# Tom Cole

> Tom Cole is a seed investor at PANTASTIC (San Francisco) backing Software and CRM. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [PANTASTIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantastic)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2001
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomcole/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tom_cole
- Website: https://x.com/tom_cole

Tom Cole is a seed investor at PANTASTIC in San Francisco focused on Software and CRM. Tom Cole is the Co-Founder & CFO at Pantastic. Tom Cole attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Local | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Overclock Labs | Overclock Labs develops tools for automating how companies manage cloud infrastructure so they can save time, costs, and focus on what they’re good at. Using Overclock's DISCO (Distributed Infrastructure for Serverless Computing Operations), a company can integrate multiple cloud service providers together to reduce costs and increaseperformance. Disco allows customers to seamlessly deploy applications between various Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, IBM SoftLayer, or private clouds at any time, to enjoy the best offerings from all providers. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 21, 2017 |  |
| Copper | Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships. | $2.5M | Seed | May 01, 2013 |  |
| Foodzie | Foodzie is an online marketplace where consumers can discover and buy food directly from small artisan producers. The Foodzie technology makes it simple for small producers to sell their products online and aggregate all these products within a marketplace that makes it easy for "foodies" to discover the very best food. They focus ongourmet foods and organic health foods. | $1M | Seed | Dec 16, 2008 |  |
| Lookery | Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks, trying to solve the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. The service makes it safe for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money inpartnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information. | $900K | Seed | Feb 07, 2008 |  |
| Speedera Networks | As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems ofdistributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $20M |  | Apr 04, 2001 |  |
| mobovida | Mobovida is an online platform that enables users to find and purchase mobile accessories. The platform’s product portfolio includes audio devices, bags, cases, cables, and chargers. Mobovida was launched in 2002 and is based in Fullerton, California. | $1M |  |  |  |
| Speedera Networks | As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems ofdistributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $6.5M | Series C |  |  |
| Speedera Networks | As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems ofdistributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $14.5M | Series B |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balanced](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balanced) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bank of America Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banc-of-america-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Columbus Nova Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbus-nova-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Comdisco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comdisco-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About PANTASTIC

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

PANTASTIC is an e-commerce platform that offers multi-category products.

4 contacts available at PANTASTIC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clint Chao | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clint-chao |
| Melissa Weir | Demand Generation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-weir |
| Scott Rafer | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-rafer |
| Tom Cole | Co-Founder & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-cole |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Cole invest in?

Tom Cole invests primarily in Software, CRM and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 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 Tom Cole's check size?

Tom Cole typically joins rounds of $900k–$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 Tom Cole participates in.

### When did Tom Cole last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Cole closed in Apr 2001. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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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