# Tom Kuegler

> Tom Kuegler is a seed investor at Wasabi Ventures (Manchester) backing Mobile and iOS. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wasabi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wasabi-ventures)
- Location: Manchester, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tkkuegler
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/TKKuegler
- Website: https://x.com/TKKuegler
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tkkuegler

Tom Kuegler is a seed investor at Wasabi Ventures in Manchester focused on Mobile and iOS. Tom “TK” Kuegler is the co-founder and general partner of Wasabi Ventures. Wasabi Ventures is an venture capital, incubator, and consulting firm that specializes in building and advising early stage technology companies. In the last 10 years, Wasabi Ventures has built, financed, and advised over 200 start-ups including some wildly successfulventures like Right Now Technologies, PBworks, Ustream, and Etherpad.In the 1990s, TK was the co-founder of two successful Internet startups, SNT and SpinBox.TK is the author of all three editions of the highly acclaimed book Web Advertising and Marketing. He has authored dozens of articles about the Internet and been published in leading publications like inc.com and ClickZ. TK spends a great deal of time lecturing at colleges, seminars, companies, and conferences about the corporate benefits of utilizing interactive technologies. He currently sits on the Board of Sponsors of Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University Maryland. He has presented at hundreds of events on a wide array of topics about economics, entrepreneurism, technology, and management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 15% |
| iOS | 1 | 8% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Email | 1 | 8% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. | $640K |  | Aug 10, 2020 |  |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. | $640K | Seed | Aug 10, 2020 |  |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. | $640K |  | Aug 10, 2020 |  |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. | $795K | Pre-Seed | Nov 29, 2019 |  |
| Robomart | Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration. | $795K | Convertible Note | Dec 18, 2018 |  |
| Roomi | Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated andverified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in. | $660K | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Statisfy | Statisfy is a marketing technology platform that enables consumers and brands to easily ask and answer questions in a fun, addictive way. For brands, our tools provide targeted native advertisements and engagements with customers, giving insights and intelligence unavailable any other way. Statisfy entertains and delights users, while nativelycollecting market intelligence in an inviting cross-screen experience. Because answering questions and comparing answers is fun, easy and social, audiences freely participate - constantly offering up their opinions, preferences, in seconds. Users can instantly create a question and share it on their social touch points. Natively embedded in Statisfy are brand-created questions and we have an attractive business model on Day 1. | $1.4M | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Immediately | Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer. | $400K | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| Gaston Labs | The makers of Oha.na, a family photo and video sharing service. Founded by longstanding best friends, David Weekly (uncle to four) and Nathan Schmidt (soon to be father), both of whom have highly geographically distributed families. | $100K | Seed | Mar 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Soma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fairhaven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fairhaven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [K5 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k5launch) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sand Hill East](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sand-hill-east) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Wasabi Ventures

VC Fund · Manchester, United States

From publishing to healthcare IT to CRM, Wasabi Ventures has planned, implemented, and maintained solutions for many emerging companies over the last decade. Their professionals have a proven history of producing results in each of the following business areas: • Technology and Development • Sales • Product Marketing • Fundraising• Business Planning Their team includes experts in every functional area that matters to a startup as well as industry experts. Each of their partners specializes in different areas. While each of their partners can call upon the expertise of the entire firm, if you really need help in a specific area they will dedicate additional staff to your company.

5 contacts available at Wasabi Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Yeh | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-yeh |
| Jeka Kiselyov | Engineering Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeka-kiselyov |
| Ron Emrick | Director of Engineering Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-emrick |
| Tom Kuegler | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tk-kuegler |
| Alex Hollis | Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-hollis |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Kuegler invest in?

Tom Kuegler invests primarily in Mobile, iOS and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 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 Tom Kuegler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Kuegler closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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