# TRB Advisors

> TRB Advisors is a VC fund in New York backing SaaS and EdTech. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trb-advisors-lp/
- Website: https://trbadvisors.com/

TRB Advisors is a VC fund in New York focused on SaaS and EdTech. TRB Advisors LP is a private investment firm. TRB engages in a broad range of investment activities and seeks superior risk-adjusted returns through a long-term, patient, and flexible investment mandate. The firm’s investment professionals are led by Heath L. Watkin, President and Chief Investment Officer, and operate from TRB’s offices in New YorkCity.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for TRB Advisors. Shizune tracks 2 team members at TRB Advisors. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/trb-advisors?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$4M |
| Series A | $12M–$18M |
| Series C | $50M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| EdTech | 2 | 18% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 18% |
| Health Care | 2 | 18% |
| Brewing | 1 | 9% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Series C | 2 | 18% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| Ghana | 1 | 9% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Heath Watkin | President & Chief Investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heath-watkin |
| Timothy Barakett | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timothy-barakett |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MakersHub | MakersHub is an Accounts Payable solution designed for businesses that care about their bill data. MakersHub brings the right data into your system, eliminating all manual bill data entry and improving accuracy. Gain control & visibility with flexible approval flows.Approvals that give control with speed: Gain control of your bills &payables with MakersHub. Eliminate approval bottlenecks and signature gathering. We offer a seamless digital approval flow that speeds up your AP while putting full controls and visibility in place.Contact MakersHub: https://makershub.ai/contact-us/ | $2M | Seed | May 03, 2024 |  |
| Subject | Provider of digital curriculum and learning intelligence solutions for grades 6–12 education. The company develops a technology platform that addresses challenges in learner engagement, equity, and educator workload. Its offerings include cinematic digital curriculum, multilingual AI, and teacher-of-record AI. The platform integrates learningintelligence, which adapts instruction to each learner, identifies challenges early, and provides timely support while delivering educators actionable insights without adding to their workload. | $11.8M | Series A | Dec 22, 2023 |  |
| Athletic Brewing | Athletic Brewing is a food and beverage company that specializes in brewing, healthy living, organic, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer. It manufactures non-alcoholic craft beer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut. | $75.5M | Series D | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Africa Health Holdings Ltd | Africa Health Holdings cultivates a work-environment that motivates professionals to strive to exceed their expectations. It offers a variety of exciting and challenging careers across Africa and North America. It values teamwork and the enthusiasm to become a contributor to the development and success of local communities across Africa.It wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Accra, Ghana with offices in Nigeria and New York. | $10M | Convertible Note | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Carepoint Hospitals | Carepoint Hospitals is a network of healthcare facilities providing optimized and patient-centered services. | $18M | Series A | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Africa Health Holdings Ltd | Africa Health Holdings cultivates a work-environment that motivates professionals to strive to exceed their expectations. It offers a variety of exciting and challenging careers across Africa and North America. It values teamwork and the enthusiasm to become a contributor to the development and success of local communities across Africa.It wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Accra, Ghana with offices in Nigeria and New York. | $18M | Series A | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Subject | Building the Netflix of HS education, where students can earn HS and College credit for engaging with our premium videos. | $4M | Seed | May 26, 2021 |  |
| Athletic Brewing | Athletic Brewing is a food and beverage company that specializes in brewing, healthy living, organic, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer. It manufactures non-alcoholic craft beer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut. | $50M | Series C | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Subject | Provider of digital curriculum and learning intelligence solutions for grades 6–12 education. The company develops a technology platform that addresses challenges in learner engagement, equity, and educator workload. Its offerings include cinematic digital curriculum, multilingual AI, and teacher-of-record AI. The platform integrates learningintelligence, which adapts instruction to each learner, identifies challenges early, and provides timely support while delivering educators actionable insights without adding to their workload. | $4M | Seed | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Alladapt Immunotherapeutics | Alladapt Immunotherapeutics is a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing prescription therapeutics targeting food allergy. The Company’s lead program, ADP101, is being advanced as a broad spectrum oral immunotherapy treatment to mitigate food allergy triggered by single or multiple proteins from an expansive set of common allergens. | $60M | Series C | Feb 20, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APL group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asia-pacific-land) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [M3](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m3) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alliance Consumer Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-consumer-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hannah Grey](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannah-grey) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does TRB Advisors invest in?

TRB Advisors invests primarily in SaaS, EdTech and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 TRB Advisors's check size?

TRB Advisors typically joins rounds of $2M–$4M at Seed, $12M–$18M at Series A and $50M–$60M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TRB Advisors participates in.

### How do I contact TRB Advisors?

Public channels for TRB Advisors include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at TRB Advisors?

The team at TRB Advisors includes Heath Watkin (President & Chief Investment Officer) and Timothy Barakett (Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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