# Mark Friedgan

> Mark Friedgan is a seed investor at Eligo Energy (Chicago) backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Eligo Energy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eligo-energy)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jun 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
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Mark Friedgan is a seed investor at Eligo Energy in Chicago focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Mark Friedgan is the Co-founder and Executive Board Member of Eligo Energy.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 37% |
| Internet | 5 | 26% |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| Analytics | 3 | 16% |
| Video | 2 | 11% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 58% |
| Angel | 4 | 21% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solar Simplified | Solar Simplified is a platform that connects homeowners, renters, and businesses with local solar farms. We take the hassle out of supporting renewable energy by applying credits generated by a solar farm from your area to your bill, guaranteeing savings on your monthly bill, and supporting your every step along your solar journey! |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| YourMechanic | YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient. | $4.6M | Series B | Oct 10, 2018 |  |
| Visibly | Visibly is the first online vision test that can deliver a prescription for glasses or contacts. The test can be taken from anywhere, at any time, and a doctor issued prescription can be used to shop everywhere. Visibly is the manufacturer and distributor of Visibly Digital Acuity Product This product has not been approved by the FDA. The dataand recommendations made by the Visibly Digital Acuity Product are adjunctive (supporting) recommendations that will be used by an Eye Care Provider, along with your medical history and profile, prior corrective eyewear prescriptions, and subjective data provided about your vision. It is the responsibility of the patient to provide accurate information through the process as all of this information will be relied upon as accurate by the reviewing Eye Care Provider. |  | Secondary Market | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| Hackers/Founders | Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world. | $70K | Angel | Jul 07, 2015 |  |
| Avant | Avant operates an online marketplace that provides users with access to personal loans to consolidate debt, pay unexpected medical expenses, and for family vacations. Through the use of big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a customized approach to streamline credit options. The company caters to consumers in the UnitedStates and the United Kingdom.Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Avant was founded in November 2012. | $9M | Series A | May 08, 2013 |  |
| YourMechanic | YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 11, 2012 |  |
| Videolicious | Videolicious is the pioneer of video automation, transforming personalities into powerful messages for enterprise b2b sales and marketing organizations. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 30, 2012 |  |
| Booshaka | 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. | $1M | Seed | Jul 25, 2012 |  |
| SlidePay | SlidePay, formerly Cube, is an API that makes it easy for any app to accept credit cards that are processed in person. Integration takes hours, not weeks, and works on any platform or device. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 25, 2012 |  |
| Zillabyte | Zillabyte is a cloud platform for data analysis. Build apps, not infrastructure.Recently, Google & Amazon have announced competing products, as follows:1. Google Cloud Dataflow: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/06/cloud-platform-at-google-io-new-big.html .2. Amazon Kinesis:http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-processing-of-streamed-data/?utm_source=fee.... .We are a direct competitor to these technologies, and turnkey solution for other platform players to quickly get into this space. |  | Seed | Apr 20, 2012 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [August Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/august-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Start Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/start-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amidzad Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amidzad-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pritzker Group Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pritzker-group-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Eligo Energy

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Eligo Energy helps provide consumers and businesses with low cost energy solutions.

4 contacts available at Eligo Energy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Friedgan | Co-Founder and Executive Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-friedgan |
| Alexander Goldstein | Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-goldstein |
| Ken Pedotto | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-pedotto-7928 |
| Mike Sandler | Chief Information Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-sandler-1272 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Friedgan invest in?

Mark Friedgan invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 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 Mark Friedgan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Friedgan closed in Jun 2020. Shizune tracks 19 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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