# Paul English

> Paul English is a seed investor at Lola.com (Boston) backing Software and Mobile. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lola.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lola-travel-company-inc)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/englishpaulm
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/englishpaulm
- Website: http://paulenglish.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/paulenglishboston

Paul English is a seed investor at Lola.com in Boston focused on Software and Mobile. Paul is a co-founder of Boston Venture Studio. Paul was previously the cofounder of Kayak (sold to Priceline), Lola Travel and Expense (sold to Capital One), GetHuman (ongoing), Boston Light Software (sold to Intuit), Intermute (sold to Trend Micro), World Xiangqi League and Moonbeam (sold to Audacy).Non-profit work: Paul is the cofounder ofEmbrace Boston, Summits Education (a school system with 10,000 students in Haiti), the Winter Walk (Boston homeless awareness), and also serves on the boards of Humanity Rises (refugees), Partners In Health (global health) and Village Health Works (Burundi).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $664k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $6.7M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 33% |
| Mobile | 5 | 28% |
| SaaS | 4 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peek | Peek is an AI-enabled platform that supports online booking, payment processing, dynamic pricing, and guest management, while automating scheduling, waivers, communication, and analytics. With a marketplace at Peek.com, it offers travelers access to tens of thousands of curated experiences—everything from immersive exhibits and city tours toclasses and adventures. Through recent acquisitions of ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO, Peek now extends its infrastructure to include membership, donations, RFID-based visitor tracking, and on-site operations. Its clients include major institutions like MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group, and Museum of Ice Cream. | $70M | Series D | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| JUICER | JUICER is helping restaurants automate their pricing within their existing technology stack using machine learning algorithms. By taking a data-driven approach to pricing, restaurants can significantly increase revenue and profitability. With dynamic pricing, restaurants can increase profits during peak periods, increase volume during slowerperiods, and improve the customer experience by providing deals to price-sensitive customers, and by lowering wait times for customers during busy periods. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| T2 | T2 is a social networking platform that allows users to send blogs. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 12, 2023 |  |
| Peek | Peek is an AI-enabled platform that supports online booking, payment processing, dynamic pricing, and guest management, while automating scheduling, waivers, communication, and analytics. With a marketplace at Peek.com, it offers travelers access to tens of thousands of curated experiences—everything from immersive exhibits and city tours toclasses and adventures. Through recent acquisitions of ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO, Peek now extends its infrastructure to include membership, donations, RFID-based visitor tracking, and on-site operations. Its clients include major institutions like MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group, and Museum of Ice Cream. | $80M | Series C | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Postscript | Postscript is an eCommerce SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing. It allows users to easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics to improve sales and revenue. It plugs into eCommerce businesses and helps overcome declining email engagement by sendingcustomers targeted and customizable SMS marketing. | $4.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2019 |  |
| Searchable.ai | Searchable.ai is a developer of a personalized semantic search engine used to improve work productivity. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| Peek | Peek is an AI-enabled platform that supports online booking, payment processing, dynamic pricing, and guest management, while automating scheduling, waivers, communication, and analytics. With a marketplace at Peek.com, it offers travelers access to tens of thousands of curated experiences—everything from immersive exhibits and city tours toclasses and adventures. Through recent acquisitions of ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO, Peek now extends its infrastructure to include membership, donations, RFID-based visitor tracking, and on-site operations. Its clients include major institutions like MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group, and Museum of Ice Cream. | $23M | Series B | Jun 19, 2018 |  |
| Pilot | Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. The company's platform offers accurate financial reports and automated accrual basis bookkeeping to produce on-demand and error-free reports, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices. | $15.3M | Series A | Mar 14, 2018 |  |
| Dark | Dark is holistic programming language, editor, and hosted infrastructure. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 15, 2017 |  |
| Ujama | Ujama is a messaging platform where communities connect, collaborate, and conduct commerce. Ujama helps people help one another. We promote more joy and fewer logistics through the power of community, friendship and teamwork. Our name comes from the Swahili word ujamaa which means extended family. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [I2BF Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i2bf-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathay-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chang Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-com-0014) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ride Home Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ride-home-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WestCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westcap-sf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lola.com

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Lola.com is an easy-to-use travel management tool that helps companies book, report, and save on business travel.Life becomes simpler with employee friendly business travel policies, fun travel tracking tools, and transparent spend reporting for business travel managers. For the business travelers, it enables easy flight and hotel booking, teamdestination sharing, loyalty points from the actual hotels and airlines, and 24/7 agent support. Its book on behalf feature lets executive assistants, easily book travel like a boss.Founded on 2015, Lola.com works for both employers and employees. It is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

5 contacts available at Lola.com.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mike Volpe | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-volpe |
| Dennis Doughty | Senior Vice President, Chief Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-doughty |
| Krista Pappas | Senior Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krista-pappas |
| Paul English | CTO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-english |
| Paul Schwenk | Treasurer, Secretary, and Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-schwenk-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul English invest in?

Paul English invests primarily in Software, Mobile and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Paul English's check size?

Paul English typically joins rounds of $664k–$4.5M at Seed and $6.7M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paul English participates in.

### When did Paul English last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul English closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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