Richard Parsons
Co-Founder and Partner @ Imagination Capital
New York, United States
Richard Parsons is a seed investor at Imagination Capital in New York focused on FinTech and Credit. Richard Parsons - Co-Founder and Partner @ Imagination Capital
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Richard Parsons invests in
Stages Richard Parsons invests in
Countries Richard Parsons invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$4M
- Series A
- $5M–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (33%)
- Credit 2 (22%)
- Advertising 2 (22%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (22%)
- Social Media 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Upsie
|
Upsie is a mobile app that provides an easier and better way to protect your stuff. You get the same warranties and coverage offered by other companies but at an affordable price. No annoying sales pitch. No big price markups. All warranty pricing and coverage options are right there in the app. Even your receipts are photographed and stored! Youcan purchase coverage, start a claim or even scan a barcode while shopping to see what warranties are available for that item. | $18.2M / Series A / May 13, 2021 | |
Percent
|
Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $700 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $12.5M / Series A / Apr 22, 2021 | |
Public
|
Public.com is the fractional investing platform where members build modern portfolios of stocks & ETFs, crypto & NFTs, art & collectibles. | $65M / Series C / Dec 15, 2020 | |
Buzzer
|
Buzzer is scaling its proprietary technology and custom services to support an evolving industry embracing a more fan-centric approach and looking to connect with Gen Z audiences. Buzzer’s technology enables partners’ D2C platforms to be lighter, faster, curated, and personalized while saving on costly manual oversight and editorial resourcing,solving for a content-saturated and disaggregated consumer environment. | $4M / Seed / Sep 29, 2020 | |
Percent
|
Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $600 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $4M / Seed / Jan 31, 2020 | |
|
Percent
|
Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $700 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $4M / Seed / Jan 31, 2020 | |
Addy
|
Addy is a marketplace that solves a problem for both sides of the local advertising equation. SMBs are able to discover, compare, and purchase the most popular types of local ads at low rates, with just a few clicks. Media owners are able to generate meaningful ad revenue from hundreds of small customers through a single partner with virtually nocost-of-sales . | $2.3M / Seed / Sep 01, 2016 | |
CrowdTangle
|
CrowdTangle makes it incredibly easy to find & track content on the social web. | $2.2M / May 07, 2014 | |
First30Days
|
First30days is self-help site designed to take people through the first 30 days (and beyond) of major life changes, such as the first 30 days of finding your dream job, starting a new business, buying a home, being pregnant, or getting a divorce. The site plans to make money with ads and sponsorships targeted at each life change—stroller adsfor people looking at how to deal with pregnancy or being a new parent pages, banking ads for people contemplating starting a new business. Before founding First 30 Days, Ariane de Bonvoisin worked as a corporate strategist/VC at Bertelsmann, Sony, and Time Warner. At Time Warner, she worked directly for former CEO Dick Parsons, who personally put up the seed money for First30days. | $5M / Series A / Feb 11, 2008 |
Co-Investors
About Imagination Capital
Imagination Capital is a partnership of diverse executives with extensive media and venture capital experience. They partner with entrepreneurs to bring their networks, operating and investment experience, and capital to build high growth companies that can meaningfully scale and innovate within their target markets. They seek to join investorsyndicates where they can lend their judgement, experience and sense of humor to help their portfolio companies successfully grow.
Imagination Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Rachel Lam
Managing Partner
|
|||
|
Richard Parsons
Co-Founder and Partner
|
|||
3 more contacts available
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Richard Parsons invest in?
Richard Parsons invests primarily in FinTech, Credit and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Richard Parsons's check size?
Richard Parsons typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$4M at Seed and $5M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Richard Parsons participates in.
When did Richard Parsons last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Richard Parsons closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
