# Tom Vorisek

> Tom Vorisek is a seed investor backing Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlvorisek/
- Website: https://www.esalenventures.vc

Tom Vorisek is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $865k–$6.9M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$70M |
| Series B | $27M–$210M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 15% |
| FinTech | 8 | 13% |
| Software | 8 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 13% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 25% |
| Series B | 14 | 23% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Series C | 5 | 8% |
| Series D | 3 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 12% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unstoppable Domains | Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites. The company offers NFT domains that give people control of their digital identity and its usernames can be used to log into more than 150 Web3 applications, shorten crypto wallet addresses, and build a decentralized Web3 identity. | $65M | Series A | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Hammock | Hammock is a technology platform that helps landlords reconcile transactions on the go. The platform provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. It brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances.Hammock translates informationfrom individual transactions into real-time, actionable insights so they can monitor and optimize the performance of their portfolio. It also manages their property finances, from rent collection to insights into profit and loss, including bookkeeping and reconciliation.Hammock was founded by Manoj Varsani in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England, UK. | $5.2M |  | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Hammock | Hammock is a technology platform that helps landlords reconcile transactions on the go. The platform provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. It brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances.Hammock translates informationfrom individual transactions into real-time, actionable insights so they can monitor and optimize the performance of their portfolio. It also manages their property finances, from rent collection to insights into profit and loss, including bookkeeping and reconciliation.Hammock was founded by Manoj Varsani in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England, UK. | $4.8M | Series A | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Quiver | Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Unstoppable Domains | Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites. The company offers NFT domains that give people control of their digital identity and its usernames can be used to log into more than 150 Web3 applications, shorten crypto wallet addresses, and build a decentralized Web3 identity. |  | Series B | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Bambee | Bambee is a platform that gives access to small and medium-sized businesses to hire an HR Manager.Bambee clients can hire an HR manager starting at just $99 a month, to help craft HR policy and understand compliance. Combined with HR Autopilot, Guided Payroll, and a free suite of powerful HR tools, SMBs can easily reach compliance. The companywas founded on the idea that every business should have access to an affordable human resource manager and every business can run like a Fortune 500 company.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $30M | Series C | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Capchase | Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow. | $80M | Series B | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Swiftly | Swiftly is the AI platform purpose-built for retail, serving retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Swiftly's AI agents unify data, automate workflows, and power the marketing that drives measurable growth — connecting shopper engagement, operations, and personalized experiences into one intelligent platform. Swiftly AI is built on theindustry's largest proprietary retail dataset: live transactions, 9 million products, and the closed-loop campaign outcomes of 33,000 stores. That foundation powers faster decisions, smarter execution, and AI-native experiences across the retail ecosystem. Trusted by leading retailers, wholesalers, and hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly accelerates growth, reduces operational drag, and sets a new standard for what AI can do in retail. | $100M | Series B | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Metadata | Metadata is an autonomous demand generation platform that automates the most critical but often tedious tasks in marketing to help companies efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. Through machine learning, a proprietary corporate-to-personal identity graph, and automatic optimization to revenue KPIs, Metadata’s platform generates demandfrom target accounts and converts them to customers much faster than legacy methods. Innovative B2B marketers at Zoom, RingCentral, Slack, Thoughtspot and Vonage rely on Metadata to generate predictable velocity of inbound pipeline from target accounts. 3 USPTO patents. | $40M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Wave Sports + Entertainment | Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company built for the next generation of digital superfans.Through a portfolio of over 30 media brands, original content, talent, and a suite of products and services, WSE reaches more than 500M Gen Z and Millennial sports fans on a monthly basis. Our core content is consistently ranked as the most highlyengaged across Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube where over 100 million followers engage with our brands. | $27M | Series B | Feb 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

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- [Second Century Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/second-century-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Vorisek invest in?

Tom Vorisek invests primarily in Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 60 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 Vorisek's check size?

Tom Vorisek typically joins rounds of $865k–$6.9M at Seed, $4.8M–$70M at Series A and $27M–$210M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tom Vorisek participates in.

### When did Tom Vorisek last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Vorisek closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 60 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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