# Richard Levandov

> Richard Levandov is a Series A investor at Avalon Ventures (Boston) backing Mobile and Software. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rich-levandov/0/67/682
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/richlevandov
- Website: http://www.avalon-ventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rich.levandov.370?fref=ts

Richard Levandov is a Series A investor at Avalon Ventures in Boston focused on Mobile and Software. Rich Levandov joined Avalon Ventures as Partner in 2007.Rich Levandov is Partner at Avalon Ventures. An early lead investor in social gaming company Zynga and behavioral ad targeting company Tacoda (sold to AOL in 2007), Rich sits on Nanigans’ Board.Rich has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operator, angel investor and venturecapitalist involving a variety of cutting-edge, high growth, early-stage technology companies.It was after he co-founded Phoenix Technologies (PTEC), a company that helped launch the PC revolution, and served as an early Vice President at America Online, Inc. that he started his venture capital career.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 8 | 17% |
| Software | 8 | 17% |
| Apps | 4 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 9% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 26% |
| Series B | 10 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joy | Joy is a wedding company that gives couples a smarter way to plan their big day. Using Joy, couples can create a beautifully-designed wedding website and mobile app, build their All-in-One Registry, manage guest lists and RSVPs, send online or printed Save the Dates, invitations and eCards, provide travel and accommodations options for guests, hostvirtual wedding events, create a shared virtual wedding album and virtual guest book, and more. Wedding guests can purchase registry gifts, book travel plans and accommodations, get directions to wedding events via a Google Maps integration, order a ride to wedding events via ride-sharing integrations, add wedding events to their calendar with a click, and more.Based in San Francisco, Joy launched in 2016 through Y Combinator. Visit withjoy.com and follow @withjoy to see why couples around the world are planning their weddings with Joy. | $20M | Series A | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Primer | Primer is an internet company that helps companies understand massive stores of text data using AI. It uses machine learning techniques to help parse and collate a large number of documents across several languages in order to facilitate further investigation. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $110M | Series C | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Orion Labs | Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services.This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across anydistance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform.The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California.Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards. | $29M | Series B | Mar 31, 2020 |  |
| Node | Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solutionoffers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams.Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. | $16M |  | Jul 11, 2019 |  |
| Averon | Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust—no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the newgold standard for digital identity—the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, Averon's solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic. For more information, visit www.averon.com | $11.7M | Series A | Mar 21, 2018 |  |
| Averon | Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust—no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the newgold standard for digital identity—the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, Averon's solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic. For more information, visit www.averon.com | $8.3M | Series A | Oct 23, 2017 |  |
| Node | Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solutionoffers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams.Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. |  | Series A | Jul 25, 2017 |  |
| Smyte | Smyte protects millions of actions a day and was built by industry experts to scale to even the most complex trust and safety use cases. Smyte code into any website or mobile app, which gives Smyte access to a data feed. Smyte’s automated labeling system identifies any potentially malicious activity, based on a variety of signals and relationships,and flags it for manual review. | $4M | Series A | Mar 28, 2017 |  |
| Node | Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solutionoffers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams.Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2016 |  |
| Orion Labs | Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services.This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across anydistance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform.The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California.Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards. | $9M | Series A | Feb 18, 2016 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundryvc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mobius Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobius-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Atlas Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Avalon Ventures

VC Fund · La Jolla, United States

Avalon Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on information technology and life sciences.

5 contacts available at Avalon Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Court Turner | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/court-turner |
| Kevin Kinsella | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-kinsella |
| Steve Tomlin | Managing Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-tomlin |
| Brady Bohrmann | Managing Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brady-bohrmann |
| Richard Levandov | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-levandov |

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## FAQ

### What does Richard Levandov invest in?

Richard Levandov invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 47 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 Richard Levandov last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Levandov closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 47 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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