Howard Lindzon
Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
San Diego, United States
Howard Lindzon is a seed investor at Social Leverage in San Diego focused on FinTech and Software. Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
- Total investments:
- 83
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Howard Lindzon invests in
Stages Howard Lindzon invests in
Countries Howard Lindzon invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $450k–$8.5M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$13M
- Series B
- $3.3M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 16 (19%)
- Software 16 (19%)
- Financial Services 13 (16%)
- Social Media 10 (12%)
- Apps 7 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 39 (47%)
- Series A 15 (18%)
- Series B 11 (13%)
- Angel 4 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 53 (64%)
- India 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Alpaca
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Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $150M / Series D / Jan 14, 2026 | |
Archive Intel
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Archive Intel is an innovative artificial intelligence archiving and surveillance Software as a Service (SaaS) company dedicated to assisting financial institutions in optimizing their ecomms compliance processes. Our comprehensive solution seamlessly captures emails, social media content, text messages, podcasts, and website data, all within auser-friendly platform tailored for compliance officers. With pricing starting at just $99 per month for the initial three users, and a nominal $10 per month for additional connectors, our AI-driven solution offers unparalleled value and efficiency. | $6.3M / Series A / Oct 02, 2025 | |
Whoosh
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Whoosh develops modern club operations software to help private clubs manage everything from the course to the clubhouse. Built with the input of the world's best operators, Whoosh streamlines operations, improves member and staff communication, and enables better hospitality and member experiences. | $10.3M / Series A / Jun 06, 2024 | |
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Archive Intel
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Archive Intel is an innovative artificial intelligence archiving and surveillance Software as a Service (SaaS) company dedicated to assisting financial institutions in optimizing their ecomms compliance processes. Our comprehensive solution seamlessly captures emails, social media content, text messages, podcasts, and website data, all within auser-friendly platform tailored for compliance officers. With pricing starting at just $99 per month for the initial three users, and a nominal $10 per month for additional connectors, our AI-driven solution offers unparalleled value and efficiency. | $1M / Seed / May 09, 2024 | |
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Archive Intel
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Archive Intel is an innovative artificial intelligence archiving and surveillance Software as a Service (SaaS) company dedicated to assisting financial institutions in optimizing their ecomms compliance processes. Our comprehensive solution seamlessly captures emails, social media content, text messages, podcasts, and website data, all within auser-friendly platform tailored for compliance officers. With pricing starting at just $99 per month for the initial three users, and a nominal $10 per month for additional connectors, our AI-driven solution offers unparalleled value and efficiency. | $1M / Pre-Seed / May 09, 2024 | |
beehiiv
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Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators. | $33M / Series B / Apr 30, 2024 | |
Tixologi
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Tixologi’s blockchain-based ticketing software is putting event organizers in control of their own ticketing experience. | $925K / Seed / Nov 22, 2023 | |
Swag Golf
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Swag Golf is a manufacturer and supplier of milled putters, insane headcovers, and apparel with online services. | $10M / Series A / Oct 04, 2023 | |
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beehiiv
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Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators. | $12.5M / Series A / Jun 21, 2023 | |
Seeds
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Seeds empowers financial advisors to more deeply understand investors and to automatically deliver custom portfolios that align. Founded in 2019, Seeds is enabling the evolution toward truly intentional, purposeful, and personalized investing. | $2.7M / Seed / Nov 17, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Social Leverage
Social Leverage is a Venture Capital firm which specializes in early-stage and seed-stage investments in the Software, Consumer, and Fintech industries. Their investment selection process combines fundamental business evaluation, supported by two decades of domain experience building, valuing, and selling companies, with a strong deal flowpipeline consisting of top-ranked VC / PE funds, exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative management teams. Social Leverage uses these value drivers to invest in the best capital light companies with a viable product, serving a large addressable market, and solving a known pain point. Notable investments include Robinhood, Kustomer, Angellist, Wag, EToro, and Ticketfly.
Social Leverage Contacts
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Tom Peterson
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Gary Benitt
Managing Partner
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Howard Lindzon
Founder & General Partner
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Matt Ober
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Howard Lindzon invest in?
Howard Lindzon invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 83 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 Howard Lindzon's check size?
Howard Lindzon typically joins rounds of $450k–$8.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$13M at Series A and $3.3M–$50M 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 Howard Lindzon participates in.
When did Howard Lindzon last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Howard Lindzon closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 83 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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