# Seattle Angel Conference

> Seattle Angel Conference is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Renton, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seattle-angel-conference
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nwangelconf
- Website: http://www.seattleangelconference.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SeattleAngelConference

Seattle Angel Conference is a VC fund in Renton focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. The Seattle Angel Conference is a recurring Seattle Angel-driven event where the investors create an LLC, engage in due diligence of the applying startup companies, and ultimately pool funds to invest in one of the presenting finalists. The Seattle Angel Conference is the primary method Seattle Angel uses to find and fund new startups. The SeattleAngel Conference is open to any member of the community interested in learning more about both starting and investing in a new business and to hear the investment pitches from the finalists.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 2 | 22% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Sechrest | Founder | 0 | — |
| Josh Maher | Founder, Fund Manager and President | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dopl Technologies | Dopl Technologies develops remote robotic ultrasound systems that combine robotics, telepresence, and AI to expand access to diagnostic imaging. Its platform enables healthcare providers to perform ultrasound examinations remotely, helping hospitals and clinics address workforce shortages and improve access to imaging services. The company focuseson diagnostic imaging solutions for rural and underserved healthcare settings. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| MeCo Diagnostics | Clinically validated predictive biomarker platform enabling a new modality of high-efficacy yet low-toxicity cancer therapy. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Hal9 | Analytics with Generative AI -- Built from the ground up to leverage all data science libraries. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Harvest Thermal | Harvest Thermal develops a control system for home use that integrates heating, hot water, and cooling with thermal storage. Its Harvest Thermal Pod is a cloud-connected IoT device that is machine learning enabled. It aims to provide affordable and low-carbon heating, hot water, and cooling systems that reduce the impact on the planet whileproviding comfort and safer homes. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| tribute | Finding a mentor in today’s fast-paced work environment can be tough. Tribute aims to redefine mentorship. Delivering an easy to use app for the enterprise that connects your workforce on-demand through shared life experiences and stories. Promoting a more authentic way to discover and connect with mentors, while using technology to simplify theprocess of delivering corporate mentoring programs. Tribute provides employers access to the insights they need to demonstrate results, while providing an innovative mentorship experience to serve today’s diverse workforce. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Advice Analytics, Inc. | Our mission: Use AI and Automation to help secure the financial futures of millions of everyday workers with $30T in assets. What we do: Advice Analytics delivers user-friendly AI and Automation to the 401(k) retirement industry with email AI marketing, predictive compliance testing, and automated plan document management. With proven experience inmarketing, retirement, and analytics, our proprietary algorithms and enterprise-grade security enable more effective employee communications and plan compliance. Our fintech firm fanatically believes that diversity and data can drive innovation to support the financial futures of millions of everyday workers. | $907K | Angel | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| Discuss.io | Discuss.io is an enterprise-level, smart video platform for conversations that matter. F500 Companies and their partners around the world trust us to enable deep, purposeful connections with their key audiences (such as customers, users, employees) and to securely capture and share qualitative insights that inform marketing, product innovation, CXand other important areas. Originally developed for in-depth, large scale market research, the Discuss.io smart video platform enables companies of all kinds to bring clarity and structure to unfocused video meetings and more securely capture and share insights across their organizations in real time. This provides businesses with a comprehensive solution to securely host, record, transcribe, organize, and translate video meetings, and then unpack conversations to share insights and highlight reels in just minutes. | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 18, 2016 |  |
| GlimpzIt | GlimpzIt is a machine-learning platform for marketers, not data scientists. We analyze unstructured data (pictures, videos and text) using Machine Learning enabling companies to auto create marketing content that appeals to customers on a truly emotional level. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 11, 2015 |  |
| Booktrope | Booktrope develops a publishing platform and modern marketing engine for books of all kinds. It ceased operations in May 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington. | $950K | Angel | Dec 01, 2013 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Team Ignite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team-ignite-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AI2 Incubator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai2-incubator-dc48) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Atlas Accelerator — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalanche VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalanche-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Seattle Angel Conference invest in?

Seattle Angel Conference invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Seattle Angel Conference?

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### Who are the partners at Seattle Angel Conference?

The team at Seattle Angel Conference includes John Sechrest (Founder) and Josh Maher (Founder, Fund Manager and President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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