# Raanan Bar-Cohen

> Raanan Bar-Cohen is a seed investor at Resolute Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Resolute Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resolute-vc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/raananbarcohen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/raanan
- Website: http://raanan.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/raanan

Raanan Bar-Cohen is a seed investor at Resolute Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Raanan Bar-Cohen is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Resolute Ventures and was a Director of Business Technology at TIME Magazine. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 35% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 25% |
| B2B | 2 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |
| Big Data | 2 | 10% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 45% |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 65% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| howie | howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| House Numbers | House Numbers is the pioneer in Home Wealth Management. We help homeowners gain financial independence by understanding and optimizing their largest asset – their home. There are over 90 million owner-occupied homes in the US, with over $30 trillion dollars in cumulative home equity. We leverage the latest technology, personal financialinformation, owner-specific goals and market data to provide highly personalized, actionable opportunities that help homeowners access products that will help improve their financial health. | $3.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Random Games | Random Games is a development studio spearheading concept in videogames with a community empowerment, blockchain technology. | $7.6M | Seed | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| JOBOX.ai | Jobox lets pros focus on their job by taking the overhead of managing the finances of a home services business. JOBOX is a SaaS-based marketplace infrastructure provider that connects businesses with vetted home service professionals. The company's artificial intelligence-based infrastructure provides home service professionals with a freetoolbox to help them launch their enterprises, while also assisting major organizations in matching work they have with a bank of professionals based on factors such as skill type and location. | $42M | Series B | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Metadata | Metadata is an autonomous demand generation platform that automates the most critical but often tedious tasks in marketing to help companies efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. Through machine learning, a proprietary corporate-to-personal identity graph, and automatic optimization to revenue KPIs, Metadata’s platform generates demandfrom target accounts and converts them to customers much faster than legacy methods. Innovative B2B marketers at Zoom, RingCentral, Slack, Thoughtspot and Vonage rely on Metadata to generate predictable velocity of inbound pipeline from target accounts. 3 USPTO patents. | $40M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Moxie | Moxie provides a fitness platform with live and on-demand workouts, interactive coaching, workout tracking, and goal management. It connects users with fitness coaches and supports both at-home and hybrid studio training programs. | $6.3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Vercel | Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure to save and secure personalized websites. They offer a DX platform, AI, and open-source services. They also provide resource centers, marketing sites, templates, platforms, and design engineer solutions. | $21M | Series A | Apr 21, 2020 |  |
| AI.Reverie | AI.Reverie is a simulation platform that trains AI to understand the world. They offer a suite of synthetic data and vision APIs to help businesses across different industries train their machine learning algorithms and improve their AI applications, so that together, they make cities smarter, farms sustainable, homes safer, tasks easier, and lifefuller. | $5.6M | Seed | Apr 14, 2020 |  |
| Manufactured | Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains. | $320K | Seed | Nov 20, 2019 |  |
| Automattic | Automattic Inc. is a technology company focused on developing and providing web-based solutions and services. Known for its robust suite of products, Automattic offers WordPress.com for website creation and management, WooCommerce for e-commerce, Jetpack for site performance and security, and other tools aimed at enhancing web functionality. | $300M | Series D | Sep 19, 2019 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ICONIQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconiq-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lowercase Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercase-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Compound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metamorphic-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Resolute Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Resolute Ventures is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage companies.

5 contacts available at Resolute Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Hirshland | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-hirshland |
| Brian Thomas | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-thomas-4 |
| Eric Wu | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-wu-9ddb08b8 |
| Raanan Bar-Cohen | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raanan-bar-cohen |
| Rodi Guse | Director Of Finance And Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodi-guse |

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## FAQ

### What does Raanan Bar-Cohen invest in?

Raanan Bar-Cohen invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 20 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 Raanan Bar-Cohen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raanan Bar-Cohen closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 20 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?

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