# William McClelland

> William McClelland is a seed investor at Elizabeth Street Ventures backing E-Commerce and Fashion. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Elizabeth Street Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-street-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willmcclelland
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/willmcclelland_
- Website: https://x.com/willmcclelland_
- AngelList: https://angel.co/willmcclelland

William McClelland is a seed investor at Elizabeth Street Ventures in New York focused on E-Commerce and Fashion. Will McClelland is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Elizabeth Street Ventures. He is also Co-Founder of Bambike. He was a Partner at Grace Beauty Capital and Managing Director of Ironwood Capital Management. He attended Yale University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$8.2M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$40M |
| Series B | $15M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 22% |
| Fashion | 7 | 17% |
| Retail | 6 | 15% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |
| Lifestyle | 3 | 7% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 29% |
| Series A | 12 | 29% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 56% |
| Philippines | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Current | Current is a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans. We're focused on building integrated solutions to solve needs that stand between Americans and their financial goals, making it easier for everyone to build the future they deserve. To learn more about us, visithttp://www.current.com or download our app on the App Store or Google Play.Current is backed by investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Avenir, Wellington Management, General Catalyst, Cross River, Foundation Capital and QED Investors. | $200M |  | Dec 13, 2024 |  |
| Turntable Labs | Turntable Labs: Hang out online with music | $8.2M | Seed | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Ten Thousand | Ten Thousand is a provider of an online shopping platform designed to offer men's apparel and designed training essentials optimized for workout. The company's platform offers men's sports apparel that are lightweight, durable and flexible for the wear and tear of daily workouts, enabling consumers to get choice of fit and featuresoptions to match their needs | $21.5M | Series A | Jun 12, 2023 |  |
| OROS | OROS designs, develop, and integrates insulative technology that delayers outerwear. It's patented Aerogel-based Solarcore technology is what makes the delayering possible. Originally developed from the NASA technology used for space suit insulation and the Mars Rovers, OROS has successfully extended Aerogel infusing it to create Solarcore,helping to make outerwear thinner, warmer, and more flexible. In doing so, OROS makes the impossible possible. | $14.5M | Series A | Jun 24, 2021 |  |
| Tiny Organics | Founded in 2020, Tiny Organics is the early childhood nutrition company building a healthier generation of adventurous eaters with vegetable-first foods for babies and toddlers. Tiny meals are 100% organic, with no added sugar or salt, and never more than 5 grams of natural sugars per serving, and carefully crafted to suit baby and toddlerdevelopmental milestones. Tiny makes it easy for parents to feed their little ones healthy, nutrient-dense, delicious food, with no prep required and delivered direct to your door. Tiny has been featured in national publications like TechCrunch, The New Yorker, Inc, Mother, Forbes, and garnered investments from thought leaders like Gary Vaynerchuk, Howard Morgan (Founder of First Round Capital) and Liz Lange. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 16, 2019 |  |
| Figure8 | Figure8​ is an experience-first development company to realize, recognize, and reignite relationships with the people and places around them. The company is built on core tenets of imagination, connection, and creativity. Figure8 was founded by Manish Vora and Maryellis Bunn in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA. | $40M | Series A | Aug 14, 2019 |  |
| OROS | OROS designs, develop, and integrates insulative technology that delayers outerwear. It's patented Aerogel-based Solarcore technology is what makes the delayering possible. Originally developed from the NASA technology used for space suit insulation and the Mars Rovers, OROS has successfully extended Aerogel infusing it to create Solarcore,helping to make outerwear thinner, warmer, and more flexible. In doing so, OROS makes the impossible possible. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2019 |  |
| Ten Thousand | Ten Thousand is a provider of an online shopping platform designed to offer men's apparel and designed training essentials optimized for workout. The company's platform offers men's sports apparel that are lightweight, durable and flexible for the wear and tear of daily workouts, enabling consumers to get choice of fit and featuresoptions to match their needs | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 14, 2019 |  |
| RISE Brewing Co. | We brew nitro cold-brew coffee kegs and cans for offices, bars/restaurants and cafes throughout the northeast (e.g. NY, NJ, CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, PA) and west coast (e.g. LA, SF). Our coffee is organic, non-GMO, fair-trade, single-origin, non-dairy and 0 calories. Think a super light, refreshing stout beer meets iced coffee with a frothy head.An infusion of nitrogen gives RISE its distinctive, creamy cascade. Some of our clients include Apple, Fairway, Forager's, Glossier, Juice Press, Organic Avenue, Facebook, CAA, Equinox, WME, ESPN, Palantir, NY Yankees, NY Giants, NBA, and many others! |  |  | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Costa Brazil | Luxury Beauty |  | Seed | May 22, 2018 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bullish](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullish-co) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Grace Beauty Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grace-beauty-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Elizabeth Street Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

We are an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer. We believe great products and services are disruptive in the most elemental sense: they surprise and delight us – and being integral to consumers’ lives, they make people happy. We fund digital consumer & consumer fintech businesses transforming industry verticals that payobsessive attention to the customer experience.

3 contacts available at Elizabeth Street Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Sontheimer | Co-founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-sontheimer |
| William McClelland | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-mcclelland |
| Rachael Ulman | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachael-ulman |

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## FAQ

### What does William McClelland invest in?

William McClelland invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 McClelland's check size?

William McClelland typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$8.2M at Seed, $4.8M–$40M at Series A and $15M–$60M 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 McClelland participates in.

### When did William McClelland last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William McClelland closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 41 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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