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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States 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
William Lohse
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising $25k–$113M
Mitch Kapor
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Education $300k–$27M
Andrew Anker
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Content, Publishing, Digital Media $750k–$3M
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $125k–$29M
Joao Kepler Braga
Angel
3 Brazil, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Financial Services, SaaS $45k–$304k
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, FinTech $550k–$157M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
3 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $665k–$31M
Ramzi Alatri
Angel
3 United States Seed Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps $150k–$750k
Avichal Garg
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Internet $1M–$33M
Michael Lazerow
Angel
3 United States, Israel, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Advertising $1.6M–$45M
Matt Finick
Angel
3 United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Comics, Gaming, Internet $2M–$7M
Darian Shirazi
Angel
3 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$100M
David Tisch
Angel
3 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$40M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $20k–$5M
Bob van Luijt
Angel
3 United States, Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools $500k–$25M
Tim O'Reilly
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Angel Publishing, Software, Analytics $750k–$25M
Mike Homer
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Publishing, Advertising
John Battelle
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Publishing, Digital Media, Analytics
Alex Algard
Angel
2 United States, Finland Seed, Series A Social Media, Internet, Payments
Brad Flora
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Geoff Entress
Angel
2 United States, Canada, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Howard Lindzon
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Michael Leeman
Angel
2 United States, South Africa Angel, Seed Apps, Publishing, Software
Dave McClure
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $159k–$30M
Oliver Jung
Angel
2 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet $770k–$160M
Wei Guo
Angel
2 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Matt Rolandson
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Convertible Note Internet, Social Media, Events
Jeremy Yap
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $125k–$6.3M
Scott Banister
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile $500k–$45M
Elio Sceti
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Chile Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor $393k–$50M
Geoff Ralston
Angel
2 United States, India, Senegal Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Education, E-Commerce $1M–$12M
Cyan Banister
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Social Media $500k–$23M
Auren Hoffman
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Analytics, Mobile $160k–$26M
Lee Linden
Angel
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Logistics $700k–$18M
Nick Ducoff
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Finance, Internet $1M–$5M
Adam D’Angelo
Angel
2 United States, India, Sweden Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.3M–$100M
Thomas Glocer
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Analytics $1M–$27M
Baris Gultekin
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Travel, Financial Services $1M–$33M
Kass Lazerow
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Publishing, Social Network, Apps $13M–$14M
John Landry
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A News, EBooks, Finance $135k–$1.1M
Karl Jacob
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, E-Commerce, Software $600k–$23M
Bob Pasker
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $750k–$15M
Pierre Schurmann
Angel
2 Brazil, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Marketing, Apps $54k–$81k
Lukasz Gadowski
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed, Angel Internet, E-Commerce, Software $1M–$58M
Emmett Shear
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Information Technology $950k–$60M
David Kalt
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Music, Software $500k–$4.6M
Brian S. Cohen
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $300k–$12M
Prince Amukamara
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Apps, SaaS, Sports $3.5M–$20M
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in United States 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.
  • Redstamp — We’re full-service. And we don’t just say that: we back it up, from brand conceptualization and design all the way to SEO and print campaigns. Our services are top-shelf, our work is top-quality, and our people are top-notch. We’re based out of Vancouver, helping us get that perfect blend of Canadian nice and urban know-how that’ll serve yourbusiness and build your brand. You tell us what you want, and we’ll nail it. Rest your weary head: we’ve got it.
  • 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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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States · 4 investments in United States 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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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States 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

  • 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.
  • Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
  • 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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Andrew Anker
Angel · Half Moon Bay, California, United States · 3 investments in United States 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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Dharmesh Shah
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in United States 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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Angel $125k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mem0 — The Memory layer for your AI apps
  • 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.
  • AgentMail — AgentMail provides an API-first email platform that enables AI agents to send, receive, and manage emails with automation and analytics.
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Joao Kepler Braga
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 3 investments in United States 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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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States 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–$7M; Series A $3.1M–$42M; Series B $7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stan — We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
  • The 33rd Team — The 33rd Team is a sports entertainment platform that offers spectator sports content.
  • Pro Padel League — The Pro Padel League is a professional padel league that offers a national platform for the sport, simultaneously fostering nationwide recognition and enthusiasm for Padel. The Pro Padel League stands as North America's inaugural professional league for Padel teams.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States 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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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $665k–$4.5M; Series A $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
  • Collektr — Collektr is a live streaming community marketplace where users can buy, sell, and exchange collectible things in a secure environment. It's also a gathering place for keen collectors to discuss their common interests in a wide range of products and categories.
  • M1X Global — M1X unlocks new applications of blockchain technology across public sector programs and institutional markets. We partner with governments to identify opportunities, coordinate expertise and support long-term economic development.
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Ramzi Alatri
Angel · 3 investments in United States 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–$750k
  • 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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Avichal Garg
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 3 investments in United States 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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Michael Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States 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: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $7.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • WatchBox — WatchBox is the global leader in pre-owned luxury watches. Buy, Sell or Trade the most popular watch brands including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Panerai and more.
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Matt Finick
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups

Matt Finick is a Member of the Board of Directors of MELON. He attended Skidmore College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Comics, Gaming, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
  • LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
  • MELON — MELON is the metaverse's premier development studio.
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Darian Shirazi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups, 9 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: 177
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6.3M–$30M; Series B $22M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States 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: 217
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkero — AI-powered operations platform for sports teams. Connect your ticketing, CRM, and data systems to automate gameday planning workflows and insights.
  • Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United States 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: 752
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
  • Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
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Bob van Luijt
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups

Bob van Luijt is the founder of Weaviate and an angle investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$23M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.2M; Series A $16M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
  • Polars — DataFrames for the new era
  • StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
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Tim O'Reilly
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States 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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Mike Homer
Angel · Atherton, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Mike Homer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Publishing, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — 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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John Battelle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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.
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Alex Algard
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a 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
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Brad Flora
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Truewind — Using AI to power bookkeeping & finance means less errors, more transparency, and faster monthly close
  • Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
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Geoff Entress
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in United States 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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Howard Lindzon
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
  • Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
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Michael Leeman
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, Publishing, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

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

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.
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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: 94
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$3M; Series A $673k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • 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.
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Oliver Jung
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $770k–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$25M; Series B $19M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
  • Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
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Matt Rolandson
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Matt Rolandson is a Partner at Ammunition.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

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.
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Jeremy Yap
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Angel $273k–$885k; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Staris — Staris is an AI-powered application security platform that continuously finds, proves, and explains exploitable vulnerabilities. Reduce false positives and validate real application risk with business context.
  • Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
  • Mirai — On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $660k–$5.8M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
  • Artemis — Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.
  • 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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Elio Sceti
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$4.9M; Series A $5M–$14M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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 — Narwhal Media Group provides complete digital services specializing in branding, marketing, and designing. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Bristol, UK.
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Geoff Ralston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Asymmetric Security — Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
  • Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
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Auren Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $622k–$5.5M; Angel $160k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
  • CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
  • Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
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Lee Linden
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Angel $700k–$1.5M; Series A $3.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • Jupiter — Jupiter is a specialized manufacturer of hair, scalp care and dandruff products.
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Nick Ducoff
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eager Labs — Live interactive online training that develops managers into effective leaders
  • Flipside Crypto — Flipside sold its blockchain data business to SonarX and is going all-in on AI with Edisyl.
  • Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.
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Adam D’Angelo
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$18M; Series A $6.6M–$100M; Series B $20M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Espa — Espa provides an AI assistant platform that helps individuals and organizations manage email, scheduling, and personal or work tasks. The service connects to users’ inboxes and calendars to flag priority messages, draft context-aware responses, and coordinate meeting times. Users can interact with Espa via messaging channels such as text, WhatsApp,and other chat tools to book appointments, set reminders, and follow up on tasks. The platform offers plans for personal use, professional assistants, and larger enterprises, with options for multiple inboxes, synced calendars, and integrations with tools like email, calendar, storage, and collaboration systems. Espa emphasizes privacy controls, encryption, and user management features for larger teams.
  • roomix — AI os for real estate
  • Simile — Simile is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for automating and improving communication and collaboration through AI-driven tools. It offers solutions for creating and managing conversations, generating content, and analyzing interactions to support business workflows. The company integrates AI models to assist teams indrafting messages, responding to queries, and enhancing productivity across digital communication channels. Its platform combines natural language processing, automation, and data analysis to streamline communication tasks and improve organizational efficiency.
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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Thomas Glocer is based out of New York, New York, and is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board at BlueVoyant. Thomas previously worked at Thomson Reuters as a CEO. Thomas Glocer attended Yale Law School.

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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: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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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Baris Gultekin
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Baris Gultekin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Travel, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yupp — Every AI for everyone
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Kass Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Kass is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in marketing, consulting and business operations.Kass has founded several successful companies. Prior to Buddy Media, Kass founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, Kass served as co-founder, President and COO, where she helped take the company from an idea toa multi-million dollar consumer internet company.In her current role as co-founder and COO of Buddy Media, Kass’ responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the business, including marketing, PR, general operations, HR and more. This multifaceted position allows Kass to leverage her understanding of the internet and her experience as a proven entrepreneur.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Social Network, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $13M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
  • Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Mashable — Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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John Landry
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, EBooks, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.1M; Angel $135k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Karl Jacob
Angel · San Francisco, Quintana Roo, Mexico · 2 investments in United States 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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Bob Pasker
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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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Pierre Schurmann
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Angel $54k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nuvini — Nuvini acquires and scales profitable B2B SaaS companies in Latin America
  • 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.
  • Standout — Standout is the new tool media online for e-commerces, manufacturers, agencies and professional marketing.
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Lukasz Gadowski
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$20M; Series A $4.4M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
  • TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
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Emmett Shear
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Angel $950k–$60M; Series A $6.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DianaHR — Streamline HR, payroll, and compliance with DianaHR, the US-based fractional HR company helping startups and SMBs reduce risk, automate admin, and scale without HR headaches.
  • Lemon Slice — Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets.
  • 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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David Kalt
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in United States 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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Brian S. Cohen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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: 47
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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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Prince Amukamara
Angel · Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona, United States · 2 investments in United States 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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Publishing Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 276 deals from 533 investors.

533
investors
in United States Publishing startups
276
deals
in United States Publishing startups
$2.1M
median round
in United States Publishing startups
3%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage

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