# Jonathan Swanson

> Jonathan Swanson is a seed investor at Athena backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Athena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/athena-c105)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanwswanson
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/swaaanson
- Website: https://x.com/swaaanson
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathanswanson

Jonathan Swanson is a seed investor at Athena in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan Swanson is the Founder and Chairman of Athena. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.5k–$4M |
| Series A | $25k–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Education | 3 | 13% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 13% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 63% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Series E | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 83% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keeper | Find the right person. Build something meaningful together. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Superorder | Superorder provides restaurants the resources they need to increase income from delivery and takeaway with virtual brands through an all-in-one software platform. | $10M | Series A | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| Openlayer | Openlayer is helping ML teams build the future of reliable, performant, and ethical machine learning. | $4.8M | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Pareto AI | Pareto helps delegate time-consuming business tasks to focus on the work that matters most. They combine the quality and care of real people with the efficiency of machine automation to help entrepreneurs get more done — fast. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| Copilot | Copilot is built to empower sales reps with the information they need, in real-time, when on a live call. Think of the hardest questions or objections you might struggle to answer when on a videoconference with a prospect - questions about product, regulations, competitive objections, or case studies. Copilot surfaces voice-activated cue cards,based on the conversation, that empowers reps to answer questions and address objections. | $3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Superorder | Superorder provides restaurants the resources they need to increase income from delivery and takeaway with virtual brands through an all-in-one software platform. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| Rocketlane | Rocketlane is a professional services automation (PSA) platform designed to enhance project profitability and streamline customer onboarding processes. The platform combines project management, collaboration, and communication tools to help teams plan, track, and execute client-facing projects. It includes features such as task management, documentsharing, time tracking, and customer portals, enabling visibility into project progress for both internal teams and clients. Rocketlane also supports workflow automation, resource planning, and reporting to help organizations coordinate onboarding activities and monitor performance. The system integrates with other business tools to streamline data flow across sales, customer success, and service teams. | $3M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| MasterClass | Launched in 2015, MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best. With an annual membership, subscribers get unlimited access to 100+ instructors and classes across a wide range of subjects, including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into KellyWearstler’s design studio, Ron Finley’s garden and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Get inspired by RuPaul, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn on your own terms—in bite-size pieces or in a single binge. Cinematic visuals and close-up, hands-on demonstrations make you feel like you’re one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable instructor guides help reinforce your learning. Stream thousands of lessons anywhere, anytime, on mobile, tablet, desktop, Apple TV®, Android™ TV, Amazon Fire TV® and Roku® players and devices. | $100M | Series E | May 20, 2020 |  |
| Kitchens Centre | Kitchens Centre offers turnkey solutions to cloud kitchens – right from providing commercial space and kitchen infrastructure to assisting with branding, order management, delivery, and maintenance services. | $500K | Seed | Apr 02, 2020 |  |
| Zubale | Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China. | $3.7M | Seed | Oct 17, 2019 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amity-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BBQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbq-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Athena

VC Fund · San Juan, Puerto Rico

Athena is a business consultancy that provides document management, networking, administration management, and recruitment solutions.

2 contacts available at Athena.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Swanson | Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-swanson |
| Anj Vera | Talent Experience Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anj-vera |

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## FAQ

### What does Jonathan Swanson invest in?

Jonathan Swanson invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Swanson's check size?

Jonathan Swanson typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.5M at Seed, $2.5k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $25k–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jonathan Swanson participates in.

### When did Jonathan Swanson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Swanson closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 24 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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