# Stacy Brown-Philpot

> Stacy Brown-Philpot is a seed investor at Cherryrock Capital backing Apps and Internet. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cherryrock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherryrock-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacyphilpot/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sbp04
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Stacy Brown-Philpot is a seed investor at Cherryrock Capital in San Francisco focused on Apps and Internet. Stacy Brown-Philpot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cherryrock Capital. She previously worked at TaskRabbit as a CEO. Stacy Brown-Philpot attended The Wharton School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$8.8M |
| Series B | $22M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Local | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 3 | 38% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flourish Health | Flourish Health is a medical center that treats high-acuity mental health conditions including PTSD, depressive, and serious mood disorders. | $26M | Series A | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Vori | Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry. Vori's platform unlocks the data required for grocery retailers, brands, and distributors to effectively address food access and food waste while future-proofing their business operations with advanced technology. Their technology seamlessly connects data across the foodsupply chain, making supply chain management easy for retailers and their suppliers.Vori was founded in 2019 and launched its first product in March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Vori is backed by investors who share their vision of a future where food moves freely. Their investors include Greylock, Y Combinator, Village Global, South Park Commons, grocery industry experts from Safeway/Albertsons, co-founders of Instacart, DoorDash, and Twitch, and strategic Vori customers. Learn more at vori.com. | $22M | Series B | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Coactive AI | Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive AI brings unstructured data and assists analysts in making image and video data useful. Providing unprecedented insights, ease of use, and lightning-fast speeds. | $30M | Series B | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Joy | Joy is a wedding company that gives couples a smarter way to plan their big day. Using Joy, couples can create a beautifully-designed wedding website and mobile app, build their All-in-One Registry, manage guest lists and RSVPs, send online or printed Save the Dates, invitations and eCards, provide travel and accommodations options for guests, hostvirtual wedding events, create a shared virtual wedding album and virtual guest book, and more. Wedding guests can purchase registry gifts, book travel plans and accommodations, get directions to wedding events via a Google Maps integration, order a ride to wedding events via ride-sharing integrations, add wedding events to their calendar with a click, and more.Based in San Francisco, Joy launched in 2016 through Y Combinator. Visit withjoy.com and follow @withjoy to see why couples around the world are planning their weddings with Joy. | $60M | Series B | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Virtualness | Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce. | $8M | Seed | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| Braintrust | Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations.The marketplace that the company offers a user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with highly skilled technical and design talent that they need. It connects organizations directly to top tech talent, offering40-70 percent savings by removing middlemen. The company charge a flat 10 percent project fee and talent keep 100 percent of their revenue. Braintrust aims to build a talent platform that disrupts traditional hiring methods and aligns incentives and redistributes value to talent and organizations.Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn co-founded Braintrust in San Jose, California in 2018. | $500K | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Shef | Shef is a homemade food marketplace that helps local cooks to make a meaningful income from home by selling authentic, homemade dishes to their neighbors. The company was founded by Alvin Salehi and Joey Grassia in 2019 and operates in seven markets, including San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles. | $8.8M | Seed | Aug 21, 2020 |  |
| Shef | Shef is a homemade food marketplace that helps local cooks to make a meaningful income from home by selling authentic, homemade dishes to their neighbors. The company was founded by Alvin Salehi and Joey Grassia in 2019 and operates in seven markets, including San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles. | $8.8M | Seed | Aug 20, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M13](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m13) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apple Core Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple-core-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cherryrock Capital

VC Fund

Cherryrock Capital is a venture capital firm.

1 contacts available at Cherryrock Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stacy Brown-Philpot | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stacy-brown-philpot |

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## FAQ

### What does Stacy Brown-Philpot invest in?

Stacy Brown-Philpot invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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 Stacy Brown-Philpot's check size?

Stacy Brown-Philpot typically joins rounds of $500k–$8.8M at Seed and $22M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stacy Brown-Philpot participates in.

### When did Stacy Brown-Philpot last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stacy Brown-Philpot closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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