# Julie McDermott

> Julie McDermott is a seed investor at McDermott LLC (New York) backing E-Commerce and FinTech. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [McDermott LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcdermott-capital-llc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcdermottjulie

Julie McDermott is a seed investor at McDermott LLC in New York focused on E-Commerce and FinTech. Early-Stage Tech Investor; Sustainability; Ex-Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, 50 countries.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$1.9M |
| Debt Financing | $250k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 22% |
| FinTech | 4 | 17% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 65% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 78% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matriark Foods | Matriark Foods upcycles farm surplus into healthy foodservice products for the benefit of people and nature. The company works with farmers and aggregators to make use of the 40% of vegetables that would otherwise go to waste in the fields. The company also works with food service providers to utilize the hundreds of thousands of pounds offresh-cut remnants from their food preparations. Vegetables are lightly enhanced with spices and fresh herbs, cooked, and pureed into healthy, low-sodium multi-use bases for vegetable-forward meals. | $205K | Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| TomoCredit | TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley. | $7M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Brandefy | Brandefy is a Developer of a personal care product reviewing platform designed to offer reviews and information about those products. The company's platform shows shoppers how store brand and name brand products stack up against each other utilizing honest, straightforward consumer feedback and it also offers its own reviews encompassingingredient analyses, it's own experiences with the product and chemical analyses when necessary, enabling customers to discover unknown information about the products before actually purchasing or using it. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Brandefy | Brandefy is a Developer of a personal care product reviewing platform designed to offer reviews and information about those products. The company's platform shows shoppers how store brand and name brand products stack up against each other utilizing honest, straightforward consumer feedback and it also offers its own reviews encompassingingredient analyses, it's own experiences with the product and chemical analyses when necessary, enabling customers to discover unknown information about the products before actually purchasing or using it. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Kernal Biologics | Kernal creates mRNA therapies to cure diseases like COVID and cancer. Our mRNA therapies instruct specific cells on how to make their own drugs. Kernal won three awards from Amgen and NASA. With roots at MIT, Harvard and Big Pharma, the team previously built a successful Biotech company and has deep expertise in mRNA space. |  | Seed | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| Eggschain | Developer of a community mobile application created to facilitate eggs-freezing procedure communication. The company's application educates, supports and provides peace of mind to women before, during and after the eggs-freezing procedure, enabling women to create a digital, trackable identity for their frozen eggs. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2020 |  |
| Queen of Raw | Queen of Raw is a global marketplace with AI-powered supply chain software to eliminate and monetize textile waste, tracking and analyzing data to keep unused raw materials out of landfills and turn pollution into profit. An integrated dashboard allows its customers to visualize savings to their bottom- and top-lines as well as to the environmentby the actions they take across the Queen of Raw platform. Queen of Raw has helped 400,000+ users save millions of dollars—and more than a billion gallons of water.Queen of Raw is powered by mmx (http://www.materiamx.com/). | $1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Aloqia | Every business with a supply chain has excess inventory. Why are businesses ok with this? They shouldn’t be. Aloqia allows you to control the flow of your excess and prevent it, driving operational efficiency and a healthy supply chain. That’s why they call us The ERP of Excess™. | $1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Kingscrowd | Kingscrowd is the definitive data, analytics, and advisory platform for the online private markets. Often recognized as the "Bloomberg of the online private markets," we are dedicated to bringing transparency and institutional-grade rigor to online alternative investing.Our ecosystem is built on two core pillars:1. Private MarketResearch & Data: We aggregate, analyze, and rate startup investment opportunities from over 50 online platforms (including Wefunder, StartEngine, Dealmaker, and Republic). By combining proprietary AI-driven quantitative algorithms with expert qualitative analyst reports, we empower individual and institutional investors to make data-driven decisions with confidence.2. Strategic Advisory Services: Beyond data, Kingscrowd provides the essential infrastructure for market participants. Through our advisory arm and subsidiaries like Kingscrowd Advisory (dba CrowdCheck) and raisepapers.com, we deliver industry-leading legal, compliance, disclosure, and due diligence services. We guide issuers and platforms through the complexities of Regulation CF and Regulation A+, ensuring regulatory integrity and successful capital raises.By bridging the gap between sophisticated investment intelligence and critical compliance infrastructure, Kingscrowd serves as the central operating system for the entire online private investment economy. We are the trusted partner for investors seeking alpha and founders seeking capital. | $1M | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| TomoCredit | TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley. | $113.3K | Seed | Jan 20, 2020 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GingerBread Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gingerbread-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LDR Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ldr-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MIT Solve](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solve-mit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Wealth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-wealth-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About McDermott LLC

VC Fund

McDermott LLC is an early stage tech startup investments

1 contacts available at McDermott LLC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julie McDermott | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-mcdermott |

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## FAQ

### What does Julie McDermott invest in?

Julie McDermott invests primarily in E-Commerce, FinTech and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 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 Julie McDermott's check size?

Julie McDermott typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.9M at Seed and $250k–$1M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Julie McDermott participates in.

### When did Julie McDermott last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julie McDermott closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 23 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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