Lou Kerner
Angel Investor · Founder & Managing Partner at The Social Internet Fund
New York, United States
Lou Kerner is a seed investor at The Social Internet Fund in New York focused on Mobile and Software. Lou Kerner is the Advisory Board of PodcastOne.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Lou Kerner invests in
Stages Lou Kerner invests in
Countries Lou Kerner invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2M
- Series A
- $3.7M–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 5 (36%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Analytics 3 (21%)
- Advertising 3 (21%)
- Advertising Platforms 3 (21%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Booshaka offers tools and solutions that enable businesses to collect data and analytics about their customers’ interactions for their marketing campaigns. They focuses on integrating data sources such as social pages, email databases, and web and mobile applications.Booshaka is acquired by Sprinklr.Booshaka was founded in January 2012 and isbased in Redwood City, California. | $2M / Convertible Note / Sep 01, 2014 | ||
| Polar provides digital media technology to publishers and advertisers. | $1.4M / Apr 04, 2014 | ||
| Nova is a technology that assists premium publishers in accelerating revenue growth from branded content. They collaborate with AOL, Conde Nast, News Corp, and The Telegraph to grow their direct-sold branded content businesses. With us The Branded Content Platform is designed specifically for premium publishers and includes distribution, campaignmanagement, and insight reporting features. Designers are entirely focused on solutions that increase views, improve operational efficiency, and demonstrate that branded content works. Designers work with publishers in different countries and have offices in Toronto, New York, London, and Sydney. | $1.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 04, 2014 | ||
| TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web. | $4M / Series A / Mar 05, 2014 | ||
| Affinity Networks designs and builds engagement platforms for vertical communities. They are now beginning to develop jointly managed white-label apps for partners in key verticals as well as launching a developer SDK for 3rd party apps to access their platform, please contact them if you would like more information. | $500K / Seed / Feb 20, 2014 | ||
| CoPromote is a social exchange platform to help people grow their audience. Users are content creators ranging from artists, bloggers, brands, businesses, musicians, tastemakers, websites, and more. CoPromote is for people of all interest types. | $1.8M / Seed / Feb 10, 2014 | ||
| Sift is a free shopping app shop for Christmas and BlackFriday Sales. Find products and stay connected to brands and retailers. See what’s trending at BestBuy, Macy’s, Nordstom, Toys-R-Us, Target and 3000 more stores. They have millions of products and thousands of stores. Also, discover new stores and products. | $2M / Seed / Nov 22, 2013 | ||
| Bottlenose is a cognitive computing company that makes data analysis easy. By automating machine learning, data mining, and predictive analytics, Bottlenose helps its clients spend more time extracting insights and less time managing data.The company's platform, Nerve Center, makes BI live and interactive. It detects patterns and trends inmassive amounts of rapidly changing data to help customers achieve business awareness and complete insight into what is going on in and around the organization.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California. | $3.7M / Series A / Jul 30, 2013 | ||
| Appcelerator provides a mobile enterprise platform to deliver native apps, mobilize data, and measure success with real-time analytics. Its mobile cloud platform enables cross-platform mobile application and HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) web development, from a single codebase. It helps companies solve for this new mobile reality: deliveringnative cross-platform apps at the speed of the web, mobilizing any data source, and driving success with real-time analytics all from an open, cloud-based platform. With the Axway Appcelerator Mobile solution, companies can eliminate point tools to scale mobile across the enterprise, drive innovation by unlocking backend data sources for new app capabilities and measure the overall usage and success of the entire mobile app portfolio.Appcelerator was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $12.1M / Series C / Jul 16, 2013 | ||
Optimal
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Optimal Inc. is the leading social media advertising and analytics platform. Optimal helps brands and advertisers manage social advertising campaigns in real-time with its media acquisition and optimization platform and proprietary analytics tools. | $4.5M / Series B / Jun 01, 2013 | |
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FAQ
What does Lou Kerner invest in?
Lou Kerner invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Analytics 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 round sizes does Lou Kerner invest in?
Lou Kerner typically joins rounds of $500k–$2M at Seed and $3.7M–$4M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lou Kerner's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lou Kerner took part in.
How do I contact Lou Kerner?
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When did Lou Kerner last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lou Kerner closed in Sep 2014. 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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