# Josh Buckley

> Josh Buckley is a seed investor at Buckley Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 76 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Buckley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buckley-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 76
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/josh-buckley/4/228/761
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/joshbuckley
- Website: https://joshbuckley.co/

Josh Buckley is a seed investor at Buckley Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$20M |
| Pre-Seed | $600k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $9M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 8% |
| Internet | 5 | 7% |
| FinTech | 4 | 5% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 42% |
| Series A | 10 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 8% |
| Series B | 6 | 8% |
| Series C | 3 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pogo | Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Drafted | Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $16M | Seed | May 29, 2026 |  |
| Drafted | Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| Jabbr | Jabbr allows to capture boxing matches with a virtual video production.Its goal is to make video production and advanced performance analytics in combat sports available to anyone with a smartphone. | $5M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Vultron | Vultron provides unparalleled AI for federal proposal development. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| Speak | Speak is a developer of a mobile language-learning application focused on English learning. The application uses speech recognition technology to support conversational practice in real-world contexts. It enables users to improve spoken English skills and listening comprehension, including exposure to different accents, through structured speakingexercises and interaction-based learning features. | $20M | Series B | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| Speak | Speak is a developer of a mobile language-learning application focused on English learning. The application uses speech recognition technology to support conversational practice in real-world contexts. It enables users to improve spoken English skills and listening comprehension, including exposure to different accents, through structured speakingexercises and interaction-based learning features. | $16M | Series B | Jul 19, 2023 |  |
| Vial | Vial was founded to execute on a mission to reimagine clinical trials by delivering faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Vial’s powerful technology platform delivers faster, more efficient trials that are up to 50% cheaper. | $67M | Series B | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Vial | Vial was founded to execute on a mission to reimagine clinical trials by delivering faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Vial’s powerful technology platform delivers faster, more efficient trials that are up to 50% cheaper. | $67M | Series B | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Vial | Vial was founded to execute on a mission to reimagine clinical trials by delivering faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Vial’s powerful technology platform delivers faster, more efficient trials that are up to 50% cheaper. | $34M | Series A | Nov 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 76 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Buckley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buckley-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-twenty-minute-vc) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [OpenAI Startup Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openai-startup-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Buckley Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Josh Buckley.

1 contacts available at Buckley Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Josh Buckley | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-buckley |

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [SpeedUp Venture Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedup-venture-capital-group) — VC Fund
- [SMOK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smok-ventures) — VC Fund
- [LT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lt-capital-5861) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Climate Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/climate-angel-investors)
- [Climate Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/climate-angel-investors-united-states)
- [Manufacturing Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/manufacturing-angel-investors)
- [Manufacturing Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/manufacturing-angel-investors-united-states)
- [Mobile Apps Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-angel-investors)
- [Mobile Apps Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-angel-investors-united-states)

## FAQ

### What does Josh Buckley invest in?

Josh Buckley invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 76 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 Josh Buckley's check size?

Josh Buckley typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$20M at Seed, $600k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$34M 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 Josh Buckley participates in.

### When did Josh Buckley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Josh Buckley closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 76 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co