Julia Popowitz
Investor @ ARF Investments
San Francisco, United States
Julia Popowitz is a seed investor at ARF Investments in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Julia is an advisor to start ups and an active technology angel investor, with angel investments in Gusto, Lever, Baobab Studios, Brit Media, BetterUp, SafeGraph, CodeFights, AltSchool, MissionU, Owlet, Philz Coffee, Tynker, Happiest Baby, Kite, MileIQ (acq by MSFT), Locu (acq by GoDaddy), Beme (acq by CNN), Alt12 (acq by Honest Co), Worklife (acqby Cisco) & Wheelz (acq by Turo), and later stage investments in Uber, Alibaba (IPO’d), FlipKart, Postmates, DocuSign, Survey Monkey, Blue Bottle Coffee, Stripe and Spotify.Julia began her career as a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati. In 2006, Julia joined Facebook as the second attorney in the legal department and led the commercial transactions team from June 2006 until April 2011. She negotiated numerous deals strategic to Facebook's growth and development, including with Microsoft, Spotify, ABC/Disney, CNN and YouTube. Julia led a team of 9 attorneys, oversaw Facebook's legal work related to its international expansion and operations, and worked on matters related to product and IP law. In her five years at Facebook, Julia was instrumental in scaling the legal team from two people to 40, setting up departmental procedures and infrastructure and hiring and managing outside counsel. Julia received her JD from Harvard Law School in 1997, graduating cum laude, and her BA from UC Berkeley, graduating magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with a degree in Political Science. She is a member of the State Bar of California.In her free time, Julia volunteers at her kids' schools and with other community organizations. She has chaired the annual auctions at Bing Nursery School and Nueva School and is on the National Council of World Wildlife Fund. Previously, she sat on the boards of the Oshman Family JCC, Hebrew Free Loan Association and Hands on Bay Area. She biked from SF to LA with the California AIDS Ride and ran the Honolulu Marathon with Team in Training.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
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Industries Julia Popowitz invests in
Stages Julia Popowitz invests in
Countries Julia Popowitz invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6.1M
- Series A
- $3M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (39%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (33%)
- Human Resources 4 (22%)
- Machine Learning 4 (22%)
- Virtual Reality 3 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (44%)
- Series A 6 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
- Convertible Note 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 15 (83%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
- Colombia 1 (6%)
Investments
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Dondo
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Dondo is an AI Copilot for e-commerce sellers that saves time and money by automatically optimizing and creating thousands of platform-specific descriptions and listings. With Dondo, sellers can post SEO-enhanced listings across marketplaces and social media platforms like Instagram, MercadoLibre, Shopify, TikTok, and more, all with just the clickof a button. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Jan 19, 2021 | |
Celo
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Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the CeloAlliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. | $6.5M / Jun 25, 2018 | |
UploadVR
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Upload is dedicated to accelerating the success of the VR + AR (XR) industry through inspiring educational experiences. | $4.5M / Series A / May 16, 2017 | |
SafeGraph
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SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16M / Series A / Apr 19, 2017 | |
Latent Space
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Latent Space is a developer of virtual reality technology intended to offer a fully artificial intelligence rendered 3D engine. The company's technology lets users manipulate and explore latent space in a 3D context, enabling clients to dynamically build models, track experiments and test different model configurations and architecturesquickly. | $7.5M / Series A / Apr 12, 2017 | |
TextRecruit
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TextRecruit is a candidate and employee engagement platform that leverages text, chat and AI to optimize the recruiting funnel. With customized, integrated solutions for large teams, TextRecruit consolidates consumer messaging applications and turns them into enterprise communication platforms. TextRecruit is a profitable organization that has beengrowing at 5x year over year for the last 2 years. | $3M / Series A / Mar 21, 2017 | |
BetterUp
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BetterUp provides AI and human coaching through its platform, offering leadership, manager, resilience, and employee development programs. It uses behavioral science to align workforce performance with organizational goals and support professional growth. The platform delivers tools for coaching, training, and development to enhance productivity,leadership effectiveness, and employee well-being. | $2.9M / Seed / Nov 06, 2016 | |
Kite
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Kite is an artificial pair programmer. It augments coding environment with internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning. It shows examples and documentation for the libraries and terminal commands being used. Kite even detects simple errors and offers to fix them for each users. | $4M / Seed / Apr 14, 2016 | |
Siftery
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Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations. | $4M / Seed / Feb 02, 2016 | |
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BetterUp
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BetterUp provides AI and human coaching through its platform, offering leadership, manager, resilience, and employee development programs. It uses behavioral science to align workforce performance with organizational goals and support professional growth. The platform delivers tools for coaching, training, and development to enhance productivity,leadership effectiveness, and employee well-being. | $2.9M / Seed / Jan 04, 2016 | |
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What does Julia Popowitz invest in?
Julia Popowitz invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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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Julia Popowitz typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6.1M at Seed and $3M–$16M 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 Julia Popowitz participates in.
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