# John Spinale

> John Spinale is a Series A investor at Jazz Venture Partners backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jazz Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jazz-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnspinale/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jspinale
- Website: http://www.jazzvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jspinale

John Spinale is a Series A investor at Jazz Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. John Spinale is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner of JAZZ Venture Partners. John previously worked at Disney Interactive as a SVP and GM Social and Mobile Games, Disney. John Spinale attended Yale University. John is certified by the Universal Life Church.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Life Science | 2 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zenode | AI PreCAD companion tool for Electrical Engineers | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Reken | Reken is an AI & cybersecurity firm building a new type of AI platform and products to protect against generative AI-enabled threats, including deepfake social engineering and automated fraud. The company was founded in 2024 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $10M | Seed | Jan 31, 2024 |  |
| Cabservices24x7 | Form Bio is a biotech company that provides solutions to address the data, computational, and technical hurdles in the life sciences. Founded in 2022, the company is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $30M | Series A | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Form Bio | Form Bio provides a variety of features, including workflows, data management, collaboration, data visualisation, and workflow catalogue. It provides solutions for lab directors, biotech, pharma, academics, and other fields. | $30M | Series A | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Augment AI Corp | Augment AI is building the Relationship Operating System (Relationship OS) for organizations that want connected context across conversations, documents, and decisions.Augment AI transforms unstructured information into a living system of relationship insight. The platform unifies meetings, calls, notes, follow-ups, CRM data, Slack threads, andbuyer resources into a shared Decision Site™, giving everyone a clear view of what is happening and what comes next.Teams use Augment AI to manage relationships at scale. It shows where momentum is building and where conversations are stalling. By reducing manual capture and keeping context in one place, the platform helps teams stay coordinated as work moves through the customer or project lifecycle.Augment AI turns context into clarity and clarity into momentum. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 04, 2022 |  |
| Sounding Board, Inc | Sounding Board offers a full-stack software platform for enterprises to scale coaching initiatives organization-wide, overnight and a high-quality coach network to serve on-demand coaching needs. It offers a modern user experience that adapts to the learning styles of people, a comprehensive set of automation tools for easy administration, and arobust data visualization capability to view the enterprise-wide impact of coaching. Serving several global enterprises in 11 countries with an NPS score of 81. Sounding Board aims to be the first coaching experience layer for enterprises worldwide.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Foster City, California. | $30M | Series B | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Outside | Pocket Outdoor Media brands influence and engage more athletes than any other through a combined print, online, and social audience of millions of runners, cyclists, triathletes, and swimmers. It features bike racing media brand triathlete and Women’s Running focusing on resource for women runners; | $150M | Series B | Feb 22, 2021 |  |
| Freeletics | Freeletics is a digital fitness company that offers tools to help promote physical fitness and mental strength.It provides an AI-based fitness and mindset coaching. The company aims to help everyone become the greatest version of themselves by building products that offer important elements for individuals to unleash their physical and mentalpotential. It promotes and increases physical fitness strives for improved mental strength, willpower, and confidence - all vital components for shaping one's lifestyle according to individual desires and goals.The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in München, Bayern. | $25M | Series B | Sep 23, 2020 |  |
| Outside | Pocket Outdoor Media brands influence and engage more athletes than any other through a combined print, online, and social audience of millions of runners, cyclists, triathletes, and swimmers. It features bike racing media brand triathlete and Women’s Running focusing on resource for women runners; | $16.5M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Freeletics | Freeletics is a digital fitness company that offers tools to help promote physical fitness and mental strength.It provides an AI-based fitness and mindset coaching. The company aims to help everyone become the greatest version of themselves by building products that offer important elements for individuals to unleash their physical and mentalpotential. It promotes and increases physical fitness strives for improved mental strength, willpower, and confidence - all vital components for shaping one's lifestyle according to individual desires and goals.The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in München, Bayern. | $45M | Series A | Dec 04, 2018 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Causeway Media Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/causeway-media-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Courtside Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtside-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FITLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fitlab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FPV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fpv-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Jazz Venture Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

JAZZ Venture Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on technologies that extend the boundaries of human performance. They invest in companies at the intersection of digital technology and neuroscience. They are interested in companies that leverage cutting-edge brain science to inform powerful technology platforms that are impactingthe human experience, such as virtual and augmented reality, immersive video gaming, artificial intelligence, and closed-loop human-computer systems. Their portfolio companies are unlocking human potential in important markets: health, mind-body wellness, peak mental and physical performance, accelerated learning and training, sports, and entertainment.The partners are proven investors, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, and technologists. They have deep domain experience and unparalleled access to innovative companies, talent, and strategic resources. Their multidisciplinary backgrounds allow us to meaningfully support exceptional entrepreneurs and executives in building category-defining companies.

5 contacts available at Jazz Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John F. Harris | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-harris-7679 |
| John F. Harris | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-f-harris |
| John Spinale | Co-Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-spinale |
| Zack Lynch | Co-founder, General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zack-lynch |
| Adam Gazzaley | Co-Founder & Chief Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-gazzaley |

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## FAQ

### What does John Spinale invest in?

John Spinale invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Life Science 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.

### When did John Spinale last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Spinale closed in Mar 2024. 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.

### 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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