# Ryan Sells

> Ryan Sells is a seed investor at Bloomberg LP backing Information Technology and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bloomberg LP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-lp)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansells/

Ryan Sells is a seed investor at Bloomberg LP in San Francisco focused on Information Technology and Software. Ryan Sells - Co-Founder & GP @ Dash Fund

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 100% |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Compliance | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Fraud Detection | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Socratix AI | Socratix AI offers autonomous AI agents designed to serve as enterprise-grade fraud and risk analysts. | $4M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Thoropass, Inc. | Laika helps growing businesses manage compliance, obtain security certifications, and build trust in the marketplace. Get certified faster, close larger deals, and build scalable security practices that stand the test of any audit. | $3M | Seed | Sep 25, 2019 |  |
| Thoropass | At Thoropass, we’re compliance experts so you don’t have to be. Pairing easy software that’s always getting smarter with expert guidance and continuous monitoring, we integrate into your process to prepare you to pass any audit, every year, with flying colors. Hundreds of growing companies use Thoropass’s compliance automation platform, expertservices, auditors and partner ecosystem to get and stay compliant over the lifetime of their business. We offer SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other infosec and privacy frameworks. Learn more at www.thoropass.com. | $3M | Seed | Sep 25, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Third Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/third-prime) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nyca Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nycapartners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TwentyTwo VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twentytwo-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bloomberg LP

VC Fund · New York, United States

Bloomberg is the source of business and financial statistics, news, and analysis. Founded in 1981 and is based in New York.

5 contacts available at Bloomberg LP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Sells | Office of the CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-sells |
| David Rosenberg | Data Scientist -- CTO Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-rosenberg-3 |
| Ethan Kaye | Equity Research Associate, Financials | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-kaye |
| Ivo Vigan | Senior Machine Learning Scientist + Team Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivo-vigan |
| Kushal Pisavadia | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kushal-pisavadia |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Sells invest in?

Ryan Sells invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Compliance startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ryan Sells last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Sells closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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