# WGI Group

> WGI Group is a VC fund in Madrid backing Advertising and SaaS. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wgi-group/about/
- Website: http://www.wgifund.com

WGI Group is a VC fund in Madrid focused on Advertising and SaaS. WGI Group provides early-stage capital to entrepreneurs. The company assists its portfolio companies by drawing from its own experiences in fundraising, hiring, scaling infrastructure, marketing and the many other facets of high-growth technology startups.WGI Group also co-invests with other investment groups, including several Sand Hill Roadventure capitalists as well as various angel groups. It was founded by Jonah Goodhart in 2007.WGI Group is headquartered in New York, United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 9 | 35% |
| SaaS | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| Marketing | 4 | 15% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 58% |
| Series A | 4 | 15% |
| Series D | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |
| Series E | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Walrath | Founding Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-walrath |
| Jonah Goodhart | Co-Founder | 37 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonah-goodhart |
| Noah Goodhart | Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noah-goodhart |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Vendry | The Vendry is a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry. By joining The Vendry, event professionals get free access to RFP tools that help them source venues and vendors for their events, an exclusive jobs board, discussion forums and networking opportunities, and other resources to keep up with industry news and seekinspiration for their own events. As of September 2021, The Vendry has over 17,500 members and has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events. | $6.5M | Seed | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| Ethyca | Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $4.2M | Seed | Jul 25, 2019 |  |
| OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $25M | Series D | Apr 30, 2019 |  |
| Aiera | Aiera is the leader in generative AI solutions for financial services professionals. Backed by a consortium of leading Wall Street banks and research providers, the platform integrates broker research, expert network content, financial news, transcripts, filings, and other public data sources into comprehensive technology solutions.The companyserves top asset managers and financial institutions through a secure dashboard, customizable components, and enterprise-grade APIs. Aiera's AI-powered platform enables real-time decision-making across the complete investment workflow, transforming how financial professionals access and analyze critical market intelligence.Founded in 2018 and originally focused on enhancing fundamental investment strategies through event monitoring, Aiera has evolved to deliver full-spectrum AI-driven financial research capabilities. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2018 |  |
| boostr | boostr is a CRM management software that offers ad sales management services to its users.boostr features forecasting, delivery pacing, pipeline management, sales activity, revenue management, and client and contact management. Delivery pacing offers notifications regarding ad campaigns. Pipeline management offers automation services to its users.Sales activity offers client activity capture services. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 20, 2018 |  |
| Braavo Capital | Braavo provides revenue-based financing to mobile app and game developers worldwide. Whether you're a an early-stage health and fitness app or a multi-million dollar mobile gaming publisher, Braavo is your partner for flexible, affordable and on-demand financing.Founded in 2015, Braavo is headquartered in New York City. The company hasfunded nearly half a billion dollars to the top app companies in the world and is backed by investors including e.ventures, SWS Venture Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Upper90, and a number of successful angels and entrepreneurs from the fintech and mobile community. | $935K | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Jebbit | Jebbit has built the world’s first declared data platform. Our platform enables marketing and sales teams to create beautiful, mobile experiences aimed at capturing the most important consumer data an enterprise needs. Instead of relying on third-party data which is often highly inaccurate and incomplete, enterprise brands use Jebbit to captureconsumer intentions, motivations, and preferences. Customers include travel, ecommerce, and sports brands such as Cathay Pacific Airways, LifeLock, and the New England Revolution. Jebbit was named one of the Top 25 Most Promising Companies in the World by CNBC, the Best Tech Culture in Boston 2016, and its cofounders are Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees. To learn how you can get started with a declared data strategy, visit www.jebbit.com. | $6.8M | Series A | Aug 09, 2017 |  |
| The Hustle | The Hustle is the most trusted source for business news. We use our no nonsense voice to explain the latest in business, startups, tech, and whatever else is happening in this outlandish world of ours. | $1M | Seed | Mar 13, 2017 |  |
| Parsec Media | Parsec is the first platform to sell media using attention metrics. It's a rewarding product to work on as it solves a real problem in the industry: the way we transact media misaligns incentives between publishers and advertisers, and creates poor experiences for readers.Parsec was created by a group of senior advertising execs and seasonedentrepreneurs who've built agencies, digital publishers and ad tech companies.We're headquartered in NYC and have offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and London. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 22, 2016 |  |
| Confide | Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way. | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 10, 2016 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Marker](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marker) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does WGI Group invest in?

WGI Group invests primarily in Advertising, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 WGI Group?

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### Who are the partners at WGI Group?

The team at WGI Group includes Michael Walrath (Founding Partner), Jonah Goodhart (Co-Founder) and Noah Goodhart (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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