# Neil Young

> Neil Young is a seed investor at N3TWORK (San Francisco) backing B2B and SMS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: N3TWORK
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-young-b84113
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ncyoung
- Website: https://x.com/ncyoung
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neil.christian.young

Neil Young is a seed investor at N3TWORK in San Francisco focused on B2B and SMS. Neil Young - Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ N3TWORK

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| SMS | 1 | 33% |
| iOS | 1 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 33% |
| Android | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emotive | Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $2.7M | Seed | Sep 14, 2019 |  |
| PicCollage | PicCollage is created by a team of developers, designers, and lovers of all things tech. They are mobile nerds, animal lovers, soccer fans, and they get a little too excited about iOS updates.They are headquartered in San Francisco with a branch office in Taipei, and are backed by prominent investors such as Floodgate Fund, Freestyle Capital,Quest Venture Parters and 500 Startups. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 21, 2013 |  |
| Bloom Studio | Bloom is building a consumer-facing webservice that provides applications and experiences on iOS, Android, and html5/webGL platforms that combine the power of data visualization with the engagement of casual gameplay to present users with powerful new ways to discover what is interesting in their social graph, in the media libraries anddistributed file systems they have access to, and in locations where they work and live. As consumers move into more casual modes of media computing, we will provide new experiences that change the way they playfully interact with the meaningful information that flows through their life every day. Our users authenticate across a variety of the most popular and useful web APIs, like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Dropbox, and Google Reader. They then can choose from an ever-growing collection of what we call "instruments" to explore and interact with the data provided from these services in all-new playful and compelling ways. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2011 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenoneten-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Buffalo Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About N3TWORK

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Welcome to N3TWORK where we are creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games. Powered by our N3TWORK technology, we offer game developers proven solutions backed by access to our n3twork of mobile gaming experts. Services provided include: Game Development, Games Publishing, Game Commercialization, User Acquisition, AdMonetization + Optimization, Data Science + Analytics, Product Management, Performance + Lifecycle Marketing. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at N3TWORK.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neil Young | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-young |
| Alan Yu | Co-Founder | — |
| Bing Gordon | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bing-gordon |
| Daniel Barnes | COO | — |
| Ethan Levy | Product Leader | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Neil Young invest in?

Neil Young invests primarily in B2B, SMS and iOS startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Neil Young?

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### When did Neil Young last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neil Young closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 3 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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