# Twitter Ventures

> Twitter Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing iOS and Apps. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- Website: http://www.twitterventures.com/

Twitter Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on iOS and Apps. Twitter Ventures aims to fund products and services which help boost Twitter’s revenue stream.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Twitter Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Twitter Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/twitter-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iOS | 1 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| Audio | 1 | 17% |
| Music | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series E | 1 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 17% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biz Stone | Co-Founder | 58 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biz-stone |
| Jack Dorsey | Co-Founder and CEO | 42 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-dorsey |
| Noah Glass | Co-Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ShareChat | ShareChat is an Indian social media startup. It offers the content consumption and sharing platform only in Indian vernacular languages to cater to over 1.17 billion wireless network users of India. It is available in 15 Indian languages. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $60M | Debt Financing | Dec 23, 2020 | https://sharechat.com |
| ShareChat | ShareChat is an Indian social media startup. It offers the content consumption and sharing platform only in Indian vernacular languages to cater to over 1.17 billion wireless network users of India. It is available in 15 Indian languages. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 13, 2016 | https://sharechat.com |
| SoundCloud | SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create and share sounds. It allows people to discover and enjoy the largest selection of music from the world’s most diverse creator community. This is made possible by an open platform that directly connects creators and their fans across the globe. Sound creators can use the platform toinstantly record, upload, and share sounds across the internet, as well as receive detailed stats and feedback from the SoundCloud community.SoundCloud was launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss. | $70M | Series E | Jun 14, 2016 | http://www.soundcloud.com/ |
| Swirl Networks | Swirl is an in-store mobile marketing platform provider that is helping retailers leverage the power of mobile to attract and influence consumers while they shop in retail stores.The company's indoor location-based marketing platform allows retailers to deliver highly targeted messages, content and offers to consumer smartphones while theyshop in specific areas of the store. The platform combines patent-pending indoor location beacons with cloud-based marketing campaign management services and a software development kit that allows retailers to add an in-store mobile experience to any existing mobile app. | $18M | Series C | Apr 23, 2015 | http://www.swirl.com |
| Cyanogen | It was developed as free and open-source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added original and third-party code, and based on a rolling release development model. Although only a subset of total CyanogenMod users elected to report their use of the firmware,[8] on 23 March 2015, some reports indicated that over 50million people ran CyanogenMod on their phones.[9][10] It was also frequently used as a starting point by developers of other ROMs. | $85M | Series C | Mar 23, 2015 | http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ |
| CYNGN | Cyngn's autonomous vehicle software integrates with a suite of commercially available sensors and hardware to deliver safe, scalable, and efficient self-driving vehicle solutions to industrial organizations. The company's solution is vehicle agnostic, which means heterogeneous fleets can tap into autonomy, switching easily betweenfully-autonomous, remotely-controlled, and manual modes. Cyngn tackles pressing issues confronted by industrial organizations in the present, including shortages in labor, expensive safety incidents, and growing consumer demands for eCommerce. | $80M | Series C | Mar 14, 2015 | https://www.cyngn.com |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Access Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-industries) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [India Quotient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-quotient) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Premji Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/premjiinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Qualcomm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qualcomm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Twitter Ventures invest in?

Twitter Ventures invests primarily in iOS, Apps and Audio startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Twitter Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Twitter Ventures?

The team at Twitter Ventures includes Biz Stone (Co-Founder), Jack Dorsey (Co-Founder and CEO) and Noah Glass (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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