# Owen Van Natta

> Owen Van Natta is a seed investor at Prefix Capital (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Software. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Prefix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prefix-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-van-natta-444a7/
- Website: https://www.prefixcapital.com/

Owen Van Natta is a seed investor at Prefix Capital in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $1M–$50M |
| Series B | $25M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 10 | 28% |
| Software | 7 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 14% |
| Apps | 4 | 11% |
| Internet | 4 | 11% |

93 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 56% |
| Series A | 9 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 78% |
| Singapore | 2 | 6% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bags | Bags operates as a financial services company that offers small businesses a suite of bookkeeping, accounting, and funding-support tools. The company provides a platform to manage financial records, generate monthly profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports, and offer AI-powered CFO-style financial insights. Bags couples those serviceswith a financing network that helps businesses explore debt funding: it offers funding plans and connects clients to lenders, and provides a funding coach to guide businesses through the loan application process if they choose to seek capital. The company also offers optional services such as historical financial cleanup, payroll and tax-preparation support, giving businesses flexibility in how much they outsource. | $3M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Jiko | Jiko is a new type of bank built on US Treasury bills to unlock unprecedented yield, safety, and scale through direct products and an embedded finance API. Jiko removes the limits of traditional banking to create a new paradigm for building financial success at the scale and speed of today’s economy. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices inNYC and Reykjavik, Jiko's vertically integrated financial institution combines its nationally chartered bank and registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills – all in safe custody. Learn more at www.jiko.com. | $40M | Series B | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Pollen Mobile | Pollen Mobile provides a decentralized mobile network that is built on the blockchain which is owned and operated by its users. Pollen Mobile helps to build its own mobile connectivity through a crypto-economy, enabling users to have reliable and affordable mobile connectivity. |  | Seed | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Vidrovr | Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| VidMob | VidMob is the world's leading platform for Intelligent Creative. We provide an end-to-end technology solution for all of a brand’s creative needs. It is an integrated platform combining AI-powered creative analytics with a production workflow system connected to a global network of expert creators. VidMob’s platform dramatically improves adcampaign ROI through actionable creative insights, faster creative turnaround, better performing ads and streamlined workflow. We are the only company in the world to receive a certified creative marketing partner badge from every major social and digital platform. A portion of every dollar VidMob receives is used to fund pro bono creative services for non-profits through the 501(c)(3) VidMob Gives. | $50M | Series C | Feb 23, 2021 |  |
| Wheels Up | Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program. |  | Series C | Sep 28, 2017 |  |
| SwiftComply | SwiftComply helps over 450 water authorities protect human health and the environment by providing an online platform that streamlines their compliance programs | $910K | Seed | Mar 02, 2017 |  |
| Projector | Projector is a platform that helps developers and product teams expand their product experiences outside the confines of their app. The company builds collaborative creative tools for visual communications like videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations.Projector was founded in 2015 by Aaron Gotwalt and Timothy Young and is based in SanFrancisco, California. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2016 |  |
| Diamond Foundry | We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe.Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining.In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainablycreate diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers.Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation. | $50M | Series A | Nov 15, 2015 |  |
| Sirqul | Sirqul.com is a Seattle-based startup that has created a ubiquitous social platform enabling consumers and brands to create their own distributed, Social-Location-Mobile solutions as a means of driving awareness and engagement through viral adoption. It removes the complexity associated with scalable, enterprise-quality software and enables therapid deployment of interoperable IoT ecosystems based upon plug-and-play APIs, tool kits, and starter projects.The company's platform and patented technologies empower the Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, enterprises, and cloud-enabled application ecosystem owners (AEO’s) to rapidly create dynamic, connected, and engaging experiences and applications for their customers, users, and employees.Sirqul was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $5M | Series A | Nov 04, 2015 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Allen & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-and-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Prefix Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Prefix Capital is an early-stage, deep-tech VC that invests in foundational technologies. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

2 contacts available at Prefix Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Byron Alsberg | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byron-alsberg |
| Owen Van Natta | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/owen-van-natta |

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## FAQ

### What does Owen Van Natta invest in?

Owen Van Natta invests primarily in Mobile, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 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 Owen Van Natta's check size?

Owen Van Natta typically joins rounds of $600k–$4.5M at Seed, $1M–$50M at Series A and $25M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Owen Van Natta participates in.

### When did Owen Van Natta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Owen Van Natta closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 36 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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