Tabreez Verjee
Co-Founder & Partner @ Uprising Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Tabreez Verjee is a three-time entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Uprising to invest in and relentlessly support mission driven technology entrepreneurs pursuing epic endeavors that matter. Some of the recent superheroes that he has backed include the people behind Change.org, Upworthy, Amicus, Calm, ClassDojo, Lumo Body Tech, and Purpose.Tabreez is also an active member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world's first crowdsourced lending platform dedicated to connecting people for the purpose of alleviating poverty, where he was also one of Kiva’s first financial backers.Tabreez began his career at Bain & Company and left to co-found a boutique finance company that raised $150 million for innovative media financings and completed landmark deals including a $30M securitization of music royalties for heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He then moved over to the technology and internet space where he helped lead the internet music company Sonique to be the fifth most downloaded application on the Internet in 1999 and was responsible for spearheading its sale for over $70 million. After Sonique, Tabreez co-founded Global Asset Capital which began incubating start-ups and making angel investments and grew over six years into a venture capital firm with $500 million in committed capital and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe.Outside of work Tabreez loves being a dad, spending time with people he loves, playing tennis and other competitive sports, building tribes, planning clever pranks and grand gestures, adventuring outdoors, and experiencing life to the fullest
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Tabreez Verjee invests in
Stages Tabreez Verjee invests in
Countries Tabreez Verjee invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$3.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- Non Profit 2 (20%)
- Health Care 2 (20%)
- Social Media 2 (20%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Long-Term Stock Exchange
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is creating an SEC-regulated national securities exchange designed to align great companies and long-term investors with the shared goal of value creation. They have assembled a world-class team of experts and advisors located in New York, San Francisco, and DC with deep expertise in finance, regulation, law, andtechnology.The LTSE seeks to end the twenty year decline in the number of public companies in the United States by creating a new listings venue that serves issuers (companies) and investors and prioritizes long-term value creation. | $100M / Series C / Jun 28, 2022 | |
Devoted Health
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Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes. | $1.2B / Series D / Oct 08, 2021 | |
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Devoted Health
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Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes. | $1.2B / Series D / Oct 08, 2021 | |
Classy
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Classy is a social enterprise that helps nonprofits maximize their impact through a suite of world-class online fundraising tools. The company also hosts the Collaborative and Classy Awards to recognize excellence in social innovation.Since 2011, they've powered tens of millions of donations from over 190 countries and raised over $2 billionfor social good. | $18M / Series B / Jun 30, 2015 | |
Worklife
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WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards.WorkLifeis founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $900K / Seed / Sep 02, 2014 | |
Calm
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Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax.The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression,insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $465K / Seed / Feb 26, 2013 | |
Cucumbertown
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If you are even thinking about food blogs, Cucumbertown is one place you have to check out. It's a blogging platform that designed for the needs of a food blogger. This means that the platform is working towards making the lives of food bloggers better so that they can spend more and more time concentrating on creating content for their blograther than worrying about SEO for their blog. Now, you can have your cake and eat it too with Cucumbertown monetisation. | $300K / Seed / Nov 14, 2012 | |
Amicus
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Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes. | $3.2M / Seed / Nov 13, 2012 | |
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Amicus
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Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes. | $580K / Seed / Feb 01, 2012 | |
ClassDojo
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ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities. It connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities and instantly share photos, videos, and announcements on Class Story, or privately message with any parent. It aims to bring communitiestogether and give kids a learning experience they love.ClassDojo was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.6M / Seed / Jan 31, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Uprising Ventures
Uprising is a fund and platform to catalyze epic entrepreneurial endeavors that matter. The firm prefers to make seed, early and later-stage investments. Lyft, Change.org, PeerIQ, Lending Club, Upworthy, AltSchool, ClassDojo, Minerva, Zopa, Grow Local Project. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Uprising Ventures Contacts
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Tabreez Verjee
Co-Founder & Partner
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Andy Lam
Co-Founder, Partner
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Saad Khan
Co-Founder, Partner
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FAQ
What does Tabreez Verjee invest in?
Tabreez Verjee invests primarily in Software, Non Profit and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 10 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 Tabreez Verjee's check size?
Tabreez Verjee typically joins rounds of $300k–$3.2M 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 Tabreez Verjee participates in.
When did Tabreez Verjee last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tabreez Verjee closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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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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