# Meredith McPherron

> Meredith McPherron is a seed investor at Drive by DraftKings (Boston) backing Gaming and Wellness. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Drive by DraftKings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-by-draftkings)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-mcpherron-0a09812/

Meredith McPherron is a seed investor at Drive by DraftKings in Boston focused on Gaming and Wellness. Meredith is an active angel investor and strategic marketing advisor in the Boston community for high impact consumer and technology-focused companies. Meredith founded Studio H Ventures, a boutique angel fund and advisory group, focused on venture building at both early and growth stages. She is also an investing member of Launchpad Venture Group,a strategic advisor to Better For You (BFY) brands, a Management Innovation Fellow and Expert in Residence at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a mentor for the MIT DesignX Accelerator. Previously, Meredith held positions as Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Vice President of Marketing for Direct Hit Technologies, Marketing Director at Guinness Import Company, Brand Manager at General Mills, and Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 2 | 40% |
| Wellness | 2 | 40% |
| Analytics | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spren | Spren helps fitness and wellness brands deliver a more personalized, engaging, and effective user experience. It assists in avoiding the perplexity and frustration of false plateaus. Spren measures small changes in body composition using evidence-based machine learning algorithms, empowering the quest to slow aging. The company is using a patentedimaging technology—simply snap a full-body selfie on the smartphone and let Spren go to work. | $11.3M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Nextiles | Nextiles builds a smart apparel platform that helps people exercise better, more safely, and more efficiently. The company pairs athletic apparel with an analytics system that identifies new insights about a persons movement.The company weaves and threads electrically conductive fibers to develop new types of wearable circuitry, through arepurposed sewing technology. The company has an expertise in electrical engineering and circuit design, giving the unique ability to merge fabrics and hardware to engineer new wearable platforms.Nextiles was founded on 2019 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $5M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| evaluate.xyz | NFT Valuation Platform and Community | $4M | Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| Burn Ghost Games | Burn Ghost is a play-to-win Web3 casual gaming platform that allows users to win prizes including crypto, USD, NFTS, and game assets by playing games of skill. The games featured on the platform are fun, competitive, and challenging. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Toya Pioneering Women | Toya is developing multilayer games for girls on a Minecraft platform. The playful learning experience enables girls to become the heroes while revealing the life stories of exceptional women. | $4M | Seed | Sep 08, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arca-5fb9) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Drive by DraftKings

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Our mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital.

3 contacts available at Drive by DraftKings.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kiki Mills Johnston | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiki-mills-johnston |
| Meredith McPherron | CEO and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meredith-mcpherron |
| Peter Blacklow | Co-Chairman and co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-blacklow |

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## FAQ

### What does Meredith McPherron invest in?

Meredith McPherron invests primarily in Gaming, Wellness and Analytics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Meredith McPherron last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Meredith McPherron closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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