Joseph Coyne
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Studio VC
New York, United States
Joseph Coyne is a seed investor at Studio VC in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Joe Coyne is the Managing Partner of Studio VC, a Seed stage Venture Capital firm based in New York City. Prior to joining Studio VC as Managing Partner, Joe helped build Samsung Electronic's Venture Capital team in New York City as part of the Global Innovation Center. While at Samsung, Joe performed all aspects of deal sourcing, diligenceand negotiation, with a focus on early and growth stage software and services investments. During his tenure at Samsung, Joe's initial investments realized two exits, Automated Insights sold to Vista Equity backed STATS Inc. and LoopPay was sold to Samsung Electronics to create the technical backbone for Samsung Pay.In 2009, Joe joined Bain Capital Ventures Investments in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Bain Capital, Joe worked on both early-stage and growth-equity investments in a variety of industries, including business services, consumer technology, marketing services, eCommerce and digital media. He also worked closely with numerous portfolio companies on strategic planning, business development and company exits.Earlier in his career, Joe worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Merrill Lynch in New York, where he advised clients across diverse industries on a variety of strategic and financial transactions.Joe received his BBA from University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where his studies concentrated on investments, innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Joseph Coyne invests in
Stages Joseph Coyne invests in
Countries Joseph Coyne invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (36%)
- SaaS 4 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (55%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (23%)
- Series A 2 (9%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
Country
- United States 15 (68%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Ireland 1 (5%)
- The Netherlands 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Oraion
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Oraion is an artificial intelligence platform that eliminates the delays and hidden expenses associated with traditional data operations by transforming fragmented company data into usable insights. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 08, 2025 | |
Monitaur
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Monitaur is the leading AI governance solution helping highly regulated enterprises use AI systems that businesses, regulators, and consumers can trust. The company provides software and expertise that empowers organizations and their partners to define, manage, and automate essential best practices. They offer a unified system of record forgoverning the lifecycle of both internally developed and third-party AI products. With Monitaur, companies can accelerate innovation with clarity and confidence in the transparency, performance, fairness, safety, and compliance of their AI systems. | $6M / Series A / May 13, 2024 | |
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Monitaur
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Monitaur is the leading AI governance solution helping highly regulated enterprises use AI systems that businesses, regulators, and consumers can trust. The company provides software and expertise that empowers organizations and their partners to define, manage, and automate essential best practices. They offer a unified system of record forgoverning the lifecycle of both internally developed and third-party AI products. With Monitaur, companies can accelerate innovation with clarity and confidence in the transparency, performance, fairness, safety, and compliance of their AI systems. | $4.6M / Seed / Jan 05, 2023 | |
Trexity
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Trexity is a shipping platform that puts the power back into the hands of customers, allows them to ship anywhere at anytime, and leverage a unique driver marketplace. It tracks each delivery in real-time and gets direct notifications at each stage of the shipment, providing customers with last-mile logistics solutions. Users of this platform cantake a picture of their package, input a few details, and then pick a driver from the Trexity marketplace that is going along that route.It began its operations in 2019 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario. | $3.9M / Seed / May 25, 2022 | |
Because
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$1.3T is spent globally each year to drive traffic to ecommerce websites. Only 3% convert. That’s because most sites don’t know who you are. Because is a CRO & Personalization platform for Shopify - powered by Klaviyo dataWe help connect all the data merchants have in their tech stack across Shopify, Klaviyo, Yotpo, Loyalty Lion, Recharge,Octane, and more to create a dynamic website experience. Brands like Tom Brady’s TB12, Hello Kitty, Echelon, Duke Cannon, The Adventure Challenge, and more use Because to increase conversion by 23%+ | $3M / Seed / May 18, 2022 | |
Wayflyer
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Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce brands. It provides fast and affordable funding to help grow businesses, without any of the complications and free marketing analytics to get out of budget. The company is based in Dublin, Ireland. | $150M / Series B / Feb 01, 2022 | |
Polymer
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Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, Zapier, and many others. This protects against data loss and cyber breaches. The solution provides a single pane of glass to configure, permission, and track usage of sensitive data across the organization to become PII,PHI,HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA compliant. | $4M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | |
Peblo
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Peblo removes the pain and uncertainty of waiting for payment. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2021 | |
Mentorcam
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Mentorcam gives people access to renowned experts and public figures for 1-on-1 mentorship and advice. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 09, 2021 | |
Quilo
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Qoosh Technology is a Digital, Mobile centric FIntech Platform that enables community banks & credit unions to provide "Quilos", instant installment loans to account holders with immediate access to funds and no hidden fees. 'Quilo' is the trademark of Qoosh Technology. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Studio VC
Studio VC is an early stage investment fund that provides capital and hands-on guidance to growing companies with breakout potential.
Studio VC Contacts
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Joseph Coyne
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Liam Lynch
Founder & Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Joseph Coyne invest in?
Joseph Coyne invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Joseph Coyne last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Joseph Coyne closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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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