# Youcef Es-skouri

> Youcef Es-skouri is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Software and Financial Services. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/youcefhq/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/youcefhq
- Website: https://cef.im
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youcef

Youcef Es-skouri is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Youcef Es-skouri

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9.8M |
| Series A | $6.2M–$46M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |
| Finance | 4 | 13% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 47% |
| Series A | 5 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 40% |
| France | 4 | 13% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 7% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Default | The command center for modern sales teams. | $9M | Series A | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Tana | Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway. | $14M | Series A | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Lakera | Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company. The company is dedicated to ensuring the safe and responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. To accelerate the secure adoption of AI, the company developed Gandalf, an educational tool that has taught over one million users about AI security. Lakera leverages AI tocontinually evolve its defenses, enabling customers to stay ahead of emerging threats. | $20M | Series A | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| SwingVision | SwingVision is a real-time AI stats, highlights and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $6.2M | Series A | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| ScorePlay | ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager for sports-specific workflows. FTP, calendar integration, and live broadcast ingestion are among the features offered by ScorePlay. ScorePlay provides a dedicated space for brands to centralize media assets, which are then classified using an integrated AI tagging system before being distributedautomatically to identified athletes/artists and sponsors. | $5M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Journify | Sync customer data easily to any SaaS tool. In minutes. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2023 |  |
| Cycle App | Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them. | $6M | Seed | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Cycle App | Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them. | $6M |  | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Exponential DeFi | Exponential DeFi platform makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in DeFi yield opportunities. | $14M | Seed | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| Prepared | Prepared offers an AI-powered platform designed to enhance emergency response operations. The platform integrates functionalities such as automated triage for non-emergency calls, real-time translation of audio and text in multiple languages, and situational awareness tools including live video and multimedia sharing. It also provides qualityassurance features that allow supervisors to evaluate call-taking performance in real-time. By consolidating these tools into a single interface, Prepared aims to assist public safety answering points in managing calls more efficiently and effectively. | $9.8M | Seed | Apr 06, 2022 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Youcef Es-skouri invest in?

Youcef Es-skouri invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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 Youcef Es-skouri's check size?

Youcef Es-skouri typically joins rounds of $1M–$9.8M at Seed and $6.2M–$46M 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 Youcef Es-skouri participates in.

### When did Youcef Es-skouri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Youcef Es-skouri closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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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