# John Curtius

> John Curtius is a Series B investor at Cedar Capital backing Software. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Cedar Capital
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 74%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncurtius

John Curtius is a Series B investor at Cedar Capital in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. John Curtius is the founder and Managing Partner of Cedar Capital

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $12M–$35M |
| Series B | $25M–$85M |
| Series C | $50M–$284M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 70 | 41% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 43 | 25% |
| SaaS | 37 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 21 | 12% |

166 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 40 | 23% |
| Series A | 35 | 20% |
| Series C | 22 | 13% |
| Series D | 19 | 11% |
| Series E | 14 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 86 | 50% |
| Israel | 9 | 5% |
| India | 6 | 4% |
| Germany | 6 | 4% |
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vercel | Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure to save and secure personalized websites. They offer a DX platform, AI, and open-source services. They also provide resource centers, marketing sites, templates, platforms, and design engineer solutions. | $300M | Series F | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Pallet | Pallet builds AI agents for logistics teams, automating repetitive back-office workflows like order entry, shipment visibility, document parsing, and quoting. Its agent, CoPallet, uses AI and reasoning to complete tasks end-to-end inside systems like TMS, WMS, and ERP with accuracy and efficiency. CoPallet learns your SOPs, understands tribalknowledge, and makes inferences to handle logistics complexity unique to your workflows. | $18M | Series A | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Pallet | Pallet builds AI agents for logistics teams, automating repetitive back-office workflows like order entry, shipment visibility, document parsing, and quoting. Its agent, CoPallet, uses AI and reasoning to complete tasks end-to-end inside systems like TMS, WMS, and ERP with accuracy and efficiency. CoPallet learns your SOPs, understands tribalknowledge, and makes inferences to handle logistics complexity unique to your workflows. | $18M | Series A | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Scale | Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data. | $1B | Series F | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Vercel | Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure to save and secure personalized websites. They offer a DX platform, AI, and open-source services. They also provide resource centers, marketing sites, templates, platforms, and design engineer solutions. | $250M | Series E | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Archive | Archive automates e-commerce digital marketing workflows with two products: (1) Archive App (AA) is a digital asset manager built for modern digital marketers. App automates the collection and metadata labeling of all your brand's social content (including ephemeral stories) and automates the workflow to convert and distribute this content asoptimized advertising creative across your favorite retention marketing and media platforms. (2) Archive Communities (AC) automates a brand's influencer seeding program to drive impressions and generate affiliates. | $4M | Seed | Jun 12, 2023 |  |
| Cortex | Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. With centralized visibility, clear ownership, automated Scorecards, and golden paths, we help engineering organizations operate as one. Our customers – from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises– create a culture of engineering excellence, reducing incidents by 30% and improving MTTR by 50%, all while making it easier for developers to focus on building. | $35M | Series B | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Quicknode | QuickNode is a Web3 developer platform which helps you build & operate blockchain-powered applications (dApps).A lightning-fast global API provides instant access to Ethereum & Bitcoin networks (JSON-RPC over https:// or wss://).Monitor usage with analytics dashboard and ship faster with tools like 1-click WebHooksfor smart-contract events.Over 3000 nodes launched; trusted by top blockchain projects; helping the blockchain ecosystem grow since 2017! | $60M | Series B | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Greenscreens AI | Greenscreens.ai is a company that provides pricing infrastructure and market intelligence solutions for the freight industry, enabling users to access accurate rate predictions and insights based on real-time and historical data. The platform integrates advanced analytics to help sales teams and freight brokers optimize their pricing strategies,improve decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency. By leveraging comprehensive market data, Greenscreens.ai allows clients to respond quickly to market changes and customer demands, facilitating better negotiation outcomes and fostering informed business strategies. Additionally, the service supports users in identifying trends and opportunities within the freight market, contributing to more effective sales development and customer engagement efforts. | $5M | Series A | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Factorial | Factorial provides business management and human resources software that helps organizations manage employee data, time tracking, payroll processes, recruitment, performance management, expenses, and workforce administration through a unified platform. The platform centralizes HR, finance, and operational workflows, allowing companies to manageemployee records, documents, approvals, scheduling, and reporting in one system. It includes tools for workforce planning, talent management, payroll preparation, document storage, and electronic signatures, while also offering analytics to support operational and personnel decisions. Factorial incorporates artificial intelligence features that assist with tasks such as reporting, information retrieval, workflow automation, and employee support. The software integrates with a range of third-party applications and is used by organizations to streamline administrative processes and manage workforce operations more efficiently. | $120M | Series C | Oct 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 15 deals together

## About Cedar Capital

VC Fund

Cedar is a leading global technology investment firm with a mission to back the world’s best founders in secular growth areas early on.

1 contacts available at Cedar Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Curtius | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-curtius |

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## FAQ

### What does John Curtius invest in?

John Curtius invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 171 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 Curtius's check size?

John Curtius typically joins rounds of $12M–$35M at Series A, $25M–$85M at Series B and $50M–$284M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Curtius participates in.

### How do I contact John Curtius?

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### When did John Curtius last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Curtius closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 171 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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