# Joshua Y. Lee

> Joshua Y. Lee is a pre-seed investor in Los Angeles backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaylee1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/UscBruin
- Website: https://www.gumshoeventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552018175096

Joshua Y. Lee is a pre-seed investor in Los Angeles focused on Software and SaaS. As an avid investor / advisor, start-up founder, and board member, Joshua consistently found his passion in starting, growing, and leading SaaS / fintech / B2B companies, especially those in the early startup and growth phases. Having founded several venture building funds, there is definitely a unique perspective and appreciation hehas as both an investor and as a founder.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 45% |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Hospitality | 2 | 18% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 18% |
| Video Games | 2 | 18% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gumshoe Ventures | Venture Fund / Studio |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2025 | https://x.com/gumshoeventures?lang=en |
| Koil Social | Koil helps teens explore careers, gain skills, and access industry insights, opportunities, and career-readiness content. Koil saves teens valuable time, delivering only the most relevant updates all in one place. The platform tailors content to each teen’s unique interests and career aspirations, empowering them to expand their knowledge, refinetheir skills, and grow confidently with access to premium information at their fingertips. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 15, 2025 | https://koilsocial.app |
| Immersed | We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity. |  | Series A | Aug 12, 2023 | https://immersed.com |
| Qathena | Digitizing the fragmented restaurant and ordering technology landscape into a single order management touch point |  |  | Jan 01, 2023 | http://www.qathena.com |
| OrderGuru | An all-in-one software and technology platform for cloud/ghost/virtual kitchens. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 | https://orderguru.app/ |
| Doorvest | Doorvest is a full-service real estate investing platform that helps busy working professionals own passive income rental homes. The company is an end-to-end rental home investing platform that helps individuals own real estate to generate passive income and build equity. Its platform assists in investing in cash flowing rental homes by properlyidentifying, planning, purchasing, and owning lease houses that enable users to unlock homeownership, passive income, and equity by investing in properties online. | $14M | Series A | Nov 18, 2021 | http://doorvest.com |
| Immersed | We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity. | $1M | Seed | Apr 29, 2020 | https://immersed.com |
| Gamevice | Gamevice is a US based award winning design and engineering business creating touch screen tablets and game controllers. Gamevice has offices in Hong Kong, London, and new offices opening in Shenzhen China. Its corporate head office is based in Los Angeles as is the R&D and support center. | $12.5M | Series A | May 31, 2017 | https://gamevice.com/ |
| Yo Union Games | Yo Union Games collaborates with top-tier international and local mobile game developers to create and localize/culturalize hit games for the Asia market. As both a studio / games incubator, Yo Union Games is committed to bringing the best mobile game experience to massive user bases in various genres. |  | Series A | Dec 10, 2016 |  |
| Intel Theory | Saas platform that utilizes data feeds to get real-time insight from any number of different data sources. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BAM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bam-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [California Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/california-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fireroad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fireroad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Joshua Y. Lee invest in?

Joshua Y. Lee invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Hospitality startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Joshua Y. Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joshua Y. Lee closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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