# Ted Rheingold

> Ted Rheingold is a seed investor at 500 Global backing Apps and Mobile. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups)
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedrheingold
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tedr
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trheingold

Ted Rheingold is a seed investor at 500 Global focused on Apps and Mobile. Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $70k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 18% |
| Mobile | 2 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 18% |
| Pet | 1 | 9% |
| iOS | 1 | 9% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Digit | Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day. The platform automates the day-to-day work of managing money so you don’t have to think about it. They help eliminate the stress and anxiety people feel about their finances while helping them build a proven foundation for the futurethey’re trying to achieve. Digit keeps your money socked away in a separate account and your savings will depend on a number of variables, including how much money you keep in your checking account and what your saving and spending pattern. Their technology combines machine learning and behavioral psychology to provide a financial assistant you can trust to work toward your goals while you spend your time and effort on what’s most meaningful in your life. It saves the amount of money every day based on your spending and income and tells you the intelligent timeline for achieving them. Digit was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 16, 2014 | https://digit.co/ |
| Wantering | Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place. | $810K | Seed | Feb 01, 2014 | http://www.wantering.com |
| Colingo | Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English.Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring.Through its live video classes, Colingo provides apersonalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 20, 2013 | http://www.colingo.com |
| Burner | Ad Hoc Labs, makers of Burner is a privacy layer for your phone, providing alias phone numbers at the push of a button. | $2M | Series A | Oct 21, 2013 | http://burnerapp.com |
| Circa | More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by | $1.1M |  | Aug 31, 2013 | http://circanews.com/ |
| Burner | Ad Hoc Labs, makers of Burner is a privacy layer for your phone, providing alias phone numbers at the push of a button. |  | Angel | Oct 18, 2012 | http://burnerapp.com |
| Wantering | Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place. | $387K | Seed | Sep 01, 2012 | http://www.wantering.com |
| Reclip.It | Reclip.It is a personalized shopping list app that helps people save money by matching list items with digital coupons and weekly ads from top retail stores like Walmart, Macy's, Walgreens, Target, BestBuy, Home Depot, CVS, etc. In 2012, Reclip.It was selected by Instyle Magazine as "Best of the Web" and previously received fundingfrom 500Startups, Great Oaks VC and angel investors in Silicon Valley and NYC. In 2013, the Reclip.It team joined Walmart Labs to continue their work to help tens of millions of people "save more money and live better" by combining advanced personalization technology with big data to develop new, differentiated experiences for the savvy shopper on walmart.com. | $70K | Seed | Jun 01, 2012 | http://www.ReclipIt.com |
| DogVacay | DogVacay is an online community that connects pet parents with over 20,000 pet sitters across North America, ready to care for your dog like a member of their family. It's a safe, convenient and affordable way to make sure your best friend is in a loving home while you're away.All reservations include pet insurance, 24/7 customersupport, and daily photo updates of your pooch enjoying a "vacay" of his own. With thousands of 5-star reviews and prices that average half the local kennel, you can finally travel with peace of mind. | $1M | Seed | Mar 09, 2012 | http://dogvacay.com |
| Lumatic | Lumatic provides landmark and photo driven navigation software for mobile devices. Lumatic makes the mobile experience more human, starting with location. Six of the seven billion people on the planet have never used a streetmap. Now that a billion people have smartphones, either Google is going to teach a whole lot of people to read maps or anew UI will be introduced. Lumatic is that new UI. Lumatic is introducing a photo-driven interface for pedestrian navigation and offering the underlying location service to other mobile developers. | $800K |  | Feb 05, 2012 | http://www.lumatic.com |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hinge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hinge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kibo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kibo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Leverage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-leverage) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Yaletown Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yaletown-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baroda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baroda-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 500 Global

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

500 Global offers an accelerator program designed to provide mentorship and resources to startup founders. It facilitates educational programs for investors and operates networking platforms to connect entrepreneurs with mentors and operators. The firm's activities include managing investment strategies focused on diverse geographic regionsand sectors. Through its infrastructure, the company supports the development of innovation ecosystems by providing access to capital and industry expertise.

5 contacts available at 500 Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agahuseyn Ahmadov | Program Coordinator | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agahuseyn-ahmadov |
| Arın Ozkula | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ar%C4%B1n-%C3%B6zkula |
| Cecilia Ezquerro | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cecilia-ezquerro |
| Clayton Bryan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clayton-bryan |
| Didier Quiroz Ceballos | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/didier-quiroz-ceballos |

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## FAQ

### What does Ted Rheingold invest in?

Ted Rheingold invests primarily in Apps, Mobile and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 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 Ted Rheingold's check size?

Ted Rheingold typically joins rounds of $70k–$2.5M 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 Ted Rheingold participates in.

### How do I contact Ted Rheingold?

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### When did Ted Rheingold last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ted Rheingold closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 11 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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