# Shane Naughton > Shane Naughton is a seed investor at On The Stage (New York) backing SaaS and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [On The Stage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/on-the-stage-3ab1) - Location: New York, United States - Total investments: 6 - Last investment: May 2015 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanenaughton - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/inundata Shane Naughton is a seed investor at On The Stage in New York focused on SaaS and Software. Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Seed | $972k–$3M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | SaaS | 2 | 33% | | Software | 2 | 33% | | Apps | 1 | 17% | | News | 1 | 17% | | Music | 1 | 17% | 16 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 3 | 50% | | Angel | 1 | 17% | | Funding Round | 1 | 17% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Ireland | 2 | 33% | | United States | 1 | 17% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | NewsWhip | NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons. | $1.6M | | May 28, 2015 | | | Spring Moves | Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York. | $971.5K | Seed | Mar 12, 2015 | | | Spring Moves | Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York. | $1M | Seed | Oct 10, 2014 | | | Trustev | Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. 
Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities. | $3M | Seed | Oct 30, 2013 | | | NewsWhip | NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 12, 2013 | | | NewsWhip | NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons. | | Angel | Jul 09, 2012 | | 6 of 6 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [AIB Seed Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aib-seed-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Meridian Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meridian-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [The Associated Press](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/associated-press) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Furthr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dublin-business-innovation-centre) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About On The Stage VC Fund 1 contacts available at On The Stage. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Shane Naughton | Founding Partner and Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shane-naughton | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund - [NDRC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ndrc) — VC Fund - [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Transportation Angel Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/transportation-angel-investors-ireland) - [SaaS Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-investors-ireland) - [All Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/investors-ireland) - [Software Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/software-investors-ireland) - [Enterprise Angel Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/enterprise-angel-investors-ireland) - [SaaS Angel Investors in Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-angel-investors-ireland) ## FAQ ### What does Shane Naughton invest in? Shane Naughton invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Shane Naughton's check size? Shane Naughton typically joins rounds of $972k–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shane Naughton participates in. ### When did Shane Naughton last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Shane Naughton closed in May 2015. Shizune tracks 6 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? 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