smoothly to the highest-value outcomes.Apkudo’s Circular Industry Platform includes the full suite of decision-support and operating tools: automated testing and grading systems, device lifecycle management, and resale market integration.As a result, Apkudo customers always have the answer to the question, “What do I do with this device, right now?” | $37.5M | Series C | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Bevaya | Roots Automation is a digital coworkers-as-a-service company that provides an end–to–end automation solutions for companies. The company's Digital Coworkers complete common business tasks - accounts payable, employee onboarding, processing claims, to name a few - and interact with their human teammates to share progress, ask for help, and getsmarter as a result. It makes it easy for companies to start their digital transformation with zero integration and a budget-friendly subscription model.Roots Automation was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, USA. | $10M | Series A | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Apkudo | Apkudo enables companies that sell or manage connected devices to maximize value from resale, repair, and reuse while eliminating e-waste.Instead of relying on extensive labor and a patchwork of re-purposed systems, Apkudo provides a fully integrated solution to ensure that items such as mobile phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and wirelessearphones move smoothly to the highest-value outcomes.Apkudo’s Circular Industry Platform includes the full suite of decision-support and operating tools: automated testing and grading systems, device lifecycle management, and resale market integration.As a result, Apkudo customers always have the answer to the question, “What do I do with this device, right now?” | $14.4M |  | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Apkudo | Apkudo enables companies that sell or manage connected devices to maximize value from resale, repair, and reuse while eliminating e-waste.Instead of relying on extensive labor and a patchwork of re-purposed systems, Apkudo provides a fully integrated solution to ensure that items such as mobile phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and wirelessearphones move smoothly to the highest-value outcomes.Apkudo’s Circular Industry Platform includes the full suite of decision-support and operating tools: automated testing and grading systems, device lifecycle management, and resale market integration.As a result, Apkudo customers always have the answer to the question, “What do I do with this device, right now?” | $14.4M | Series B | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Venminder | Venminder offers a world-class SaaS platform that guides and streamlines third-party risk management. The company's platform helps users collaborate on all things vendor-related and guides through critical processes such as oversight management, contract management, risk assessments, due diligence requirements, questionnaires, SLA management,vendor onboarding and more. Robust and configurable reporting can be generated from the tool to give clear visibility into the management and ongoing monitoring of third parties. Completed vendor risk assessments can be found in the Venminder Exchange and include thorough assessments of a vendor’s information security, SOC reports, contracts, financials, business continuity/disaster recovery and more. Venminder also powers Third Party ThinkTank, an online free community dedicated to third-party risk professionals. | $33M | Series C | Nov 06, 2020 |  |
| Apkudo | Apkudo enables companies that sell or manage connected devices to maximize value from resale, repair, and reuse while eliminating e-waste.Instead of relying on extensive labor and a patchwork of re-purposed systems, Apkudo provides a fully integrated solution to ensure that items such as mobile phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and wirelessearphones move smoothly to the highest-value outcomes.Apkudo’s Circular Industry Platform includes the full suite of decision-support and operating tools: automated testing and grading systems, device lifecycle management, and resale market integration.As a result, Apkudo customers always have the answer to the question, “What do I do with this device, right now?” | $14M | Series B | Nov 02, 2020 |  |
| GoTab | GoTab is a Restaurant Commerce Platform (RCP) helping large- and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels, and other venues run lean, profitable operations. | $6M |  | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| GoTab | GoTab is a Restaurant Commerce Platform (RCP) helping large- and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels, and other venues run lean, profitable operations. |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Harbert Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harbert-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lavrock Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lavrock-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Closed Loop Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/closed-loop-partners-38d7) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RTP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rtp-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About MissionOG

VC Fund · Philadelphia, United States

MissionOG partners with high-growth businesses that have proven models in segments where we have had success as operators and investors, including financial services and payments, data platforms, and software. To help accelerate our partner companies, we invest financial capital and leverage a broad network of industry experts. Headquartered inPhiladelphia, MissionOG is led by a team that has effectively built and scaled companies through their various stages of growth to successful acquisitions.

5 contacts available at MissionOG.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Newcomb | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-newcomb |
| Eddie Brinson | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddie-brinson |
| Gene Lockhart | Chairman Emeritus, Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gene-lockhart |
| George Krautzel | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-krautzel |
| Kelsey O'Neill | Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelsey-o-neill |

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## FAQ

### What does George Krautzel invest in?

George Krautzel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 23 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 Krautzel's check size?

George Krautzel typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$15M at Series A and $5M–$20M 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 Krautzel participates in.

### When did George Krautzel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for George Krautzel closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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