# Josh Elman

> Josh Elman is a seed investor at Apple (San Francisco) backing Internet and Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Apple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshe
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/joshelman
- Website: https://x.com/joshelman
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshelman

Josh Elman is a Product Builder at Apple. He attended stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $5.1M–$25M |
| Series C | $19M–$134M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 8 | 25% |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Mobile | 5 | 16% |
| Communities | 5 | 16% |
| Apps | 4 | 13% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 41% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 72% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yupp | Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Ladder | Ladder is the professional community platform for the next generation to grow their careers together. On Ladder, members can join interest-based communities, consume high-quality career content, engage in fun discussions, land your dream job, and form meaningful relationships with peers and mentors. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Nova | Nova is the professional community platform for the next generation to grow their careers together. On Nova, members can join interest-based communities, consume high-quality career content, engage in fun discussions, land your dream job, and form meaningful relationships with peers and mentors. | $3.7M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Kinema | Kinema is building the world's largest network of alternative theaters - enabling organizers across the world to host unique events in-person and online. | $2M | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Reface | Reface offers state-of-the-art technology for high-quality face-swapping. Based on GAN (generative adversarial networks) methodology, it works fast and you need only one photo to make a high-quality face-swap.Reface strives to build the first social platform of dynamically personalized media content empowered with machine learning technology.Launched in January 2020, it was ranked as a number one in the US AppStore. The app was downloaded over 70 million times in seven months after it launched. Reface was founded by Roman Mogylnyi, Oles Petriv, Yaroslav Boyko, Denys Dmytrenko, Kyrylo Syhyda, Dima Shvets and Ivan Altsybeiev.Data protection is a social responsibility for Reface. We do not use data for any other purposes except for face-swapping.Work with the B2B segment includes ready-to-use technology and tools for businesses.Reface provides tools for creators to produce great content while keeping the costs down. It’s aimed at advertising and marketing, media, streaming, game development, video production industries, and more. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| Northstar | At Northstar, we believe financial wellness starts with a single paycheck. We work with leading companies to provide 1-on-1 financial advisors and personal finance tools as an employee benefit. Northstar’s financial wellness program helps employees make the most of their total compensation, and helps companies support their teams at scale. Ouremployer customers include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more. | $7.3M | Series A | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Jam | Jam is a new in-the-flow company that turns any website into a collaborative document. The company allowing developers and designers to track issues and make suggestions quickly and simply. The web of collaboration apps invading remote work toolkits has led to plenty of messy workflows for teams that communicate in the language of desktopscreenshots and DMs. The platform supports Slack, Jira, GitHub, Asana, Loom, and Figma, with a few more in the immediate pipeline.Founded in 2020 by Dani Grant and Mohd Irtefa. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Hub | Hub - Human Trust ProtocolBillions of users on the Internet interact with each other every day on messengers, online communities, social networks and peer-to-peer marketplaces, making contact with people they never met let alone trust.By securing trust and decentralizing reputation data on a blockchain, the Internet will offer greater economicvalue to users to gain more opportunities, command higher premiums for their products and services, and get more cooperation from others. | $20M |  | Jun 02, 2018 |  |
| TruStory | TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate. | $3M | Seed | May 23, 2018 |  |
| Trimian | Startup based in Menlo Park, focusing on mobile apps. The name comes from 'tri-simian', referring to the three wise monkeys. | $3M |  | Oct 24, 2017 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Comcast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-interactive-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lowercase Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercase-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Apple

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.Apple provides many products and services, includingiPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores.Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation.Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine.The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

5 contacts available at Apple.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Perica | Head of mergers and acquisitions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-perica |
| Eddy Cue | SVP of Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-cue |
| Ed Ruth | Global Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-ruth |
| Eitan Toledo | Senior Director, Program Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eitan-toledo |
| Jake Shapiro | Head of Creator Partnerships, Apple Podcasts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-shapiro |

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## FAQ

### What does Josh Elman invest in?

Josh Elman invests primarily in Internet, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 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 Elman's check size?

Josh Elman typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$5.5M at Seed, $5.1M–$25M at Series A and $19M–$134M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Josh Elman participates in.

### When did Josh Elman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Josh Elman closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 32 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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