# Shane Curran

> Shane Curran is a pre-seed investor at Evervault backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Evervault](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evervault)
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanemcurran/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/arcurn
- Website: https://x.com/arcurn

Shane Curran is a pre-seed investor at Evervault focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. CEO at Evervault.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.6M–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.7M–$2.6M |
| Series A | $13M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 23% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 23% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arcjet | Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Starcloud | Lumen Space offers cloud computing and data relay to satellites in space. The company's mission is to accelerate downlink times by processing data in orbit. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Starcloud | Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Kota | Insurance and retirement benefits for every kind of team | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Humanloop | Humanloop develops an AI platform designed to support enterprises in building and maintaining applications powered by large language models. The platform provides tools for prompt management, evaluation, and observability, enabling teams to test, monitor, and improve AI system performance. Humanloop supports collaboration between engineers, productteams, and domain experts to refine AI outputs and ensure reliability. Its tools are used to manage workflows around AI development, helping organizations deploy and optimize AI features with structured evaluation processes. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Augustus | Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Nucleus | Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Nucleus | Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| BRINC Drones | BRINC Drones is focused on the public safety market, we want to use drone technology to make the world a safer place for everyone. | $25M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Cloudsmith | Cloudsmith provides a cloud-native platform for managing software artifacts, acting as a centralized system where packages, container images, and other development assets are stored and controlled. The platform supports a wide range of package formats and integrates with developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and security systems to streamlinesoftware development workflows. It enables organizations to secure their software supply chain through features such as vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and access controls that govern how artifacts are used and distributed. Cloudsmith also delivers artifacts through a global distribution network, allowing teams to access and share software components with low latency across different regions. Additionally, it offers tools such as APIs, command-line interfaces, and automation capabilities to manage repositories, monitor usage, and maintain visibility over software assets throughout their lifecycle. | $15M | Series A | Sep 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Foreword Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foreword-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Next Play Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextplay-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Evervault

VC Fund · Dublin, Ireland

Encryption infrastructure for developers.

3 contacts available at Evervault.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shane Curran | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shane-curran |
| Finn Murphy | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finn-murphy |
| Stephanie Z. Colis | Investor, Seed and A | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephanie-zhan |

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## FAQ

### What does Shane Curran invest in?

Shane Curran invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Aerospace startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Shane Curran's check size?

Shane Curran typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$5M at Seed, $1.7M–$2.6M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shane Curran participates in.

### When did Shane Curran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shane Curran closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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