# Stan Chudnovsky

> Stan Chudnovsky is a seed investor at Meta (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Apps. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Meta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/facebook)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stanchudnovsky
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/messenger?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stan.chudnovsky

Stan Chudnovsky is a seed investor at Meta in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Apps. Stan Chudnovsky co-founder, venture partner at NFX, formerly VP and GM at MetaPrior to Meta, Stan was VP of Growth and Global Strategy at PayPal after a company he co-founded, IronPearl, acquired by eBay in 2013. Stan, an entrepreneur and engineer, also co-founded several other successful companies including Jiff, NFX Ventures, Ooga Labs, andWonderhill. Before that, Stan worked on building Tickle Inc., one of the first social media companies, and grew it to become one of the largest websites in the world by 2003.Originally from Moscow, Stan earned his engineering degrees in Russia and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 5 | 26% |
| Apps | 4 | 21% |
| Internet | 4 | 21% |
| Social Media | 4 | 21% |
| Medical | 2 | 11% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 37% |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 84% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Redcar | Redcar is the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales teams. We provide building blocks to create AI Agents tailored to each company’s unique workflows, so human sales reps can focus on closing deals. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Tako | Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence. | $5.8M | Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| Smashing | Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Videowise | Videowise is a review application platform that automates product video reviews for online stores. It automatically searches, verifies, syncs, and serves product video reviews, provides real-time analytics and ROI tracking, and other related features, and helps eCommerce businesses increase customer conversions, shopper engagement, and customervalue.Videowise was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware. | $3M | Seed | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| Goin | Goin is a Barcelona-based fintech platform founded in 2017 that provides a unified money optimization ecosystem combining automated savings, investments, digital assets, and rewards. The app enables users to aggregate multiple bank accounts via PSD2, centralizing financial data and automating decisions through its AI engine, gaIA. Goin integratesfinancial automation, portfolio tools, and cash-back incentives in a single interface used primarily by young European consumers. The company operates in a regulated environment, is registered with the Bank of Spain as a crypto service provider, and has expanded across Southern Europe. In 2025, Goin launched KernelPay, its B2B Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure for payments, accounts, and wallet management. | $1.2M | Convertible Note | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| The.com | The.com is building the reusable web, making it simple to create, remix, and launch websites while getting paid and earning credit for your work. This is a fundamental shift in web creation towards a more ownable and composable web. | $4.4M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Goin | Goin is a Barcelona-based fintech platform founded in 2017 that provides a unified money optimization ecosystem combining automated savings, investments, digital assets, and rewards. The app enables users to aggregate multiple bank accounts via PSD2, centralizing financial data and automating decisions through its AI engine, gaIA. Goin integratesfinancial automation, portfolio tools, and cash-back incentives in a single interface used primarily by young European consumers. The company operates in a regulated environment, is registered with the Bank of Spain as a crypto service provider, and has expanded across Southern Europe. In 2025, Goin launched KernelPay, its B2B Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure for payments, accounts, and wallet management. | $3.8M | Convertible Note | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| Jiff | Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love.The company was founded in 2010 and isheadquartered in Mountain View, California. | $17.7M | Series C | Jun 07, 2016 |  |
| Yodas.com | Helping top developers manage their careers by connecting with the best opportunities at the right time |  | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2015 |  |
| Health Gorilla | Health Gorilla is a Federally Qualified Health Information Network and California QHIO providing permitted access to patient-centric data. Our commitment is to promote national clinical interoperability while ensuring consumer privacy by adhering to the Cures Act and Trusted Exchange Framework Common Agreement (TEFCA). | $500K | Angel | Sep 02, 2013 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ooga Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ooga-labs) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aeris Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aeris-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hard Yaka](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hard-yaka) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Meta

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.

5 contacts available at Meta.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adi Sofer-Teeni | Facebook Israel GM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adi-sofer-teeni |
| Andreas Gross | Product Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-gross |
| Anna Kuriakose | Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-kuriakose |
| Bart Claeys | Product Designer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-claeys |
| Bryan Tan | Connectivity Ecosystems APAC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-tan-4847 |

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## FAQ

### What does Stan Chudnovsky invest in?

Stan Chudnovsky invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Stan Chudnovsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stan Chudnovsky closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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