Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder & General Partner @ 8-Bit Capital
San Francisco, United States
Jonathan Abrams is a seed investor at 8-Bit Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Jonathan Abrams is the Co-founder and General Partner of 8-Bit Capital. He previously worked at Girls in Tech, Inc. as a Board Member. Jonathan Abrams attended McMaster University.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Jonathan Abrams invests in
Stages Jonathan Abrams invests in
Countries Jonathan Abrams invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$3.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (40%)
- SaaS 8 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (17%)
- Mobile 4 (13%)
- Internet 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (53%)
- Funding Round 5 (17%)
- Angel 3 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (10%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Impart is the unified runtime protection platform that helps security teams stop AI, API, and web application attacks in production - at scale, with confidence. We built Impart because runtime protection shouldn't be a choice between visibility and enforcement. While traditional WAFs became opaque black boxes and API security tools offeredonly detection without action, we knew there had to be a better way. Drawing from our next-gen WAF heritage, we created a platform where security teams can actually block attacks safely in production, moving at the speed of modern threats.What We Do Our Runtime Application Protection Platform unifies WAF, API Security, Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR), and AI Runtime Protection into a single solution. Powered by WebAssembly (WASM) technology and AI-native workflows, Impart enables security teams to design, test, and deploy custom security rules with unprecedented speed and safety. We enforce at the ingress layer—the critical point of entry for every attack chain—delivering sub-10ms latency even at Super Bowl-scale traffic loads. Our platform is built for modern cloud environments, deploying as a Kubernetes-native sidecar that scales horizontally with your workloads.Why Impart Security teams choose Impart because we give them what they need most: the ability to block attacks safely in production without breaking their applications. Our WASM-powered rules are programmable, testable, and manageable through GitOps workflows, making us the only solution that both security and engineering teams trust.From detecting account takeover and business logic abuse to protecting against prompt injection and AI-specific threats, Impart consolidates point solutions into one platform that actually enforces protection where it matters most. | $12M / Series A / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2023 | ||
| Multiple is a developer-centric load test platform that can test any stack, any scenario, and capture any metric in 10 minutes. Our goal is to help increase uptime and reliability, prevent outages, and improve end-user experience. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 14, 2023 | ||
| Impart is the unified runtime protection platform that helps security teams stop AI, API, and web application attacks in production - at scale, with confidence. We built Impart because runtime protection shouldn't be a choice between visibility and enforcement. While traditional WAFs became opaque black boxes and API security tools offeredonly detection without action, we knew there had to be a better way. Drawing from our next-gen WAF heritage, we created a platform where security teams can actually block attacks safely in production, moving at the speed of modern threats.What We Do Our Runtime Application Protection Platform unifies WAF, API Security, Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR), and AI Runtime Protection into a single solution. Powered by WebAssembly (WASM) technology and AI-native workflows, Impart enables security teams to design, test, and deploy custom security rules with unprecedented speed and safety. We enforce at the ingress layer—the critical point of entry for every attack chain—delivering sub-10ms latency even at Super Bowl-scale traffic loads. Our platform is built for modern cloud environments, deploying as a Kubernetes-native sidecar that scales horizontally with your workloads.Why Impart Security teams choose Impart because we give them what they need most: the ability to block attacks safely in production without breaking their applications. Our WASM-powered rules are programmable, testable, and manageable through GitOps workflows, making us the only solution that both security and engineering teams trust.From detecting account takeover and business logic abuse to protecting against prompt injection and AI-specific threats, Impart consolidates point solutions into one platform that actually enforces protection where it matters most. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Dec 20, 2021 | ||
| Apptimize lets mobile teams increase revenue and engagement by iterating faster and smarter. Our mission is to enable you to optimize, deploy, and manage the features and UX of your native iOS and Android apps in real-time through instant updates, A/B testing, feature flags, and analytics. We work with top apps like the Wall Street Journal,Western Union, Flipagram, HotelTonight, Nokia, and Trulia. | Oct 18, 2018 | ||
| AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | Seed / Oct 18, 2018 | ||
| Alien Labs is building Memo, a note-taking app for technical teams that use Slack. With Memo it’s quick and easy to save and find code snippets, meeting notes, links, Slack messages, or other short work notes – right inside Slack or on the web. Notes can be kept private or shared with anyone on your team! | Seed / Oct 18, 2018 | ||
| DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container. | Angel / Oct 18, 2018 | ||
| ReTargeter is a full service display provider specializing in advanced retargeting solutions. ReTargeter retargeting technology serves ads to an audience as broad or as specific as a company’s business objectives require. it can serve ads only to users who have previously shown interest in a company (for example, by visiting the website) and bringthem back to the website by keeping the brand top of mind.ReTargeter allows companies to show ads to users around the web after they leave a website, open an email or are tagged in another creative way. With its expansive network reach ReTargeter can display ads on billions of websites, helping people engage or re-engage with the company. ReTargeter core retargeting technology can be utilized on its own, or in a number of ready to deploy ReTargeter products. | Jan 14, 2018 | ||
| SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | Seed / Jan 05, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About 8-Bit Capital
8-Bit Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in startups that connect people and businesses in new ways. 8-Bit Capital was co-founded by Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom in 2020.
8-Bit Capital Contacts
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What does Jonathan Abrams invest in?
Jonathan Abrams invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 30 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 Jonathan Abrams's check size?
Jonathan Abrams typically joins rounds of $300k–$3.1M 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 Jonathan Abrams participates in.
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The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Abrams closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 30 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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