# Lisa Gansky

> Lisa Gansky is a seed investor at Genome News Network backing SaaS. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Genome News Network
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagansky
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/instigating
- Website: http://instigating.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/instigatingco

Lisa Gansky is a seed investor at Genome News Network in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Transportation. Lisa is the author of the bestseller, The Mesh. Why the Future of Business is Sharing. She is also the chief instigator of mesh labs. For more than 16 years, she's been an impact junky and entrepreneur with a strong interest in building teams and breaking the edges of formerly happy business models. Most recently, she was CEO & co-founderof Ofoto (now the Kodak Gallery). Lisa is an advisor &/or investor in Squidoo, RelayRides, Taskrabbit, Honest Buildings, Loosecubes, Scoot Networks, Munchery, pi.pe & Vayable. In the nineties Lisa was co-founder & CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, AOL online advertising and e-commerce.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $225k–$2M |
| Series A | $1.3M–$6.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Transportation | 3 | 21% |
| B2B | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Series A | 5 | 36% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 79% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Forest | Forest is a dockless, shared, and ad-supported e-bike service company. | $23M | Series B | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Forest | Forest is a dockless, shared, and ad-supported e-bike service company. | $6.2M | Series A | Nov 22, 2023 |  |
| Planetarians | Why: When the alternative meat consumption grows from the current 2% to a projected 23%, where will the industry get proteins? Isolation, fermentation, cultured… all of them require it’s own ingredients for proteins. They might be not so readily available in the food system on the Earth…What: PLANETARIANS developed a new platform to makealternative meats from animal feed (Sunflower, Corn DDGS, Pulses). Skipping protein isolation it uses just 0.5:1 water (no chemicals). Product prototypes have umami taste, improved protein quality and lower costs than meats made from isolates and concentrates.How: Solid-state fermentation converts carbs in the ingredients into extra protein in addition to inherent one and improves PDCAAS. Wet extrusion works as a kill step and creates a meat-like texture. | $750K | Seed | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| Fabl | Fabl (acquired by Britelite Immersive 1Q21) is a rich-media web publishing platform for content marketers that increases time on page by 5x.Content marketing is today's most successful approach to building brand engagement. Brands and marketers are producing more content today than ever before, but are still struggling to connect the dots;managing content creation, publication, engagement, commerce, and analytics is highly time- and resource-intensive. Fabl brings revolutionizes branded content page creation through its intuitive SaaS platform which makes it easy for marketers to create and publish compelling, rich-media enabled, on-brand pages of content quickly and easily. Without dependency on designers, developers or agencies, Fabl empowers marketers to efficiently engage their customers through refreshing page formats that drive results. The average time spent on a page of content built with Fabl is 3 minutes, 17 seconds, representing a 5x increase to the internet average. Fabl synchronizes analytics on the back end, letting marketers assess and adjust page content and format throughout active campaigns for maximum reach and impact. | $1.7M | Debt Financing | Nov 12, 2017 |  |
| Traity | Traity offers a platform that analyzes the reputation of users of collaborative economies websites. Its platform measures people's reputation based on their social media footprint, allowing people to trust each other online. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $4.7M | Series A | Jul 03, 2014 |  |
| BriteHub | BriteHub’s software helps bridge old legacy systems into a cloud-based interface that will advance companies and build a strong foundation for the new-age tech savvy workforce that is the next generation of employees. Today, supply chains are managed through a streamlined RFQ to quote to purchase order-tracking system. This interface allows fororganized messaging between internal and external stakeholders. Files are stored, shared, and viewable with an in-browser 3D viewer. Engineering change orders and version control are tracked and connected directly with the purchase order they relate to. BriteHub features continue to evolve and lead the way in supply chain management and collaboration. | $640K | Convertible Note | Jan 15, 2014 |  |
| Trove | Trove is at the forefront of the branded resale and trade-in industry, providing brands with a robust platform to efficiently launch, manage, and scale their resale programs. Commanding over 75% of the U.S. branded resale market, Trove is trusted by industry leaders such as Canada Goose, Carhartt, Michael Kors, Patagonia, On, and Steve Madden.Trove’s platform features advanced tools, including in-store and digital trade-ins, returns processing, non-new inventory management, resale site building and management, Shopify integration, and peer-to-peer capabilities. These features empower brands to connect with new customers across all demographics, optimize resale strategies with comprehensive analytics, and maintain seamless operations across multiple channels.As a Certified B Corporation, Trove is more than just a technology provider; it is a catalyst for sustainability in retail, driving the industry toward a future where commerce and environmental responsibility go hand in hand. | $2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2013 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2013 |  |
| Science Exchange | Science Exchange is the world’s leading R&D Services Management company, empowering research organizations to accelerate science and drive more innovation success. The Science Exchange Marketplace improves R&D productivity by automating many collaborative tasks between buyers and providers, such as obtaining quotes, managing projects andprocessing payments, all with rigorous data security and regulatory compliance embedded throughout. | $3M | Series A | May 10, 2013 |  |
| Scoot | Scoot offered shared, electric mobility-as-a-service, including electric mopeds, electric cars, electric bicycles, and electric scooters in San Francisco, Barcelona, and Santiago. In 2012, Scoot was the first company to offer electric vehicles for rent through a smartphone app. In 2019, Scoot was acquired by Bird. | $225K | Seed | Jun 12, 2012 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fen-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [August Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/august-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Genome News Network

VC Fund · Rockville, United States

The Genome News Network (GNN) produces a lively and trusted online magazine that covers important developments in genomics research around the world.

1 contacts available at Genome News Network.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa Gansky | CEO, Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-gansky |

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## FAQ

### What does Lisa Gansky invest in?

Lisa Gansky invests primarily in SaaS, Transportation and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Lisa Gansky's check size?

Lisa Gansky typically joins rounds of $225k–$2M at Seed and $1.3M–$6.2M 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 Lisa Gansky participates in.

### How do I contact Lisa Gansky?

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### When did Lisa Gansky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lisa Gansky closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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