# William Lohse

> William Lohse is a seed investor at Joyance Partners (Reno) backing Software and Social Media. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Joyance Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joyance-partners)
- Location: Reno, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamlohse
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/WilliamLohse
- Website: https://x.com/WilliamLohse

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $25k–$2.4M |
| Angel | $500k–$1M |
| Series A | $1.7M–$6.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 29% |
| Social Media | 8 | 26% |
| Advertising | 7 | 23% |
| Mobile | 5 | 16% |
| Publishing | 5 | 16% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 48% |
| Angel | 10 | 32% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 81% |
| Japan | 3 | 10% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beatrust | BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration, and driving innovation. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Tokyo, Japan. | $6.2M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Fulcrum | Fulcrum is a SaaS manufacturing platform designed and built from scratch to bring modern and futuristic concepts to small and mid-sized production shops. The product is a strong vote in favor of decentralized manufacturing, juicing up the system through connectivity and automation. Their long term mission is to create a connected manufacturingsupply chain, reducing tedious data entry, and increasing the speed and efficiency of the entire network supported by the most kickass system available. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| SmartNews | SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinatingengineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world. | $36M | Series B | Aug 07, 2014 |  |
| Battlefy | Battefy is the most comprehensive eSports management platform available today. Built for organizers, by organizers. They built Battlefy to help you organize eSports with ease. Whether you are a college club, a national eSports organization, or a brand supporting gamers, creating and managing a tournament or league has never been easier and moreprofessional. | $1.3M | Seed | Jan 14, 2014 |  |
| Greenhouse Software | Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York. | $2M | Seed | Nov 14, 2013 |  |
| Cliptone | Cliptone is a messaging application that enables its users to send creative voice messages to their friends. It allows its users to record a clip up to 10 seconds; apply voice filters and background music; and more. Cliptone was launched on March 3, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2013 |  |
| Spikes Security | Founded in 2012, Spikes Security is focused on delivering secure, scalable, high performance appliance and software solutions that empower businesses with the freedom to safely leverage the web without fear of cyber-attacks. Its flagship offering is a powerful web malware isolation system that prevents all browser-borne malware from enteringcorporate networks and infecting endpoints, including mobile devices, without requiring installation of any endpoint software.Watch an analyst interview with CEO Branden Spikes here: https://vimeo.com/127027498 | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 01, 2013 |  |
| Lua | Lua specializes in powering HIPAA compliant messaging for the healthcare industry. It offers a mobile coordination solution that provides immediate access to the people and information needed to get a job done, anywhere. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2012 |  |
| Adaptly | Through a proprietary technology and expert services, Adaptly enables the world’s largest advertisers to scale campaigns across walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Pinterest. Managed service offerings include strategy, planning, media buying, execution, and analysis.Founded in 2010 by Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom,Adaptly was incubated through DreamIt Ventures with investors including Valhalla Partners, Time Warner Investments, First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, Lerer Ventures, kbs+p Ventures, and Vivi Nevo. Adaptly is headquartered in New York City and has more than 120 employees in six offices across the globe: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sydney. | $10.5M | Series B | May 09, 2012 |  |
| Sonar | Sonar is a a mobile application that shows you how you are connected to the other people in the room.Sonar combines publicly available profile and location information to help you discover business contacts, colleagues, old friends and new ones at conferences, cafes, and bars. Sonar enables you take your online identity offline, to helpyou meet real people, in the real world. | $200K | Seed | Jan 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JAFCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bread and Butter Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-syndicate-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Joyance Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

5 contacts available at Joyance Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Holly Jacobus | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holly-jacobus |
| Andrew Nealon | Chief Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-nealon |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-c-smith |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-smith |
| Claire Cherry | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-cherry |

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## FAQ

### What does William Lohse invest in?

William Lohse invests primarily in Software, Social Media and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 31 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 Lohse's check size?

William Lohse typically joins rounds of $25k–$2.4M at Seed, $500k–$1M at Angel and $1.7M–$6.2M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds William Lohse participates in.

### When did William Lohse last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Lohse closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 31 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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