# Ăn cứt Chó

> Ăn cứt Chó is a seed investor in New York backing Mobile and Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Dec 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-webb/0/1b0/376
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rickwebb
- Website: http://www.rickwebb.net
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rickfordwebbington

Ăn cứt Chó is a seed investor in New York focused on Mobile and Software. Rick Webb is the Co-Founder at The Barbarian Group. In 2001, Rick co-founded The Barbarian Group, an award-winning digital ad agency. Rick served as its Chief Operating Officer for the first ten years of the company's existence. Rick left in 2011 to pursue angel investing in and writing on, technology and advertising. Rick is an AngelInvestor in Foursquare, Branch, Circa, Percolate, Sherpaa, Nestio and Timehop. Rick is an Advisor to several other tech startups and marketing services companies, including Hard Candy Shell, and Small Girls PR. Rick currently serves as a Venture Partner at Quotidian Ventures and as a Marketing and Sales Consultant to such startups as Tumblr, Soundcloud and Percolate. Rick is author of Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing, released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015 and an avid writer on technology, advertising, economics and government. Rick graduated from Boston University with a degree in International Economics in 1992.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$1.8M |
| Angel | $55k–$750k |
| Series A | $1M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 4 | 18% |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Content | 3 | 14% |
| Advertising | 3 | 14% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 55% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Angel | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| goTenna | goTenna is the world's leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTenna's mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even withoutcell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT.The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Brooklyn, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 04, 2013 | http://www.gotenna.com |
| Funnel | Funnel offers a complete marketing and leasing management solution for residential landlords and brokers. From top national management companies to boutique brokerages, thousands of multifamily professionals rely on Funnel’s intuitive software to manage their inventory from one place, optimize the tenant experience from prospect to close, and drivemore revenue.The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2013 | https://funnelleasing.com/ |
| Fieldlens | Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 18, 2012 | http://www.fieldlens.com |
| Sherpaa | Sherpaa was co-founded by Dr. Jay Parkinson MD, MPH, trained in pediatrics and preventive medicine at St. Vincent’s and Johns Hopkins. He’s given talks for TED and The Clinton Global Initiative. He’s been referred to as “The Doctor of the Future”.Cheryl Swirnow, Sherpaa’s co-founder, graduated from Cornell’s Hotel School with a concentration inHR. With fifteen years' experience in Human Resources, she has worked for the likes of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Quintessentially, Nike, The Barbarian Group and Rent the Runway. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 20, 2012 | http://sherpaa.com |
| Circa | More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by | $900K | Convertible Note | Apr 27, 2012 | http://circanews.com/ |
| Branch | Branch (formerly Roundtable) enables a smart new brand of high quality public discourse. Curated groups of people are invited to engage around issues in which they are knowledgeable. This service holds the promise of a new platform for dialogue on the web—a necessary departure from the monologues we have grown so accustomed to reading online. | $2M | Seed | Mar 06, 2012 | http://branch.com |
| Lover.ly | Lover.y is the wedding inspiration and content site helping savvy couples plan their weddings online. From thousands of helpful wedding planning articles to their weekly free wedding planning newsletter, couples turn to Loverly as their trusted source for planning their dream wedding. | $500K | Seed | Feb 14, 2012 | https://loverly.com |
| Matchbook | Matchbook is a bookmarking application for places. Users bookmark places like restaurants, bars, and shops so they can remember to go later. Those places are then organized by neighborhood and on a map. Matchbook also gives users the ability to run a tag search such as: "First Date in The West Village". Matching places will be returnedfrom the users bookmarks, as well as the most popular places from other users. | $250K | Seed | Feb 13, 2012 | http://matchbook.co |
| Timehop | Timehop aggregates past content (photos, tweets, statuses, etc.) and presents it on a daily basis to users' mobile devices. It's an innovative way to recall your past in a way that ties it to the current calendar day. Timehop also offers Nimbus, a best-in-class mobile, in-app header bidding solution. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 24, 2012 | http://timehop.com |
| Editorially | Editorially is a new collaborative writing and editing platform. We believe that the web is not merely another distribution pipeline, but a unique and deserving space for both reading and writing. Our goal is to support and encourage that writing process — from the first flash of inspiration all the way through to publication, and at every point inbetween.Together, our team has worked as writers, editors, publishers, designers, and engineers; we’ve shipped products, books, and magazines and enjoy debugging code as much as a good copyedit. We believe in agile, inasmuch as we like to move fast and iterate frequently, but our process is practical and flexible, not dogmatic. We think design happens on whiteboards and sketchbooks, in browsers, and yes — even in Photoshop. We value being practical over being ideal. As a small team, we privilege interdisciplinary roles, clear communication, and the ability to work autonomously. We think good writing and good software development have a lot in common. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2012 | http://editorially.com |

10 of 22 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ăn cứt Chó invest in?

Ăn cứt Chó invests primarily in Mobile, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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 Ăn cứt Chó's check size?

Ăn cứt Chó typically joins rounds of $500k–$1.8M at Seed, $55k–$750k at Angel and $1M–$3M 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 Ăn cứt Chó participates in.

### How do I contact Ăn cứt Chó?

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### When did Ăn cứt Chó last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ăn cứt Chó closed in Dec 2013. Shizune tracks 22 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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