# Joel Yarmon

> Joel Yarmon is a Series A investor at Draper Associates backing Big Data. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelyarmon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/joelyarmon
- Website: http://www.drapervc.com

Joel Yarmon is a Series A investor at Draper Associates focused on Big Data and Payments. Joel Y. is a Partner at Pipeline Capital. Joel has an MBA from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, and a BA from the University of Puget Sound where he was Captain of the NCAA ski racing team. Joel also studied at the US Naval War College in Washington, DC, where he focused on Joint Maritime Operations.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 17% |
| Payments | 2 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carpay | Carpay is a loan management software for BHPH dealers. It helps them manage their portfolio by giving their borrowers multiple options to pay, automating all reminders to their borrowers, and giving the dealers a suite of tools to keep their loans performing. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Venice, California. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 07, 2021 | http://carpay.com |
| Carpay | Carpay is a loan management software for BHPH dealers. It helps them manage their portfolio by giving their borrowers multiple options to pay, automating all reminders to their borrowers, and giving the dealers a suite of tools to keep their loans performing. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Venice, California. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2019 | http://carpay.com |
| Inventables | Inventables is the hardware store for designers.The company is attempting to bring manufacturing from the factory to the desktop making it as accessible as desktop publishing. Inventables sells machines and supplies for small business manufactures to make products ranging from jewelry and signs to furniture. Each day customers select from acatalog of 30,000 products most of which if ordered by 3pm are shipped same day. | $11.5M | Series C | Jul 23, 2019 | http://www.inventables.com |
| MapJam | MapJam provides map publishing tools to personalize, brand, and add important context to maps. It also offers developers and enterprises vector maps that work seamlessly with great Open Source projects from OpenStreetMap, Mapzen, Leaflet, D3, Font Awesome, kolor.js, and others. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $950K | Seed | Aug 14, 2015 | http://mapjam.com/ |
| Ranker | Ranker, attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food, lifestyle - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about.Over 1 billion votes now power Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data that delivers personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”), and also audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Launched in 2020 and powered by Ranker Insights, Watchworthy is the only statistically relevant, crowd-sourced TV recommendation app available to consumers. Ranker is listed on 2020’s Inc 5000 and Inc. 5000: California Series, Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 featuring the fastest growing companies in North America and Built In LA’s Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies To Work For in 2020 & 2021, and No. 5 on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Headquartered in Los Angeles with over 115 employees, Ranker also has an office in NYC. | $2M |  | Jun 27, 2013 | http://www.ranker.com |
| Inventables | Inventables is the hardware store for designers.The company is attempting to bring manufacturing from the factory to the desktop making it as accessible as desktop publishing. Inventables sells machines and supplies for small business manufactures to make products ranging from jewelry and signs to furniture. Each day customers select from acatalog of 30,000 products most of which if ordered by 3pm are shipped same day. | $3M | Series B | Jun 16, 2013 | http://www.inventables.com |
| Ribbon | Ribbon is an online payments platform whose products include the peer-to-peer focused Ribbon, and the merchant payments platform Ribbon Merchant.Ribbon is a simple way to send and receive money online across all devices. Users create a profile page with a URL that anyone can access to pay them using a debit or credit card. The person paying theuser is not required to have a Ribbon account.Ribbon Merchant allows sellers to accept payments instantly without having to write any code. Products checkout forms can be hosted as a one-page checkout on Ribbon, or integrated into the seller's website and social media platforms using a simple copy and paste.Ribbon was part of ** | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 05, 2013 | http://www.ribbon.co |
| Identified | Identified is a big data and analytics company that pioneered SYMAN, a technology that transforms social data from Facebook into professional intelligence for people and companies.Identified was founded in 2009 by Stanford University MBA students Adeyemi Ajao and Brendan Wallace, as a research project. Identified launched its beta product tothe public in September 2011 and attracted more than 10 million users. The company has raised $22.5 million in funding and currently has 40 employees, based in San Francisco's China Basin. | $21M | Series B | Jun 05, 2012 | http://www.identified.com |
| Ranker | Ranker, attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food, lifestyle - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about.Over 1 billion votes now power Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data that delivers personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”), and also audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Launched in 2020 and powered by Ranker Insights, Watchworthy is the only statistically relevant, crowd-sourced TV recommendation app available to consumers. Ranker is listed on 2020’s Inc 5000 and Inc. 5000: California Series, Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 featuring the fastest growing companies in North America and Built In LA’s Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies To Work For in 2020 & 2021, and No. 5 on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Headquartered in Los Angeles with over 115 employees, Ranker also has an office in NYC. | $1.3M | Series A | Apr 04, 2011 | http://www.ranker.com |
| RentJuice | RentJuice is a community of real estate professionals who close more rental deals and offer superior service to their clients. Their technology and marketing services allow real estate agents and brokers to manage and market their inventory, communicate with their clients, and do all their paperwork (including free credit reports for tenantscreening) in one simple interface.Their services incorporate over a year of user research conducted at Harvard Business School concerning how real estate professionals in the rental market use technology and communicate. Their world class team is led by David Vivero, a serial online entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in rental property management, and Kunal Shah, who was previously CTO of Connected Ventures, where he led software development on Internet successes such as CollegeHumor, BustedTees, and Vimeo.RentJuice is a privately held company based in San Francisco, California. It is financed by leading angel investors and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. | $6.4M |  | Jan 31, 2011 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MicroVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microventure-marketplace) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NextView Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextview-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pasadena Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pasadena-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rincon Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rincon-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wavemaker Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wavemaker-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Draper Associates

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies. They invest globally, in great teams of people creating revolutionary companies in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud, new finance, IOT, and mobile. Their portfolio companies disrupting markets in the tens of billions and are on a clear path tolater rounds of fundraising.Draper Associates encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies, and to build platforms for extraordinary growth, jobs, and wealth creation. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, USA.

5 contacts available at Draper Associates.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Sangyoon Kim | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-sangyoon-kim |
| Aamer Sarfraz | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aamer-sarfraz |
| Andrew Tang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-tang |
| James Walker | Associate Counsel and Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-walker-4bfc |
| Kasha Akrami | Director of Scouts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kasha-akrami-5337 |

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## FAQ

### What does Joel Yarmon invest in?

Joel Yarmon invests primarily in Big Data, Payments and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Joel Yarmon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joel Yarmon closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 12 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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