# Saad Khan

> Saad Khan is a Series B investor at Uprising Ventures backing Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Uprising Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uprising-ventures-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2014
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/saad-khan/0/5/438
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/saadventures

Saad Khan is a Co-Founder and Partner of Uprising Ventures. He was the partner at CMEA Capital and a co-founder of the Film Angels network.Saad grew up between Pakistan and the Bay Area, and attended an American high school in Karachi where his soccer tournaments and theater performances were often played out in locations including Kathmandu,Delhi, and Islamabad. After moving back to the Bay Area, Saad launched his first internet startup while still a student at Stanford. Those early lessons were subsequently put to use at the Walt Disney Company, where Saad helped launch their Internet Strategy across their media properties, and then at IBM alphaWorks, one of the first corporate crowd-sourcing initiatives for IBM research. Saad then spent years building companies, advising entrepreneurs, and investing in Silicon Valley startups at Garage Technology Ventures where he worked closely with early stage entrepreneurs across the Garage portfolio including Pandora, cFares, and TripleHop (ORCL). Saad led Garage’s software and media investments, and spun-out (and subsequently sold) the Garage advisory business. In addition to his activities at CMEA, Saad also co-founded the Film Angels, an angel network for indie film where recent presenters have included Carlos Santana, Steve Wozniak, and many Academy award winning actors, directors and producers. Saad is an advisor to peer-to-peer internet lending platform Lending Club and is a Charter member of TIE.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |
| News | 1 | 9% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |
| Mobile | 1 | 9% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Series C | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jobvite | Jobvite is leading the next wave of talent acquisition innovation with a candidate-centric recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from first look to first day. The Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite weaves together automation and intelligence in order to increaserecruiting speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to serve thousands of customers of all sizes and industries. | $25M | Series D | Oct 07, 2014 |  |
| Hey | Heyday’s mission is to help people remember the story of their life: the places they go, things they do, and people they’re with – privately, beautifully and effortlessly. Heyday is built around the life, for people to remember life the way they lived it. Heyday is headquartered in San Francisco.Heyday is an automatic journal. It willautomatically keep track of the places people go and the things they see, so they can remember moments big & small. Photos they take are automatically arranged into beautiful collages, which are easily customizable with exclusive layouts and filters. Using Heyday, people can instantly rediscover meaningful moments and memories from years ago. Search the story of their life by time, place, and people. | $2M | Seed | Dec 05, 2013 |  |
| Luminate | Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make ever image interactive on the web, Luminate offers the world’s first platform for image applications. Developed bytechnologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA. | $10.7M | Series C | Feb 23, 2012 |  |
| Blekko | Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. | $30M |  | Sep 29, 2011 |  |
| Jobvite | Jobvite is leading the next wave of talent acquisition innovation with a candidate-centric recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from first look to first day. The Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite weaves together automation and intelligence in order to increaserecruiting speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to serve thousands of customers of all sizes and industries. | $15M | Series C | May 17, 2011 |  |
| Luminate | Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make ever image interactive on the web, Luminate offers the world’s first platform for image applications. Developed bytechnologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA. | $12M | Series B | Jul 18, 2010 |  |
| Blekko | Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. | $2.5M | Series C | Nov 01, 2009 |  |
| Jobvite | Jobvite is leading the next wave of talent acquisition innovation with a candidate-centric recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from first look to first day. The Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite weaves together automation and intelligence in order to increaserecruiting speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to serve thousands of customers of all sizes and industries. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 09, 2009 |  |
| Blekko | Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. | $11.5M | Series C | Jul 27, 2009 |  |
| Luminate | Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make ever image interactive on the web, Luminate offers the world’s first platform for image applications. Developed bytechnologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA. | $5.8M | Series A | Mar 24, 2009 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trident Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trident-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ATA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ata-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Catalyst Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catalyst-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Idealab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idealab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PivotNorth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pivotnorth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Uprising Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Uprising is a fund and platform to catalyze epic entrepreneurial endeavors that matter. The firm prefers to make seed, early and later-stage investments. Lyft, Change.org, PeerIQ, Lending Club, Upworthy, AltSchool, ClassDojo, Minerva, Zopa, Grow Local Project. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

3 contacts available at Uprising Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tabreez Verjee | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tabreez-verjee |
| Andy Lam | Co-Founder, Partner | — |
| Saad Khan | Co-Founder, Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Saad Khan invest in?

Saad Khan invests primarily in Software, Apps and News startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Saad Khan?

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### When did Saad Khan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Saad Khan closed in Oct 2014. Shizune tracks 11 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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