# Roy Rodenstein

> Roy Rodenstein is a seed investor at SocMetrics (Boston) backing Software and SaaS. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SocMetrics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/socmetrics)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/royrodenstein
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/royrod
- Website: https://x.com/royrod
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royrod

Roy Rodenstein is a seed investor at SocMetrics in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Roy Rodenstein is Co-founder at SocMetrics.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$2.1M |
| Angel | $70k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Music | 2 | 13% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Angel | 4 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 81% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juna | Juna is transforming chronic care, starting with GLP-1 weight loss treatments, addressing the needs of over 40% of U.S. adults with obesity. One-size-fits-all healthcare often fails, leaving gaps for the 133 million Americans affected by chronic diseases. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Seedscout | Seedscout is a venture advisory firm partnering with founders and their visions. | $435K | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Troy Medicare | Troy Medicare is an AI-driven, pharmacy-powered Medicare Advantage company. The company presents a Medicare advantage plan that uses data and technology, enabling people to get access to the fair, transparent, and personalized health plan as well as pharmacies and health care providers to truly impact each patient's health and get rewarded forthose results.Troy Medicare was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. | $10M | Series A | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Hackers/Founders | Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world. | $70K | Angel | Jul 07, 2015 |  |
| Blank Label | Blank Label is an online custom shirt-maker that designs classic, custom-made menswear and delivers it to clients with a fit guarantee in as soon as 7 days. It has been highly rated by the Washington Post, and has received features from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, and more. From classic white shirts to indigo chambrays,four-season wool suits to corduroy pants, each fabric of Blank Label is handcut and made to clients’ personal, preferred size.Blank Label operates an online store, and its pattern room retail is located at downtown Boston. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 23, 2015 |  |
| Simply | JoyTunes is reinventing the way to learn, play and experience music, making it possible for anyone to learn to play a musical instrument. JoyTunes innovatively combines education methods and sound recognition with their patented MusicSense Acoustic Engine to create the world’s most popular music education apps. With more than 7 million usersworldwide and 1 million songs played every week, JoyTunes apps are used and recommended by thousands of music teachers. JoyTunes'​ proprietary app, Piano Maestro, was ranked #1 education app in over 20 countries and Simply Piano is repeatedly recognized by Apple and Google as one of the best apps in the store.JoyTunes has gained international recognition winning numerous awards including: NAMM "Best Tools for Beginners"​, "Parents'​ Choice"​ award, "World Summit Awards"​ from the United Nations, EMI Innovation Challenge Award, “Winning Startup” from SF Music Tech Summit, and many more. JoyTunes is also widely recognized as industry innovators by the world’s major piano makers - Yamaha, Casio, Kawai, and Korg. | $500K | Angel | Jan 01, 2012 |  |
| Shareaholic | Developer of an audience engagement platform intended to accelerate audience engagement, loyalty and your online success. The company's software does this by enabling businesses to harness the power of big data to engage their prospects and customers with perfectly crafted and relevant experiences and calls to action. The platform is used byover 300,000 websites. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 10, 2011 |  |
| Crashlytics | Crashlytics provides powerful, yet light weight crash reporting for iOS and Android. Crashlytics recently released Beta by Crashlytics which brings the Crashlytics expertise to beta distribution. It is a streamlined solution for app distribution that gives users a single cross-platform tool-set, and a delightful, effortless onboarding for testers.Hot off the heels of the Beta by Crashlytics release, Crashlytics released yet another product, Answers by Crashlytics, a mobile-app analytics tool that requires no analysis and is built right into the existing, award-winning Crashlytics SDK. | $1M | Seed | Oct 13, 2011 |  |
| ShareSquare | Since 2010, ShareSquare (http://getsharesquare.com/) has offered a self-serve CMS for creating freestanding mobile sites as stop-gap supplements to any legacy desktop site. Instant optimization on all mobile/tablet devices (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, etc) thanks to JQuery & HTML5. No coding required.Apropos ofnothing, it also looks like a team side/passion project recently "nailed" (perhaps unintentionally?) one of music's thorniest UX problems: BEASTMODE.FM (http://beastmode.fm/).aShareSquare is based in Los Angeles, CA with a European outpost near London. | $150K | Seed | Jan 14, 2011 |  |
| Humanoid | Humanoid is the world's first human brainpower API.Humanoid offers computer programmers a reliable way to use human intelligence in software applications. Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineers can swiftly create tasks and send instructions to humans.Proprietary software breaks the tasks into small pieces and routes them to workersacross the globe. Meanwhile, Humanoid’s artificially intelligent workforce manager ensures accuracy and prevents fraud without human oversight. When the task is complete, developers receive the resulting data through a simple programming interface, known as an API. | $1.1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2010 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Bridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-bridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Draper University Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-university-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SocMetrics

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

SocMetrics Inc. of Cambridge, a web-based, self-service platform that helps identify influencers and advocates for a business to increase buzz.

3 contacts available at SocMetrics.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Roy Rodenstein | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roy-rodenstein |
| Chris Sheehan | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sheehan-4f57 |
| Jason Toy | Co-founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-toy |

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## FAQ

### What does Roy Rodenstein invest in?

Roy Rodenstein invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Music startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 16 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 Roy Rodenstein's check size?

Roy Rodenstein typically joins rounds of $150k–$2.1M at Seed and $70k–$500k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Roy Rodenstein participates in.

### When did Roy Rodenstein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roy Rodenstein closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 16 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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