Oliver Libby
Managing Partner @ CityRock Venture Partners
New York, United States
Oliver Libby is a Series A investor at CityRock Venture Partners in New York focused on Health Care and Information Technology. Oliver B. Libby is co-founding Managing Partner of Hatzimemos / Libby Holdings (H/L Ventures) and of CityRock Venture Partners. Based in New York City and founded in 2009, the H/L Ventures family of companies represents a new kind of venture firm. H/L Ventures is dedicated to building high-growth businesses that add value tosociety and our country by protecting and promoting people and the planet, with a strong preference for diverse founding teams. H/L Ventures’ proprietary Daily Active Engagement model blends the best of venture studio and investment firm on one platform to help grow companies from early stage to exit in a holistic approach to company building.Mr. Libby also chairs the Board of The Resolution Project, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City which he co-founded in 2007 and which recently acquired global entrepreneurship powerhouse Enactus as well. Through its Social Venture Challenges, held at leading youth conferences around the world, Resolution identifies undergraduate students who wish to launch new social ventures. The resulting Resolution Fellowships provide dynamic, hands-on mentorship and grants to implement their social ventures— a full ecosystem of support that empowers the recipients to become socially-responsible leaders. To date, hundreds of Resolution Fellows are working on diverse ventures in high-impact fields and have benefitted more than 7 million people to-date in nearly 100 countries on all six inhabited continents, including all across the United States, as well as amassing over $10.5B in market capitalization in social ventures, and training about 50,000 students a year via Enactus as well.Mr. Libby began his career in the U.S. Government and later at a global managing consulting firm. Mr. Libby is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Board Member of Tech:NYC, among other organizations, and was previously also a Foundation Trustee of the Harvard Club of New York City and a member of the Advisory Council of the Clinton Global Initiative.Mr. Libby is the author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling, a book about reigniting the American Dream from what he calls the Radical Center. Mr. Libby has been invited to speak around the world. His work has been covered in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Venture Capital Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and in television appearances including on CNBC, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and NewsNation. Mr. Libby graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (21%)
- Information Technology 3 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (21%)
- Software 2 (14%)
- GreenTech 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (50%)
- Seed 3 (21%)
- Funding Round 3 (21%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Investments
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| Chptr is a mobile-first platform for memorialization that collects, shares, and preserves memories of a loved one's life for future generations. is a collection of recollections brought together to describe a loved one's entire life narrative. | $5.5M / Series A / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Welcome Tech is a digital platform that builds data-driven services for immigrant workforces. The company offers access to essential services, including healthcare, jobs, education, and financial tools. With over 4.5 million registered members and a growing base of enterprise partners, it enables inclusive economic participation while helpingemployers recruit, retain, and serve an increasingly diverse workforce. | $7.5M / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| MyAvana, formerly known as Madame You, provides hair care recommendation system, combining artificial intelligence and hair care experts to support and guide women with their hair care. It offers a hair analysis service to recommend the best hair products and styling techniques for your unique hair type and texture. | $5.9M / Seed / Aug 09, 2024 | ||
| Loupe is an art streaming platform and service on connected TV and the web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of the home, ad-supported on living room TVs or with a commercial licence for public display, and allow users to purchase the artwork, including select prints and originals. Loupe launchedexclusively on Apple TV, where it is ranked as the top lifestyle app around the world, and now has 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo, and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2 million monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theatre/home entertainment, interior design, the art market, music streaming, and hospitality. | $1M / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Loupe is an art streaming platform and service on connected TV and the web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of the home, ad-supported on living room TVs or with a commercial licence for public display, and allow users to purchase the artwork, including select prints and originals. Loupe launchedexclusively on Apple TV, where it is ranked as the top lifestyle app around the world, and now has 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo, and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2 million monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theatre/home entertainment, interior design, the art market, music streaming, and hospitality. | $3M / Seed / Mar 22, 2023 | ||
| Therma° is a venture-backed company that builds IoT-powered temperature and humidity monitoring and analytics, which prevent food, product, and energy waste, the major drivers of climate change. We partner with diverse organizations and industry leaders in food and healthcare to increase profits while protecting our planet, from national restaurantbrands such as McDonald's, Burger King, Domino's, and TGI Fridays to convenience stores, hotels, and top supply chain businesses such as 7-Eleven, Wyndham and Marriott Hotels, and Lineage Logistics. | $19M / Series A / Feb 07, 2023 | ||
| GlacierGrid is a venture-backed company that helps businesses refine their energy use strategies to balance energy savings, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making—all while reducing their carbon footprint. We leverage IoT (Internet of Things) technology for real-time energy usage optimization. Real-time data collection andseamless monitoring allow business owners and managers to access accurate and timely insights into equipment performance, energy consumption, and potential maintenance needs. On February 26, 2024, Therma rebranded to GlacierGrid. | $19M / Series A / Feb 07, 2023 | ||
| CNote is an investment platform that earns a better return while investing in the causes and communities that matters.CNote rewards great savers with alternative financial vehicles that earn more - safely and simply. Their first product, CNote Savings, helps good savers earn up to 2.5% annual return -- that's 35x more than a traditionalsavings account.The was founded in 2016 by two women with decades of experience working in finance, venture capital, and private equity. CNote is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $7.3M / Series A / Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Andie is a designer and manufacturer of one-piece women’s swimsuits and sells them to consumers through its eCommerce platform. Its products are offered as a direct-to-consumer brand that cuts out retail middlemen and enables women to browse and buy designer-quality swimwear at accessible prices that they can try and home and find which one fitsthem best. By offering women high-design, luxurious swimsuits at an accessible price point, Andie provides a compelling and much needed alternative to existing options in the swimwear market. | $18.5M / Series B / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Sorcero provides an AI-powered intelligence platform tailored for life sciences teams. It enables medical affairs, safety, scientific communications, and medtech groups to extract meaningful insights from unstructured and structured biomedical data. Through its Instant Insights Engine and agentic AI framework, users can ask conversational questionsand quickly receive medically validated answers linked to their source material. Sorcero also offers tools for literature monitoring, safety signal detection, and converting complex science into clear, plain-language summaries. The platform supports compliant workflows by providing auditability, AI guardrails, and access controls to manage insights securely. | $10M / Series A / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
CityRock Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing in start-ups that focuses on impact with diverse founding teams. It targets companies with which their team can work proactively to help them reach their full potential. It helps to lead the movement of active engagement with its portfolio companies, which they believe results instronger companies and lasting impact.
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What does Oliver Libby invest in?
Oliver Libby invests primarily in Health Care, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Oliver Libby closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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