Shawn Merani
Founder & Managing Director @ Parade Ventures
Los Gatos, United States
Shawn Merani is a seed investor at Parade Ventures in Los Gatos focused on Online Portals and Financial Services. Shawn Merani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Parade Ventures, a pre-seed & seed stage focused venture capital firm.Previously, Shawn was a co-founder and partner at Flight Ventures, investing in early stage software, internet and mobile companies across a variety of sectors. He has also made select later stage investments. Shawn’sinvestments include Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, HOOKED, Sapho, Plastiq, Madison Reed, Stance, Inkbox, Pillow, Managed by Q and more.As an operator, Shawn was a founding partner of Liquidnet’s Private Shares marketplace, which enabled over 750 of the world’s leading asset managers to invest in high-growth, pre-IPO companies. He was able to growth the marketplace to $150MM+ GMV in the first two years. Prior to Liquidnet, Shawn was Senior Director of Business Development at ReachLocal. Shawn has a BA in Economics and a BS in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. Shawn enjoys spending time with his family, riding his Peloton, fantasy sports and supporting the Cal Bears.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Shawn Merani invests in
Stages Shawn Merani invests in
Countries Shawn Merani invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Online Portals 3 (25%)
- Financial Services 3 (25%)
- SaaS 2 (17%)
- FinTech 2 (17%)
- Software 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (58%)
- Uruguay 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| At Northstar, we believe financial wellness starts with a single paycheck. We work with leading companies to provide 1-on-1 financial advisors and personal finance tools as an employee benefit. Northstar’s financial wellness program helps employees make the most of their total compensation, and helps companies support their teams at scale. Ouremployer customers include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more. | $24.4M / Series B / Oct 13, 2022 | ||
| Accounting for what's next. | Seed / May 06, 2022 | ||
| Knapsack provides a consolidated platform to manage design and code decisions across your product and brand ecosystem enabling you to deliver better experiences to market, faster. The company is a completely remote, venture-backed startup team that assists design and development teams in producing better products in half the time. | $5.5M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Your facilities and operations program is complicated. FlowPath automates work orders, maintenance, events, notifications, projects, and reporting in a simple to use platform. Effortlessly get ahead of your facilities work with FlowPath. | $1.2M / Seed / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Cabinet is a human-in-the-loop intelligent scheduling platform. We save EAs and Admins 2 hours per day so they can provide better support to more people. Our platform includes individual scheduling, group scheduling, and calendar analytics. It also includes collaboration for Admin teams and for working smarter with your Executive. Learn more atjoincabinet.com. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it | Seed / Feb 01, 2021 | ||
| Knapsack provides a consolidated platform to manage design and code decisions across your product and brand ecosystem enabling you to deliver better experiences to market, faster. The company is a completely remote, venture-backed startup team that assists design and development teams in producing better products in half the time. | $2.3M / Seed / Jan 19, 2021 | ||
| At Northstar, we believe financial wellness starts with a single paycheck. We work with leading companies to provide 1-on-1 financial advisors and personal finance tools as an employee benefit. Northstar’s financial wellness program helps employees make the most of their total compensation, and helps companies support their teams at scale. Ouremployer customers include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 19, 2018 | ||
| Stayful transforms your hotel travel experience by streamlining everything from booking to check out. With just three taps on your smartphone, you'll get the best online rates on the best hotels for you. Then use our app for fingertip access to hotel services during your stay: check in, receive upgrades, order room service, request conciergeassistance, schedule housekeeping, and even send your bill directly to your expense report service after your stay. | $4.6M / Series A / Nov 01, 2015 | ||
| Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactivenotifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention.It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. | $1M / Equity Crowdfunding / Dec 09, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Parade Ventures
Parade Ventures is a seed stage venture fund investing in enterprise-themed companies.
Parade Ventures Contacts
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Shawn Merani
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What does Shawn Merani invest in?
Shawn Merani invests primarily in Online Portals, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Shawn Merani closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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