Joe Caruso
Angel Investor
Boston, United States
Joe Caruso is a seed investor in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Joe Caruso invests in
Stages Joe Caruso invests in
Countries Joe Caruso invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $420k–$2.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $650k–$1.4M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (42%)
- SaaS 8 (31%)
- Internet 6 (23%)
- Mobile 5 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (19%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (69%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (12%)
- Series A 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 23 (88%)
- France 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- South Africa 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Surround Insurance is an InsurTech company that offers property and casualty insurance products for young urban professionals. The company was founded in 2018 by Jonathon Grayson and Kate Terry and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Dec 31, 2019 | ||
| Konnecto offers the world’s first prescriptive marketing platform that provides consumer brands with daily recommendations on how to increase their online sales by reverse engineering their competitors’ journeys and identifying path-to-purchase vulnerabilities. Konnecto works with companies across a variety of industries, including Coca-Cola,MyHeritage, AON, Haven Life, and many others | Pre-Seed / May 30, 2019 | ||
| AceUp is the leading global provider of Human-Centered Leadership™ development solutions for individuals and teams.AceUp helps global, innovative, and purpose-driven organizations build high-performing teams at scale. upskilling leaders at all levels to lead transformation in a VUCA world.We combine 1-on-1 and team coaching, AI-poweredmicro-learning, and prescriptive analytics to maximize team alignment, engagement, and performance at scale.Are you unlocking your teams full potential? Learn more about how to fuel the success of your teams at all levels. | $650K / Pre-Seed / Mar 15, 2019 | ||
| Aerobotics provides intelligent tools for optimal perennial crop farming practices. | $2M / Series A / Jul 18, 2018 | ||
| HomeBinder is a comprehensive online home management tool that empowers "carfax-ish" reports at the time of sale. It relies on professionals (inspectors, agents, pros) to help the homeowner keep their records up to date. Homeowners are able to store all their home/property/project/contractor/paint color information inone place, get reminders for maintenance items, get information on appliance recalls, and generate valuable reports in the process of selling the home. It is the only service that leverages home inspectors to deliver property-specific alerts, ongoing support, and recommendations to new homeowners to reduce headaches.HomeBinder was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. | $390K / Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | ||
| Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability. Voatz enables citizens to vote in all kinds of elections or voting events via a smartphone. Past attempts at internet based voting have failed or not gone mainstream due to fundamental concerns around security,auditability, and voter anonymity. With Voatz, using biometrics for security and the Blockchain for irrefutability, it is able to tackle all challenges and significantly streamline the process of voting and identity verification.Voatz was a part of the Techstars Boston 2017 and Masschallenge Boston 2017 cohorts.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.2M / Seed / Jan 08, 2018 | ||
| Parklocois is an online platform that provides real-time data analytics software to parking lot owners and shares data with existing consumer facing channels. Its proprietary discount system works directly with parking lot operators to help solve its clients’ everyday parking problems.Parkloco was launched in 2014 and is based in Providence,Rhode Island. | Seed / Apr 15, 2016 | ||
| The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account.But what if you could access stories generated from thosepictures simply by talking to Alexa?With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 21, 2016 | ||
| Kincrew provides solutions to reduce the conflict, stress, and pain endured by families of divorce and separation so that children and parents can thrive. The Kincrew platform, a consumer mobile and web app, helps families who are separated or divorced to manage their lives more easily and without conflict. Our platform provides tools for creatingand managing an integrated family calendar, for requesting reimbursements and making payments between co-parents, for budgeting, and for tracking communications and records. It allows attorneys and mediators to access court admissible records.The Family Community was established in 2014. | $450K / Seed / Feb 01, 2016 | ||
| Fam's mission is to build products that revolutionize the way teens and millennials communicate. They believe in a calculated combination of live group video and group chat messaging to execute this.It is the world’s first group video chat app for iMessage, with over 7 million users. Their app instantly connects with the family and friendsclosest to its user through group video calling, right from their iPhone, and Android text message app. | $1.7M / Seed / Aug 19, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does Joe Caruso invest in?
Joe Caruso invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 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 Joe Caruso's check size?
Joe Caruso typically joins rounds of $420k–$2.2M at Seed, $650k–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $1.6M–$2M 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 Joe Caruso participates in.
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When did Joe Caruso last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Joe Caruso closed in Dec 2019. Shizune tracks 26 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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