# Institutional Investor

> Institutional Investor is a VC fund backing Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/institutional-investor
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/iimag
- Website: http://www.institutionalinvestor.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/iimag

Institutional Investor is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. Institutional Investor operates as a business-to-business publishing company focused on the international finance. The company publishes magazines, newsletters, and journals as well as research, directories, books, and maps. It also runs conferences, seminars, and training courses; and provides electronic business information through itscapital market databases and emerging markets information service. The company was incorporated in 1974 and is based in New York, New York. It operates as a subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 45% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 45% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series F | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| Canada | 2 | 18% |
| India | 1 | 9% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gilbert E. Kaplan | Founder | 0 | — |
| Michael Thrasher | Editor, RIA Intel | 0 | — |
| Rip Reeves | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | — |
| Steve Gelsi | Senior Reporter and Curator for Private Equity | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rigor AI | Rigor AI (rigor.ai) is an early-stage technology startup, founded by several repeat entrepreneurs. We've been operational since January 2025. | $3.2M | Seed | May 16, 2025 |  |
| Airteam Aerial Intelligence | Airteam is an AI-powered software that converts aerial data from drones into CAD models. This allows PV planners, roofers, and contractors to measure and inspect buildings quickly and cost-effectively in a 3D. This saves approximately 90% of the time of measurements vs. traditional methods such as tape measures and lasers. In comparison tosatellite images, the Airteam 3D measurements and inspections are down to 1cm in accuracy. | $2.7M | Seed | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| ToggleMarket | ToggleMarket is a B2B digital marketspace facilitating and powering secure multi-tenant interactions across the supply chains of non-standard goods - from procurement to fulfilment - through its advanced infrastructure e-commerce technology, and dedicated industry specific web platforms for Hospitality, Healthcare, Education and Construction.Toggle Market is an end-to-end highway for B2B procurement connecting pre-qualified buyers and suppliers with robust enterprise level workflow tools to manage complex multi-stakeholder transactions driving greater efficiencies in managing pre-opening procurement needs. | $710K | Convertible Note | Mar 04, 2021 |  |
| Prove | Prove is a smartphone-based identity verification startup that specializes in providing phone-centric and API marketplace solutions. Its phone-centric solutions enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice. | $23M | Series F | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| Altigreen Propulsion Labs | Altigreen Propulsion Labs (APL) is creating intellectual property in aftermarket products for automotive systems using green and eco-friendly technologies. APL provides a unique value proposition in the high growth hybrid/electric vehicle sector of India, Asia and other emerging economies, with a multi-billion dollar business opportunity. Ithas already designed IP for 4-wheel passenger and commercial vehicles and has a strong product / technology foundation. It has a split R&D center in USA & India, with manufacturing and product distribution partners across India. |  |  | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| Biological Dynamics | Biological Dynamics, Inc. is a healthcare company committed to improving global health outcomes by detecting diseases in their earliest stages. The company's proprietary platform simplifies access to native-state biomarkers and nanoparticles, enabling multiomics applications. The company is focused on detecting cancers by applying its platformtechnology along with its machine learning capabilities. For more information, please visit www.biologicaldynamics.com and follow us at @BiodynSD on Twitter.It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. |  | Series C | Nov 05, 2015 |  |
| Kobo | Kobo offers an open platform for e-reading. The platform supports many formats, including EPUB and PDF, and allows its readers to buy and read digital content from a variety of sources.Kobo offers an eBook store with nearly 4 million titles across 68 languages, varying from bestsellers, self-published works, and magazines to kids’ books.Itprovides e-reader apps for Apple, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows platforms. Bookmarks synchronize across devices so the readers can pick up where they left off from one device to another.Kobo offers its digital reading experience to millions of readers around the world in 190 countries through its website, bookseller, and retail partner network, represented by 17,600 locations around the world.Kobo was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. |  | Series C | Mar 09, 2011 |  |
| Accu-Break Pharmaceuticals | ACCU-BREAK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and licenses pharmaceutical tablet technologies. The company offers bi-layer and tri-layer technologies, which are used to create tablets that are dividable by hand into accurate partial/smaller doses for patients to adjust their dose. Its technologies are used for single drug products, fixed and splitcombination drug products, standard and controlled release formulations, and incompatible drugs in human and veterinary medicines. The company has a strategic alliance agreement with Azopharma Development Group. ACCU-BREAK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as SoLapharm, Inc. and changed its name to ACCU-BREAK Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |  |  | Jun 01, 2007 |  |
| Pharmos Corporation | Pharmos Corporation is a bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers and develops new drugs to treat a range of neuroinflammatory disorders. The company is based in Iselin, New Jersey. |  |  | Jun 03, 2003 |  |
| MathStar, Inc. | MathStar, Inc., a privately held, fabless semiconductor company founded in 1998 is a leading provider of low power, high-performance IC solutions to the multi-gigabit networking markets. In addition to the PMD market, MathStar is heavily engaged in the development of a new reconfigurable chip technology. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, thecompany has raised over $33 million in funding and has over 70 employees and four direct sales offices. The in-house expertise of over 50 engineers combines analog and mixed signal communications talent with specialization in mathematical algorithms to meet the challenges of 10 Gbps and future optical networking needs. |  |  | Aug 16, 2002 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Institutional Investor invest in?

Institutional Investor invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Biotechnology startups, most often at Funding Round 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.

### How do I contact Institutional Investor?

Public channels for Institutional Investor include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Institutional Investor?

The team at Institutional Investor includes Gilbert E. Kaplan (Founder), Michael Thrasher (Editor, RIA Intel) and Rip Reeves (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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