# Ian McNish

> Ian McNish is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Software and CAD. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imcnish

Ian McNish is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and CAD. Ian McNish - Mentor @ StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $835k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| CAD | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| Retail | 1 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Brazil | 1 | 14% |
| France | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cauri Money | Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer. | $350K | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2022 | https://www.cauri.money |
| Savitude | Savitude has stopped its business activities. Contact deolson100@gmail.com if you are interested in the technology developed, including two issued US Patents.Fashion Tech Savitude is a SaaS-based platform for sustainably-minded fashion brands & retailers who want to reduce shopper returns while improving economics of the business through bestfit and assortment optimization. | $150K | Convertible Note | Jul 17, 2017 | http://www.savitude.com |
| Olist | Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay. | $835K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 | http://olist.com |
| Ginkgo Bioworks | Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. | $9M | Series A | Mar 18, 2015 | http://ginkgobioworks.com |
| Rigetti Computing | Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2014 | http://www.rigetti.com/ |
| 3DPrinterOS | 3DPrinterOS is the world’s first operating system for 3D printers. Enterprises, Schools and Service Bureaus use their cloud-based 3D printing management platform to prepare, fix, securely store, and stream 3D designs to 3D printers with data tracking and analytics. Unlike their competition, they have a working platform with 16,000+ hours ofuse, over ~70% of OEM's supported, and 30,000+ hours of experience developing 3D printing software. They have users in over 94 countries and their current clients include Jabil Circuit Inc., Duke, Purdue and Florida State University. 3DPrinterOS graduated from VentureBeat’s “2013 Accelerator of the Year” Alchemist Accelerator in the San Francisco bay area and was seed-round backed by Vulcan Capital and other private investors. Founded in 2013, 3DPrinterOS is based in San Francisco. www.3dprinteros.com |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2013 | http://www.3DPrinterOS.com |
| Friend Trusted | Friend Trusted |  | Seed | Nov 03, 2013 | http://www.friendtrusted.com |

7 of 7 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ian McNish invest in?

Ian McNish invests primarily in Software, CAD and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Ian McNish's check size?

Ian McNish typically joins rounds of $835k–$2.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ian McNish participates in.

### How do I contact Ian McNish?

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### When did Ian McNish last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ian McNish closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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