# Nancy J.

> Nancy J. is a seed investor at Atelier Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and Finance. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Atelier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atelier-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljin1/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ljin18

Nancy J. is a seed investor at Atelier Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Finance. Nancy J.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$6M |
| Series A | $5.6M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Finance | 3 | 18% |
| Internet | 3 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Series | Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises. |  | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Series | Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises. | $25M | Series A | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Maven | Maven is an online platform for cohort-based courses, enabling experts to create and teach engaging, live online classes on AI, product, engineering, design & more. Founded by Gagan Biyani (Udemy co-founder), Wes Kao (co-founder of altMBA), and Shreyans Bhansali (co-founder of Socratic), Maven empowers instructors with tools to build, market,and scale high-quality learning experiences. | $25M |  | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Sunroom | Sunroom is an application where women can make money and be free. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| CommonStock | CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to shareholdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing their own amount, and compete to see who performs best,enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions.Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming).The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M | Series A | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $800K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Maven | Maven is an online platform for cohort-based courses, enabling experts to create and teach engaging, live online classes on AI, product, engineering, design & more. Founded by Gagan Biyani (Udemy co-founder), Wes Kao (co-founder of altMBA), and Shreyans Bhansali (co-founder of Socratic), Maven empowers instructors with tools to build, market,and scale high-quality learning experiences. | $20M | Series A | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Collective | Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a community all in one platform. | $20M | Series A | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Collective | Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a community all in one platform. | $20M | Series A | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Pearpop | Pearpop is the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities, and actual celebrities. | $6M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animal Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animal-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [QED Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qed-investors) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Atelier Ventures

VC Fund · Pittsburgh, United States

Atelier Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in the Passion Economy.

1 contacts available at Atelier Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nancy J. | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/li-jin-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Nancy J. invest in?

Nancy J. invests primarily in Software, Finance and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### What is Nancy J.'s check size?

Nancy J. typically joins rounds of $800k–$6M at Seed and $5.6M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nancy J. participates in.

### When did Nancy J. last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nancy J. closed in Sep 2023. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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