# Ryan Sweeney

> Ryan Sweeney is a Series B investor at Responsory (San Francisco) backing FinTech and E-Commerce. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Responsory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/responsory)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanjsweeney/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ryanjsweeney
- Website: https://x.com/ryanjsweeney

Ryan Sweeney is a Series B investor at Responsory in San Francisco focused on FinTech and E-Commerce. Ryan Sweeney joined Accel in 2009.He is the first outside investor and board member in a number of leading SaaS and enterprise software companies like Atlassian (TEAM), Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), Squarespace, PagerDuty, and Xero (XERO). Ryan is also active with innovative consumer startups like Bevy, GOAT, goPuff, and VSCO.He was alsoresponsible for numerous investments with notable exits, including AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Groupon (public), Lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Lightspeed (acquired by CPqD), OzForex (public), and Simility (acquired by PayPal).Ryan grew up in South Jersey, trusts the process, and graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 16% |
| SaaS | 6 | 14% |
| Software | 6 | 14% |
| Mobile | 4 | 9% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 14 | 33% |
| Series A | 11 | 26% |
| Series C | 10 | 23% |
| Seed | 1 | 2% |
| Series D | 1 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 30% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flex | Flex is a financial technology company that offers an end-to-end finance platform that integrates business and personal finance management. Their services include business banking with zero monthly fees, 1% cashback on eligible purchases, and high-yield accounts with up to 2.99% APY on idle cash. They provide a business credit card featuring 0%interest for 60 days on eligible purchases, unlimited cashback, and flexible rewards. Flex also offers accounts payable automation with features like fraud prevention, AI-powered bill scanning, and real-time payment tracking. Additionally, their platform supports global payments across over 180 countries in 32 currencies, catering to businesses with international operations. | $70M | Series B | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Xendit | Xendit is a Southeast Asian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia and the Philippines. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud, and helps other businesses grow exponentially. They serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs and a dashboard UI thatsimplifies processes.Xendit was founded by Moses Lo, Tessa Wijaya, Bo Chen and Juan Gonzalez. | $300M | Series D | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Teya | Teya is an all-in-one solution for small and growing businesses. From payments, to loyalty, to the cash advance merchants use to give their shops that facelift – Teya has helped over 300,000 business owners to connect with the joy of running their business. | $370M | Series C | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Xendit | Xendit is a Southeast Asian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia and the Philippines. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud, and helps other businesses grow exponentially. They serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs and a dashboard UI thatsimplifies processes.Xendit was founded by Moses Lo, Tessa Wijaya, Bo Chen and Juan Gonzalez. | $150M | Series C | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Misfits Market | Misfits Market is a provider of subscription box service used to reduce the waste of food. The box contains fresh and organic fruits and veggies which the farms and stores can't sell which provides customers with healthy food at a reduced cost.It delivers fresh organic produce, sustainably sourced pantry staples, and other grocery itemsstraight to its customers' door at up to 40 percent off grocery store prices. Driven by its mission to bring affordable, quality food to more people, the company leverages direct relationships with growers and producers to reduce food waste at scale and eliminate inefficiencies in the food system.The Pennsauken, New Jersey-based company was established in2018 by Abhi Ramesh. | $225M | Series C | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| BrowserStack | BrowserStack is a software testing platform that runs more than two million tests per day across 15 global data centers. It enables Microsoft, Twitter, Barclays, Expedia, and more than 25,000 customers to produce high-quality software quickly by transferring testing to the cloud. Its technology delivers rapid access to over 2,000 real mobiledevices and browsers via a highly reliable cloud architecture that scales seamlessly as testing requirements grow. BrowserStack enables development and QA teams to move quickly while providing an exceptional client experience. | $200M | Series B | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Rally | Rally is an app that allows members of all income levels to buy and sell equity shares in collectible assets including sports cards & memorabilia, classic cars, graded comic books, vintage watches, wine, first edition literature, and one-of-a-kind investment-grade items from the past and present.The company is driven by a mission todemocratize alternative investments like these, providing access, liquidity, and transparency to markets that have traditionally only been available to a select few. Rally Rd. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $30M | Series B | May 17, 2021 |  |
| Misfits Market | Misfits Market is a provider of subscription box service used to reduce the waste of food. The box contains fresh and organic fruits and veggies which the farms and stores can't sell which provides customers with healthy food at a reduced cost.It delivers fresh organic produce, sustainably sourced pantry staples, and other grocery itemsstraight to its customers' door at up to 40 percent off grocery store prices. Driven by its mission to bring affordable, quality food to more people, the company leverages direct relationships with growers and producers to reduce food waste at scale and eliminate inefficiencies in the food system.The Pennsauken, New Jersey-based company was established in2018 by Abhi Ramesh. | $200M | Series C | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Bevy | Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-levelanalytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $40M | Series C | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Xendit | Xendit is a Southeast Asian fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across Indonesia and the Philippines. Xendit processes payments, runs marketplaces, disburses payroll and loans, detects fraud, and helps other businesses grow exponentially. They serve these companies by providing a suite of world-class APIs and a dashboard UI thatsimplifies processes.Xendit was founded by Moses Lo, Tessa Wijaya, Bo Chen and Juan Gonzalez. | $64.6M | Series B | Mar 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Upfront Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upfront-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Goat Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goat-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Responsory

VC Fund · Brookfield, United States

Responsory is a marketing communications agency focuses on providing measurable marketing solutions.

1 contacts available at Responsory.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Sweeney | Digital Project Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-sweeney |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Sweeney invest in?

Ryan Sweeney invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 43 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 Sweeney last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Sweeney closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 43 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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