James Prashant Fonseka
Former Partner @ Tuesday Capital
San Francisco, United States
James Prashant Fonseka is a seed investor at Tuesday Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Dating. Prashant Fonseka a Partner at Tuesday Capital and Co-Founder of Moongrove. As a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Prashant is bringing his knowledge of what it takes to bring cutting-edge products to market. At Tuesday Capital, Prashant has backed many startups that have gone on to be Silicon Valley standouts and household names, includingAirtable, Airbnb, Uber, Cruise and others. In launching Moongrove, Prashant is empowering designers with the latest AI capabilities.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
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Industries James Prashant Fonseka invests in
Stages James Prashant Fonseka invests in
Countries James Prashant Fonseka invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- Dating 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- Art 1 (13%)
- News 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Blue is an AI-powered EHR purpose-built for healthspan/longevity practices that gives doctors superhuman abilities, synced seamlessly with a personal health superapp for me and you.Imagine a healthcare system that actually takes care of your health *in advance* rather than fumbling to pick up the pieces after things go wrong.We'repassionate about a future in which far more diseases are prevented than treated, and it's effortless to improve your day-to-day quality of life, in both well-being and performance.Science >> Snake Oil | Pre-Seed / Jul 04, 2024 | ||
| Bloom Community offers sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture communities a secure online environment. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| is a YCombinator-backed social and dating app that helps people meet around events. Bloom partners with event organizers to enable attendees to connect and chat before and after events. Bloom members can discover events and people to meet through the app. The team is led by Lauren Vegter, who previously led User Acquisition at Instagram from 700Mto past a billion users, launched consumer VR and led social VR at Oculus, and has two MIT degrees. The team has experience from Google, Facebook, Nest, LinkedIn, Ebay/Paypal, and multiple YCombinator-backed startups. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Bloom Community offers sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture communities a secure online environment. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Stop unwanted sales emails and silence the noise in your inbox.Gated is an intelligent, easy solution that reduces inbox volume (by an average of 43%) and helps you focus on the emails that matter to you - and your business. Unknown senders pay to reach your inbox - and that payment goes to benefit the nonprofit organization of YOUR choice.Gated is 100% free for users and works with your existing email setup. In only minutes, your inbox can be more productive and peaceful. | $3.3M / Seed / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| AppliedXL is an event detection company where journalistically-minded people work together to anticipate the news. They develop technology that links disparate data points to surface early signals that drive action. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 21, 2022 | ||
| AppliedXL is an event detection company where journalistically-minded people work together to anticipate the news. They develop technology that links disparate data points to surface early signals that drive action. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| Lightform's products transform spaces & experiences using projection mapping, adding magical effects & ambient interfaces to any 3D object. | $5M / Seed / Nov 21, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Tuesday Capital
Tuesday Capital (formerly known as CrunchFund) is a seed stage focused venture firm that invests in information technology enabled companies. In 2019 CrunchFund was rebranded as Tuesday Capital.
Tuesday Capital Contacts
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James Prashant Fonseka
Former Partner
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Pankaj Shah
Advisor
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Patrick Gallagher
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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What does James Prashant Fonseka invest in?
James Prashant Fonseka invests primarily in Software, Dating and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for James Prashant Fonseka closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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