# Paul Bernard

> Paul Bernard is a Series A investor at Amazon (Seattle) backing Software and Machine Learning. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Amazon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-bernard-0b81542/

Paul Bernard is a Series A investor at Amazon in Seattle focused on Software and Machine Learning. Paul Bernard is the Director, Worldwide Corporate Development - Alexa Fund Lead at Amazon.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 14% |
| Eyewear | 2 | 10% |
| Hardware | 2 | 10% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 24% |
| Seed | 4 | 19% |
| Series B | 4 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 57% |
| Finland | 2 | 10% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hearvana | Hearvana is a IT consulting company. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| IXI | Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision. |  | Series A | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Imbue | We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity. | $12M | Series B | Oct 19, 2023 |  |
| Superplastic | Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont. | $20M | Series A | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Labrador Systems | Labrador Systems is a robotics company building a new generation of personal robots to improve the quality of life for millions of people. They are taking the latest tech from those fields to create pragmatic but meaningful applications to support people in everyday life. The company driving the design and implementation of advanced roboticshardware and software systems.Labrador Systems is based in Oak Park, California, USA. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 04, 2022 |  |
| WattBuy | At WattBuy, we’re focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. We’re looking to bring on team members to help us reach that goal. Based in NYC, DC, and Seattle, WattBuy is a team of product leaders and engineers from Google and Amazon who share a love of using technology to tackleinequality and positively impact the climate. | $11.2M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Inpher.io | Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.Inpher is a veteran team of entrepreneurs, cryptographers, and computer scientists who believe that privacy and security are foundational to the future of computing. It has developed transformational Secret Computing™ technology to run analytics andmachine learning algorithms on private data sources with zero-knowledge. This provides a secure path to cloud services and the monetization of analysis and insight without revealing sensitive data. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 08, 2021 |  |
| Ayoconnect | Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest financial API platform. It enables developers to choose from a wide range of white-label financial products on Ayoconnect’s API platform and quickly launch them to their users. Ayoconnect remains in the background, focused on building and operating the necessary infrastructure while allowing its clients tomonetize and expand their business quickly and effectively.Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect’s API stack has seen rapid adoption. More than 200 companies trust it as clients, including leading banks, retailers, e-commerce, fintech, and e-wallets such as Bank BRI, Bank Mandiri, DANA, Indomaret, Bukalapak, Home Credit, Pegadaian, and connects more than 1,000 institutions through its network of APIs. Ayoconnect’s APIs process more than 300 million API hits annually.Ayoconnect has raised a total of US$15 million from leading local and international institutional investors. Ayoconnect's investors include Mandiri Capital Indonesia, Bank Mandiri’s corporate venture capital unit; BRI Ventures, Bank BRI's corporate venture capital unit; Indonesia’s AC Ventures, headed by Chairman of the Indonesian Fintech Association Pandu Sjahrir; Patamar Capital, Southeast Asia’s leading impact venture capital; Kakaku, a public company listed on the Tokyo Exchange (TYO); and Finch Capital among others. Ayoconnect continues expanding its ecosystem to accelerate financial inclusion and adoption of embedded finance throughout Southeast Asia. | $5M | Series B | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Plant Prefab | Plant Prefab designs and builds custom, sustainable, single-family and multi-family homes for individuals, architects, and developers—twice as fast as site-based builders.Plant Prefab homes are meticulously crafted, and built according to its clients' exact design specifications.Plant Prefab homes are constructed in half the time of asite-built home. Building in a controlled environment, in parallel with site work, reduces delays and waste.Plant Prefab's off-site construction and a patented building system helps it build custom homes much faster and more efficiently than site-based contractors and other prefabricators. The company's rigorous health and sustainability standards means Plant homes are as healthy as possible for its clients and the environment. | $30M | Series B | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Spinn | Internet of things meets coffee marketplace. Spinn makes connected coffee machines that makes coffee using patented centrifugal technology. The taste of the coffee is consistently described by coffee professionals as smooth, creamy and velvety. The machine auto-replenishes using a 'beanlist' users compile from a marketplace for localcoffee roasters. A better version of coffee. | $20M | Series B | Jun 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Fellow Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-fellow-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maki.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maki-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Riverfront Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverfront-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alpana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpana-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Amazon

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Amazon operates a vast online marketplace where customers can purchase a wide variety of products, including electronics, books, apparel, household goods, and more. The company has a robust logistics and delivery network, allowing efficient shipping and on-time delivery to customers.

5 contacts available at Amazon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Domenic Merenda | Head of Science and Engineering for Sponsored Display Non-Endemic | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/domenic-merenda |
| Jonathan Rubinstein | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-rubinstein |
| Mark Smith | Startups Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-smith-21 |
| Mark Smith | Startups Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-smith-5bd4 |
| Ned Curic | Vice President of Alexa Automotive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ned-curic |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Bernard invest in?

Paul Bernard invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 Paul Bernard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Bernard closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 21 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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