# Richard Parsons

> Richard Parsons is a seed investor at Imagination Capital (New York) backing FinTech and Credit. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Imagination Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imagination-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-parsons-18a9a24/

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$4M |
| Series A | $5M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 33% |
| Credit | 2 | 22% |
| Advertising | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Social Media | 2 | 22% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fantail Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fantail-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MGV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maschmeyer-group-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nimble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nimble-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Revel Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revel-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Advancit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advancit-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Argo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Imagination Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

2 contacts available at Imagination Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rachel Lam | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachel-lam |
| Richard Parsons | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-parsons |

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## 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?

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