# Magdalena Yesil

> Magdalena Yesil is a Series A investor at Broadway Angels (San Francisco) backing News and Medical. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Broadway Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/broadway-angels)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magdalena-yesil/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MagdalenaYesil
- Website: https://x.com/MagdalenaYesil

Magdalena Yesil is a Series A investor at Broadway Angels in San Francisco focused on News and Medical. Magdalena is a founder of Broadway Angels and the founding board member and first investor of Salesforce. She joined the Perkins Fund as an Advisor in 2016. She served on the board of Salesforce from inception to post IPO. Magdalena has been active in Silicon Valley for three decades. Most recently, she spent eight years as a general partner at theventure capital firm US Venture Partners (USVP), making investments in a broad spectrum of technology startups. She has been an early investor in over 30 companies including theRealReal, PicsArt, Zuora, Socialcast (acquired by VMWare), Catch (acquired by Apple), Freshplum (acquired by TellApart and Twitter), Dotomi (acquired by ValueClick), 3Ware (acquired by AMCC), WebAction, Valicert (IPO), 128Technology, Securify (acquired by Kroll), iEscrow (acquired by eBay), and many others. Prior to her investing career, Magdalena was a serial entrepreneur, founding two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash - a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems (IPO), and MarketPay, an embedded payments software company. Magdalena was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Internet in its early days, helping it move out of the government and university domains and in establishing the infrastructure for e-commerce and financial transaction platforms. When her plan to purchase Internet access providers from universities would not get funded by venture capitalists, she joined UUnet (IPO), the first commercial Internet access provider. Magdalena was chosen Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997 by Red Herring magazine. She started her career as a semiconductor design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| News | 1 | 33% |
| Medical | 1 | 33% |
| mHealth | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Agentic AI | 1 | 33% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carbon Health | Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19testing in California.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $350M | Series D | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Pixel Labs | Pixel Labs (Hoodline.com) is a media tech company that powers hyperlocal content discovery in 40 US cities. We're solving local news and information discovery down to a 0.2 mile radius.Using machine learning and AI, Hoodline editors turns raw data signals into thousands of hyperlocal automated stories each month. Hoodline's platformalso tags and contextualize content from hundreds of partner publications, adding exact location and dozens of other classifying meta-data to each story. Hoodline's APIs and SDK make it easy for any app or site to integrate with its platform to recommend fresh and relevant content to their users. Partners include ABC, Yahoo Search, MSN, Eventbrite, Uber, CBS, Advance Digital, Zumper and McClatchy. Team of 28 in SF. Investors include Greylock, Rakuten, Disney, Social Capital, CRV, Innovation Endeavors & Joi Ito. | $4M | Series A | May 10, 2016 |  |
| Salesforce | Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service,marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development. | $3.8M | Series B | Jun 01, 1999 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackstone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackstone) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brookfield Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brookfield-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dragoneer Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragoneer-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fifth Wall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifth-wall-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Broadway Angels

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who all happen to be women. They all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been General Partners in venture capital firms or Senior Executives in top technologycompanies. For most of us, they have been the only woman partner or senior executive in their firm. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives.

5 contacts available at Broadway Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claudia Fan Munce | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claudia-fan-munce |
| Karen Boezi | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karen-boezi |
| Magdalena Yesil | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magdalena-yesil |
| Shelly Kapoor Collins | Investor/Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shelly-kapoor-collins |
| Aileen Lee | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aileen-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Magdalena Yesil invest in?

Magdalena Yesil invests primarily in News, Medical and mHealth startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 3 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 Magdalena Yesil last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Magdalena Yesil closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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