# Hugo Van Vuuren

> Hugo Van Vuuren is a seed investor in Cambridge backing Software and Analytics. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugovanvuuren
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hvgo
- Website: http://www.hugovanvuuren.com

Hugo Van Vuuren is a South African entrepreneur and investor. An expert-in-residence at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he is the co-founder of Work-Bench, an early stage enterprise technology venture fund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$8.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 67% |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| TV | 1 | 17% |
| Baby | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| France | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jumbo Privacy | Jumbo Privacy offers a mobile application available on iOS and Android that helps users manage their online privacy and security.At Jumbo, they believe that your data belongs to you. That’s why their app empowers users to take control of their privacy and security, right from their phones. Jumbo is an app that gives you back control of your dataand privacy. | $8M | Series A | Jun 24, 2020 |  |
| Font Awesome | Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. |  | Seed | Aug 18, 2015 |  |
| Kensho | Kensho combines natural language search queries, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools for investment professionals. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today—speed, scale, and automation—Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capableof answering complex financial questions posed in plain English.Kensho is a data analytics and machine intelligence company. Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.Founded in the spring of 2013 out of MIT and Harvard, Kensho's senior team members come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and the United States Federal Reserve.They are a diverse and spirited group of engineers, scientists, and financial professionals who are accomplished analytical thinkers and passionate problem solvers. Together, their multi-talented team includes Ph.D. physicists, a three-time International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) world champion, Ph.D. economists, internationally competitive chess players, the author of Quantitative Finance for Physicists, a member of the original Apple iPhone engineering team, and one of the youngest ever entrants to Harvard College (age 15). | $10M | Seed | Mar 12, 2014 |  |
| Ravel Law | Ravel Law is a legal search, analytics, and visualization platform. Ravel enables lawyers to find, contextualize, and interpret information that turns legal data into legal insights. Ravel's array of powerful tools – which include data-driven, interactive visualizations and analytics – transforms how lawyers understand the law and prepare forlitigation. In today's global and increasingly digital world, Ravel empowers attorneys to benefit from this huge influx of information and find value in it.In 2012, Ravel spun out of Stanford University's Law School, Computer Science Department, and d.school, with the support of CodeX (Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics). | $8.1M | Series A | Feb 03, 2014 |  |
| Rest Devices | Rest is leading the market in connected devices for the nursery. Its first product, Mimo, is the first in-market smart wearable baby monitor, pushing data on respiration, body position, skin temperature, audio, and activity level real-time to a parent’s smartphone. The Mimo is a onesie-based product, so integrates simply and naturally into a baby’ssleeptime routine.Fundamentally, they believe in building smart, reliable, easy-to-use products that simplify parents’ lives. They’ve focused on setting high standards not only in terms of product and technical responsiveness, but also in how they engage with their users and the parenting community on the whole. And they think they’re busting through those bars. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 21, 2013 |  |
| Philo | Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide. It was inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television. Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market as a laboratory for creating a next-generation TV platform. Philo has previously received investment fromNew Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rho Ventures, Xfund, Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, WME, and CBC New Media Group. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, Massachusettes. | $6.3M | Series A | Jul 10, 2013 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CBC New Media Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cbc-new-media-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hugo Van Vuuren invest in?

Hugo Van Vuuren invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Hugo Van Vuuren's check size?

Hugo Van Vuuren typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed and $6.3M–$8.1M 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 Hugo Van Vuuren participates in.

### How do I contact Hugo Van Vuuren?

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### When did Hugo Van Vuuren last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hugo Van Vuuren closed in Jun 2020. Shizune tracks 6 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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