# James Hawkins

> James Hawkins is a seed investor backing Software and Information Technology. See 7 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-hawkins/
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/james406
- Website: https://jefhawkins.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jefhawkins

James Hawkins is a seed investor in London focused on Software and Information Technology. James Hawkins is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Co Founder & CEO of PostHog. James previously worked at Arachnys as a VP Sales & Channels.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$2.7M |
| Series A | $12M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 57% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 43% |
| Productivity Tools | 2 | 29% |
| Big Data | 1 | 14% |
| Database | 1 | 14% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |

### Country

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

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zero | If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop | $10.3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2026 | https://smmsellshop.com/product/buy-verified-cash-app-account/ |
| Mem0 | The Memory layer for your AI apps | $20M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 | https://mem0.ai |
| Zero | If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 02, 2024 | https://smmsellshop.com/product/buy-verified-cash-app-account/ |
| Fondo | Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level. | $7M | Seed | Nov 22, 2024 | https://www.tryfondo.com/ |
| Paradigm | Paradigm is a tool-driven AI platform that integrates with existing tools and workflows to automate tasks in sales, recruiting, and data. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2024 | https://www.tryparadigm.ai/ |
| Infisical | Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 03, 2023 | https://infisical.com |
| QuestDB | QuestDB is a high performance database for time-series data. QuestDB’s software architecture has been designed from the ground up to be as close to the hardware structure as possible - offering breakthrough performance. Through QuestDB, companies can harness the power of time series data by handling billions of time-stamped events without relyingon powerful hardware. | $12M | Series A | Nov 03, 2021 | https://www.questdb.io |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-twenty-minute-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greens Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greens-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Illusian Founder Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illusian-family-office) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TwentyTwo VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twentytwo-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1121.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1121-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does James Hawkins invest in?

James Hawkins invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Productivity Tools 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 round sizes does James Hawkins invest in?

James Hawkins typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$10M at Seed, $2M–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not James Hawkins's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds James Hawkins took part in.

### How do I contact James Hawkins?

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### When did James Hawkins last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Hawkins closed in Sep 2026. 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?

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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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