Shawn Broderick
Director @ AYLIEN
Boston, United States
Shawn Broderick is a seed investor at AYLIEN in Boston focused on Food and Beverage and Software. Shawn Broderick has more than twenty years of experience creating value in software companies as individual contributor, entrepreneur, intrapraneur, manager, investor, and leader. Shawn has extensive experience in business development, sales, and partnering, with repeated success in developing products from concept to customer. Shawn brings anexceptional track record of sourcing, hiring, and retaining stellar employees to SOSV. He prides himself on identifying both diamonds-in-the-rough as well as young talent – and grooming and extracting the best from both. Being adept at managing business teams, technical teams, and creative teams, it’s no surprise that Shawn has broad experience raising institutional and angel funds for businesses and in sourcing LPs for investment vehicles.
- Total investments:
- 205
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries Shawn Broderick invests in
Stages Shawn Broderick invests in
Countries Shawn Broderick invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 39 (19%)
- Software 16 (8%)
- Information Technology 14 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (6%)
- E-Commerce 11 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 66 (32%)
- Convertible Note 41 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 31 (15%)
- Series A 13 (6%)
- Angel 1 (0%)
Country
- United States 70 (34%)
- Canada 7 (3%)
- Ireland 3 (1%)
- India 2 (1%)
- France 2 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Ingest
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Ingest.ai is the central nervous system for restaurants. | $3.7M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | |
Bramble
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Bramble is the first plant-based pet food that looks, feels and tastes just like the meat they love. | Series A / Aug 27, 2025 | |
Abbot's Butcher
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Abbot's Butcher use only the highest quality ingredients to craft our plant-based proteins, and why we choose to be thoughtful and responsible in all we do. | Convertible Note / Mar 06, 2025 | |
EIO Diagnostics
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EIO Diagnostics’ udder health technology transforms the way that farmers monitor and detect mastitis by automating the screening process. We use infrared image analysis and computer vision to help farmers improve livestock health. By installing a single sensor at the entry of the rotary, we are able to assess the udder of every cow at everymilking. We offer an affordable, scalable SaaS solution without touching animals or the milk. | Convertible Note / Jun 07, 2024 | |
Lula Convenience
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Lula represents the pioneering all-in-one delivery solution tailored for convenience stores. Numerous businesses utilize this proprietary platform to facilitate the delivery of their products through Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates, and various other marketplaces directly to the customers' doorsteps. Lula equips stores ranging from convenienceand liquor to pet supplies with the essential technology, data, and customer support necessary for effective customer service. This integrated network of stores, empowered by Lula Convenience, allows both independent and chain retailers to effectively compete against large corporations, establishing itself as the largest retail delivery marketplace in the nation. The company takes pride in supporting stores that cater to countless communities across the United States. | Convertible Note / Apr 04, 2024 | |
Contextere
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contextere is an industrial software company focused on human performance. Our intelligent personal agent delivers actionable insights to the last tactical mile. Anywhere warm hands touch cold steel contextere answers the simple question – Now What? Global 2000 companies capture value through increased productivity and safety while reducingequipment downtime. | Series A / Mar 13, 2024 | |
Farmshelf
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Farmshelf provides an automated indoor farm solution. Its bookcase-sized farms are small enough to fit into a home or restaurant and powerful enough to provide pounds of fresh produce every week. The company brings the outdoors inside and grows food three times faster than conventional farming, using 90 percent less water. | $795K / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 21, 2024 | |
Purchs
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Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers. | Convertible Note / Feb 15, 2024 | |
Foodcloud
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foodcloud.in is an online marketplace connecting consumers with pre-selected, home chefs, bakers and caterers. The web and mobile app enabled efficient discovery of chefs, the order placement and delivery of food is all done by FoodCloud. It is an end-to end solution for consumers looking for wholesome, homemade delicious food. The platform todayis operating in the Delhi NCR region (India) and is delivering across 30 cuisines & 5000 menu items with rapid adoption from consumers. | Seed / Jan 16, 2024 | |
Bite
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Bite, the #1 kiosk ordering software for fast casual and quick-service restaurants, uses AI to offer real-time upsell recommendations that result in 20% higher check averages. | $1K / Series A / Nov 07, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About AYLIEN
Aylien is an artificial intelligence startup that focuses on creating technologies that help machines understand human languages better. The firm provides Text Analysis and News API's that allow users to make sense of human-generated content at scale. AYLIEN also provides a range of content analysis solutions to developers, data scientists,marketers and academics. Their core offerings include packages of information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing and image recognition APIs.
AYLIEN Contacts
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Cyril Ebersweiler
Director
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Parsa Ghaffari
CEO & Founder
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Shawn Broderick
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FAQ
What does Shawn Broderick invest in?
Shawn Broderick invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 205 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 Shawn Broderick last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shawn Broderick closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 205 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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