John Bonten
Angel Investor
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Bonten is a seed investor in Amsterdam focused on Mobile Apps and Machine Learning. John Bonten actively invests in various startups including Calm, Atoms, HeadSpin, Outdoor Voices, and more. He is a former member of a small cross-functional expansion and growth team at Spotify.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries John Bonten invests in
Stages John Bonten invests in
Countries John Bonten invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $125k–$2.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile Apps 2 (50%)
- Machine Learning 2 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
- Apps 1 (25%)
- Music 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 2 (50%)
- France 1 (25%)
- Sweden 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Photoroom is an AI-enabled image capturing app that lets users create studio-quality product pictures in seconds. The company offers to remove background, change the background, and showcase products in one click on iPhone and iPad for free, helping users to easily make changes to their images. | $125K / Seed / Aug 25, 2020 | ||
| HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences. Its platform utilizes automation, AI, and analytics to unify end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring with thousands of devices deployed in 100+ locations on the real carrier and WiFi networks around theglobe that enable development, QA, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications and increase revenue. | $60M / Series C / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out. | $2.9M / Seed / Feb 06, 2020 | ||
| Founded by Ricardo Vice Santos and Andreas Blixt, two former Spotify engineers, after Ricardo ran into a pole on the streets of New York while walking and texting with a friend in Sweden. Ricardo got frustrated as he simply wanted to talk, and walk. Blixt and Ricardo felt that there should be a simpler, more personal way to communicate with theirclosest ones than to text message; a product that would empower conversations with more emotion and context, that would be easily understood and that would be adopted by anyone with a smartphone.Roger currently has five employees from Sweden, Portugal, France, India and Singapore, and is based in New York City. | $1M / Seed / Jan 21, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does John Bonten invest in?
John Bonten invests primarily in Mobile Apps, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 4 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 John Bonten's check size?
John Bonten typically joins rounds of $125k–$2.9M 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 John Bonten participates in.
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When did John Bonten last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Bonten closed in Aug 2020. Shizune tracks 4 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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