# Thomas Korte

> Thomas Korte is a seed investor at AngelPad backing SaaS and Software. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AngelPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelpad)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaskorte
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thomask
- Website: https://thomaskorte.com

Thomas Korte is a seed investor at AngelPad in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Thomas Korte is the Founder and General Partner of AngelPad. He previously worked at Google as a Product Evangelist. Thomas Korte attended the University of Mannheim. His notable investments include Postmates Acquired by Uber, Mopub Acquired by Twitter, Pipedrive Acquired by Vista Equity, Spotsetter Acquired by Apple, DroneDeploy, and Iterable,amongst 150 other startups - Thomas is always the first investor in a company. Prior to founding AngelPad, Thomas joined Google’s Product Manager when it was just 7 people. Thomas is the author of two patents which are still a crucial part of Google search ranking and ads monetization products.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 13 | 21% |
| Software | 12 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 14% |
| Mobile | 7 | 11% |
| Internet | 6 | 10% |

118 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 41% |
| Series A | 14 | 22% |
| Series B | 8 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 6% |
| Angel | 3 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 68% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ampcontrol | Ampcontrol is an AI-based software for electric fleets to reduce downtime and charging costs. The founder, Joachim Lohse is a software engineer and former energy markets consultant at PwC. | $10M | Series A | Jul 26, 2023 | https://www.ampcontrol.io/ |
| Gatik | Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $85M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 | http://www.gatik.ai/ |
| DroneDeploy | DroneDeploy develops reality capture, robotics, and artificial intelligence software that helps organizations collect, manage, and analyze visual data from construction sites, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and other physical assets. The company provides cloud-based applications for drone mapping, 360-degree image capture, autonomousrobotics, digital twins, progress tracking, asset inspection, and site documentation. Its platform integrates aerial drones, ground robots, 360-degree cameras, mobile devices, and design data to create a unified record of field operations and support project monitoring throughout the asset lifecycle.DroneDeploy also offers artificial intelligence capabilities for automated progress measurement, quality assessment, safety monitoring, defect detection, and analytics that enable teams to identify issues and make operational decisions using visual data. The company's technology integrates with enterprise software, geographic information systems, building information modeling tools, and project management platforms to support collaboration across engineering, construction, energy, agriculture, and infrastructure workflows. | $50M | Series E | Feb 04, 2021 | http://www.dronedeploy.com |
| DroneDeploy | DroneDeploy develops reality capture, robotics, and artificial intelligence software that helps organizations collect, manage, and analyze visual data from construction sites, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and other physical assets. The company provides cloud-based applications for drone mapping, 360-degree image capture, autonomousrobotics, digital twins, progress tracking, asset inspection, and site documentation. Its platform integrates aerial drones, ground robots, 360-degree cameras, mobile devices, and design data to create a unified record of field operations and support project monitoring throughout the asset lifecycle.DroneDeploy also offers artificial intelligence capabilities for automated progress measurement, quality assessment, safety monitoring, defect detection, and analytics that enable teams to identify issues and make operational decisions using visual data. The company's technology integrates with enterprise software, geographic information systems, building information modeling tools, and project management platforms to support collaboration across engineering, construction, energy, agriculture, and infrastructure workflows. | $50M | Series E | Jan 12, 2021 | http://www.dronedeploy.com |
| HypeLabs | HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivitytechnologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability.Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni. | $3M | Seed | Dec 10, 2019 | http://www.hypelabs.io |
| Ampcontrol | Ampcontrol is an AI-based software for electric fleets to reduce downtime and charging costs. The founder, Joachim Lohse is a software engineer and former energy markets consultant at PwC. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2018 | https://www.ampcontrol.io/ |
| Piio | Piio helps websites efficiently deliver fast and scalable experiences to their users, combining front-end technology, with networking and infrastructure solutions in one service. Piio can reduce 20x the data transfer to end users and increase page speed by 3x. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2018 | https://piio.co |
| DroneDeploy | DroneDeploy develops reality capture, robotics, and artificial intelligence software that helps organizations collect, manage, and analyze visual data from construction sites, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and other physical assets. The company provides cloud-based applications for drone mapping, 360-degree image capture, autonomousrobotics, digital twins, progress tracking, asset inspection, and site documentation. Its platform integrates aerial drones, ground robots, 360-degree cameras, mobile devices, and design data to create a unified record of field operations and support project monitoring throughout the asset lifecycle.DroneDeploy also offers artificial intelligence capabilities for automated progress measurement, quality assessment, safety monitoring, defect detection, and analytics that enable teams to identify issues and make operational decisions using visual data. The company's technology integrates with enterprise software, geographic information systems, building information modeling tools, and project management platforms to support collaboration across engineering, construction, energy, agriculture, and infrastructure workflows. | $25M | Series C | Jun 26, 2018 | http://www.dronedeploy.com |
| tray.io | Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.Tray.io believes that any organization can and should automate. With the Tray Platform, citizen automators throughout organizations can easily automate complex processes through a powerful, flexible platform, and can connect their entire cloud stack thanks to APIs. WithTray.io’s visual workflow builder, customers can create automation to drive their business processes without writing a single line of code. | $14.3M | Series A | Jun 18, 2018 | http://tray.io |
| LoftSmart | LoftSmart helps young people discover and lease local rentals with transparency, ease, and simplicity. | $14M | Series A | Jun 18, 2018 | https://loftsmart.com/ |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Scale Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About AngelPad

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator program that finds product market fit, defining a target market to get first validation for a company. AngelPad is a startup Accelerator & MicroVC Fund, founded by Thomas Korte & Carine Magescas in 2010. AngelPad is consistently ranked Rankings Project.

2 contacts available at AngelPad.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carine Magescas | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carine-magescas |
| Thomas Korte | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-korte |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Korte invest in?

Thomas Korte invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Thomas Korte?

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### When did Thomas Korte last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Korte closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 63 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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