James Robinson
Co-Founder, General Partner, and Managing Partner @ RRE Ventures
New York, United States
James Robinson is a Series A investor at RRE Ventures in New York focused on Mobile and FinTech. Jim Robinson is a Co-Founder and the General and Managing Partner at RRE Ventures. He has been active within the technology community for 30 years as an investor, entrepreneur, banker, and futurist.Since becoming a venture capitalist in 1992, Jim has led investments in and served on the boards of more than forty companies, with a focus on theinternet, data analysis, and financial services. He often invests in companies that leverage network effects or crowd-intelligence.Jim is currently a Director of Netsertive, Noom, OLO.com, OpenPeak and Quirky, and a board observer at Bitpay. He also advises several seed companies, including Admittedly, Culinary Agents, Gem, itBit, TheSkimm, and Vaurum. Jim has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List Top 100 VC's.Prior investments include Broadsoft (BSFT), GoldPocket/Wireless (Tandberg/Motricity), iCrossing (Hearst), Metapath (Marconi), Mixed Signals (Tektronix), Orchestria (Computer Associates), Red Brick (REDB), RevolutionMoney (American Express), Rubric (Broadbase), SmartPay (Ping An), SmarterKids (SKDS), Telocity (Hughes), Vastera (VAST), Vocera (VCRA), WeddingChannel (TheKnot.com), and Wisdomtree (WETF).Jim was previously with H&Q Venture Capital in San Francisco, focused on software and communications. In 1994, along with Stuart Ellman, he co-founded InterVideo Response, building in-stadium touchscreen ordering systems. Before that Jim was with JP Morgan, initially developing global risk-management systems, and later as an investment banker. Jim earned an MBA from Harvard in 1992.While earning a double degree in Computer Science and Business Administration at Antioch College during the early 1980's, Jim worked as an engineering intern in the solar power division at General Electric; as a programmer for Illinois state government; and later as an analyst for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Campaign in Washington, DC. During his third year in college he founded IV Systems, a builder of unix-based applications on Fortune Systems workstations. He also spent six months driving the nightshift in a NYC Taxi during 1982.Jim is a Director of the New York City Partnership Investment Fund, the HBS Alumni Angels VC Advisory Board, and the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership. Jim has been in YPO since 1998. He is also an inventor, a father of four, a CERT first-responder, and a dog person.
- Total investments:
- 94
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries James Robinson invests in
Stages James Robinson invests in
Countries James Robinson invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 10 (11%)
- FinTech 9 (10%)
- Software 8 (9%)
- Internet 7 (7%)
- E-Commerce 7 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 18 (19%)
- Series B 17 (18%)
- Seed 15 (16%)
- Series C 12 (13%)
- Funding Round 9 (10%)
Country
- United States 41 (44%)
- China 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Spring Health
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Spring Health is a global mental health company built on one AI-native platform so care follows individuals across every job, move, health plan, and life stage. Independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, with 92% of members reliably improved or recovered from depression or anxiety and employers seeing a 52%reduction in total mental health claims costs, Spring Health provides personalized lifelong mental health support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. More than 170 million people worldwide have access to Spring Health, which is trusted by leading employers, health plans, and channel partners, including Highmark, Target, The Coca-Cola Company, BlackRock, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Wawa. | $100M / Series E / Jul 31, 2024 | |
Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $55M / Series C / Sep 15, 2021 | |
Noom
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Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform powered by data, technology, and human coaches that helps millions of people meet their personal health and wellness goals from weight management to diabetes prevention to stress reduction. The company has been awarded multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and was the first mobileapplication to be recognized by the Centers for Disease Control as a certified diabetes prevention program. Headquartered in New York City, Noom has been named one of Inc's Best Places to Work and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Technology. To learn more about careers with Noom, visit https://www.noom.com/careers/jobs | $540M / Series F / May 25, 2021 | |
HYPR
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HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strongauthentication factors. | $35M / Series C / Apr 20, 2021 | |
Paxos
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Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as agateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $142M / Series C / Dec 16, 2020 | |
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Paxos
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Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as agateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $142M / Series C / Dec 16, 2020 | |
Securrency
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Securrency delivers financial technology products for the tokenized issuance and trading of securities. The company’s protocol can be utilized on the Ethereum, Stellar, Ripple, EOS, and other distributed ledgers, as well as on legacy systems, allowing for seamless on-chain and off-chain movement of tokens. Securrency makes financial services moresecure, transparent, efficient, and accessible by integrating legacy financial services with recent advances in distributed ledger technologies, payment gateways, and security frameworks. Built from the ground up with security and compliance at its core, Securrency enables an efficient market, bringing together investors seeking yield with value creators, such as asset owners, startups or fund managers requiring capital. | $17.6M / Series A / Jan 08, 2020 | |
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HYPR
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HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strongauthentication factors. | $18.3M / Series B / Oct 01, 2019 | |
Camp
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Camp is a retail concept for kids and their parents, offering a rotating selection of toys and other goods alongside experiences like cooking and craft classes. It combines merchandise, play, and media throughout its stores to create an enriching and fun experience for kids and grown-ups. They offer an entirely new experience with each visit, CAMProtates its theme every 8 -12 weeks. | $10.5M / Series A / Jun 17, 2019 | |
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Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $12M / Series C / Apr 01, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About RRE Ventures
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies across various sectors. RRE Ventures invests in early-stage companies, often participating in Seed and Series A funding rounds. They look for innovative technology solutions and scalable business models.
RRE Ventures Contacts
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Stuart Ellman
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Ana Rosenstein
Senior Associate
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James Robinson
Co-Founder, General Partner, and Managing Partner
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James Robinson
Founder & General Partner
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John R. Hass
Partner
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What does James Robinson invest in?
James Robinson invests primarily in Mobile, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 94 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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The most recent investment recorded for James Robinson closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 94 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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