# Ryan Allis

> Ryan Allis is a seed investor at Hive Digital, Inc. (Boulder) backing Social Media and Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hive Digital, Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virante)
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanallis
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ryanallis
- Website: http://www.heartrith.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ryanallis

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $480k–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Local | 1 | 13% |
| Mobile | 1 | 13% |
| Social | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Butter.ai | The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier. | $3M | Seed | Jul 07, 2016 |  |
| Bento | We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that rotate daily. Next customers choose four side dishes. We have six to eight side options, thatalso rotate daily.The menu focuses on Asian-inspired food with dishes like Korean short ribs, Japanese eggplant, dragon roll, seaweed salad, okonomiyaki, and gyoza.After placing an order, customers track their server’s location and progress. They’ll meet our server curbside, grab their Bento, and it’s time to eat!Our patent pending packaging enables this system allowing for delivery in an average of 15 minutes.Since launch we have seen double-digit W/W growth. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2015 |  |
| Crux | Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl | $480K | Seed | Dec 03, 2014 |  |
| Connect | Connect is a location-powered messaging app that brings together friends from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Share locations, make plans, and keep groups together on the go. See who lives in the city you’re visiting and get notified when friends post or check in nearby — on any network! | $400K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2014 |  |
| Connect | Connect is a location-powered messaging app that brings together friends from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Share locations, make plans, and keep groups together on the go. See who lives in the city you’re visiting and get notified when friends post or check in nearby — on any network! | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 01, 2013 |  |
| Close | Close.com is stealthy startup building a creative new social network that will keep you closer to the ones you care about most. Close.com - Rediscover what it means to be Close. Coming late 2013 | $250K | Angel | Aug 22, 2013 |  |
| Ark | Ark.com, Inc. provides a search engine service to find people. It allows users to search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and friends on social networks by using various search filters, such as location, employer, schools, and interests. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 25, 2012 |  |
| EvoApp | EvoApp makes analyzing big data easy by finding the patterns in relevant conversations that impact business decisions.Their real-time data mining and analysis platform gives big data meaning by correlating with metrics that drive businesses. They’ve helped customers quadruple lead generation, dramatically improve customer service, find thelanguage that makes them six times more relevant to their target audience and accelerate product launches.Connecting big data with business metrics provides new and better ways to answer the questions critical to success. EvoApp makes big data actionable with a scalable analysis platform previously only available to the largest institutions. They make big data approachable with solutions for every day users. EvoApp was founded by two NCSSM alumni, Joe Davy and Alexey Melnichenko in May 2009. |  | Angel | Oct 15, 2010 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bigcolors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigcolors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aslanoba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aslanoba-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asymmetry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lightbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hive Digital, Inc.

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Hive Digital, Inc..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Allis | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-allis |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Allis invest in?

Ryan Allis invests primarily in Social Media, Apps and Local startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 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 Ryan Allis's check size?

Ryan Allis typically joins rounds of $480k–$4.2M 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 Ryan Allis participates in.

### When did Ryan Allis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Allis closed in Jul 2016. Shizune tracks 8 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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