# Phil Quist

> Phil Quist is a seed investor at Creative Artists Agency backing Hotel and Travel. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Creative Artists Agency](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-artists-agency)
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-quist-b09a9a18/
- Website: https://x.com/philquist

Phil Quist is a seed investor at Creative Artists Agency in Greater Los Angeles Area focused on Hotel and Travel. Phil Quist is currently working at Creative Artists Agency and is the Founder of PQ Selects. He is also an Investor at Connect Ventures and a Board Member at Forbes, Harlem Lacrosse and Save The Music. He was previously an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Phil attended Southern Methodist University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hotel | 1 | 20% |
| Travel | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |
| Delivery | 1 | 20% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Altered State Machine | Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS. | $11M | Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| The Plug Drink | The Plug Drink is a plant-based functional drink with liver-aiding ingredients designed to support the body’s metabolism. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Gumroad | Gumroad owns and operates an online service through which users can buy and sell digital goods such as design templates and source codes. | $5M | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| Postmates | Postmates is an on-demand food delivery platform that gives customers access to restaurants and retailers. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles andmarkets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service. | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 15, 2012 |  |
| trivago | Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, trivago is a global hotel search platform, focused on reshaping the way travelers search for and compare hotels. trivago’s mission is to “be the traveler’s first and independent source of information for finding the ideal hotel at the lowest rate.” As of September 30, 2016, trivago’s globalhotel search platform offered access to approximately 1.3 million hotels in over 190 countries. trivago’s platform can be accessed globally via 55 localized websites and apps in 33 languages. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2007 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [137 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/137-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altered State Machine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altered-state-machine) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bagel Boy Equity Group II](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bagel-boy-equity-group-ii) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Creative Artists Agency

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Leading entertainment and sports firm Creative Artists Agency (CAA) represents many of the most successful professionals working in film, television, music, sports, video games, theatre, and the Internet, and provides a range of strategic marketing and consulting services to corporate clients. CAA Sports represents more than 1,000 of the world’stop athletes and professionals in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, action sports, coaching and broadcasting, and advises many sports organizations and brands on sponsorship deals, venue marketing partnerships, marketing, and events.

5 contacts available at Creative Artists Agency.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| André Vargas | Executive - Head of Data | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andr%C3%A9-vargas |
| Bryan Lourd | Partner & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-leough |
| Kestrin Pantera | Writer and Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kestrin-pantera |
| Matt Blake | Head of Comedy Touring | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-blake-2961 |
| Michael Levine | Co-Head, Sports | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-levine-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Phil Quist invest in?

Phil Quist invests primarily in Hotel, Travel and Content startups, most often at Seed and Equity Crowdfunding 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 Phil Quist's check size?

Phil Quist typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$11M 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 Phil Quist participates in.

### When did Phil Quist last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Phil Quist closed in Mar 2022. 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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