# Gil Elbaz

> Gil Elbaz is a seed investor at Foursquare (Los Angeles) backing SaaS and Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Foursquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foursquare)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilelbaz
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gilelbaz
- Website: http://www.factual.com

Gil Elbaz is a seed investor at Foursquare in Los Angeles focused on SaaS and Software. Co-Executive Chairman at Foursquare. Founding Partner/Co-founder at TenOneTen Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$5.3M |
| Series A | $750k–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 19% |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| Mobile | 3 | 14% |
| Content | 3 | 14% |
| Internet | 3 | 14% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 48% |
| Series A | 7 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 86% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nyne.ai | Our cutting-edge AI technology and in-house big data analysis identify and target high-potential leads for your business, ensuring efficient and data-driven lead-generation strategies. Nyne.ai also employs advanced AI algorithms to dynamically engage leads through sophisticated drip marketing strategies. These strategies adapt in real-timeleveraging AI as well as our sales dashboards, maximizing lead conversion, and optimizing your outreach efforts. | $5.3M | Seed | Mar 13, 2026 |  |
| 3Laws Robotics | 3Laws Robotics provides dynamics safety guardrails for autonomous and human operated systems. | $4.1M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| Smashing | Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Vested Finance | Vested Finance is an online investment platform developing an avenue for Indian investors. It provides a low cost and easy-to-use platform that includes knowledge and insights to help clients make smart investment decisions. The company's zero-commission online platform requires no minimum balance and allows investment in U.S. stocks inminutes. Investors can choose individual stocks or ETFs, or select from a variety of curated portfolios created with various goals, themes, and risk levels in mind | $12M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Vested Finance | Vested Finance is an online investment platform developing an avenue for Indian investors. It provides a low cost and easy-to-use platform that includes knowledge and insights to help clients make smart investment decisions. The company's zero-commission online platform requires no minimum balance and allows investment in U.S. stocks inminutes. Investors can choose individual stocks or ETFs, or select from a variety of curated portfolios created with various goals, themes, and risk levels in mind | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| OneSignal | OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to provide a seamless messaging experience to create meaningful customer connections. OneSignal's multi-channel platform enables businesses to deliver over 8 billion messages daily. OneSignal is designed to scale with businesses and deliver messages more quickly.The platform leverages machine learning to send communications at the optimal time by creating personalized messages and send them to the right audiences by comparing performance, enabling clients to deliver engaging mobile and web push messages across all platforms. | $7M | Series A | Aug 15, 2017 |  |
| Quartzy | Quartzy provides the only complete solution for lab management that includes the world’s most comprehensive catalog of more than 3M lab supplies and deals backed by 1,000's of top suppliers. Trusted by 200,000 scientists across 13,000 labs nationwide, Quartzy streamlines inventory and purchasing communications to save labs time and money. | $17M | Series B | Jan 04, 2016 |  |
| Mapsense | There are almost 10 billion devices collecting location data that didn't exist just a few years ago - we created Mapsense to help people deal with this tsunami of geospatial data. By providing lightning-fast tools to filter, search, and visualize location data at any scale, we'll improve the world by enabling people to answer importantquestions about what happens where. Our team is a group of engineering, product and computer scientist from Google, Palantir and the Ivy League. We're backed by tier one VCs and are working with some of the most innovative companies in the world. | $2.5M | Seed | May 27, 2015 |  |
| Vurb | Vurb’s mission is to create a smarter, more connected mobile world that empowers people to do more of what they want all in one app. Vurb enables people to find, plan, and do by connecting them to the most relevant information and tools from apps and services in a single mobile experience. The company was founded in 2011 by Bobby Lo and was thewinner of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014. Vurb is based in San Francisco and is financially backed by Redpoint Ventures, Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Data Collective, and other Silicon Valley luminaries.We're hiring! vurb.com/jobs | $2M | Seed | Feb 20, 2013 |  |
| MindMeld | MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces. It is the first platform capable of powering intelligent conversational experiences for any app, device or website. Companies use this platform to create conversational assistants that understand what users say and find the information theyneed. | $2.4M |  | Oct 04, 2012 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anthem Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Double M Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-m-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OVO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ovo-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techammer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techammer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenoneten-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Foursquare

VC Fund · New York, United States

Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. The platform leverages a deep understanding oflocation intelligence to unlock valuable insights about customers, enabling brands to understand and connect to targeted audiences as well as to measure foot traffic and advertising success. Its toolkit includes Foursquare Analytics; Placed powered by Foursquare; Pinpoint audiences; and Pilgrim SDK and Places API. Together, these products empower brands to analyze trends; measure foot traffic lift via multi-touch attribution; optimize advertising campaigns across hundreds of audiences; and drive deeper engagement via Foursquare’s industry-leading developer tools.Co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai established the company in New York, New York in 2009.

5 contacts available at Foursquare.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Crowley | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-crowley |
| Gil Elbaz | Co-Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-elbaz |
| Kris Minkstein | Director, Business Development and Product Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kris-minkstein |
| Leah Malone | Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-malone |
| Robert Joseph | VP, Engineering in Production | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-joseph |

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## FAQ

### What does Gil Elbaz invest in?

Gil Elbaz invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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 Gil Elbaz's check size?

Gil Elbaz typically joins rounds of $600k–$5.3M at Seed and $750k–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gil Elbaz participates in.

### When did Gil Elbaz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gil Elbaz closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 21 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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