# Paul Strachman

> Paul Strachman is a seed investor at Isai (New York) backing E-Commerce and Advertising. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Isai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isai)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-strachman/0/b56/275
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/frenchpinkhas
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paul.strachman

Paul Strachman is a seed investor at Isai in New York focused on E-Commerce and Advertising. Paul Strachman is the Partner at Red Sea Ventures. Paul Strachman attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 30% |
| Advertising | 2 | 20% |
| Music | 1 | 10% |
| Beauty | 1 | 10% |
| Mobile | 1 | 10% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| France | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clyde | Clyde is a technology company transforming how retailers offer product protection and how customers take ownership of the products they love. Clyde’s platform enables retailers -- from startup to enterprise -- to offer product protection plans to customers. By offering protection with Clyde, retailers can increase revenue, reduce programmaintenance costs, and drive customer loyalty. | $14M | Series A | May 11, 2020 |  |
| Jam | Jam uses AI and process optimization to assist students in their daily lives. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 30, 2019 |  |
| Clyde | Clyde is a technology company transforming how retailers offer product protection and how customers take ownership of the products they love. Clyde’s platform enables retailers -- from startup to enterprise -- to offer product protection plans to customers. By offering protection with Clyde, retailers can increase revenue, reduce programmaintenance costs, and drive customer loyalty. | $3M | Seed | Nov 27, 2018 |  |
| Prose | Prose is a custom hair care brand that offers consumers freshly-made products to meet their unique hair and scalp needs. Consumers take a holistic consultation about their hair type and texture, lifestyle habits, environmental exposure (pollution, UV, humidity, hard water and wind) and even diet and stress levels. Each custom formula also accountsfor personal preferences, whether they are vegan, gluten or opt for fragrance-free, and is made-to-order in their NYC lab. Prose is available nationwide via prose.com and through select stylists. | $18M | Series B | Nov 02, 2018 |  |
| Prose | Prose is a custom hair care brand that offers consumers freshly-made products to meet their unique hair and scalp needs. Consumers take a holistic consultation about their hair type and texture, lifestyle habits, environmental exposure (pollution, UV, humidity, hard water and wind) and even diet and stress levels. Each custom formula also accountsfor personal preferences, whether they are vegan, gluten or opt for fragrance-free, and is made-to-order in their NYC lab. Prose is available nationwide via prose.com and through select stylists. | $5.2M | Series A | Dec 07, 2017 |  |
| Prose | Prose is a custom hair care brand that offers consumers freshly-made products to meet their unique hair and scalp needs. Consumers take a holistic consultation about their hair type and texture, lifestyle habits, environmental exposure (pollution, UV, humidity, hard water and wind) and even diet and stress levels. Each custom formula also accountsfor personal preferences, whether they are vegan, gluten or opt for fragrance-free, and is made-to-order in their NYC lab. Prose is available nationwide via prose.com and through select stylists. | $1.8M | Seed | Jul 12, 2017 |  |
| Prefer | Prefer is a referral network for independent professionals to grow their businesses. |  | Series A | May 01, 2017 |  |
| Eulerian | Founded in 2002 by Guillaume FOUGNIES and Mathieu JONDET, EULERIAN TECHNOLOGIES is an independent company which develops solutions for real-time analysis, automation and optimization of e-marketing operations. With proprietary technical architecture, the firm manages the entire production from building our servers to the user-interface.Sinceits foundation, the company has been continuously investing, in R&D, in order to propose to its clients ever more efficient solutions that are adapted to their needs and to the ever changing e-commerce market. Driven by this dynamic, it is able to integrate every two month a new feature in its solutions.EULERIAN TECHNOLOGIES puts data collection at the service of e-commerce websites performance. The solutions developed by EULERIAN TECHNOLOGIES are based on an ultra-precise and secured method of information collection related to the online ads, to the website and to the users of e-merchant websites. This information allows the e-merchants to monitor the performance of their marketing actions and to instantaneously optimize them in order to increase their ROI.Thanks to its innovative solutions and its enduring collaboration with major e-commerce websites, EULERIAN TECHNOLOGIES has become an important French player in real-time analysis and optimization of e-marketing operations. | $5.5M |  | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| Jam | Jam uses AI and process optimization to assist students in their daily lives. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 21, 2016 |  |
| UniqueSound | UniqueSound is the largest platform for sound creatives to showcase their work and get hired. Composers, sound designers and other sound creatives can create portfolios to showcase their work and get hired directly by clients - including global brands, advertising agencies, production companies, directors, music supervisors - UniqueSound ispowered by a worldwide network of sound creatives. We kicked off in October 2014 while at the French Accelerator Le Camping by Numa Paris. In January 2015, we landed in NYC to be part of Techstars NYC 2015 batch. Follow us on our mission to offer a great playground for both composers and clients such as L'Oréal, Mandarin Oriental, Samsung, TBWA, and Publicis | $1M | Seed | Sep 22, 2015 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Starting Line](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starting-line) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Isai

VC Fund · Paris, France

Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

5 contacts available at Isai.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christophe Poupinel | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christophe-poupinel |
| Francois Collet | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francois-collet |
| Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffroy-roux-de-bzieux |
| Jean-David Chamboredon | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-david-chamboredon |
| Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet | Co-Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pierre-kosciusko-morizet |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Strachman invest in?

Paul Strachman invests primarily in E-Commerce, Advertising and Music startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Strachman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Strachman closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 10 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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