# Martin Tobias

> Martin Tobias is a seed investor at Incisive Ventures backing Information Technology and Software. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Incisive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incisive-ventures)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/martintobias
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MartinGTobias
- Website: http://www.deepgreencrystals.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/martingtobias

Martin Tobias is a seed investor at Incisive Ventures in Seattle focused on Information Technology and Software. - Martin Tobias is the founder of Operator VC Incisive Ventures. He is Ex Accenture, Microsoft, and a former Venture Partner at Ignition Partners. Martin is a 3X venture-funded CEO rising over $500M as CEO with two IPOs who has also invested in over 200 companies as an angel, 75 through Incisive Ventures, and is also a limited partner in over adozen VC funds. Martin was an early investor in Google, Docusign, OpenSea, and over a dozen Unicorns.- Martin is the father of 3 daughters, a cyclist, surfer, poker player, and life hacker. Martin tinkers with motorcycles on the weekends.  He writes about Venture Capital on

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 10 | 25% |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| SaaS | 5 | 13% |
| FinTech | 5 | 13% |
| Health Care | 5 | 13% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 28% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 48% |
| India | 6 | 15% |
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Desk | Desk is a human transaction coordinator firm that offers to monitor companies and clients' mail, remind deadlines, and prepare paperwork. | $800K | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Grw AI | Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Pulzaid | Platform for hybrid specialty care | $675K | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| UptimeHealth | UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.The company focuses on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, gain access to actionable data toincrease operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians to support their medical devices. | $4.5M | Series A | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| One Body | Automation and machine learning software to help physical therapy clinics reach their profit potential |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| BizzTM | BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model. | $3M | Seed | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| BizzTM | BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model. |  | Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Spare8 | Spare8 is building the entire financial inclusion stack for all, through Gold. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2022 |  |
| EmailAnalytics | EmailAnalytics is a SaaS tool built for managers and team leaders who want to visualize their team's email productivity. Graphs, charts, lists, and dashboards at your fingertips so you can monitor productivity of your employees and team members. |  | Pre-Seed | May 19, 2022 |  |
| LootLocker | LootLocker is the game backend that unlocks the tools needed for game developers to build, ship and run the best games. LootLocker provides out-of-the-box game features, backend services, and live ops tools for all games regardless of genre, scope, engine, or platform. | $2.1M | Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pitbull Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitbull-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [2am VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2-am-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [MAGIC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-carpet) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Incisive Ventures

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Incisive Ventures is a pre-seed investor focused on transformational founders. They invest in low-cost investment vehicles that boost LP returns in the asset class, especially compared to the classic Venture model. The company is a theme syndicate with high conviction but low volume.

1 contacts available at Incisive Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Martin Tobias | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-tobias |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Tobias invest in?

Martin Tobias invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 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 Martin Tobias last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Tobias closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 40 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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