# Josh Goldman

> Josh Goldman is a Series B investor at Catapult VC (Palo Alto) backing E-Commerce and Retail. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Catapult VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catapult-vc)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jul 2012
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vcjosh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/VCjosh
- Website: http://www.nvp.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jgoldman0

Josh Goldman is a General Partner at Catapult VC and he was the CEO of Akimbo. Josh holds an MBA from Harvard Business school and a bachelor of science (honors) degree in computer science from Tufts University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 15% |
| Retail | 2 | 10% |
| Software | 2 | 10% |
| Analytics | 2 | 10% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 10% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 30% |
| Series C | 4 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 15% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NinthDecimal | NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap inunderstanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Series E | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| JoyRun | JoyRun is a peer-to-peer platform that makes group deliveries for the community, by the community, social, affordable and rewarding. JoyRun’s feed lets you see who wants what in your area, create or spontaneously join existing requests, and then connects the groups with community members willing to do JoyRuns. And when you do a JoyRun, you get paida few dollars and build your social cred. For local businesses, JoyRun wakes up latent demand, builds brand preference and grows top line revenue. Started in 2015, JoyRun is based in Silicon Valley. Today, college campuses nationwide. Tomorrow, offices and neighborhoods around the world. | $8.5M | Series A | Mar 30, 2017 |  |
| Bloomberg Second Measure | Bloomberg Second Measure is a technology company that analyzes billions of anonymized purchases to help some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms answer real-time questions on company performance and consumer behavior.We’re based in the Bay Area with an office in New York, and are proudly backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GoldmanSachs, Citi Ventures, Jefferies Investment Group, Y Combinator, and other top investors. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 05, 2016 |  |
| NinthDecimal | NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap inunderstanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $6.7M | Series E | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| Medallia Agent Connect | Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $15M | Series C | Jul 15, 2015 |  |
| ModCloth | ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce.Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh. | $15M | Series C | Jun 25, 2015 |  |
| Sojern | Sojern provides digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Powered by artificial intelligence and traveler intent data, Sojern activates multi-channel marketing solutions to drive direct demand. More than 10,000 hotels, attractions, tourism boards and travel marketers rely on Sojern to engage and convert travelers around the world. | $10M | Series C | Dec 17, 2013 |  |
| Quirky | Quirky is a developer of a crowdsourced invention platform that engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation. It is a new type of socially developed product company founded with the vision of making invention accessible. Headquartered in New York City, Quirky brings game-changing products to the marketplace throughinteraction between its active online global community and Quirky’s expert product design staff, bringing to life ideas from their earliest stages to store shelves.Quirky was founded by Ben Kaufman, who is also the company’s CEO. Quirky is Kaufman’s third entrepreneurial venture. He previously founded Mophie and Kluster. Kaufman founded Quirky on the belief that ordinary people have extraordinary ideas, and that invention should be accessible to everyone. Any of Quirky’s community members can become an inventor or influencer by submitting ideas and helping to determine which products Quirky will design, manufacture, and sell. Inventors who submit ideas that are then created and influencers who contribute to those ideas share in royalties based on product sales. The company solicits ideas for new products via Quirky.com and its iPhone app. Once an idea is submitted, the Quirky community vets it, praises it, critiques it, and votes for their favorites, many of which will eventually be made by the Quirky design team and sold online and in stores.A prospective inventor can submit an idea to Quirky, and there is no limit on the number of invention ideas that a person can submit. When determining which products to make, Quirky considers factors such as uniqueness, manufacturing complexity, and intellectual property rights, yet they are committed to working on ideas both big and small that make life better.In 2016, the Quirky platform relaunched under new ownership. | $79M | Series D | Nov 13, 2013 |  |
| Medallia Agent Connect | Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $15M | Series B | Feb 27, 2013 |  |
| ModCloth | ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce.Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh. | $2.5M |  | Jul 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trident Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trident-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Omega Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omega-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bullish](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullish-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Catapult VC

VC Fund



2 contacts available at Catapult VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Josh Goldman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-goldman |
| Jonathan Tower | Managing Partner & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-tower-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Josh Goldman invest in?

Josh Goldman invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 20 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 Josh Goldman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Josh Goldman closed in Jul 2012. Shizune tracks 20 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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