# Roger Lee

> Roger Lee is a seed investor at Human Interest (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Human Interest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/humaninterest)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerrlee
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/roger_lee
- Website: https://www.rogerlee.com/

Roger Lee is a seed investor at Human Interest in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Software. Roger Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Human Interest, a modern, paperless 401(k) provider with automated investment advice built in. Businesses of any size can set up a 401(k) plan entirely online in a matter of minutes, and ongoing administration is completely automated.Previously, Roger was the co-founder and president of Thunder, a startupthat automates and scales online advertising across devices, formats, and volume. Thunder works with over 100 media companies and agencies and has been used to design over 100,000 ads to date. The company was named one of the Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America and was described as "An Ad Engine to Put Mad Men Out of Business" by the New York Times.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Real Time | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Brazil | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stay | Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators. | $3M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Salsa | Salsa is building a payroll API that can be embedded into software platforms. Its platform is designed to suit the needs of today's workforce and includes a payroll service. The company's platform provides a modern payroll Application Programming Interface, supports a wide range of payroll use cases without overloading frontend code withbusiness logic, and allows businesses to easily embed payroll workflows into the platform, allowing them to build a payroll solution that suits their customers, where employees are paid and compliance is handled. | $10M | Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Aside | Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform. | $17.1M | Series A | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Doorvest | Doorvest is a full-service real estate investing platform that helps busy working professionals own passive income rental homes. The company is an end-to-end rental home investing platform that helps individuals own real estate to generate passive income and build equity. Its platform assists in investing in cash flowing rental homes by properlyidentifying, planning, purchasing, and owning lease houses that enable users to unlock homeownership, passive income, and equity by investing in properties online. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Notion | Notion is for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. The app blends everyday work apps into one. It serves as an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, task management, and project management. The app can be accessed via most web browsers.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Additional offices are locatedin New York City, Tokyo, Seoul, Dublin, and Hyderabad. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2017 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mucker Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/muckercapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [17Sigma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/17sigma) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrive-361a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Human Interest

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee.

5 contacts available at Human Interest.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy McLoughlin | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-mcloughlin |
| Carl Edwards | VP of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-edwards-bc03 |
| Diana Torzewski | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diana-torzewski |
| Jeff Lui | VP of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-lui-fb42 |
| Jeff Schneble | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-schneble |

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## FAQ

### What does Roger Lee invest in?

Roger Lee invests primarily in FinTech, Software and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 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 Roger Lee's check size?

Roger Lee typically joins rounds of $3M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Roger Lee participates in.

### When did Roger Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roger Lee closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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