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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Joanne Wilson
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
Sven Fund
Angel
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology $250k–$1.1M
Miles Morland
Angel
5 Mozambique Pre-Seed Internet, Education, Publishing $7k–$12k
Ali Omar
Angel
5 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$2.1M
Tim O'Reilly
Angel
4 United States Seed, Series A, Angel Publishing, Software, Analytics $750k–$25M
Mitch Kapor
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Education $300k–$27M
William Lohse
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising $25k–$113M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
4 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $665k–$31M
Thomas Glocer
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Analytics $1M–$27M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$5M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Alain Bankier
Angel
3 United States, Israel Seed Publishing, SaaS, Video $1.1M–$5M
Michael Lazerow
Angel
3 United States, Israel, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Advertising $1.6M–$45M
Andrew Anker
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Content, Publishing, Digital Media $750k–$3M
Brian S. Cohen
Angel
3 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $300k–$12M
David Tisch
Angel
3 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$40M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $524k–$23M
Avichal Garg
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Internet $1M–$33M
Toon Coppens
Angel
3 Belgium, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Sales Automation $384k–$2.2M
Ramzi Alatri
Angel
3 United States Seed Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps $150k–$325k
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $125k–$29M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Michael Leeman
Angel
3 United States, South Africa Angel, Seed Apps, Software, Publishing $125k–$590k
Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel
3 Ghana, Nigeria News, Publishing, Digital Media
Joao Kepler Braga
Angel
3 Brazil, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Financial Services, SaaS $45k–$304k
Paul Forster
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$15M
Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
3 Belgium, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $120k–$5.7M
Dave McClure
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $159k–$30M
Darian Shirazi
Angel
3 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$100M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, FinTech $550k–$157M
Marc Andreessen
Angel
3 United States, France, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $1M–$80M
Bob Pasker
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $750k–$15M
Avi Fogel
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A SaaS, Internet, Software $1.1M–$5.5M
Prince Amukamara
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Apps, SaaS, Sports $3.5M–$20M
Karl Jacob
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, E-Commerce, Software $600k–$23M
Pete Flint
Angel
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce $120k–$40M
John Legend
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail $1M–$111M
Geoff Ralston
Angel
2 United States, India, Senegal Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Education, Social Media
Pierre Schurmann
Angel
2 United States Angel Apps, Finance, Software
Morton Meyerson
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, Content, Marketing
Pieter Casneuf
Angel
2 Belgium Seed Software, SEO, SaaS
Scott Banister
Angel
2 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile
Dan Mannix
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Sports, Publishing
Julian Farrior
Angel
2 United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Mobile, Film, Comics
Didac Lee
Angel
2 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Banking, Real Estate
David Kalt
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Music, Software $500k–$4.6M
Albert Azout
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, News, Automotive $1.5M–$3M
Ines Ures
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Caio Maia
Angel
2 Brazil Seed SaaS, Big Data, Government
Geoff Entress
Angel
2 United States, Canada, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
  • Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
  • SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
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Miles Morland
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, Publishing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mozambique

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $7k–$12k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ethale Books App — The Ethale Books App by Ethale Publishing is the first-ever East African multilingual book app featuring local content. It is one of the first in the developing world to be specifically designed for android mobile phones and not e-readers. The trilingual app will make books available in Portuguese, Swahili and English for free, with revenuesustained via a mobile advertising strategy.
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Ali Omar
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$2.1M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $163k–$724k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
  • React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
  • Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
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Tim O'Reilly
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, andmany others. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media.Maker Media's Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$2.8M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medium — Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.
  • Metabiota — Strengthening global capacity to improve health outcomes and mitigate infectious disease threats. Metabiota strives to protect lives and to prevent, detect, and respond to the impact of outbreaks and epidemics on human and animal health, healthcare infrastructure, and global health security. Metabiota provides experience, training, and insights. Managing, stopping, and preventing epidemics requires global health expertize and capacity.
  • ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
  • Good Money — Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
  • Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.4M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1.7M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • Manifest — Manifest is a product ads platform that helps retailers realize the potential of their catalogs by determining which products to promote across Facebook, Google and others. Customers have used Manifest to optimize over 14 million products in 4 billion ads and have generated over $70 million in ROI-positive revenue. Beyond retargeting,Manifest's Matching Engine helps retailers prospect for new customers as well as activate and re-engage existing customers by exposing them to products they have not yet discovered. Top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Gilt, One Kings Lane and LivingSocial use Manifest, which is backed by investment from First Round Capital, Softtech VC, Cowboy Ventures, and others.
  • 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.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $665k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trepa
  • Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.
  • Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
  • Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 619
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Ensure Petroleum Pvt Ltd — Ensure Petroleum Fuel & Refinery is a Pakistan-focused energy venture founded by Muhammad Irfan Younas, a former executive.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
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Alain Bankier
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Alain Bankier is an Operating Partner to the Management Company. Mr. Bankier is a serial entrepreneur and an active early stage investor, with over 20 years of experience investing in early stage and start-up companies. Until late 2013, Mr. Bankier was Co-President and chief executive officer of The Manischewitz Company. In 2002, Mr. Bankierco-founded the Saveur Food Group (“SFG”) to create, acquire and build branded food companies and in 2008 Manischewitz was merged with SFG. In the mid 90’s, Mr. Bankier was the co-founder of a leading New York based angel investment group, which was the precursor of the New York Angels. As a leading member of the New York Angels, Mr. Bankier invests in a wide variety of technology, media and content companies, as well as companies in France and Israel. Mr. Bankier is a board member and advisor to a variety of companies and has been instrumental in achieving exit opportunities for several of these business. Combining his operating experience and his knowledge of the technology startup world, Mr. Bankier has focused on investment opportunities which leverage technology and data to disrupt, or add efficiencies, to traditional media and manufacturing industries. Before being involved as the chief executive officer of operating companies, Mr. Bankier was a founder of an international boutique investment bank, which he sold to BNP Paribas and where he remained as the head of mergers and acquisitions-corporate finance North America for over 10 years. Mr. Bankier has a has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and from HEC, Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
  • Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
  • Territory Foods — Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
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Michael Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $7.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
  • Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
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Andrew Anker
Angel · Half Moon Bay, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Andrew Anker

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Publishing, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Byliner — Byliner provides current promo codes, vouchers, and deals from online shopping sites. We help you get verified coupons and save more in 2026.
  • PandoDaily — Always on Employee Progression
  • Federated Media — As the largest TV station operator in the U.S. reaching nearly 39 percent of households, Nexstar Media Group offers unrivaled audience access and influence.
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Brian S. Cohen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications - founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who's who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBMCorporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses.Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community.Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally.Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill - a new organizational product launch model.Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Communications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
  • Vengo — Massive national network of digital screens accessible through every major SSP. Buy retail and point-of-purchase screens on your preferred platform.
  • Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
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Avichal Garg
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $10M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
  • Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
  • Bluenote Health — Bluenote Health operates as an AI platform for life sciences.
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Toon Coppens
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Belgium, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
  • Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
  • Cardify — Cardify redefines the way the fastest growing companies enable their sales team to deliver a more effective and personalized buyer/seller experience. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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Ramzi Alatri
Angel · 3 investments in Publishing startups

A result-oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. Having worked with many Venture Capital firms around the world, Ramzi has acquired a lot of expertise in the investment area and especially in small-sized and medium-sized businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$325k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyrent — A platform allowing people to share private flights.
  • NewsAnalyse — NewsAnalyse is news crawler, analyzer, and matcher. It crawls and extracts news from major newspapers and news agencies online. It analyzes the content of the news to extract main entities such as location, people involved, time and organization. The engine identified topics or themes in the news. It can also resume the news. NewsAnalyse has also alearning component whereby the system will learn the preferences of each user through their likes and rating and then use that info to filter or suggest important news to the user.
  • BookThatBook — BookThatBook offers a solution where sellers and buyers of books can discover each other and exchange books. The solution asks the customer to define the type of book (school, university or other) and thus enable easier search and matching. The solution is available as a mobile app and accessible also through HTML5 from feature phones or fromPC/laptops.
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Angel $125k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
  • Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
  • Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$42M; Series B $7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Michael Leeman
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $125k–$590k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.
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Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Editor-In-Chief @ Accra Sports News Editor-In-Chief & Founder @ Accra Street Journal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing, Digital Media
  • Geography: Ghana, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accra Sports News — Accra Sports News, an extension of Accra Street Journal, is your go-to hub for up-to-the-minute sports coverage in Ghana and beyond. From football, boxing, and athletics to breaking sports headlines and exclusive player stories, we deliver trusted, fast, and in-depth sports journalism
  • Accra Street Journal — Accra Street Journal is Ghana’s source for business, finance, technology, and economic news, providing in-depth analysis and insights into the country’s evolving markets. They deliver timely and credible news on key sectors, including banking, entrepreneurship, innovation, and government policies, ensuring our readers stay informed about the forcesshaping Ghana’s economic landscape.Our mission is to bridge the information gap between businesses, policymakers, and the public, empowering entrepreneurs, investors, and decision-makers with accurate and actionable intelligence. With a strong focus on investigative journalism and expert commentary, Accra Street Journal is your trusted guide to understanding Ghana’s financial world.Stay ahead with breaking news, exclusive interviews, and expert opinions from the heart of Accra’s business district and beyond.
  • The High Street Business — The High Street Business provides news and information about business, markets, and finance. It reports updates on trade, commerce, retail, and investment trends that shape the economy. The platform shares articles about enterprise, policy, and insights related to economic activities and developments. It publishes editorials and analyses thatexplain key topics in the business environment. It features reports about technology, finance, and public policy that influence local and regional markets. It also offers guides and discussions about topics such as digital payments, mining, and financial security.
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Joao Kepler Braga
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $181k–$271k; Pre-Seed $45k–$304k
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
  • Vista Fintech — Vista Fintech connect financial planners with clients using technology.
  • Abler Recrutamento Digital — For companies that are struggling to hire, Abler is a platform that compares requirements and skills, facilitates management and simplifies communication by offering simplicity, automation and better experiences through technology. For professionals looking for job opportunities and suffering from the lack of references and evaluations in the jobmarket, Abler is a platform that through the comparison of requirements and skills, guides and indicates opportunities according to their profile providing feedbacks, automation and better experiences for candidates.
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $4.1M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Driven — Driven is the easiest platform to design smart incentives, align targets, and boost overall sales performance.
  • Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
  • Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$3M; Series A $673k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • MoBagel — MoBagel’s vision is to bring AI-driven decision making to enterprises through software and services. MoBagel has empowered global enterprises to extract business insights and create value from their data across industries including retail, telecom, manufacturing, banking, and more.
  • Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.
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Darian Shirazi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6.3M–$30M; Series B $22M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SolveAI
  • Rowspace — Rowspace provides an AI platform for financial institutions to make decisions using proprietary data. The platform focuses on organizing, processing, and analyzing internal datasets alongside market information. It applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques tailored to financial workflows. Rowspace supports use cases such asinvestment research, risk analysis, and product strategy. The company works with financial services firms that want to operationalize data for day-to-day and strategic decisions.
  • Harmattan AI — Building the Future of Autonomous Warfare.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Series A $550k–$13M; Series B $10M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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Marc Andreessen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Publishing startups

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$36M; Series B $3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
  • Canonical Crypto — Canonical leads early-stage investments in technical teams building at the frontier. SF-based, founder-obsessed.
  • Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio
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Bob Pasker
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Bob Pasker - Founder @ Bob Pasker's Syndicate

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3.3M; Angel $750k–$2.3M; Series A $1.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmonic — Steward leaders and creators of CNCF wasmCloud. Cosmonic is building the distributed application platform for the enterprise.
  • JumpCrew — JumpCrew is the leading B2B outsourced sales & marketing company in the country. Our data driven approach grows the world's top brands-Learn more now!
  • Sentient Technologies — Sentient operates distributed artificial intelligence on an unprecedented scale, routinely running multiple distributed AI jobs, on millions of AI processing nodes, producing actionable results validated on large and complex data sets. Utilizing evolutionary computation and deep learning - designed to continuously evolve and improve - Sentient aimsto create the world’s most powerful intelligent system. This system enables researchers, innovators and companies to solve mission-critical, high value, problems.
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Avi Fogel
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Avi is a principal at Majorlee Investment Corp, an asset management firm based in NYC, investing in private equity angel investment, public technology companies and income generating investments. Avi is also an active member in two angel groups - New York Angels, the largest angel group in New York, and Launchpad Venture Group of Boston.Prior to the current role Avi was an Exec-In-Residence at American Capital Strategies, the chairman and CEO at ProActivity, Inc, which he sold to EMC in mid-2006, and a Venture Partner at Infinity Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.2M; Series B $3M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
  • Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
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Prince Amukamara
Angel · Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Prince Amukamara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Sports
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Joy — Create a free wedding website with 600+ templates, a zero-fee cash registry, smart RSVP, guest list tools, and a matching mobile app. Join millions of couples planning with Joy.
  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
  • Ember Technologies — Ember is a design-led temperature control brand and technology platform, whose mission is to revolutionize the way people eat, drink and live. Founded by inventor and serial entrepreneur Clay Alexander, Ember creates, designs, and develops temperature control products that offer people complete customization.Named one of TIME magazine’s BestInventions, the award-winning temperature control Ember Travel Mug² and Ember Mug² are the most advanced coffee mugs on the market, allowing individuals to set and maintain their preferred drinking temperature for hot beverages.Ember’s temperature control smart mugs are available in over 10,000 retail doors in 27 countries worldwide, including top retailers such as Best Buy, Apple, Williams Sonoma, Bloomingdale’s, and Target.Ember is applying its innovative temperature control technology to new categories, including healthcare and infant feeding.
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Karl Jacob
Angel · San Francisco, Quintana Roo, Mexico · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Karl Jacob is the Founder and CEO of LoanSnap. He was a Founder and CEO at Wallop. He attended the University of Southern California in 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$2.5M; Angel $975k–$1.2M; Series A $6.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • June — Looking for the best cooking results? The June Oven is a do-it-all smart convection oven that makes cooking perfectly easy.
  • Boost Media — Redefining wellness and elevating credible voices that challenge norms
  • Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.
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Pete Flint
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Pete Flint is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the General Partner of NGX and a Board Member of On Me. Pete previously worked at Peek as a Board Member. Pete Flint attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$11M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $9.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Styra — Enable developers, IAM engineers, and business users to enforce sophisticated permissions and operationalize Zero Trust using policy-based access control from the creators of Open Policy Agent.
  • Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
  • Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.
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John Legend
Angel · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

John Legend is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations withthree wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $12M–$30M; Series B $24M–$111M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BirthFund — Standing in the gap for families, one birth at a time.
  • Tally Health — Founded to change the way we age, Tally Health helps you unlock a new biological destiny and slow cellular aging. Find out your biological age with our proprietary diagnostic test and get personalized Action Plans and unique daily supplements. Based on cutting-edge longevity research, so you can live better, longer.
  • Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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Geoff Ralston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
  • Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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Pierre Schurmann
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Pierre Schurmann is the Founder & CEO at Nuvini. He attended Nova Southeastern University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Finance, Software
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Trakto — Trakto is the first and only Latin America online editor. Our software is complete, simple and allows you to create your marketing and sales material - such as eBooks, business cards, flyers, posts, presentations, etc. - with just a few clicks. We provide 100% editable templates with a professional design so you can customize according to yourneeds (or you can create one from scratch). It makes the whole process of creation much easier and faster, for both designers and non-designers.
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Morton Meyerson
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Morton Meyerson is a director at ChaCha, a mobile Q&A service that enables advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with their customers in real time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Content, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zula — Zula: Changing How We Communicate Enabling the exchange of knowledge by bringing people together.
  • ChaCha — ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique "ask-a-smart-friend" platform, has answered over two billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users permonth, and is ranked among comScore's top 100 websites.ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via SMS text (242-242), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and presidential political campaigns, is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast. ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
  • Curiyo — Curiyo automatically enhances the story behind publishers' content and keeps users entertained, informed and on the site.
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Pieter Casneuf
Angel · Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Pieter Casneuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
  • Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
  • StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
  • Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Dan Mannix
Angel · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Dan Mannix is a Co-Founder, Stealth Mode Startup. He Attended University of Richmond during 1985-1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Sports, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
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Julian Farrior
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Julian Farrior

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Film, Comics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
  • Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
  • Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
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Didac Lee
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Prior to founding Galdana Ventures, Didac has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, funding more than 15 tech companies (among others: Inspirit, TradeInn, Fhios, Peninsula, Threepoints - Planeta, Safe365) which today account for more than 800 employees and €300 million turnover.Dídac is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.With 1B USD fund invested in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%), Galdana Ventures is considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Fund of Funds globally.Dídac is a former Board Member of FC Barcelona, he served on the Board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was Head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370M followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee´s achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the Club; his legacy is applauded by many. During his career, Dídac has received several awards, including the following: Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad del Siglo 21), Entrepreneur of the Year (Pimec, 2019), Business Angel of the Year (AEBAN, 2019), Best European Startup Mentor Award (The Founder Institute, 2013), he has been listed by IESE as one of 20 most influential entrepreneurs under 40, and selected by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 100 European Digital Influencers (number 2 in Spain).Didac was born in Figueres (close to Barcelona), his parents are from China and he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.Galdana Ventures (Co-Founder - 2015/Current)Galdana is a Venture Capital fund of funds founded and invested by successful tech entrepreneurs that invests in some of the top tier firms in the United States, Asia, Israel and EuropeGaldana’s management team counts on more than 80 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors. It has taken part in the creation of 17 companies with an aggregate value of $1.5 billion and managed investments for approximately $240 million in 30 companies with an aggregate final value of $1 billion.Our investor base includes entrepreneurs who have founded companies worth more than $4 billion in aggregated value, and we work to further increase this base with successful entrepreneurs from all the regions where we invest.In addition to this, Galdana has partnered with Altamar Capital Partners, a fund of funds management company specialized in private equity, real estate and infrastructure with approximately $3.4 billion in historically committed capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Banking, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
  • GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
  • Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
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David Kalt
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the founder and CEO of Reverb.com, an online marketplace for used, vintage and handmade guitars and gear. Kalt is also the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, one of the world's largest vintage guitardealers.Prior to launching Reverb.com, Kalt was the cofounder and CEO of online broker optionsXpress (#10 on the 2005 Inc 500 list), which went public in 2005 and was sold to Schwab in 2008 for $1 billion.Kalt was also the founder of ClientBASE, the first CRM solution for travel agents and tour group operators, which is now offered by the Sabre Travel Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Music, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with an original song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love yo...
  • Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)
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Albert Azout
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Albert Azout is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Level Ventures as well as a Partner of Cota Capital and a Managing Director in Cota Ventures II. Albert has a B.A. in Finance and Economics from Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, News, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwiki — Qwiki is an industry leader in automated video production. Most recently, Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user camera roll into brief, beautiful movies to share.
  • DeepScale — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
  • WaveOne — Building AI-native video.   WaveOne is leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to reinvent the way video is compressed, transported, stored, and analyzed.
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Ines Ures
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Ines Ures is a Partner at IRIS Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
  • Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
  • Spathios — Book the best spaces in your city by the hour, in 3 clicks.
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Caio Maia
Angel · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Caio Maia

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Government
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
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Geoff Entress
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Publishing startups

Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
  • Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
  • Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
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Stats across 509 deals from 928 investors.

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509
deals
in Publishing startups
$2M
median round
in Publishing startups
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