Ron Pragides
Limited Partner @ GTMfund
San Francisco, United States
Ron Pragides is a seed investor at GTMfund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce. BLACKHAWK NETWORK - Vice President of Engineering. Leading a team of 65 Engineers building BHN's core recipient experiences on web & native mobile applications. TRUSTLY - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. CARTA - Vice President of Engineering responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team of Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo. APPDIRECT - Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune. BIGCOMMERCE - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin. TWITTER - Director of Engineering thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity. SALESFORCE - Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Engineering team was ~36 individuals. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.
- Total investments:
- 225
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Ron Pragides invests in
Stages Ron Pragides invests in
Countries Ron Pragides invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.1M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $700k–$4M
- Series A
- $10M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 79 (35%)
- Artificial Intelligence 46 (20%)
- SaaS 38 (17%)
- Information Technology 34 (15%)
- FinTech 29 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 100 (44%)
- Series A 53 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 20 (9%)
- Series B 19 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (4%)
Country
- United States 140 (62%)
- Canada 14 (6%)
- United Kingdom 7 (3%)
- Israel 5 (2%)
- India 2 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations. | $17M / Series A / Oct 04, 2026 | ||
| Smack's domain-specific models assess multimodal data streams in real time, transforming them into campaign-informed decisions across the kill chain within seconds. | $61M / Series B / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Cnuic Technologies has developed a working prototype of a completely new type of photolithography device. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Noon operates in the product design software, developing an AI-native tool for digital product teams. It focuses on bridging design and engineering workflows by integrating live code from a company's codebase and design system into a collaborative canvas. | $44M / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M / Series A / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| Our mission is simple: to make building with AI as open and collaborative as open source. We’re creating tools for the next generation of intelligent systems—built for developers who value craft, reliability, scale, and community. By opening up the AI development process, we’re enabling teams to move faster, ship with confidence, and learn fromeach other as they build what’s next. | $30M / Series A / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Völur is an AI-based technology company that optimizes the cutting and processing of sustainable meat. This technology helps meat producers create value by getting the most out of every animal which reduces the need for animals, increases yields, and improves demand satisfaction while reducing inventory levels. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Smack's domain-specific models assess multimodal data streams in real time, transforming them into campaign-informed decisions across the kill chain within seconds. | $32M / Series A / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Ditto AI is a personalized AI matchmaking service that curates one ready-to-go date each week based on user preferences. It combines AI insights and professional matchmakers to provide verified and private campus dating experiences. | $9.2M / Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
| Ditto develops an AI-driven experiential date planning platform that is designed to deliver personalized social engagement. | $9.2M / Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About GTMfund
GTMfund is an early-stage fund focused on investing in hyper-growth B2B SaaS companies. The fund is comprised of 260+ go-to-market executives from the fastest-growing companies on the planet (Snowflake, DocuSign, Okta, Salesforce, Twilio, Square, Procore, etc). Our operators have been there, done that, from zero to IPO. We support our founders with everything GTM - from strategy to hiring and execution.
GTMfund Contacts
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Curtis Ropp
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Damian Thompson
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FAQ
What does Ron Pragides invest in?
Ron Pragides invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 225 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ron Pragides invest in?
Ron Pragides typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$9M at Seed, $700k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ron Pragides's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ron Pragides took part in.
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When did Ron Pragides last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ron Pragides closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 225 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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