# Paul St. John

> Paul St. John is a Series B investor in Copenhagen backing Software and Security. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulstjohn/?originalSubdomain=dk

Paul St. John is a former SVP of Worldwide Sales at GItHub.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $40M–$94M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Security | 2 | 40% |
| Open Source | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Poland | 1 | 20% |
| Denmark | 1 | 20% |
| Hungary | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coana (acquired by Socket) | Coana helps software teams tackle the flood of alerts from traditional SCA tools. By using advanced reachability analysis, Coana cuts false alerts by over 80%, freeing up significant engineering time without sacrificing security. Coana is developed by leading program analysis researchers and is backed by Sequoia Capital and Essence VC. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| SEON | SEON is the AI command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance. Thousands of companies worldwide trust us to stop fraud without slowing growth.Our platform powers smarter risk decisions by enriching customer profiles, flagging suspicious behavior and managing compliance workflows all in one place. Unlike competitors relying on stale,third-party data, SEON runs on 900+ proprietary, real-time data signals for broader coverage and higher precision.SEON's AI detects hidden fraud networks, builds rules and drafts suspicious activity reports. Teams can also connect their own AI tools, from ChatGPT to Claude to custom agents, directly to SEON's risk data to build their own agentic investigation workflows.We’re trusted by innovators like Revolut, Wise and thousands of others scaling securely into new products and markets. | $94M | Series B | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Alokai | Vue Storefront, an API-focused and Front-End for eCommerce, can be connected with any 3rd party services while taking care that everything runs at peak performance. Vue Storefront is developed in two lines: as the open-source standalone code library based on Vue.js and as the cloud-native frontend as a service (FEaaS) dedicated to enterprises. | $17.4M | Series A | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Cased | The modern terminal for teams & platform for production work | $2.3M | Seed | May 05, 2021 |  |
| Hugging Face | Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City. | $40M | Series B | Mar 11, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Addition](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addition-7af4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crew-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Paul St. John invest in?

Paul St. John invests primarily in Software, Security and Open Source startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 St. John's check size?

Paul St. John typically joins rounds of $40M–$94M 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 Paul St. John participates in.

### When did Paul St. John last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul St. John closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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