# William Hockey

> William Hockey is a seed investor at Column (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Software. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Column](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/column-3577)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-hockey/10/367/45
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/williamhockey
- Website: http://wi.lli.am
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whockey

William Hockey is a seed investor at Column in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Software. William Hockey is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-CEO of Column and also Member Board of Directors of Scale. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$12M |
| Series A | $7M–$34M |
| Series B | $14M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 22 | 39% |
| Software | 21 | 37% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 37% |
| Payments | 11 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 16% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 51% |
| Series A | 13 | 23% |
| Series B | 6 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 67% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 4% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Double | Keeper makes software to help bookkeepers manage their clients' back-office. | $6.5M | Series A | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Town | Town is an financial services company that provides online tool to help the businesses to pay tax for convenient process. |  |  | Mar 16, 2025 |  |
| Town | Town is an financial services company that provides online tool to help the businesses to pay tax for convenient process. | $18M | Seed | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Vooma | Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers. | $3.6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Maza | Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services. | $8M | Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Boom | Boom provides financial solutions to produce credit and rent payments. Their platform allows users to pay their rent via credit or debit cards, bank transfers, and wallets, enabling users to pay rent. | $4.5M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Slash | Slash provides a financial technology platform that enables businesses to manage banking, payments, and financial operations through a unified digital system. The company offers services such as business accounts, corporate cards, treasury management, and payment processing, allowing organizations to handle spending, transfers, and cash flow withina single interface. Its platform integrates core financial functions including checking accounts, ACH and wire transfers, and multi-entity account management, enabling businesses to operate across multiple entities or accounts with centralized visibility. The system also supports virtual and physical corporate cards with configurable spending controls, allowing companies to manage expenses and enforce financial policies at scale. | $19M | Series A | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Portal | Portal Labs is building enterprise–grade web3 infrastructure that transforms the platforms into portals. | $5.3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Oxygen | Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure. | $20M | Series B | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Goldsky | Goldsky empowers developers to quickly spin up realtime APIs using data stored on Ethereum and other networks. | $20.5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Column

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Column is a developer infrastructure company that enables developers and builders to create new financial products.

1 contacts available at Column.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| William Hockey | Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-hockey |

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## FAQ

### What does William Hockey invest in?

William Hockey invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 57 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 William Hockey's check size?

William Hockey typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$12M at Seed, $7M–$34M at Series A and $14M–$30M 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 William Hockey participates in.

### When did William Hockey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Hockey closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 57 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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