# Joanne Wilson

> Joanne Wilson is a seed investor at Gotham (New York) backing E-Commerce and Mobile. See 88 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gotham](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gotham-c831)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 88
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joanne-wilson/10/861/b08
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thegothamgal
- Website: http://www.gothamgal.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegothamgal

Joanne Wilson is a seed investor at Gotham in New York focused on E-Commerce and Mobile. Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $725k–$3.3M |
| Angel | $500k–$2M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$8.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 16% |
| Mobile | 10 | 11% |
| Retail | 8 | 9% |
| Education | 7 | 8% |
| Marketplace | 7 | 8% |

131 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 46 | 52% |
| Series A | 15 | 17% |
| Angel | 12 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 56 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beckley Waves | Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Porter Road Butcher | Porter Road is a omnichannel whole animal butcher changing the broken food system, by working directly with farmers to offer exceptional, sustainably raised meat direct to consumer.  The company was founded by James Peisker and Chris Carter. | $3.7M | Seed | May 25, 2018 |  |
| Manufactured | Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2018 |  |
| Lately | Lately is the only A.I.-powered social media marketing management platform that creates content FOR you and pre-vets it with your target audience. | $750K | Seed | Mar 14, 2018 |  |
| Reaction Commerce | Reaction Commerce is a modern and open commerce platform built for the scale and simplicity required by today’s business owners, designers, and developers. Reaction is the first intelligent and easily customizable cloud solution to provide real-time merchandising, pricing and promotions, and live monitoring of conversions. The full-stack platformis internationalized and localized, architected for shops and marketplaces, and is the largest JavaScript commerce project on GitHub, with developer interest growing more than 232 percent year over year. Their managed cloud solution has now seen over 14,000 signups. Reaction Commerce is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $8.5M | Series A | Oct 31, 2017 |  |
| It's By U | It's By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription.It's By U kits provide you with pro-quality tools and everything you need to learn how to perfectly arrange the blossoms in gorgeous artisan-made vases. Plus, It's By U also donates a percentage of each sale to Random Acts of Flowers, a charitythat up-cycles flowers and distributes them to patients in hospitals and nursing homes. | $725K | Seed | Jul 16, 2017 |  |
| Salted | Salted is a platform for developing and scaling better-for-you, QSR brands. | $1.2M | Angel | Apr 14, 2017 |  |
| Full Harvest | Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market.We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.Approx. 20 billion pounds ofproduce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce.Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone. | $2M | Seed | Apr 12, 2017 |  |
| Lately | Lately is the only A.I.-powered social media marketing management platform that creates content FOR you and pre-vets it with your target audience. | $500K | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| HowGood | HowGood is a SaaS data platform with the world's largest database on product sustainability. With more than 33,000 ingredients, chemicals, and materials assessed, HowGood SaaS and impact data offerings help leading brands, retailers and investors improve their environmental and social impact. Through in-depth, ingredient-level insights intofactors ranging from greenhouse gas emissions to animal welfare to labor risk, HowGood data powers strategic decision-making for the sourcing, manufacturing, merchandising, and marketing of sustainable products. | $4.2M | Series A | Feb 22, 2017 |  |

10 of 88 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Scout Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scout-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BBG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbg-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Quotidian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quotidian-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Gotham

VC Fund · New York, United States

Gotham is a legal cannabis dispensary combining cannabis retail with art, design, and cultural experiences.

1 contacts available at Gotham.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joanne Wilson | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joanne-wilson |

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## FAQ

### What does Joanne Wilson invest in?

Joanne Wilson invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 88 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 Joanne Wilson's check size?

Joanne Wilson typically joins rounds of $725k–$3.3M at Seed, $500k–$2M at Angel and $1.5M–$8.8M 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 Joanne Wilson participates in.

### When did Joanne Wilson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joanne Wilson closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 88 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 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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