# Joshua Auerbach

> Joshua Auerbach is a seed investor in New York backing SaaS, Software and Social Media. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaauerbach
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/auerbach
- Website: http://joshauerbach.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auerbach

Joshua Auerbach is a seed investor in New York focused on SaaS and Software. Venture Partner at Betaworks Studio. Formerly Partner and Chief Financial Officer at betaworks. Prior to joining betaworks, Josh held strategy roles at Quantcast and Time Warner and advised startups such as Summize, CoTweet and OMGPOP.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$2.5M |
| Angel | $750k–$750k |
| Series A | $4M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Social Media | 3 | 21% |
| Marketing | 2 | 14% |
| Publishing | 2 | 14% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Angel | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KaeMe | Kaeme is a 501(c)(3) that partners with the Ghanaian Department of Social Welfare to help children living in orphanages in Ghana find permanent homes through reunification with family members, adoption or foster-care. To accomplish this, Kaeme volunteer teams work hand-in-hand with Ghanaian social workers to survey orphanages across Ghana as partof the government's Care Reform Initiative. These visits capture essential information about each child's history, health, and welfare. The Department of Social Welfare then uses this information collected to create a more permanent care plan for each child. Kaeme was founded in 2008 out of the non-profit incubator, Be a Good Doctor, by Michael McCullough, John Stevens, Marci Stevens, and Jennifer Miller. | $3.6K |  | Mar 16, 2016 |  |
| SocialFlow | SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens ofthousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC. | $10M | Series B | Apr 17, 2013 |  |
| TOTEMS | Totems offers a marketing suite for brands on Totems provides its customers with an advanced social analytics platform to understand their audience, track their campaigns, and benchmark their competitors. It also offers a data-driven platform towork with creators. | $1M | Seed | Nov 29, 2012 |  |
| Picturelife | The Picturelife team is a group of accomplished software engineers and designers that came together to solve a frustrating problem that everyone has: keeping our pictures safe and secure. It takes a fraction of a second to capture a memory that's meant to last forever, but just an instant to lose it to a thief, data corruption, or naturaldisaster. That’s why we built Picturelife.We’ve been working hard to make Picturelife the service we always wanted. We want our pictures safely backed because we're afraid of losing them. We value our privacy so we built Picturelife to be private and secure by default. And we're always on the go, so we made Picturelife accessible from any computer or device with an Internet connection. | $4M | Series A | Nov 02, 2012 |  |
| Pickie | Designed for the iPad, Pickie is re-imagining the catalog shopping experience. Your Pickie catalog is curated by the sources you trust, actionable, and enriched with content. Pickie is a top 25 app, and has been selected as one of '10 Essential Apps' in the catalogs category of the app store. | $1M | Seed | Oct 29, 2012 |  |
| RebelMouse | RebelMouse is the first digital publishing platform that is fully wired for social. Its solution enables brands, media companies and individuals to create vibrant content experiences that build communities and continually reach and grow audiences across the social web.Unlike conventional approaches that focus on managing content workflows withinspecific channels, RebelMouse liberates content across sites, social, apps and ads, and amplifies engagement with intelligent recommendations, social calls to action, real-time trending alerts and more.Founded in 2012 by former Huffington Post CTO Andrea Breanna, RebelMouse's modern approach to traffic helped create huge online hits like Axios and The Dodo, while also relaunching existing publishers like PAPER Magazine and helping them "Break the Internet." RebelMouse also helps brands who want to act more like a media company, including helping United Airlines Hub become the most popular airline blog.For more information, visit rebelmouse.com and follow RebelMouse on Twitter at @rebelmouse. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 26, 2012 |  |
| Funnel | Funnel offers a complete marketing and leasing management solution for residential landlords and brokers. From top national management companies to boutique brokerages, thousands of multifamily professionals rely on Funnel’s intuitive software to manage their inventory from one place, optimize the tenant experience from prospect to close, and drivemore revenue.The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. | $750K | Angel | Jul 05, 2011 |  |
| Funnel | Funnel’s renter-centric solutions revolutionize the antiquated process of finding a home into an enjoyable experience. We believe all renters deserve a seamless, simple and personalized journey. We provide leasing and communication tools that are intuitive and obliterate repetitive tasks -- driving more efficient leasing.We didn’t get tired andstop after building industry changing tech — the best CRM, the most sophisticated virtual leasing agent (VLA), the e-commerce inspired mobile-first online leasing solution, the resident onboarding and renewal tools that cater to today’s renter and management teams — we also built an internal culture of true partnership with clients. | $750K | Angel | Jul 05, 2011 |  |
| SocialFlow | SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens ofthousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC. | $7M | Series A | Apr 07, 2011 |  |
| OMGPOP | OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences. | $10.1M | Series B | Jan 06, 2011 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Joshua Auerbach invest in?

Joshua Auerbach invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Social Media startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 14 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 Joshua Auerbach's check size?

Joshua Auerbach typically joins rounds of $250k–$2.5M at Seed, $750k–$750k at Angel and $4M–$7M 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 Joshua Auerbach participates in.

### When did Joshua Auerbach last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joshua Auerbach closed in Mar 2016. Shizune tracks 14 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?

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