# Katie Shea

> Katie Shea is a seed investor at Divergent Capital (New York) backing Health Care and Retail. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Divergent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divergent-capital-1c5e)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiesheanyc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/katiesheasays
- Website: https://x.com/katiesheasays

Katie Shea is a seed investor at Divergent Capital in New York focused on Health Care and Retail. Katie Shea is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Divergent Capital and an Angel investor. Before that, she was the General Partner at K50 Ventures and Kairos.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$6.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 22% |
| Retail | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Consumer Goods | 3 | 13% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 13% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 61% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 35% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 83% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tough Day | Tough Day enables companies to provide employees with a safe place for candid conversation and expert guidance to resolve their workplace issues before they become messy, costly problems.When work gets tough, the tough get working. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2025 |  |
| Tough Day | Tough Day enables companies to provide employees with a safe place for candid conversation and expert guidance to resolve their workplace issues before they become messy, costly problems.When work gets tough, the tough get working. | $250K | Angel | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Hoop | Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat. | $5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Latitud | Latitud is a venture capital platform that supports early-stage startups. Latitud is both an infrastructure for tech startups and a venture fund. Its core focus is on providing pre-seed investments and offering hands-on support to founders to help them build and scale their startups from the ground up. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Justpoint | Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office taskswhile creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com. | $6.9M | Seed | Mar 11, 2022 |  |
| Topicals | Topicals is a beauty and skincare company that specializes in the fields of e-commerce, community, and beauty devices. Topicals are transforming the way you feel about skin through target solutions for skin conditions starting with eczema and hyperpigmentation. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 10, 2020 |  |
| EdSights | Conversational AI to support students through college. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Causal | Causal build financial models effortlessly and share them with interactive, visual dashboards that everyone will understand.Causal, build models out of variables, that link together in simple plain-English formulae. This makes the models easy to understand and quick to build.Causal makes it simple to incorporate advanced modeling techniqueslike scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty in the inputs.It can also integrate all the important data sources, from spreadsheet software like Sheets and Excel, to accounting platforms like Xero and Quickbooks. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| Brave Care | Brave Care operates beautiful primary and urgent care clinics just for kids in Oregon & Texas. The BraveCare.com website and mobile app provide pediatric advice to parents nationwide to support them in helping their kids reach their full potential. | $6.6M | Seed | Aug 21, 2019 |  |
| Haus | Haus specializes in the manufacturing and distillation of wine and spirits. Haus is taking on the American liquor industry, which hasn’t changed since prohibition. Through products made with only natural ingredients, new approaches to distribution, and transparent processes. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 25, 2019 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Amplifyher Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplifyher-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FullCircle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fullcircle-c7b1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Slide Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-slide-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Divergent Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Divergent Capital is a venture capital firm providing financial services. It is a private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth.

2 contacts available at Divergent Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Katie Shea | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katie-shea |
| Lucy Wang | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucy-wang-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Katie Shea invest in?

Katie Shea invests primarily in Health Care, Retail and Software 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 Katie Shea's check size?

Katie Shea typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Katie Shea participates in.

### When did Katie Shea last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Katie Shea closed in Jun 2025. 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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