# Paul Olliver

> Paul Olliver is a seed investor at Wider Wake Networks backing Software and Advertising. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wider Wake Networks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wider-wake-networks)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: May 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-olliver/17/45a/5b7
- Website: http://www.widerwake.net

Paul Olliver is a seed investor at Wider Wake Networks in New York focused on Software and Advertising. Paul Olliver is the Managing Partner at Wider Wake.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| Advertising | 5 | 38% |
| Content | 4 | 31% |
| Marketing | 3 | 23% |
| Advertising Platforms | 3 | 23% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 85% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 85% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Embrace | Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $4.5M | Seed | May 23, 2017 |  |
| Conversion Logic | Conversion Logic operates as a machine learning-powered marketing analytics for the enterprise. With the XC Logic platform powered by our award-winning machine learning framework and its professional services expertise, they enable marketing efficiency, optimization, and scale by delivering predictive and valuable insights in real-time. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| #Paid | #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms. | $1M | Seed | Oct 01, 2016 |  |
| Cinch | Cinch is an online platform that enables local businesses to launch smart loyalty programs for their customers. With targeted marketing tactics in place, the program enables customers to sign up with just their mobile numbers in order to provide feedback and also to manage their rewards and points. Cinch is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. |  | Seed | Apr 05, 2016 |  |
| QuickFrame | QuickFrame's intelligent video platform reduces the time, cost, and subjectivity of traditional video creation, empowering you to do more with video. |  | Seed | Apr 04, 2016 |  |
| Zype | AI-enabled and API-first, Zype powers reliable, scalable video streaming on your website, apps, and channels. Zype is a Backlight business. |  | Seed | Feb 02, 2016 |  |
| Vidible | Vidible is a multi-platform, programmatic video exchange platform for discovering and distributing video content. It is now integrated into ONE by AOL. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile, and TV through premium experiences, programmatic buying, and performance-drivencampaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers, and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online. |  | Seed | Apr 05, 2013 |  |
| TripleLift | TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2012 |  |
| TripleLift | TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web. |  | Seed | Apr 05, 2012 |  |
| Tapad | Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets,connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale. | $1.8M | Angel | Mar 03, 2011 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baroda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baroda-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [C2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c2-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Wider Wake Networks

VC Fund · New York, United States

Wider Wake is a forum within which its members exchange information about pre-screened.early stage, and potentially high yielding investment opportunities.

2 contacts available at Wider Wake Networks.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paul Olliver | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-olliver |
| Chris Young | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-young-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Olliver invest in?

Paul Olliver invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Content startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 13 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 Olliver's check size?

Paul Olliver typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paul Olliver participates in.

### When did Paul Olliver last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Olliver closed in May 2017. Shizune tracks 13 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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