# Kent Goldman

> Kent Goldman is a seed investor at Upside Partnership (San Francisco) backing Software and Mobile. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Upside Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upside-partnership)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kentgoldman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/kentgoldman
- Website: http://www.upsidevc.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/

Kent Goldman is a seed investor at Upside Partnership in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Kent Goldman is the founder of Upside Partnership, a true seed-stage investment firm. Kent has been partnering with founders since seed investing became a category. He has had the opportunity to work alongside founders who have spawned more than 200 companies.Kent was formerly a partner at First Round Capital, where he led investments such asAirware, Artillery, Cabana (acquired by Twitter), Cluster, Hotel Tonight, HotPotato (acquired by Facebook), Liftopia, MemSQL, MessageMe, Path, Storenvy and Threadflip. He also served on the board of Mashery (acquired by Intel).Earlier in his career, Kent was a member of Yahoo!’s corporate development team. He also led business strategy for Yahoo! Products, generating $1 billion in annual revenue.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| Mobile | 4 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 9% |
| Apps | 3 | 7% |
| Messaging | 3 | 7% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 37% |
| Series A | 9 | 21% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metrist | Metrist creates visibility into the availability, functionality, and performance of the apps and APIs that power software on the internet, so that no application developer or user ever has to wonder what the impact of an external service is on their business. | $4M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Fursure | Fursure is the first financial platform for pet parents, spanning debit cards, insurance, and more — disrupting how Americans spend money on their cumulative 185 million pets, a >$120B market, growing to $275B by the end of the decade. Fursure simplifies getting insurance with a national pet insurance marketplace, rewards pet parents foreveryday spend that they can redeem on veterinary care and save in a rainy day fund for emergencies, and offers exclusive discounts on best-in-class products across pet categories. Fursure's cofounders were Princeton classmates, former Facebook Senior PM (CEO) and Amazon Architect (CTO), and featured as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology 2022. | $3M | Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Rewatch | Rewatch offers a private and secure video channel for teams. Rewatch transcribes your videos and unlocks your team’s spoken knowledge, making it searchable and organized—all in one place. | $20M | Series A | May 26, 2021 |  |
| Rewatch | Rewatch offers a private and secure video channel for teams. Rewatch transcribes your videos and unlocks your team’s spoken knowledge, making it searchable and organized—all in one place. | $20M | Series A | May 26, 2021 |  |
| NEWNESS | Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 26, 2021 |  |
| Quilt | Quilt is a new kind of social wellness space to connect, share, and learn with others through daily conversations. They believe that community is the greatest form of self-care. Because journaling and meditation alone can only do so much. They believe the best way to create healthy rituals is through spontaneity and play. They use technology to dojust that. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Quilt | Quilt is a new kind of social wellness space to connect, share, and learn with others through daily conversations. They believe that community is the greatest form of self-care. Because journaling and meditation alone can only do so much. They believe the best way to create healthy rituals is through spontaneity and play. They use technology to dojust that. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Rewatch | Rewatch offers a private and secure video channel for teams. Rewatch transcribes your videos and unlocks your team’s spoken knowledge, making it searchable and organized—all in one place. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2021 |  |
| Rewatch | Rewatch offers a private and secure video channel for teams. Rewatch transcribes your videos and unlocks your team’s spoken knowledge, making it searchable and organized—all in one place. | $2M | Seed | Jan 05, 2021 |  |
| Sora | Sora is a low-code intelligent workflow automation and data integration tool that connects different corporate applications such as HR, IT, and other systems and data sets to provide a smarter, more user-friendly experience for employees, business owners, and HR professionals. | $5.3M | Seed | Jul 21, 2020 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Upside Partnership

VC Fund · Mill Valley, United States

Upside Partnership is a venture capital firm that provides seed-stage investment to founders creating high-profile companies. The firm was founded by Kent Goldman in July, 2014 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States.

2 contacts available at Upside Partnership.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debbie Landa | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debbie-landa |
| Kent Goldman | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kent-goldman |

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## FAQ

### What does Kent Goldman invest in?

Kent Goldman invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kent Goldman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kent Goldman closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 43 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?

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