# ProFounder

> ProFounder is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing iOS, Apps and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profounder/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/teamprofounder
- Website: http://www.profounder.com

ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iOS | 1 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Local | 1 | 33% |
| Music | 1 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elemental Machines | Elemental Machines is revolutionizing science-based industries with a smart lab platform that offers powerful, data-driven insights to improve laboratory operations, research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. Continuously monitoring equipment and environmental variables provides new levels of clarity, transparency, consistency, and improvedrepeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 03, 2016 |  |
| uberlife | uberlife is a real-world location-based socializing app to help people hang out more with their friends, network and new likeminded people around them, wherever they go.Users join the community by signing up with Facebook or Twitter and can also connect their Last.fm account.Users create real world "hangouts" showing where theyare going to be and when and broadcast these directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter to invite whoever is free to "come join". Anyone who joins can also invite their friends by broadcasting the hangout through their own networks.Adding tags to hangouts matches these to local uberlife users' interests too, as well as their Facebook Likes and Last.fm bands, to notify them that a hangout is taking place that they're interested in and to invite them to join.Users can check in to hangouts, post comments and upload photos creating a digital memory capture of the hangout and group photo display. These actions are also (soon to be) broadcast-able directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter that enables a live activity stream before, during and after the hangout.Users can follow other uberlife users that they'd like to hang out with to be notified when that person creates a nearby hangout. Users only become Friends in uberlife IF they are following each other AND they have attended the same hangout i.e. hung out in real life. All users earn a Connector Score when they create hangouts and connect people in real life. When two people join a hangout and then follow each other in uberlife, the "creator" boosts their Connector Score by one. | $1.6M | Series A | Dec 01, 2010 |  |
| ProFounder | ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members. |  | Seed | Apr 04, 2008 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2M Companies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2m-companies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ATDC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atdc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Halmos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Project 11 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/project-11-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rock Health Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rock-health) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ProFounder invest in?

ProFounder invests primarily in iOS, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 ProFounder last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for ProFounder closed in Feb 2016. Shizune tracks 3 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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