# Joe Speiser

> Joe Speiser is a seed investor at Hampton backing Internet and Health Care. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Hampton
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joespeiser
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jspeiser
- Website: https://x.com/jspeiser
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jspeiser

Joe Speiser is a Partner at Hampton VC. He previously worked at LittleThings as a Co-Founder and CEO. He attended Columbia University in the City of New York.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 38% |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| News | 1 | 13% |
| EdTech | 1 | 13% |
| Rental | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Safe | Safe is an app that provides an email security service that verifies contacts. Safe was founded in 2021. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| Consensus | The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| The Fascination | The Fascination is an eCommerce firm that provides clothing, food, lifestyle, wellness, beauty products, home decor, and accessories. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. | $1M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Paytient | Paytient helps people make better healthcare decisions by improving their ability to pay for care. We do this by bundling or embedding payment solutions like Paytient's Health Payment Account (HPA) or the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan alongside commercial, individual ACA, and Medicare plans. Armed with the power to decide how and whenthey pay for care, our users change their behavior in ways that improve their health and lower costs for everyone, which benefits the plan sponsor. By 2025, Paytient will serve 25M lives and 6,000 enterprise clients including leading employers and payers such as Anthem, Centene, Cigna, R.R. Donnelley, and Hyatt Hotels. The company has earned a 90 NPS and 4.9 stars on Trustpilot. |  | Angel | Apr 27, 2018 |  |
| The Hustle | The Hustle is the most trusted source for business news. We use our no nonsense voice to explain the latest in business, startups, tech, and whatever else is happening in this outlandish world of ours. | $1M | Seed | Mar 13, 2017 |  |
| Voyajoy | AI Powered Platform for Short Term Rentals | $125K | Seed | Dec 27, 2015 |  |
| CourseHorse | CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York. | $1.3M | Series A | Feb 23, 2014 |  |
| WayBetter | WayBetter is disrupting the wellness category by turning the hard work of better health into fun, social games. Founded in 2011, WayBetter’s mission is to grow a global community where people inspire each other and build better habits in order to get fit, lose weight, and improve their mindset. By focusing on motivation, behavior change, anddeveloping positive habits, WayBetter offers its members a pathway to real, lasting results. The company was awarded a $1 million NIH grant to develop a smoking cessation game with researchers at Brown University. More than 1.2 million people have played in a WayBetter game, and we’re just getting started. | $1M | Angel | Sep 29, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beat Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beat-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bettor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bettor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Chive Media Group — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diverse Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diverse-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hampton

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Hampton.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joe Speiser | Co-Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Joe Speiser invest in?

Joe Speiser invests primarily in Internet, Health Care and News startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Joe Speiser last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Speiser closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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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