# Shawn Byers

> Shawn Byers is a seed investor at MITS Fund backing SaaS and EdTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MITS Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mits-fund)
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/smsbyers

Shawn Byers is a seed investor at MITS Fund in Los Altos focused on SaaS and EdTech. Shawn Byers is the Founder and Managing Partner of MITS Fund.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 40% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Social | 1 | 20% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ProSky | ProSky is an HR SaaS platform that gives companies a full-stack solution to hiring and organization talent development. Companies can innovatively evaluate candidates for hire and develop employees through succession pathways, so they can recruit, hire, retain, train and grow the best diverse talent & culture fit. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 15, 2016 | http://www.prosky.co/ |
| Fotition | Fotition facilitates an online platform that enables individuals to search, find, and donate for campaigns by taking part in photo challenges. Users are able to promote campaigns by sharing images with the other users.Fotition offers an application that enables its users to donate and support for campaigns.Fotition was founded in 2015 and isbased in San Mateo, California. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 31, 2016 | https://www.fotition.com |
| BlockCypher | BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale. BlockCypher's web services are blockchain agnostic and greatly reduce the complexity of building applications that run on multiple blockchains. Easily build, run and future proof blockchain applications on BlockCypher's infrastructure. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 14, 2015 | http://www.blockcypher.com/ |
| Newsela | Newsela is an Edtech startup that takes real and new content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials. | $6M | Series A | Sep 24, 2014 | http://newsela.com |
| Funnely | Funnely helps online stores' owners create and optimize their Facebook Ads campaigns with a conversion oriented strategy. Through our platform small and medium online sellers grow their audience, improve their online Ads performance and increase their sales. | $988K | Seed | Aug 10, 2014 | http://www.funne.ly |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Future Perfect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-perfect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Granite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granite-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MITS Fund

VC Fund · Los Altos, United States

MITS Fund - or 'Machine In The Sky' Fund - is a multi-stage investment fund looking to back inspiring entrepreneurs in building world-changing companies. MITS Fund operates primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, but makes investments globally. Although not explicitly, MITS Fund prefers investments that have a double bottom line.

1 contacts available at MITS Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shawn Byers | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shawn-byers |

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## FAQ

### What does Shawn Byers invest in?

Shawn Byers invests primarily in SaaS, EdTech and Social startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Shawn Byers?

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### When did Shawn Byers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shawn Byers closed in Sep 2016. Shizune tracks 5 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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