Nick Hanauer
Partner @ Second Avenue Partners
Seattle, United States
Nick Hanauer is a seed investor at Second Avenue Partners in Seattle focused on E-Commerce and Mobile. Nick Hanauer - Founder & CEO @ Civic Ventures
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Nick Hanauer invests in
Stages Nick Hanauer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (33%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- Printing 2 (22%)
- Digital Media 2 (22%)
- Art 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Knack is revolutionizing gift-giving by making it simple and enjoyable to offer unique and meaningful gifts. | $3.5M / Series A / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Inspo is a Creator-driven media company transforming the $50B lifestyle market for creators, consumers, and brands. Inspo helps leading Creators inspire their audiences through original, short-form premium video experiences. Its video platform creates thousands of original, television-quality shows reaching more than 120 million loyal viewers.Inspo enables Brands to integrate their products into Creator videos with ease, certainty and scale. | $5.5M / Seed / Jun 13, 2018 | ||
| Pike13 is a comprehensive, mobile-first, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based client management tools to the personal services economy. The technology is optimized to work on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers to enable personal service businesses, which are inherently mobile, the ability to run their businessesfrom anywhere, at any time.This market includes fitness and yoga studios, dance and music schools, physical therapists, acupuncturists, adventure guides, tutors, teachers, and other businesses and franchises. Using Pike13, business owners can easily manage client relationships, automate billing, securely process credit cards, schedule classes and appointments, track attendance, automate email marketing, and create a customized and branded client-facing experience.The company debuted in spring 2013 and has already improved the efficiency and profitability of several hundred personal services businesses. | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 04, 2016 | ||
| Pike13 is a comprehensive, mobile-first, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based client management tools to the personal services economy. The technology is optimized to work on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers to enable personal service businesses, which are inherently mobile, the ability to run their businessesfrom anywhere, at any time.This market includes fitness and yoga studios, dance and music schools, physical therapists, acupuncturists, adventure guides, tutors, teachers, and other businesses and franchises. Using Pike13, business owners can easily manage client relationships, automate billing, securely process credit cards, schedule classes and appointments, track attendance, automate email marketing, and create a customized and branded client-facing experience.The company debuted in spring 2013 and has already improved the efficiency and profitability of several hundred personal services businesses. | $4M / Series A / Dec 19, 2014 | ||
| Pike13 is a comprehensive, mobile-first, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based client management tools to the personal services economy. The technology is optimized to work on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers to enable personal service businesses, which are inherently mobile, the ability to run their businessesfrom anywhere, at any time.This market includes fitness and yoga studios, dance and music schools, physical therapists, acupuncturists, adventure guides, tutors, teachers, and other businesses and franchises. Using Pike13, business owners can easily manage client relationships, automate billing, securely process credit cards, schedule classes and appointments, track attendance, automate email marketing, and create a customized and branded client-facing experience.The company debuted in spring 2013 and has already improved the efficiency and profitability of several hundred personal services businesses. | $4M / Series A / Feb 13, 2014 | ||
| Pike13 is a comprehensive, mobile-first, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based client management tools to the personal services economy. The technology is optimized to work on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers to enable personal service businesses, which are inherently mobile, the ability to run their businessesfrom anywhere, at any time.This market includes fitness and yoga studios, dance and music schools, physical therapists, acupuncturists, adventure guides, tutors, teachers, and other businesses and franchises. Using Pike13, business owners can easily manage client relationships, automate billing, securely process credit cards, schedule classes and appointments, track attendance, automate email marketing, and create a customized and branded client-facing experience.The company debuted in spring 2013 and has already improved the efficiency and profitability of several hundred personal services businesses. | Seed / Sep 06, 2013 | ||
| Lively is a Seattle-based music technology company and direct-to-fan mobile platform that brings artists, fans, and brands together by capturing the live performance and encouraging people to live in the moment. Lively provides high-quality audio and video recordings of live performances through an app-based interface. The Lively app is availablefor download on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and tablet devices. Artists use Lively to easily record and upload audio of live performances for purchase by fans shortly following a show, while a professional video can be available within 24 hours. By using the Lively platform, artists create, market, and distribute their shows while creating new revenue streams. Fans are able to connect with their favorite performers in a new way, discover new performances and listen to and watch their shows on their mobile devices, computer, TV, or in the car. | $500K / Seed / Aug 15, 2013 | ||
| Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones. | $400K / Feb 01, 2011 | ||
| Imagekind allows artist to build online galleries, set their own prices, keep profits and even collect commissions. In addition, Imagekind allows anyone to discover their inner artist through the "create path" which allows customers to upload their favorite pictures or piece of child art and turn it into a framed masterpiece or amuseum-quality print on canvas. Imagekind has partnered with leading brands such as Walgreens, | $2.6M / Series A / Feb 26, 2007 |
Co-Investors
About Second Avenue Partners
Second Avenue Partners provide management, strategy and capital for early stage companies. The following companies are in their portfolio... -Rubicon Interactive -Sports Technologies Inc. -Ice Energy -Newsvine -Azaleos -You Software -Revenue Science -Insitu Group -Bocada -HouseValues.com -WaveMarket -Terabeam -Essention
Second Avenue Partners Contacts
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Chris O'Connor
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Keith Grinstein
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Mike Slade
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Nick Hanauer
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Pete Higgins
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What does Nick Hanauer invest in?
Nick Hanauer invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Printing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Nick Hanauer closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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