Jo Ann Corkran
Managing Partner @ Golden Seeds
New York, United States
Jo Ann Corkran is a seed investor at Golden Seeds in New York focused on Health Care and Video Streaming. Jo Ann Corkran, Managing Partner of Golden Seeds LLC and Lead Partner of Golden seeds Fund 2, has been a lead investor on multiple transactions at Golden Seeds including life sciences, consumer goods and technology deals. Jo Ann sits on the board of Crimson Hexagon, a social media monitoring company, and Bespoke Global, an ecommerce company forartisanal furniture. Prior to joining Golden Seeds, Jo Ann spent the majority of her 20 plus year Wall Street career at Credit Suisse. Most recently at CS Asset Management (CSAM) she was Global Head of Cash and Short Duration. Earlier at CSAM she managed the U.S. domestic securitized assets, and U.S. Core Fixed Income Assets. Previously she was at Morgan Stanley and First Boston. She started her career as a Consulting Actuary in the Econometric Modeling Area of Buck Consultants. She used to sit on the Investment Committee of the Common Endowment Fund of the UUA 2003-2009, and the Socially Responsible Investing Committee UUA 2002-2003. Jo Ann holds a BS in Mathematics from NYU and was a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Jo Ann Corkran invests in
Stages Jo Ann Corkran invests in
Countries Jo Ann Corkran invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $740k–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (40%)
- Video Streaming 2 (40%)
- Fitness 1 (20%)
- mHealth 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Angel 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 3 (60%)
- Cambodia 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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EliseAI
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EliseAI provides artificial intelligence–powered automation and conversational services designed for housing and healthcare organizations. It offers a unified platform that manages communications across text, email, chat, and voice, handling tasks such as leasing inquiries, tenant maintenance requests, scheduling, renewals, and patientappointments. The system centralizes operations into modules like CRM, leasing, maintenance, delinquency handling, and healthcare-specific workflows, adapting to specialties such as women’s health, dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It automates routine interactions, status updates, and follow-ups in multiple languages, aiming to reduce manual burden and streamline operational workflows. | $35M / Series C / Jun 06, 2023 | |
FORTË (acquired by Echelon Fitness)
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FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios. | $10M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | |
Performlive
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PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream. It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform. | $740.1K / Seed / Oct 30, 2020 | |
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EliseAI
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EliseAI provides artificial intelligence–powered automation and conversational services designed for housing and healthcare organizations. It offers a unified platform that manages communications across text, email, chat, and voice, handling tasks such as leasing inquiries, tenant maintenance requests, scheduling, renewals, and patientappointments. The system centralizes operations into modules like CRM, leasing, maintenance, delinquency handling, and healthcare-specific workflows, adapting to specialties such as women’s health, dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It automates routine interactions, status updates, and follow-ups in multiple languages, aiming to reduce manual burden and streamline operational workflows. | $1.9M / Seed / Mar 11, 2019 | |
BookMeBus
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BookMeBus become the No.1 transportation tickets booking platform in Cambodia, and has gone strength to strength as the local startup and is expanding to the Mekong region with a vision of building a strong ecosystem around transportation.BookMeBus grew from local initiatives to offer hassle-free travel experiences by turning our own pain pointsinto solutions. We offer both web-based platforms and mobile applications with a guarantee of offering a user-friendly and reliable booking service for Bus, Taxi, and Ferry tickets. Not only an advanced digital practitioner ourselves but we also empower our operators to amend their digital practices and to scale their business beyond limits. After 4 years of our establishment, We have earned a good recognition from our circles, organizations, and been playing a role in driving Cambodia’s Digital Economy with our ministry’s endorsement. In 2016, we were awarded as the winner for the Cambodia ICT award, ASEAN ICT, e27 top finalist, Creative Business Cup, just to name a few. BookMeBus also create momentum in Technology and Business coverage from local to international media like CNN, Travel daily, Forbes. | $15K / Angel / Jun 10, 2016 |
Co-Investors
Navitas Capital
2 deals together
37 Angels
1 deal together
AvalonBay
1 deal together
DivcoWest
1 deal together
Equity Residential
1 deal together
Flucas Ventures
1 deal together
About Golden Seeds
Golden Seeds is a seed-stage investment firm with a focus on women leaders. Their investment thesis rests on the extensive research that concludes that gender-diverse teams produce a better return on equity. By seeking companies where women hold leadership positions and own substantial equity, they are funding companies that are likely to havediverse perspectives that will contribute to success.
Golden Seeds Contacts
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Jo Ann Corkran
Managing Partner
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Ulya Khan
Managing Director
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Carolyn Fikke
Managing Director
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Charles Follini
Early Stage Investor & Board Member
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Danna Redmond
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Jo Ann Corkran invest in?
Jo Ann Corkran invests primarily in Health Care, Video Streaming and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 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 Jo Ann Corkran's check size?
Jo Ann Corkran typically joins rounds of $740k–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jo Ann Corkran participates in.
When did Jo Ann Corkran last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jo Ann Corkran closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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