GFR Artists
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
GFR Artists is an early stage scout fund with a focus on early-stage startups in the digital content, e-commerce, and remote work sectors. It is a collaboration between Nikhil Gopalani and GFR Fund.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries GFR Artists invests in
Stages GFR Artists invests in
Countries GFR Artists invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$2.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (25%)
- Marketplace 3 (25%)
- FinTech 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- B2B 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (75%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (17%)
Country
- United States 8 (67%)
- Bangladesh 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nikhil Gopalani
Founding Managing Partner
|
Founding Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Bangladesh, nearly 97% of retail transactions are driven by small neighbourhood retailers, yet they operate within fragmented supply chains, limited access to working capital, and inefficient procurement systems that restrict growth and reduce profitability. PriyoShop is building the infrastructure layer that transforms this system byintegrating direct brand procurement, an optimised logistics network, embedded working capital credit, retail media monetisation, and a data intelligence engine into a unified platform, PriyoShop is organising one of the largest informal retail ecosystems into a scalable and data driven network. | $916.8K / Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| Wally is uprooting the dental industry with innovative technology, unlimited cleanings, and affordable memberships Tyler Burnett, Stipe Latkovic, and Chelsea Patel co-founded Wally Health in 2020. | Seed / Mar 19, 2022 | ||
| Datacy is a marketplace enabling ethical and legal data exchange. With Datacy, users can collect and securely hold all their data in one place. Users can control who accesses their data and on what terms, and get paid every time it is used. Datacy uses the latest technology to help users earn from their data, effortlessly. | $2.4M / Seed / May 26, 2021 | ||
| Infinite Objects offers creative video prints with artistic products to frame up with the best pictures and caters to online services. Its product is a permanently treated display - what we call a Video Print. No apps, no fussy configuration; just one video, looping forever. You are not buying a gadget, you are collecting a moving image. InfiniteObjects hold up to 24 hours of the video playing in a perpetual loop, delivering the same experience as art prints or photographs, in a beautiful 5" or 7” display, framed in modern acrylic or sustainably sourced bamboo. | $480K / Seed / Jan 14, 2021 | ||
| Daisie brings creators together in live classes hosted by industry-leading experts. | $200K / Seed / Oct 22, 2020 | ||
| Vinovest is an online platform for investing in vines. It enables users to select wines in which they want to invest, and then the wines are stored, which can be accessed by the investor at any time. Investors can also manage their portfolios, buy, and sell wines online. | Seed / Sep 20, 2020 | ||
| AbstractOps is legal back-office management software. They provide an operating system for back office operations for HR, legal, finance, regulators, and vendors. They provide products that include quick track, quick file, and quick resolve. | Seed / Aug 10, 2020 | ||
| 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. | Seed / Jul 22, 2020 | ||
| Nguyen Coffee Supply is an award-winning roaster and the first specialty Vietnamese coffee company in America importing and roasting in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2018 by 1st generation entrepreneur-activist Sahra Nguyen, the company's mission is to increase economic advancement for Vietnamese farmers through specialty coffee production,while building a diverse and inclusive coffee culture for all. We believe Vietnamese robusta is the future of specialty coffee and sustainable farming. | Pre-Seed / Jul 20, 2020 | ||
| Vinovest is an online platform for investing in vines. It enables users to select wines in which they want to invest, and then the wines are stored, which can be accessed by the investor at any time. Investors can also manage their portfolios, buy, and sell wines online. | Seed / Mar 01, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does GFR Artists invest in?
GFR Artists invests primarily in E-Commerce, Marketplace and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 GFR Artists invest in?
GFR Artists typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.4M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not GFR Artists's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds GFR Artists took part in.
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Who are the partners at GFR Artists?
The team at GFR Artists includes Nikhil Gopalani (Founding Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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