# Michael Katz

> Michael Katz is a seed investor at Trove (New York) backing Software and Food and Beverage. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Trove](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trove-49dc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelskatz
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mkatz0630
- Website: https://x.com/mkatz0630
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.katz.965

Michael Katz is a seed investor at Trove in New York focused on Software and Food and Beverage. Michael Katz is based out of New York and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trove. Michael previously worked at mParticle as a CEO and Co-Founder. Michael Katz attended Syracuse University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$6.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thena | Thena is a new-age customer support platform purpose-built for B2B teams. Thena AI connects to the modern communication stack like Slack, MS Teams, In-app chat and email. Join bold modern B2B teams from Vercel, Amplitude, FOX, Etsy, and LaunchDarkly. Founded by Ankit Saxena, Mike Molinet and Govind Kavaturi. Backed by First Round Capital andLightspeed. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Cure Hydration | Cure is a VC-backed hydration brand based in New York City. We’re the only premium hydration brand with a science-backed formula, plant-based ingredients, no added sugar, and 4x the electrolytes of leading sports drinks. The product is based on the World Health Organization's formula for Oral Rehydration Solution that is proven to hydrate aseffectively as an IV drip but, unlike other ORS products, the ingredients are non-GMO, sustainably sourced, and have no added sugar. Made with coconut water and pink Himalayan salt, Cure provides everything your body needs for daily hydration and nothing it doesn't. Cure is backed by a medical advisory board that includes Dr. Roshini Raj, Dr. Dana Cohen, and Brooke Alpert and is FSA/HSA Eligible. In just 4 years, Cure has expanded to over 13,000 retail stores nationwide including CVS, Walgreens, and Sprouts, and was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America at #225 (#10 in Food and Beverage). Cure is a female-founded company, certified Plastic Neutral, and donates a serving for every purchase made to someone in need. Our investors include Lerer Hippeau, Valedor Partners, Rocana Ventures, Beliade, Silas Capital, Litani Ventures, Joyance Partners, Parallel Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Simple Food Ventures, Carly Strife (Founder of BARK), Kathleen King (Founder of Tate's Cookies), Philip Krim (CEO at Casper), Nick Green (CEO at Thrive Market), Nas, Andy Roddick and more. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 18, 2020 |  |
| HeadSpin | HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences. Its platform utilizes automation, AI, and analytics to unify end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring with thousands of devices deployed in 100+ locations on the real carrier and WiFi networks around theglobe that enable development, QA, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications and increase revenue. | $60M | Series C | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Bubble | Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It’s a point-and-click programming tool, for web and mobile. No prior coding experience needed.Bubble is a visual programming language for web and mobile applications. Bubble lets you build applications without typing code; it’s an alternative to Ruby-on-Rails or Django. Bubble hosts allapplications on its cloud platform.Technology is taking over everything, and they think it is a travesty that programming is still a niche skill. They want to live in a world where the average person can create technology, not just consume it. They don’t believe the path to that world is teaching everyone how to code. Why should humans learn to talk like computers? Let’s build computers that can talk like humans.Their mission is to destroy the distinction between building technology and using technology, by making programming as user-friendly as your favorite app. They build tools that empower people to be first class citizens of the digital world. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 19, 2019 |  |
| Cure Hydration | Cure is a VC-backed hydration brand based in New York City. We’re the only premium hydration brand with a science-backed formula, plant-based ingredients, no added sugar, and 4x the electrolytes of leading sports drinks. The product is based on the World Health Organization's formula for Oral Rehydration Solution that is proven to hydrate aseffectively as an IV drip but, unlike other ORS products, the ingredients are non-GMO, sustainably sourced, and have no added sugar. Made with coconut water and pink Himalayan salt, Cure provides everything your body needs for daily hydration and nothing it doesn't. Cure is backed by a medical advisory board that includes Dr. Roshini Raj, Dr. Dana Cohen, and Brooke Alpert and is FSA/HSA Eligible. In just 4 years, Cure has expanded to over 13,000 retail stores nationwide including CVS, Walgreens, and Sprouts, and was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America at #225 (#10 in Food and Beverage). Cure is a female-founded company, certified Plastic Neutral, and donates a serving for every purchase made to someone in need. Our investors include Lerer Hippeau, Valedor Partners, Rocana Ventures, Beliade, Silas Capital, Litani Ventures, Joyance Partners, Parallel Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Simple Food Ventures, Carly Strife (Founder of BARK), Kathleen King (Founder of Tate's Cookies), Philip Krim (CEO at Casper), Nick Green (CEO at Thrive Market), Nas, Andy Roddick and more. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2018 |  |
| The Block | The Block is the first and final word in digital assets. It will be the on-ramp to the world of programmable money, distributed ledgers, and decentralized applications for 10s of millions of people. | $2M | Seed | Jun 30, 2018 |  |
| Radar | Radar is a location data infrastructure platform that helps growth and product teams to build location-aware app experiences. It provides a location platform for mobile applications. The platform has four context types, supporting geofencing, place detection, home/work/traveling detection, and country/state/DMA detection forGeofences, Places, Insights, and Regions. Radar develops can integrate their applications via mobile SDK, API and server-side integrations, such as Segment, Braze, mParticle, and Amplitude. The Radar has three new APIs available in private beta such as Geocoding, allows developers to turn any address into latitude and longitude coordinates (and vice versa), as well as detect a country or region based on IP address and Search, allows developers to search geofences, places and users near a specific location, and Distance, can calculate the travel distance between two locations.Radar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in | $2M | Seed | Oct 04, 2017 |  |
| Causemo | Raise More Money for your organization by understanding who your donors are, what they care about, and the channels they prefer to give through — all in minutes. | $4M | Series A | Aug 25, 2015 |  |
| Real Food Blends | Real Food Blends, a Chicago-based specialized food startup.The company, which makes all-natural, real-food meals for people on feeding tubes, will use the money to scale up, as sales shift from online-only to distribution through home health care companies | $550K | Seed | Jul 15, 2014 |  |
| Robotbase | Robotbase was founded in 2014 by a group of software engineers, hardware engineers, and mechanical designers who set out to prove that robots could become part of our day-to-day lives. Gen X, the World's First Artificial Intelligence Personal Robot is designed to instantly connect to all your connected devices, fitness trackers, locks,switches, outlets and thermostats. By applying advanced AI algorithms on top of all your connected devices, it will keep your home extremely secured. At the same time, it will trim off your energy bills significantly.In addition, Gen X can buy you dinners and automatically track your calories, call you a cab as soon as you leave your office, take a picture immediately when you pose, play the song you love, just when you’re in the mood for it, and much more. | $250K | Seed | Jan 01, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pear VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pejman-mar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Trove

VC Fund · New York, United States

Trove Collectibles is a content and commerce platform focused on sports cards and collectibles.

1 contacts available at Trove.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Katz | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-katz |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Katz invest in?

Michael Katz invests primarily in Software, Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Michael Katz's check size?

Michael Katz typically joins rounds of $250k–$6.3M at Seed and $2M–$4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Katz participates in.

### When did Michael Katz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Katz closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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