# String Ventures

> String Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Pharmaceutical and iOS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/string-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/StringVentures
- Website: http://www.stringventures.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stringventures

String Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Pharmaceutical and iOS. String Ventures Believe in Founders and Makers.They Help Build Great Products,Because Great Products Create Markets. Their Focus is Seed and Early Stage.They Bring Funds, Product Design and Growth Marketing Skills.They Move Fast and Offer Founder-Friendly Terms.They Invest in Both Consumer and Enterprise Products: They LovePerceptual Computing,Mobile & Location-Based Services,Data Visualization and Internet of Things. They Focus on Emerging Startup Ecosystems.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pharmaceutical | 2 | 29% |
| iOS | 1 | 14% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| eSports | 1 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Turkey | 2 | 29% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Çevik | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-%C3%87evik |
| Ben Wild | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-wild |
| Can Saracoglu | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/can-saracoglu |
| Matthew Fernandez | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-fernandez |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa AI | Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience. | $400K | Seed | Dec 03, 2019 | https://www.asklisa.ai |
| Rebuslabs | Rebuslabs is a Swiss IoT start-up company. The company is a recipient of various government grants. Its vision aims to offer “IoT as a service”, where its customers can co-create a platform consisting of smart devices, cloud infrastructure and software applications. The problem Rebuslabs tackles allows its customers to track, protect and increaseproductivity of fixed assets. Today the company offers 3 products that make cold refrigerators “smart”. One allows pharmacies and laboratories to monitor and manage cold cabinets containing temperature sensitive substances; another enables FMCG companies to track and monitor in-store refrigerators. Rebuslabs has R&D capability in RF and power electronics, cloud infrastructure and application engineering. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2017 | http://rebuslabs.com/ |
| CryptoFacilities | CryptoFacilities is a financial services firm that provides FCA-regulated risk management and trading solutions for digital assets such as bitcoin. It also operates as a broker for exchange-traded futures and options. The company's products serve to trade and manage the price risk of bitcoin and other digital tokens. It offers a platform forits customers to make bitcoin transactions online. Users of the platform are able to open accounts, verify them by uploading addresses and identifications, and deposit bitcoins to the provided addresses once the verification is confirmed. CryptoFacilities is based in London, United Kingdom. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2016 | https://www.cryptofacilities.com/ |
| Smart Orbis | SmartOrbis is a security startup in Santa Clara, California, which has brought together world-class experts in security, cloud, network, Big Data and machine learning on a mission to revolutionize enterprise security. | $500K | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 | http://www.smartorbis.com/ |
| GEEN Biotechnology | GEEN Biotechnology is a synthetic biology company developing master cells & genetic technologies for industrial production of biomolecules. It developing especially genome editing related (e.g. CRISPR/Cas9) genetic technologies and working on mostly various yeast cells and recently putting effort into industrializing minimal cells. GEENBiotechnology is your high-tech genetic eng. partner through drug and industrial biotech product development. | $120K | Seed | Jan 01, 2016 | https://x.com/geenbio |
| Gameflip | Gameflip is an innovation focused technology company creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse enabling all ecosystem participants including gamers, creators, brands, and developers to connect, safely conduct commerce and mutually share the benefits. Led by serial entrepreneurs and veterans in the technology and gaming industries, theteam specializes in building safe, secure and highly scalable platforms for transacting digital assets (NFTs), digital goods and services.Since launching in 2015, its 6 million loyal community members have safely transacted over $120M on the Gameflip Platform. By combining its simple and intuitive platform with blockchain technology that delivers transparent ownership and playable NFTs, Gameflip is making NFTs accessible and safe for the mainstream.The Gameflip Platform utilizes environmentally friendly and sustainable technology that captures the benefits of blockchain technology without all of its complexities. Transactions within the Gameflip Platform are fully secure using fiat or cryptocurrencies, do not require mining or gas fees and have built-in regulatory compliance.Gameflip is located in the San Jose Bay Area and is backed by savvy gaming investors including Bullpen Capital, GoAhead Ventures, Lightbank and PlayNext. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2015 | https://gameflip.com/ |
| FlightRecorder, Inc. | FlightRecorder offers developers with application analytics and engagement solutions to understand their applications’ users. It supports Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers.FlightRecorder also provides crash reports, API error logs, and analytics about the frequently used elements to assist businesses in their decision makingin product development. It also offers a feature that enables businesses to send targeted messages to their customers.FlightRecorder is acquired by ClickTale.FlightRecorder was founded in October 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $250K | Angel | Jul 17, 2015 | http://www.flightrecorder.io |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does String Ventures invest in?

String Ventures invests primarily in Pharmaceutical, iOS and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 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 String Ventures's check size?

String Ventures typically joins rounds of $120k–$3.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds String Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact String Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at String Ventures?

The team at String Ventures includes Ali Çevik (Co-founder), Ben Wild (Co-founder) and Can Saracoglu (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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