James Altucher
Cofounder @ Bitzumi
New York, United States
James Altucher is a Series A investor at Bitzumi in New York focused on Advertising and Analytics. James Altucher
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries James Altucher invests in
Stages James Altucher invests in
Countries James Altucher invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Advertising 3 (43%)
- Analytics 2 (29%)
- Social Media 2 (29%)
- Social Media Marketing 2 (29%)
- SMS 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (57%)
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Angel 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cover
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Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $5.5M / Series A / Jul 10, 2014 | |
Appvance.ai
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Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency andoutput of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management. | $1.4M / Series A / Mar 15, 2014 | |
Optimal
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Optimal Inc. is the leading social media advertising and analytics platform. Optimal helps brands and advertisers manage social advertising campaigns in real-time with its media acquisition and optimization platform and proprietary analytics tools. | $4.5M / Series B / Jun 01, 2013 | |
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Cover
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Cover isn’t the only startup trying to tackle mobile payments at restaurants — there’s also TabbedOut, and, of course, Square. But those have some limitations. For TabbedOut, the check-out flow isn’t as simplified as what Cover is aiming for. And Square requires businesses to use its own POS system. | $1.5M / Seed / May 08, 2013 | |
Gocella
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Gocella is a robust, campaign based, leading edge, text based marketing and communication service. They provide an easy way for users to send basic texts or texts with mobile coupons, videos, bar codes and QR codes embedded and look perfect on all mobile devices. Gocella takes a variety of basic and advanced features (templates, contests,polling, list management, trigger based campaigns with appended data, email to “opt-in” conversions, ROI tracking and engagement with social media sites) and makes them accessible to the everyday user through automation and a competitive price point.Their platform uses an open API and encourages other systems and web applications to integrate with its text marketing and service engine. | $230K / Angel / Aug 01, 2012 | |
Bitly
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Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their owncustom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics.Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver. | $2M / Series A / Mar 30, 2009 | |
Buddy Media
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Buddy Media is the social enterprise software of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers, empowering them to build and maintain relationships with their consumers in a connections-based world. The Buddy Media social marketing suite helps brands build powerful connections globally with its scalable, secure architecture anddata-driven customer insights from initial point of contact through point of purchase. Buddy Media is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices located in Asia, London, and San Francisco. | $1.5M / Series A / Sep 23, 2007 |
Co-Investors
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures
2 deals together
The Social Internet Fund
2 deals together
AngelList
1 deal together
H. Barton Asset Management
1 deal together
DoubleRock
1 deal together
Pathfinder
1 deal together
About Bitzumi
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FAQ
What does James Altucher invest in?
James Altucher invests primarily in Advertising, Analytics and Social Media startups, most often at Series A and 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.
When did James Altucher last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Altucher closed in Jul 2014. 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.
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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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