# Rich Miner

> Rich Miner is a seed investor at Google Ventures backing Software. See 50 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richminer
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/richminer

Rich Miner is a seed investor at Google Ventures in Boston focused on Software and Analytics. Rich CTO Android Tablets at Google. He attended the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 1982 To 1990. Rich received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 18% |
| Analytics | 6 | 12% |
| Apps | 5 | 10% |
| Mobile | 5 | 10% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 10% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 28% |
| Series A | 11 | 22% |
| Series B | 9 | 18% |
| Series C | 6 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SalesPatriot | SalesPatriot serves as an advanced back-office operating system tailored for companies within the defense sector. | $5M | Seed | Oct 26, 2025 | https://www.salespatriot.com/ |
| Mentra | Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies. | $8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 | https://mentra.glass/ |
| CarbonZero.Eco | CarbonZero.Eco is an ag-tech company that tackles regenerative agriculture and climate change through Biochar. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 | https://carbonzero.eco/ |
| Backflip AI | Backflip's 3D generative AI for the real world allows engineers and designers to work at their own pace and creative constraints. Anyone may use its AI-powered 3D design tools to realize their ideas and produce incredibly realistic models that can be printed out or used as video game assets, 3D renders, and other digital media. | $30M | Series A | Dec 19, 2024 | https://www.backflip.ai/ |
| Coframe | Coframe empowers your website or app to continuously enhance itself based on real-world performance. Coframe is solving fundamental problems in AI and product, training multimodal models that understand users and business goals to enable user interfaces to continuously and autonomously improve themselves. | $9.3M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 | https://coframe.com |
| Omnic.AI | Omnic.AI is an AI platform for gaming designed to help users game smarter. The self-service platform uses computer vision and deep learning techniques to help everyday gamers, pros, and content creators replace hours of manual work, anecdotal theory, and intuition with automation and personalized data-driven insights. Omnic.AI was founded in 2021by MIT alumnus and former nuclear engineer Shaun Meredith and former Apple director Chuck Goldman. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 09, 2024 | https://omnic.ai |
| Frond | Frond is a new platform for online community. Because it’s built from threads instead of chat, conversations are deeper, easier to follow, and scale automatically. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 | http://www.frond.com |
| Osmo | Osmo gives computers a sense of smell that improves the health & wellbeing of human life. | $60M | Series A | Jan 23, 2023 | https://osmo.ai/ |
| Ollie | GoodOnes With the development of mobile platforms, we were able to put powerful computers, digital cameras, and streaming devices in everyone's pockets - Itcould never have predicted the volume of new content that would be created. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2023 | https://www.goodones.app |
| T2 | T2 is a social networking platform that allows users to send blogs. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 12, 2023 | https://www.t2.social |

10 of 50 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ia-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Google Ventures

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on long-term investments. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connectwith Google for technology and expertise. Founded in 2009 as Google Ventures, Google Ventures manages over $8 billion in assets with 400 active portfolio companies in North America and Europe. Some notable investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical. Google Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

5 contacts available at Google Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Wheeler | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-wheeler |
| Anika Gupta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anika-gupta-b105 |
| Anthony Philippakis | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-philippakis |
| Ben Robbins | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-robbins |
| Bethany Tsui | Principal and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethany-tsui |

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## FAQ

### What does Rich Miner invest in?

Rich Miner invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rich Miner?

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### When did Rich Miner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rich Miner closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 50 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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