Kelly Graziadei
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Perplexity Fund
San Francisco, United States
Kelly Graziadei is a seed investor at Perplexity Fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Marketplace. Kelly Graziadei is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Perplexity Fund. Kelly previously worked at Pacific Community Ventures as a Board Director. Kelly Graziadei attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Kelly Graziadei invests in
Stages Kelly Graziadei invests in
Countries Kelly Graziadei invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$3.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (50%)
- Marketplace 2 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (20%)
- Art 1 (10%)
- SaaS 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (70%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 7 (70%)
- Canada 2 (20%)
Investments
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Floqer
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Build workflows that leverage 75+ industry-leading data sources and AI-powered web scraping to enrich prospect data, conduct account-based research, and automate sales motion at scale. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2026 | |
GibsonAI
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GibsonAI is your AI-powered database engineer, enabling you to design, build, deploy, and scale production-ready databases effortlessly. The inputs are simply what you want to build in plain English, and GibsonAI takes care of the rest. The outputs include an ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagram), data models, schemas, a fully deployed hosted database,and a CRUD API, complete with API documentation for seamless integration. Plus, you can update this database anytime just by talking to Gibson, making iteration and scaling easier than ever. It's free to get started. | $3.5M / Seed / May 08, 2024 | |
Clueso
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Clueso is an AI-powered help center for SaaS apps. | $1.4M / Seed / Apr 23, 2024 | |
Alinea
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Alinea is a mobile investing platform that enables users to invest in stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform allows users to create curated playlists of investments, offering a structured way to diversify portfolios based on interests and themes. Alinea provides tools to automate investing through recurring contributions and supports usersin making financial decisions by presenting relevant insights. The platform also includes a social component, where users can view and share investment strategies with peers. Alinea targets individuals seeking a simplified approach to personal finance and investing. The app is designed for those looking to start investing without requiring advanced financial knowledge. Alinea operates as a self-directed investment service with an emphasis on thematic and goal-based investing. | $3.4M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 | |
HUSSLUP
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HUSSLUP enables creators in media and entertainment to build a diverse global community through personal profiles with verified credits and vouches and encrypted creative samples. Users can connect with each other and create and share annotated contact lists organized by project. HUSSLUP enables creators to connect with jobs, mentors, andrepresentation through Pro Search tool that enables executives, producers, and representatives to search for the talent they need to hire. HUSSLUP enables creators to collaborate through sharing encrypted creative projects in their working groups and private messages. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 19, 2022 | |
Rocket Doctor
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Rocket Doctor is a telemedicine marketplace that enables physicians to bring an advanced doctor's office directly to patients’ homes. It provides a secure, cloud-based, turn-key platform allowing physicians to quickly and easily launch and operate their own independent virtual clinics. It also offers patients at-home, same-day, 24/7access to fully licensed, board-certified MDs within a few simple clicks. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. | $2.7M / Seed / May 28, 2021 | |
Turing
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Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $32M / Series B / Sep 14, 2020 | |
MakersPlace
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MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $2M / Seed / Apr 24, 2019 | |
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MakersPlace
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MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $2M / Seed / Apr 04, 2019 | |
Brightback
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Brightback offers entreprenurial advice to subscription-based businesses on customer lifetime value. Guy Marion founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | Seed / Sep 01, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Perplexity Fund
Perplexity Fund is an early-stage investment firm
Perplexity Fund Contacts
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Joanna Lee Shevelenko
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Kelly Graziadei
Co-Founder & General Partner
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FAQ
What does Kelly Graziadei invest in?
Kelly Graziadei invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Kelly Graziadei's check size?
Kelly Graziadei typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$3.5M 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 Kelly Graziadei participates in.
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When did Kelly Graziadei last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kelly Graziadei closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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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