# Ilya Volodarsky

> Ilya Volodarsky is a Series A investor backing Software and CRM. See 11 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyavolodarsky/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ivolo

Ilya Volodarsky is a Series A investor in San Francisco focused on Software and CRM. Ilya Volodarsky is co-founder and head of strategy at Segment, the customer data infrastructure company. Segment’s technology empowers businesses to deliver seamless, personalized customer experiences across every channel and touchpoint, while also respecting user privacy and preferences. Ilya works on infrastructure engineering, new products, andthe Segment Startup Program.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 55% |
| CRM | 2 | 18% |
| Big Data | 2 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 45% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 73% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Makelog | Makelog makes it easy to create, centralize, and share product updates with your customers and internal teams. | $3M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 | https://www.makelog.com |
| Shortwave | Shortwave is reinventing what's possible with email, starting with an inbox that helps them work smarter and faster. They are building Shortwave to tip the scales back towards email and federation. They create a high-quality product experience that beats centralized messaging apps at their own game. Their team previously built products atfirebase and Google used by millions, and they're backed by world-class investors including union square ventures and lightspeed venture partners. | $9M | Series A | Feb 15, 2022 | https://www.shortwave.com |
| Dawn Health | Dawn is building the new standard of care for insomnia treatment. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 07, 2022 | https://www.dawn.health |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 05, 2021 | https://www.overstory.com |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $3.9M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 | https://www.overstory.com |
| Revonate | We partner with general contractors so they make more money, do less work and have higher customer satisfaction by managing their customer experience so they focus on the build. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2021 | https://www.revonate.co/ |
| Keeper | Keeper is a tax filing software designed for people who've outgrown traditional DIY solutions. Powered by AI and backed by tax pros. | $13M | Series A | Apr 29, 2021 | https://www.keepertax.com/ |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $35M | Series A | Mar 10, 2021 | https://flatfile.com/ |
| Obvious | Obvious develops an AI-powered workspace platform for creating and managing business content, workflows, and applications. The platform enables users to generate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, dashboards, timelines, and custom applications through AI-assisted tools and collaborative features. It also supports workflow automation, recurringtasks, integrations with external systems, and shared workspaces for teams. Obvious provides built-in tools for coding, project organization, meeting transcription, and data management within a unified interface. The platform is used across functions such as marketing, recruiting, operations, and business analysis. | $35M | Series A | Mar 10, 2021 | https://obvious.ai/ |
| Metadata | Metadata is an autonomous demand generation platform that automates the most critical but often tedious tasks in marketing to help companies efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. Through machine learning, a proprietary corporate-to-personal identity graph, and automatic optimization to revenue KPIs, Metadata’s platform generates demandfrom target accounts and converts them to customers much faster than legacy methods. Innovative B2B marketers at Zoom, RingCentral, Slack, Thoughtspot and Vonage rely on Metadata to generate predictable velocity of inbound pipeline from target accounts. 3 USPTO patents. | $6.5M | Series A | Sep 09, 2020 | http://www.metadata.io |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Climate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hanover Technology Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanover-technology-investment-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moxxie Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moxxie-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ilya Volodarsky invest in?

Ilya Volodarsky invests primarily in Software, CRM and Big Data startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Ilya Volodarsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ilya Volodarsky closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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