# Jonathan Shipman

> Jonathan Shipman is a seed investor in San Francisco Bay Area backing eSports and Beauty. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jshipman

Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.9M–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eSports | 2 | 40% |
| Beauty | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Marketing | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MAKA | MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Riley | Riley is an artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant. It is used by salespeople to create contacts and store information for them, ready for whenever they need it, taking the work out of working with their CRM. As a result, they can close more deals and build genuine relationships. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| NEWNESS | Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 26, 2021 |  |
| Juked | Juked is building a new social network for esports with the north star mission of bringing fans closer together in an inclusive, all-in-one environment and reduce toxicity from esports discussion. Today, esports discussion and communities are fragmented across Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and Twitch chat - and esports culture has long been mired bythe toxicity that comes with anonymity on the internet. We know that esports fans are sick and tired of "hot take" culture on Twitter and the spam, misogamy, and hatred that is all too common in Twitch chat. This all changes with the launch of the Juked app this Fall. We're bringing together everything fans need to follow, discuss, and engage with the esports they love. Juked was founded by esports veterans Ben "FishStix" Goldhaber and Chris "ChanManV" Chan in 2019. | $1.4M | Equity Crowdfunding | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| yup.gg | yup.gg is the leading marketing platform providing access to the gaming and esports audience in the emerging markets. |  | Seed | Sep 29, 2019 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Red Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/br-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dream Machine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dream-machine-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GoAhead Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goahead-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Palm Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-palm-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Jonathan Shipman invest in?

Jonathan Shipman invests primarily in eSports, Beauty and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Shipman's check size?

Jonathan Shipman typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$2.7M at Pre-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 Shipman participates in.

### When did Jonathan Shipman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Shipman closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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