# Rob May

> Rob May is a seed investor at AI Innovators Community backing Artificial Intelligence. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AI Innovators Community](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-innovators-community)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmay
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/robmay
- Website: https://about.me/robmay

Rob May is a seed investor at AI Innovators Community in Boston focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Rob May is the Founder and CEO of BrandGuard. He previously worked at PJC as a Venture Partner. Rob May attended the University of Kentucky.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$6.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $20k–$1.8M |
| Series A | $9M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 48% |
| Machine Learning | 21 | 35% |
| Software | 18 | 30% |
| Health Care | 7 | 12% |
| SaaS | 6 | 10% |

122 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 15% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 72% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jozu | Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments. | $4M | Seed | May 08, 2025 |  |
| FeedbackNow | FeedbackNow, a maker of physical buttons and monitoring software that companies deploy to measure, analyze, and improve customer experience | $9M | Series A | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Knapsack | Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Featureform | Featureform provides an open-source virtual feature store. It allows data scientists to define, manage, and serve machine learning features across the organization. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Onton | Find, research, and buy products from any e-commerce site | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Efabless | efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry.The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centricinnovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| PatternAI | One day, everyone will have a personal robot. Our mission is to make PatternAI the world’s smartest and most trusted personal AI for work. We believe PatternAI will transform human productivity more than the personal computer. PatternAI is built with industry-leading conversational AI capabilities, advance language processing and AI, and aworld-class data engineering architecture with personal privacy and enterprise grade security. Experience the Future of Work, with a PatternAI robot at your side. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 30, 2023 |  |
| Consensus | The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |
| Consensus | The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |
| Katch | Katch is a data analytics company that provides marketers and content producers with audience insights derived from the Katch Media Genome. Hollywood is in trouble: too many new choices in movies, series, and streaming platforms have consumers frustrated deciding what to watch. Meanwhile, the very same streaming services are desperately competingfor subscribers, with new platforms emerging each week. The legacy system of Hollywood needs a new way of understanding and analyzing content–an empirical, objective way of organizing itself. Enter the Katch Media Genome, an advanced language that captures the unique, personalized reasons why we like what we like. Designed by Dr. Nolan Gasser, architect of the original Pandora Music Genome and author of Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste, the genome is the foundation of Katch’s analytics and recommendation technology.Using the Genome, Katch has built a series of Media Market Indexing products that predict where a film or series will perform better or worse across cities, countries, and even demographics. Like the “Google Maps” of filmmaking, we tell you where you should go, how to get there, and which routes to avoid. |  | Seed | Apr 20, 2023 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Data Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AlleyCorp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alleycorp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Half Court Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/half-court-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LAUNCH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-co) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About AI Innovators Community

VC Fund



1 contacts available at AI Innovators Community.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rob May | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-may |

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## FAQ

### What does Rob May invest in?

Rob May invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 60 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 Rob May's check size?

Rob May typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6.1M at Seed, $20k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$21M 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 Rob May participates in.

### When did Rob May last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rob May closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 60 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.

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