# Magid Abraham

> Magid Abraham is a seed investor at Upskill (Reston) backing Software and Local. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Upskill](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apx-labs)
- Location: Reston, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/magid
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/m_abraham
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/magid

Magid Abraham is a seed investor at Upskill in Reston focused on Software and Local. Magid Abraham is the Co-Founder of comScore, Inc., and currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Magid served as Chief Executive Officer from the company’s founding in 1999 until March 2014. Prior to co-founding comScore, Magid was Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Paragren Technologies, Inc., which specializedin delivering large scale Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) systems for strategic and target marketing. Paragren is now part of Siebel Systems. Before founding Paragren, Magid was President and Chief Operating Officer at Information Resources, Inc., a major international research company, which he led through a period of rapid growth in revenues, market share and profit. Throughout his IRI career, Magid has been a prolific innovator who designed a number of pioneering marketing applications that became standards of CPG marketing practice. Magid is a widely recognized expert on market research, consumer modeling and innovative information solutions. Magid has authored many articles in a variety of academic and industry journals. Magid's most recent honor, received in January 2011, was the Buck Weaver Award for Marketing, established by MIT’s Sloan School of Management for individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science. In 2009 he received the AMA’s Parlin Award, a preeminent national honor recognizing one individual annually who has demonstrated “outstanding leadership and sustained impact on advancing the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period of time.” Magid has received the Paul Green award by the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the "best article that shows or demonstrates the most potential to contribute to the practice of marketing research and research in marketing," and the AMA’s William F. O’Dell Award for an article “that has made the most significant long-term contribution to the marketing discipline.” Magid was also named Ernst & Young® Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. Magid was also inducted in the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, designated along with comScore as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and was named a “Great Mind” by the Advertising Research Foundation. Magid has given numerous speeches on Internet industry trends and marketing subjects in various industry conferences and forums. Magid received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and an MBA from MIT. Magid also holds an Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique, France's premier science and engineering school.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $950k–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Local | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Shopping | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Siftery | Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations. | $4M | Seed | Feb 02, 2016 |  |
| Zoomdata | Zoomdata, developers of big data exploration, visualization, and analytics platform, lets business users see and interact with data in all-new ways. Designed mobile and touch first, its patented micro-query architecture delivers results on billions of records in seconds and gives users a single plane of access for bridging old data and new data.The Zoomdata interface allows users to easily Connect, Visualize, and Interact with data on browsers and mobile devices. Once deployed, users are able to create dashboards, fuse disparate data sources from across the enterprise into single user experience and create a corporate data quilt that lets business users collaborate on the data that drives their business. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 13, 2012 |  |
| Milo | Milo.com is a free Web site that enables shoppers to research products online and buy local, providing the best of both worlds. The leader in the local product search space, Milo.com tracks the real-time availability and prices of more than 2 million products at over 48,000 stores across the U.S. By combining the resources of the Web and theimmediacy of local stores, Milo.com makes it easy for shoppers to research the best products, find the right prices and check where products are available near them. Shoppers save time and money, get to see and try products before they buy them and get the product they want right when they want it. Retailers with products listed on Milo.com can better compete with e-commerce and can use the Site to drive valuable intent-based foot traffic into their stores. Based in | $4M | Series A | Nov 24, 2009 |  |
| Milo | Milo.com is a free Web site that enables shoppers to research products online and buy local, providing the best of both worlds. The leader in the local product search space, Milo.com tracks the real-time availability and prices of more than 2 million products at over 48,000 stores across the U.S. By combining the resources of the Web and theimmediacy of local stores, Milo.com makes it easy for shoppers to research the best products, find the right prices and check where products are available near them. Shoppers save time and money, get to see and try products before they buy them and get the product they want right when they want it. Retailers with products listed on Milo.com can better compete with e-commerce and can use the Site to drive valuable intent-based foot traffic into their stores. Based in | $950K | Seed | Nov 01, 2008 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youniversity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accelerator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerator-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Center for Innovative Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/center-for-innovative-technology) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Upskill

VC Fund · Vienna, United States

Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on theirtasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

5 contacts available at Upskill.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Sugaya | Director Of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-sugaya-13da |
| Brian Ballard | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-ballard-2 |
| David Beard | Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-beard-2 |
| Jill Odom | VP of Finance and Administration | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jill-odom |
| Linda Abraham | Vice Chairman and Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-abraham |

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## FAQ

### What does Magid Abraham invest in?

Magid Abraham invests primarily in Software, Local and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Magid Abraham's check size?

Magid Abraham typically joins rounds of $950k–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Magid Abraham participates in.

### When did Magid Abraham last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Magid Abraham closed in Feb 2016. Shizune tracks 4 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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