# Jana Messerschmidt

> Jana Messerschmidt is a seed investor at #Angels (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [#Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/-angels)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janamesserschmidt
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/janamal

Jana Messerschmidt is a seed investor at #Angels in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Jana Messerschmidt - Founding Partner @ #Angels

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$8M |
| Series A | $11M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 48% |
| SaaS | 5 | 24% |
| Internet | 5 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 24% |
| Apps | 3 | 14% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 67% |
| Series A | 6 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roam | Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Panobi | Panobi is a SaaS company currently in stealth. | $5M | Seed | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| MagicLabs | Get peace of mind with secure, extensible passwordless authentication that’s built to scale. All with a few lines of code. | $27M | Series A | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Level | Level is a technology company that makes financial products for employers. With Level, everyone benefits: employers offer bigger benefits for less, members get more freedom and choice, and providers are paid instantly. Level makes paying with benefits as simple as paying with cash.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NewYork. | $27M | Series A | Apr 16, 2021 |  |
| Betty Labs | Betty Labs is a developer of a sports trivia application designed to provide life experiences. Their first product, Sideline, is a live mobile game that lets viewers win money while watching sports by predicting what will happen next. By delivering questions generated in real-time and inspired by the progress of the game on TV, they turn otherwiseboring or low-stakes moments into exciting chances to climb the leaderboard, compete with friends, and get paid. | $9.3M | Seed | Oct 27, 2020 |  |
| mmhmm | Mmhmm is a developer of a virtual camera application used to help make creative use of background during video conferencing calls. Its application integrates into the user's video calling applications and adds backdrops, allows users to team-up with their remote partners and give presentations together, and enables customers to make theirvirtual meetings more interesting and informative.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $30.4M | Series A | Oct 07, 2020 |  |
| TeamBridge | Zira designs and develops employee management solutions that leverage technology to empower companies. Its platform is a robust AI, capable of creating fully optimized schedules in seconds to increase employee productivity, increase employee morale, and retention all while reducing labor cost.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquarteredin San Francisco, California. | $3.1M | Seed | Oct 07, 2020 |  |
| Teambridge | TeamBridge designs and develops employee management solutions that leverage technology to empower teams of all sizes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3.1M | Seed | Oct 07, 2020 |  |
| Compaas | Compaas helps growing companies make smarter decisions around compensation, communicate better with their employees, and avoid mistakes.It offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform that helps companies manage their operating expense: employee compensation. The platform provides compensation analytics and strategy tools for startups andenterprise companies.In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California. | $4.3M | Seed | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| Sora | Sora is a low-code intelligent workflow automation and data integration tool that connects different corporate applications such as HR, IT, and other systems and data sets to provide a smarter, more user-friendly experience for employees, business owners, and HR professionals. | $5.3M | Seed | Jul 21, 2020 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chang Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-com-0014) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About #Angels

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

#ANGELS is an investment collective. In addition to investing in phenomenal companies, their mission is to get more women on the cap tables of successful startups. As investors, they back ambitious founders pursuing bold ideas. They collectively have a portfolio of 80+ companies across a wide range of industries.

5 contacts available at #Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chloe Sladden | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chloe-sladden |
| Jana Messerschmidt | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jana-messerschmidt |
| April Underwood | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/april-underwood |
| Jessica Verrilli | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-verrilli |
| Katie Stanton | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katie-jacobs-stanton |

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## FAQ

### What does Jana Messerschmidt invest in?

Jana Messerschmidt invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jana Messerschmidt's check size?

Jana Messerschmidt typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8M at Seed and $11M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jana Messerschmidt participates in.

### When did Jana Messerschmidt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jana Messerschmidt closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 21 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?

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