# Meta

> Meta is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3025971
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/meta
- Website: http://meta.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetaScienceAI

Meta is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Meta. Shizune tracks 50 team members at Meta. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/meta?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$7.2M |
| Grant | $10k–$1.7M |
| Corporate Round | $5.5M–$14B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 9 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 18% |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 11% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 13 | 29% |
| Seed | 8 | 18% |
| Corporate Round | 6 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series E | 3 | 7% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 36% |
| India | 8 | 18% |
| France | 2 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 4% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJ Frank | Senior Director of Product Management | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-frank |
| Anders Bo Pedersen | Engineering Manager | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-bo-pedersen |
| Andreas Gross | Product Lead | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-gross |
| Christopher Chedeau | Front-end Engineer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-chedeau |
| David Fischer | Vice President of Advertising and Global Operations | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-fischer-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Project Sopaipilla Holdings | Project Sopaipilla Holdings is a JV between Meta Platforms and Blackrock. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| CRED | CRED is a members-only credit card management and bill payments platform that rewards users every time they pay their credit card bills.The fintech startup operates an app that rewards customers for paying their credit card bills on time and gives them access to a range of additional services such as credit and a premium catalog of products fromhigh-end brands. Customers are offered a range of features which include the ability to better track spending across various credit cards, and get reminders. Cred is backed by investors such as Falcon Edge Capital, Coatue Management, Insight Partners, DST Global, RTP Global, Tiger Global, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Sofina.It was established in Bengaluru, Karnataka by Kunal Shah in 2017. | $469M | Series H | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| CRED | CRED is a members-only credit card management and bill payments platform that rewards users every time they pay their credit card bills.The fintech startup operates an app that rewards customers for paying their credit card bills on time and gives them access to a range of additional services such as credit and a premium catalog of products fromhigh-end brands. Customers are offered a range of features which include the ability to better track spending across various credit cards, and get reminders. Cred is backed by investors such as Falcon Edge Capital, Coatue Management, Insight Partners, DST Global, RTP Global, Tiger Global, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Sofina.It was established in Bengaluru, Karnataka by Kunal Shah in 2017. | $438.2M | Secondary Market | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| AppsFlyer | AppsFlyer helps brands make good choices for their business and their customers through innovative, privacy-preserving measurement, analytics, fraud protection, and engagement technologies. Built on the idea that brands can increase customer privacy while providing exceptional experiences, AppsFlyer empowers thousands of creators and 8,000+technology partners to create better, more meaningful customer relationships. To learn more, visit www.appsflyer.com. | $1B | Series E | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Eliyan | Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Rology | AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform | $100K | Grant | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| RWA Group | RWA Group is a full-service Web 3.0 provider that specializes in digital financial consultancy and infrastructure services. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| EssilorLuxottica | EssilorLuxottica is an ophthalmic company that specializes in the design, manufacture, and market of eyewear products such as lenses, frames, and sunglasses. With a mission to to help people see more, EssilorLuxottica combines its expertise in lens technology and eyewear manufacturing to enable people everywhere to learn, to work, to expressthemselves, and to fulfill their potential.The company was established in 2018 as a result of Essilor International's and Luxottica Group's merger. | $3.5B | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Scale | Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data. | $14.3B | Corporate Round | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| gett.me | AI outplacement software | $35K | Pre-Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Meta invest in?

Meta invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 45 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 Meta's check size?

Meta typically joins rounds of $900k–$7.2M at Seed, $10k–$1.7M at Grant and $5.5M–$14B at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Meta participates in.

### How do I contact Meta?

Public channels for Meta include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Meta?

The team at Meta includes AJ Frank (Senior Director of Product Management), Anders Bo Pedersen (Engineering Manager) and Andreas Gross (Product Lead), among 50 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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