# Monica Black

> Monica Black is a seed investor at Function Investments backing Big Data and Product Research. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Function Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/function-e4d2)
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simomonica/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/monicasblack

Monica Black is a seed investor at Function Investments in Miami focused on Big Data and Product Research. Monica is the founder and managing director of Function. Her career has been spent at the intersection of technology and finance, with 10+ years investing and operating in startups, venture capital, and private equity. Prior to launching Function, Monica held investing roles at industry-leading organizations, including the Chan ZuckerbergInitiative and Providence Equity Partners. A Miami native, she received her Bachelor of Science from MIT and her MBA and Master of Education from Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Product Research | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rime | Rime develops speech technologies for a wide range of customers. The company works on speech generation with a deep understanding of linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena needed to create the next generation of text-to-speech tooling. | $5.5M | Seed | May 29, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cadenza Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadenza-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders You Should Know](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-you-should-know) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Unusual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unusual-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Function Investments

VC Fund · Miami, United States

Investor syndicate focusing on pre-Series A investments in B2B software across the US and Latam

1 contacts available at Function Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monica Black | Managing Director and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monica-simo-black |

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## FAQ

### What does Monica Black invest in?

Monica Black invests primarily in Big Data, Product Research and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Monica Black last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Monica Black closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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