Ulrich Gall
Founder @ Innovative Auctions
San Francisco, United States
Ulrich Gall is a seed investor at Innovative Auctions in San Francisco focused on Software and Music. Ulrich Gall has over 15 years of experience with all major aspects of high-stakes auctions, with a particular focus on auction software. Since he developed the first clock auction software for high-stakes online auctions, in 2001, he has built a team that has now supported over 200 high-stakes auctions in a variety of industries. In 2013, heassembled an interdisciplinary team to facilitate the Applicant Auction for generic Top Level Domains, and directed marketing, contracting, software, escrow, auction management, and settlement. He continues to apply learnings from all aspects of high-stakes auctions to improve IAL's software and processes.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (30%)
- Music 1 (10%)
- Hardware 1 (10%)
- Internet 1 (10%)
- PropTech 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
- Convertible Note 1 (10%)
Investments
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Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | $5.7M / Series B / Mar 31, 2026 | |
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Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 17, 2024 | |
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Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | $2.1M / Apr 22, 2021 | |
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Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | $2.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 22, 2021 | |
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Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | $300K / Convertible Note / May 01, 2017 | |
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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 | |
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Incident Technologies is a software solution provider that develops music applications for iPhones. It offers gTar, a digital guitar that enables users to play music with the help of LEDs and a docked iPhone. It serves customers in the United States and internationally. Additionally, the platform allows the user to create and share their musicalexperiences.Incident Technologies was founded in 2009 by Idan Beck and is based in Santa Clara, California. | $745K / Seed / Nov 01, 2011 | |
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Matterport is a spatial data firm dedicated to digitizing and indexing the built environment. Its all-in-one 3D data platform allows anyone to transform a location into an exact and immersive digital twin that can be used to design, develop, operate, promote, and comprehend any environment. | Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2011 | |
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Browserling lets you live-surf a website in a different browser with nothing to install. This lets, for instance, a Mac user test a website to see how it acts in Internet Explorer 6, without having to install a virtual machine or perform any other setup work. | $55K / Seed / Mar 01, 2011 | |
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Backblaze is a one click online storage solution. It tries to minimize the user interaction required to create a backup.Backblaze is an online backup tool that allows Windows and Mac users to back up their data to an offsite data center. The service costs $5 per month for unlimited space. It allows the user to back up data automatically,manually, when the computer is idle, or on an hourly schedule. The service also makes use of AES encryption, data compression and bandwidth throttling. | Seed / Mar 27, 2009 |
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About Innovative Auctions
A leading provider of auction software and consulting services for high-stakes online auctions.
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What does Ulrich Gall invest in?
Ulrich Gall invests primarily in Software, Music and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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