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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States

Investor	Publishing United States investments
Joanne Wilson	5
Mitchell Kapor	4
William Lohse	4
Michael Lazerow	3
Tim O'Reilly	3
Balaji Srinivasan	3
Avichal Garg	3
Gary Vaynerchuk	3
Dharmesh Shah	3
Andrew Anker	3
Thomas Lehrman	3
Hesham Zreik	3
David Tisch	3
Matthew Kaness	2
Albert Azout	2
Pierre Schurmann	2
Joao Kepler Braga	2
Bill Warner	2
Michael Leeman	2
Ram Shriram	2
Cyan Banister	2
Mike Homer	2
Geoff Entress	2
Pete Flint	2
Elio Leoni Sceti	2
Dave McClure	2
Baris Gultekin	2
Marc Andreessen	2
Barry Honig	2
Bob Pasker	2
Brian S. Cohen	2
Thomas Glocer	2
Lee Linden	2
Henri Lastenouse	2
Reid Hoffman	2
Oliver Jung	2
Nick Ducoff	2
Jeremy Yap	2
John Battelle	2
Alex Algard	2
Matt Rolandson	2
John Landry	2
Scott Banister	2
Sean Bratches	2
Karl Jacob	2
Brad Flora	2
Howard Lindzon	2
David Kalt	2
Dan Mannix	2
Emmett Shear	2

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Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.

Mitchell David Kapor was the founder of Lotus Development Corporation (/organization/lotus-development-corporation) and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist,and philanthropist.Kapor has been the Chair of the In 1990 Kapor's new company On Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk. "We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first," Kapor said. "It's a richer medium than MS-DOS, and if we have a hot product in the Mac market, it will be easier to get into the PC market."In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is now working on Chandler, a modern personal information manager built using open source tools and methods.In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup,

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.

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

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Digital Media, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

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 — Rated the best text to speech (TTS) software online. Create premium AI voices for free and generate text-to-speech voiceovers in minutes with our character AI voice generator. Use free text to speech AI to convert text to mp3 in 29 languages with 100+ voices.

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. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. 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 an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Defog — Natural language data queries, hosted on your own servers.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
FORMLESS — Smart contracts by Formless

Andrew Anker

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Digital Media
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Byliner — Byliner helps you live life to the fullest, discover great reads and access current information on books, TV shows with the aims to satisfying all your curiosities
PandoDaily — Always on Employee Progression
Federated Media — Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions.Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns andoperates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
G2 — G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.The company was founded in 2012 andis based out of Chicago, Illinois.
Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
The Happy Home Company — The Happy Home Company is your Personal Home Manager. Managing your home is expensive, complicated, and time consuming. They solve this problem by connect homeowners with an affordable Personal Home Manager, who is supported by powerful technology, and a trusted service network
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.

Matthew Kaness

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Italic — Atelier-grade essentials from the same manufacturers as top brands with zero markups and logos.
Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
Interlace Ventures — Interlace Ventures is a seed stage fund partnering with ambitious founders in their first round of financing in the future of retail. We leverage our years of international entrepreneurial experience to help bring companies from seed to growth with time and care.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Finance, Software
Angel
United States

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.

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
Vista Fintech — Vista Fintech connect financial planners with clients using technology.

Bill loves the process of starting and building great companies. In 1987 he started Avid Technology, Inc. They built a great product and a great team, and today Avid is the world leader in video, film, and music editing systems.In 1991 Bill started Wildfire Communications along with co-founders Nick d’Arbleloff, Rich Miner, and Tony Lovell. Theybuilt a ground-breaking speech-based electronic assistant that worked over the phone. Wildfire was sold to Orange, PLC in 2000.In 1999 Bill started FutureBoston which built advanced mapping tools that let you understand the story of a place by looking precisely aligned maps over time. This is now the Boston Atlas – a great online resource maintained by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.In 2002 he created a shared workspace called the Collaboration Space at Warner Research, in Cambridge, near Fresh Pond. Bill believes that shared workspaces are one key to creating the energy and relationships for startups. Now called the Brickyard Collaboration Space, it is run by the owner of the building.Starting in 2004, and continuing to today, he began work on a book about “How to Build Your Startup From the Heart.” This book is based on my experiences and on what he has learned from angel investing over the years.In 2008, Bill worked with Tom Hopcroft and Heather Johnson at MassTLC, they created a new type of conference focused on helping early stage entrepreneurs. Called the MassTLC Innovation unConference, the most recent event sponsored 160 entrepreneurs and gathered over 600 people to help them.Bill’s focus now is on helping entrepreneurs with tools that are part of my Build Your Startup From the Heart work. One of those tools is very early stage investing, usually about $25,000. He generally likes to be the very first money into the company. He is willing (and even prefer) investing so early that the only traction is in the entrepreneur’s head. Bill chooses his investments based mainly on the entrepreneur, and not on the details of the idea.

Investment focus

Finance, Crowdfunding, Film
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Testive — Testive combines technology with human coaches to keep your college-bound kid on track and ready to conquer the ACT or SAT.
Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
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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.

Investment focus

Apps, Publishing, Software
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Personera — Personera is a technology company focused on the development of Facebook applications and personalized products. Personera's unique platform allows brands to offer their communities a variety of branded print products or digital downloads, easily ordered directly from the brand's Facebook fan page and fully personalized with their socialnetwork content. Personera's platform is white-labeled and completely customizable for any unique brand identity. Products include calendars, photobooks, cards, and posters, and are available in professional print versions or digital downloads. All of their products include shared content between the brand and the individual consumer, creating a one of a kind keepsake or merchandise piece for every customer. Implementing Personera on websites or Facebook fan pages (or both) is easy. All it requires is installation of an app by adding a new tab to a fan page or embedding a line of code onto a website. Personera handles payments, printing and delivery via their global network.Personera's business model works on a per-sale revenue share basis, so there are zero setup fees for clients. They have a global network of commercial print partners that manage physical production and delivery of the products, ensuring high quality, fast and reliable service worldwide. Personera makes it easy for brands to monetize their Facebook page while engaging their fans with personalized product offerings. The Personera personalized products platform has been used by a variety of brands including leading magazines, musicians, celebrities and consumer focused companies.
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.

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TipTop — TipTop is the easiest way to sell and a great new way to buy. Upgrade your devices and get cash for your old stuff with a single tap.
Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

Mike Homer

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

InfraSearch — Infrasearch, Inc. offers person to person information sharing services. The company is a provider of distributed, peer to peer search engine and networking technology. Infrasearch, Inc. is based in Burlingame, California. As of March 14, 2001, InfraSearch, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Federated Media — Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions.Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns andoperates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, The Netherlands

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.

Pete Flint is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.

Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Meural — Meural is a provider of an art technology platform designed to offer a digital frame to render images lifelike and textured. Its art technology platform combines art, technology, and design to create a digitally connected canvas built to showcase artwork and photography that provide consumers with newfound access to art from the past, present, andfuture while meaningfully improving the personal space.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Fabula AI Limited — Fabula AI is now part of Twitter on 31 May 2019
Narwhal Media Group — From lead generation & web design to SEO, our Digital Agency combines our dynamic skill sets to achieve targeted results and grow businesses.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Japan

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.
Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.

Baris Gultekin

Investment focus

Financial Services, Travel, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

CoinTracker — CoinTracker is a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. It automatically syncs transactions into one unified dashboard and helps users file their crypto taxes with the click of a button.
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.
Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Redbeard Ventures — Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.

Barry Honig - CEO @ Majesco Entertainment

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
Rant — Rant, Inc. and its expanding internet property lineup have established itself as an innovator in online media consumption. Known for the well-established brand RantSports, Rant, Inc. has recently launched RantLifestyle and RantChic to expand its reach towards the areas of lifestyle, fitness, exercise, entertainment, and celebrities.Co-foundersBrett Rosin and Grant Brown founded the company in 2010 in Winfield, Illinois and began to build and manage a rich collection of 155 sports team blogs that would eventually blossom into one centralized hub known today as RantSports. In 2012, RantSports expanded its operations to offices in Downers Grove, Illinois and San Francisco, CA and in 2013, the San Francisco, CA office expanded and moved to Laguna Beach, CA where it launched new web properties. In January 2014, the company moved to a new office in Irvine, CA where its 24 full-time employees complement its expansive writing staff.

Bob Pasker - Founder @ Bob Pasker's Syndicate

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cosmonic — Cosmonic Cloud is the WebAssembly Platform for secure, declarative deployments. Build, deploy, and manage applications with ease and security. Take advantage of built-in capabilities and increase code reusability. Explore why WebAssembly is the future of deployment. Open source and compliant with WASI standards. Get started today with Cosmonic Cloud.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
Cradle — Design better proteins
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.

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.

Henri Lastenouse - Equity Partner @ 20 STM

Investment focus

Real Time, Journalism, Publishing
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Storify — Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. With Storify, you collect the best photos, video, quotes from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere. It's the best way to capture an event whether it's a news event, a conference, a product launch, awedding, ...Social media streams flow, but stories last.

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Peakflo — Streamline your finance process with Peakflo's AP & AR automation software. Automate bill payments & invoice collections for better cashflow. Get a demo now!
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

Nick Ducoff is the cofounder and CEO of Edmit and the coauthor of "Better Off After College". He was previously Northeastern University's Vice President for New Ventures. At Northeastern, Nick launched the first university bootcamp which was recognized as an exemplar innovation by the U.S. Department of Education. Nick has beeninvited to White House convenings for his work at Northeastern and Edmit, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Barron's, CNBC, and Money. He earned his JD, with Honors, at the University of Texas at Austin, and his BBA at Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses
Flipside Crypto — Free data for analysts. Build and grow with access to top protocol data, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Avalanche, Near, Sei, Base, Axelar, Flow, and many more.
Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

John Battelle is co-founder, executive chair at Recount Media.

Investment focus

Publishing, Digital Media, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

NewCo — Through events and business partnerships NewCo connects people with businesses on a mission.
Flymachine — Flymachine is a virtual venue for live entertainment that brings the immersion and community of real life performances to the digital realm.
The Hustle — Sign up for the free, 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop with stories on business, tech, and the internet.

Alex Algard is the Founder and CEO of Hiya. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Social Media, Internet, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Ekata — Global customer identity verification and fraud prevention for the payments, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide.
Swarmia — Swarmia helps modern software organizations increase visibility, eliminate bottlenecks, and ship faster. Get started with a live demo or a free 14-day trial.
Trestle — Your partner for quality identity data APIs. Trestle provides the identity data APIs you need to create, develop and reinforce customer relationships. Contact Sales API Docs Find new customers, build better relationships. Trestle's foundation is wide and deep, spanning many ethical data sources with valuable and unique customer insights. Reverse Phone API Your most promising

Matt Rolandson is a Partner at Ammunition.

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Events
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Seen — Seen’s mission is to connect people more deeply to the world and their collective stories by making every event visible. New tools for a new type of media, Seen identifies signal in the noise of the real time web, reconstructing stories from their social data. At the heart of Seen is an engine that can automatically surface real-time trends withinfeeds. Seen is built on Google award-winning research, and was selected as one of the first companies for The New York Times incubator initiative,
Thington — Thington is a San Francisco-based company, founded by Dopplr founder Matt Biddulph and ex-Yahoo Brickhouse Head of Product Tom Coates is building out a new consumer-facing product that combines Smart Home technology with their expertise in location, social networks and the web of data.

John Landry has spent nearly 30 years helping people connect with one another while building world-class software companies. John is currently Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures, a business accelerator providing emerging technology enterprises access to a well-developed network of relationship, technology and financial capital. John wasVice President for Technology Strategy at IBM where he discovered and evaluated new technologies emerging from new companies for IBM's corporate strategy. Prior to IBM, John was senior vice president of development and CTO at Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, MA.Prior to Lotus, John served as senior vice president and CTO at Dun & Bradstreet, Cullinet Software, Distribution Management Systems, and McCormack & Dodge. Additionally, Landry has served as Chairman/CTO of Agility Systems acquired by Dun and Bradstreet, Chairman of Narrative Communications acquired by Excite@Home, Chairman/CTO of Anyday.com acquired by Palm and Chairman/CTO of Adjoin Solutions acquired by Computer Associates.John has been a director of over 36 companies, and is currently a director and investor in several private high technology companies. He is a long-time Trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and an Overseer of Boston's Museum of Science. He holds a BA in Finance from Babson College, where he serves as Trustee and part-time instructor.

Investment focus

Publishing, EBooks, Finance
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zagster — Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States.Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design,installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services.Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Peach — Brighten your workday with hand-picked lunches delivered from top local restaurants. Sign up today at peachd.com.
Prolific Works — Accelerating Great Stories and Big Ideas

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.

Sean Bratches was named Managing Director of the Formula 1® Commercial Operations division in January 2017.With three decades of leadership, management and operating experience at multi-billion dollar scale in the media, entertainment, and sports business. He spent 27 years at ESPN where for 10 years he served as Executive Vice President of Salesand Marketing.Sean lead a sales and marketing team that provided national advertisers access to ESPN and its media, marketing and content platforms. He was also responsible for the first unified sales organization that represents The Walt Disney Company’s premier collection of sports assets across all media platforms.In addition, he oversaw all distribution, licensing, marketing for the domestic cable and satellite networks of The Walt Disney Company to its linear and emerging multi-channel affiliates. In 2010, his team introduced the first live, streaming cable channels online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN.Sean was also responsible for ESPN’s marketing efforts including the development, direction and implementation of all branding, creative services and marketing for its growing media businesses.

Investment focus

Sports, SaaS, Casino
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

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.
Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

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 — Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry.They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013.Boost Media is an enterprisesolution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile.The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.
Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
Stonks — Invest in Pre-IPO deals
Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

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)

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Sports, Publishing
Seed, Series A
United States

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.

Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pilot AI — Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording into structured information.
GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.

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