LeBron James
Angel Investor @ Abra
Cleveland, United States
LeBron James is an international basketball star currently playing for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. He has won many awards during his professional career including a 2008 Summer Olympic Gold Medal, NBA Most Valuable Player, NBA Rookie of the Year, NBA All-Star Game MVP, and many others.James has invested in companies such as Weplay and wasreported to have earned $30M as part of Apple.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries LeBron James invests in
Stages LeBron James invests in
Countries LeBron James invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Sports 3 (18%)
- Retail 2 (12%)
- eSports 2 (12%)
- Wellness 2 (12%)
- Restaurants 2 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (29%)
- Seed 4 (24%)
- Private Equity 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Series G 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 10 (59%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mike’s Red Tacos is a restaurant that specializes in birria tacos and Mexican fusion dishes. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win.The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makesindividuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts. | $575M / Series G / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products. | $20M / Series A / Feb 05, 2024 | ||
| Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks. | Secondary Market / Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Folkmanis provides puppets services for a healthy childhood, encouraging play and developing skills. | Seed / Sep 29, 2022 | ||
| Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Portland, OR. | $12M / Series A / Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Canyon Bicycles is a direct-to-consumer bicycle retailer and manufacturer of some of the world’s highest-quality road, mountain, and urban bikes. Canyon Bicycles provides components, such as brake pads, cassettes, chain devices and protections, chainrings, chains, derailleur hangers, grips, luggage racks, pedals, and protection products;accessories, including back packs, bike care products, bike locks and theft protection products. | $30M / Private Equity / Jul 29, 2022 | ||
| Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Portland, OR. | Series A / May 02, 2022 | ||
| Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Portland, OR. | Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products. | Seed / Nov 14, 2021 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Abra
Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.
Abra Contacts
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Ali Gates
Senior Product Manager
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Bill Barhydt
Co-Founder and CEO
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Daryl Puryear
CTO
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David Gowdey
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Ishmael Riles
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What does LeBron James invest in?
LeBron James invests primarily in Sports, Retail and eSports startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 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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The most recent investment recorded for LeBron James closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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