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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States (September 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
Billy Olave sibo
Angel
5 United States Seed, Angel, Corporate Round Music, Publishing, Music Label
Mitch Kapor
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Software, Education $300k–$27M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
4 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Education $550k–$157M
William Lohse
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising $60k–$6.2M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Bob van Luijt
Angel
3 United States, Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $500k–$25M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Matt Finick
Angel
3 United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Comics, Gaming, Internet $2M–$7M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
3 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $650k–$28M
Michael Lazerow
Angel
3 United States, Israel, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Advertising, SaaS $1.6M–$45M
Scott Banister
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $500k–$45M
Andrew Anker
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Content, Publishing, Digital Media $750k–$3M
John Landry
Angel
3 United States Seed, Angel, Series A News, EBooks, Finance $135k–$1.1M
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $500k–$29M
Ramzi Alatri
Angel
3 United States Seed Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps $150k–$750k
Tim O'Reilly
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Angel Publishing, Software, Analytics $750k–$25M
Matthew Kaness
Angel
3 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Software $2M–$3.5M
David Tisch
Angel
3 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$70M
Avichal Garg
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Financial Services $1.7M–$33M
Cyan Banister
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$22M
Bill Warner
Angel
3 United States Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Finance, FinTech, Crowdfunding $200k–$1.5M
Joao Kepler Braga
Angel
3 Brazil, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $67k–$595k
Darian Shirazi
Angel
3 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$73M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Internet, Social Media $800k–$80M
Dave McClure
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $159k–$30M
Marc Andreessen
Angel
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Internet, SaaS
Henri Lastenouse
Angel
2 United States Angel, Series A Real Time, Journalism, Publishing
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Mike Homer
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Publishing, Advertising
Alex Algard
Angel
2 United States, Finland Seed, Series A Social Media, Internet, Payments
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
Wei Guo
Angel
2 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Jeremy Yap
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$5.7M
Giora Kaplan
Angel
2 United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Video, Internet $5M–$13M
David Kalt
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Music, Software $500k–$5M
Pete Flint
Angel
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce $120k–$40M
John Legend
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail $1M–$111M
Nir Zohar
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Publishing, B2B $2M–$14M
Tarun Poddar
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Grant, Corporate Round News, Information Technology, Non Profit
Sean Bratches
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Sports, SaaS, Casino
Barry Honig
Angel
2 United States Seed News, SaaS, Mobile
John Battelle
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Publishing, Digital Media, Analytics
Elio Sceti
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Chile Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor $393k–$50M
Ram Shriram
Angel
2 United States, India, Canada Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Erik Moore
Angel
2 United States, Latvia Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Brad Flora
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Anthony Soohoo
Angel
2 United States, Finland Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Software, CRM $565k–$3.1M
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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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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Billy Olave sibo
Angel · 5 investments in United States Publishing startups

Projects and Financial Management Director; Operation Manager; CEO; Professional Musician and Music Producer; Public Relations Management Director; Founder @ KG33

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Publishing, Music Label
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KG33 — KG33 Records specializes in making, producing, and selling music recorded and unrecorded with music videos.KG33 Records LLC is a Music Record Label founded in 2021 and is currently based and operated in the United States of America. The company also operates under the DBA's names of KG33, KRMP, KG33 Records, and KG33 Records MusicPublishing. It develops and manages artists, professional musicians, and musicians contractors. The company is also available for funders, investors, and partnerships. Same as funding and investing, to all people and companies interested in the Entertainments Industry or private and other for-profits or non-profit entities who wish to a part or invest in this company.
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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: Mobile, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; 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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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 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, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • 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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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: 31
  • Round size: Seed $60k–$2.5M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1.7M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SocialThreader — SocialThreader increases effectiveness of digital marketing via social integration of brand and consumer voices across their ads and websiteSocialThreader helps marketers increase brand awareness, social engagement and conversions. It seamlessly aggregates all of brand’s social touch points, analyzes campaign performance linked to these touchpoints and optimizes content based on campaign goals. SocialThreader directly improves the effectiveness of Search and Display campaigns. Businesses stand to gain significant ROI on their campaigns and better measures on relevant KPIs.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1140
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Padue — Padue is an all-in-one, on-demand service marketplace built for the Zambian market, designed to centralize access to emergency.
  • Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
  • Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
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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, Machine Learning
  • 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 — Polars is a high-performance DataFrame library for Python and Rust. Built on Apache Arrow, it's the fastest way to work with tabular data at any scale.
  • 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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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: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$49M; 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 Premier Professional Padel League in North America. Elevating padel, exploring teams, and bringing you closer to the action with stories, highlights, and behind-the-scenes moments.
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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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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups, 17 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, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 275
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $650k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation Powered by Quantum Sensing & AI
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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, Advertising, SaaS
  • 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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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 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, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $660k–$6M; 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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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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John Landry
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups

John Landry is based out of Boston, Massachusetts, and is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures. John previously worked at IBM as a Vice President. John Landry attended the Babson College.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.1M; Angel $135k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libboo — Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and otheronline channels.
  • 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.
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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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
  • Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
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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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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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Matthew Kaness
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups

Matthew Kaness

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CodeBoxx Technology — Launch a higher-paying career in the booming technology sector with our cutting-edge tech training programs. Our immersive programs empower you to master in-demand technologies, with expert instructors and real-world projects. Join CodeBoxx Academy to transform your life and career.
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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: 245
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkero — Arkero is the AI transformation partner for sports businesses, connecting ticketing, CRM, and data to automate gameday planning, retention, and fan 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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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7M; Series A $10M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
  • Bluenote Health — Bluenote Health operates as an AI platform for life sciences.
  • Magrathea — Magrathea is rebuilding Western magnesium production with breakthrough electrolytic technology. $100M+ backed to end China's 95% supply dominance.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
  • Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
  • 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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Bill Warner
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, FinTech, Crowdfunding
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libboo — Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and otheronline channels.
  • 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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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, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $122k–$595k; Pre-Seed $67k–$304k; Venture - Series Unknown $114k–$327k
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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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Darian Shirazi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6.3M–$30M; Series B $22M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SolveAI —
  • Rowspace — Specialized intelligence for investors. Compound your firm's edge. We're hiring!
  • Harmattan AI — Building the Future of Autonomous Warfare.
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.5M–$31M; Series B $10M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brain Co. — AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions
  • Niteshift — Niteshift is a software development company that builds the full-stack cloud platform for coding agents. enabling background coding agents that can simulate and close loops on complex tasks end-to-end.
  • Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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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 is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business credit cards​, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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Marc Andreessen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
  • 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
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Henri Lastenouse
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Henri Lastenouse - Equity Partner @ 20 STM

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Time, Journalism, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

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.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 323
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
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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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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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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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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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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Angel $100k–$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.
  • Zero — Protect your devices and gain access to websites. Round-the-clock customer support. VPN for Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, and routers. Free trial period.
  • 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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Giora Kaplan
Angel · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Giora Kaplan is based out of Sebastopol, California and is the Founding Member of MRV Collective. Giora previously worked at Wix.com as a co-founder & CTO. Giora Kaplan attended Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Video, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenWeb — OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
  • SHOWBOX — Showbox is a cloud-based video creation platform that enables Brands, Online Marketplaces and Websites to provide their communities with fully controlled, easy-to-use, video creation tools, ensuring high quality results.
  • Superluminal Systems — Integrative LMS Platform Architecture & Open-Source Development
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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–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • New Era ADR — Remove gamesmanship in litigation and save up to 90% in time & cost with fair, efficient, finite, predictable dispute resolution on a digital-native platform.
  • 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 — Manage, update, and secure all your devices like it's 2026
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Pete Flint
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$11M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $9.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Styra — Enable developers, IAM engineers, and business users to enforce sophisticated permissions and operationalize Zero Trust using policy-based access control from the creators of Open Policy Agent.
  • Vise — Build smarter portfolios, harvest more losses, and run your practice from one platform. SEC-registered, SOC 2 compliant. 135K+ accounts, $100B+ platform assets.
  • Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.
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John Legend
Angel · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Nir Zohar is the COO and President of Wix.com. Attended at Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Publishing, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $13M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • Safe School Analytics — Safe School Analytics is a software solution for K–12 schools. They produce content to support social and emotional learning and the internet safety of kids and teenagers. With the intention of assisting schools, the organization works in teams composed of subject matter specialists, teaching personnel, educational psychologists, consultants, andsocial workers.
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Tarun Poddar
Angel · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Tarun Poddar an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader, has made significant contributions to the Indian start-up ecosystem in Finance industry. As the India Head and Managing Director of Foxhog Ventures Corp, Tarun has played a pivotal role in providing funding and support to numerous aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas of thecountry. With a diverse background and a passion for empowering others, Tarun has garnered recognition and acclaim for his achievements in the business world. Early Life & BackgroundBorn on March 16, 1994, Tarun Poddar spent his formative years in Delhi, India. He pursued his education in different boarding and private schools in the city. Despite the lack of extensive family support, Tarun displayed exceptional drive and determination from an early age. During his first year of graduation from Delhi University, he embarked on his professional journey by joining a Delhi-based Edtech Startup called "SMART SCHOOL EDUCATION PVT.LTD" as a sales executive, earning a monthly salary of INR 13,000. After a brief stint, he joined his mother's NGO, "SHAKUNTALA FOUNDATION," where he played a pivotal role in establishing its reputation and impact.Tarun's ambition led him to Bangalore, where he aimed to improve his family's lifestyle. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree from Delhi University in 2015. Subsequently, he joined Aegis Ltd, a BPO company, and served there for three months. Tarun's unwavering determination and entrepreneurial spirit continued to guide him toward his future endeavours.CareerTarun Poddar's professional journey has been marked by remarkable achievements and notable leadership roles. After gaining valuable experience working with established organizations such as Apple Singapore, Aegis Ltd, and Sonata Software, Tarun founded Foxhog Ventures in March 2020. The primary objective of Foxhog Ventures was to provide funding and support to Indian start-ups, allowing them to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams. Under Tarun's guidance, Foxhog Ventures expanded its network by bringing various venture capitalists, bankers, and angel investors on board. Through Foxhog Ventures, Tarun facilitated investments in a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, technology, edu-tech, beauty, fashion, real estate, healthcare, aerospace and more. The company also established subsidiaries like Budding Beats, Foxhog Academy, COOK N EAT, Indian Cyber Army, Sumanchna Springedge Healthcare, and Foxhog Small Finance. Tarun's leadership and strategic vision have helped shape the success and growth of these ventures, making a lasting impact on the Indian business landscape. Under his leadership, Foxhog Ventures filled the draft to raise INR 630 crores via IPO.EducationBsc. From Delhi University & MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Information Technology, Non Profit
  • Stage:Grant, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SUCCESS — Business New Survey Shows Airbnb Has Bad Blood With Neighbors: What It Means for Homeowners, Hosts and Hospitality By Veronica Booth Only 40% of Americans | SUCCESS
  • Saint Agnes Healthcare — In 1862, The Daughters of Charity began Saint Agnes Hospital, carrying on their centuries-old mission of service. The first Catholic hospital in Baltimore, Saint Agnes was originally created to provide nursing care for the poor. The facility moved to its present location in 1876 and was reorganized as a full-service hospital in 1906.In 1999,Saint Agnes’ parent organization, The Daughters of Charity National Health System, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph Health System to create Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health care organization in the nation. As the current parent organization of Saint Agnes Hospital, Ascension Health is dedicated to reaching new heights in health care and service to our communities, as well as serving as a model for faith-based health care throughout the world.At Saint Agnes Hospital, they believe that the care we provide our patients is second to none. They offer a full range of health care services and are proud that the doctors, nurses and health care professionals on our staff are the best in the industry. We believe it is our privilege to serve the people of the Baltimore/Washington area and to care for all patients who enter our doors.
  • Budding Beats Magazine — Budding Beats is a USA based Business magazine run by Foxhog Ventures Corp. A venture capital firm based at California USA.The magazine Focuses on stories of young and dynamic personality, business and people from different verticals including Healthcare, Investment, lifestyle, hospitality and more.The magazine has 3 platforms including web,Emagazine and print edition with the circulation of good numbers of copies in India and USA.Magazine claims their Copyright for BB MAGAZINE,BUDDING BEATS INDIA, BUDDING BEATS USA, BB HUMANS,BB UNDER 30 & BB SAYINGS.
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Sean Bratches
Angel · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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

Barry Honig - CEO @ Majesco Entertainment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

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.
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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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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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Ram Shriram
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Manifold Labs — Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.
  • Unbound Security — Protect AI apps and agents with Unbound AI security
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Erik Moore
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Erik Moore is the Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures, an early-stage tech venture fund. He was one of the first investors in Zappos (sold for 1.2B to Amazon) and an early investor in Plangrid, sold to Autodesk for $875mm. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spent 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He recently joined the boardof the Common Ground Foundation, founded by Grammy, Oscar and Emmy award winning artist, Common, and he currently serves as a board member for P.A.C.E, a private philanthropic group. He was recognized as #10 on a list of the top 25 most influential blacks in tech by Business Insider (John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft was ranked #1). He mentors and advises several known professional athletes. Erik earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, an MA in French from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Swapbox — Swapbox is an easy and convenient delivery system that enables people to send and receive packages using a Swapbox kiosk. The kiosks, which are completely automated, are situated in convenient locations including grocery stores, petrol stations and coffee shops, meaning that customers do not need to rush to the post office by 3pm to send theirpackages. Customers simply place their item/s in the Swapbox kiosk and input their details using the touchscreen. The recipient then collects the package from a local Swapbox using the code they received through text or email. Swapbox sets itself apart by focusing on consumer satisfaction, experience and convenience.Swapbox is currently available in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
  • Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
  • Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.
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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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Anthony Soohoo
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Publishing startups

Anthony Soohoo is currently working at Spryker and the AI Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.1M; Angel $565k–$590k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wove — Automate your CargoWise quote generation process with AI. Save $25-50 per quote and boost efficiency.
  • Iterable — Iterable is an AI customer engagement platform built for how customers behave today, helping brands respond in real time with unified data and optimization.
  • Brandfolder by Smartsheet — Manage, distribute, and analyze your digital assets in one place with Brandfolder, the world's most powerfully simple brand asset management software.
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Publishing Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

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314
deals
in United States Publishing startups
$2M
median round
in United States Publishing startups
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42%
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