Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States

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

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States

Investor	Publishing United States investments
Joanne Wilson	5
Mitchell Kapor	4
William Lohse	4
David Tisch	3
Gary Vaynerchuk	3
Dharmesh Shah	3
Tim O'Reilly	3
Avichal Garg	3
Andrew Anker	3
Thomas Lehrman	3
Hesham Zreik	3
Michael Lazerow	3
Balaji Srinivasan	3
Karl Jacob	2
Brad Flora	2
David Kalt	2
Nir Zohar	2
Bashar Hamood	2
Kass Lazerow	2
Auren Hoffman	2
John Legend	2
Emmett Shear	2
Marc Andreessen	2
Barry Honig	2
Oliver Jung	2
Reid Hoffman	2
Adam D’Angelo	2
Prince Amukamara	2
Darian Shirazi	2
Anthony Soohoo	2
Erik Moore	2
Albert Azout	2
Bill Warner	2
Ram Shriram	2
Cyan Banister	2
Geoff Ralston	2
Pete Flint	2
Michael Leeman	2
Geoff Entress	2
Wei Guo	2
Jeremy Yap	2
Tarun Poddar	2
Bob Pasker	2
Sean Bratches	2
Pierre Schurmann	2
Joao Kepler Braga	2
Thomas Glocer	2
Alex Algard	2
Mike Verdu	2
Lukasz Gadowski	2

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.

Mitchell 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
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.
Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Defog — Defog integrates into your app and allows your users to query data in seconds using natural language. Defog are powered by large language models that can search and visualise both structured and unstructured data (such as SQL databases or Data Warehouses) (like text in call transcripts).
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
FORMLESS — SHARE Technology by FORMLESS

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Medium — Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.
Metabiota — Strengthening global capacity to improve health outcomes and mitigate infectious disease threats. Metabiota strives to protect lives and to prevent, detect, and respond to the impact of outbreaks and epidemics on human and animal health, healthcare infrastructure, and global health security. Metabiota provides experience, training, and insights. Managing, stopping, and preventing epidemics requires global health expertize and capacity.
ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Andrew Anker

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Nir has been with Wix since 2007 and he’s been the driving force behind the successful scaling of the company's operations from a small start-up into an international company serving tens of millions of users. Nir spearheads all efforts to develop and implement Wix' strategic plans geared towards accommodating the company's growthobjectives and business goals.Prior to joining Wix, Nir was the Budget and Production Manager for two years at M.B. Contact Ltd., a private Israeli event production company. Before that, Nir worked for The Jewish Agency and the Israeli Scouts. Nir’s experience stems from his position as Lieutenant Commander and Chief Engineer in the Israeli Navy.On his day off you catch him reading or avidly following the NBA scores.

Investment focus

Software, Publishing, Social Media
Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

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.
Villiger — Villiger provides an app that unites parents and their support network within a private social network where they can share stories, recommendations, and resources, as well as book and pay for services.Users can download the app and upload friends to their Village via Facebook Connect or their address book.The platform allows parents to sharetheir support network within a “Trusted Village,” then receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within the Village. The platform provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers, coaches, and more.
Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BubbleFuse — BubbleFuse will provide a platform for users to create and share their own digital content and products.
GrowBots — GrowBots is a web-based platform that helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
DataVizion — DataVizion is an innovative data visualization platform that enables businesses to easily create real-time visualizations of their data.

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.

Investment focus

Social Network, Publishing, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

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 — 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.

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
Calypso AI — 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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Beauty
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

JusticeText — Thousands of hours of police interactions are captured on video every single day. We promote greater accountability in our legal system by helping attorneys analyze this voluminous data efficiently.
Neutral — Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Portland, OR.
FL Newsletter — 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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pilot AI — Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording into structured information.
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Barry Honig - CEO @ Majesco Entertainment

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Reid Hoffman is the Partner of Greylock. He previously worked at Convoy Inc as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
DatologyAI — DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation.
Codegen — Transform the way you solve problems, improve efficiency, and advance your coding capabilities. Give GPT-4 complete codebase context with Codegen.

Prince Amukamara

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Experience wedding planning the way it should be, from beautiful wedding websites and invitations, to registries and online RSVP.
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.

Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Medmo — Patients frequently have to wait longer, travel farther, and pay more for medical imaging than is necessary. That's something we're here to change.
Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, CRM
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Wove — Wove leverages artificial intelligence to rate management for freight forwarders. Request a demo today.
Iterable — The cross channel marketing platform that powers unified customer experiences, and empowers you to create, optimize, and measure every customer interaction.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Latvia

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Testive — Testive combines technology with human coaches to keep your college-bound kid on track and ready to conquer the ACT or SAT.
Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
FORTIFIED Bicycle — Hoki178 adalah situs slot88 online terbaik dan judi slot online terpercaya yang menyediakan berbagai provider slot gacor resmi dengan jackpot besar dan rtp live slot tertinggi.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

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

Investment focus

Software, Education, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.
Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

News, Information Technology, Non Profit
Grant, Funding Round, Corporate Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SUCCESS — Personal Development Want to Reduce Digital Distractions? Brain Coach Jim Kwik Shares Strategies for Better Focus By Iona Brannon Brain coach Jim Kwik | 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.

Bob Pasker - Founder @ Bob Pasker's Syndicate

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cosmonic — Cosmonic is the WebAssembly Platform for secure, declarative deployments. Get started with WebAssembly on Open Source CNCF project wasmCloud.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Finance, Software
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
Cradle — Design better proteins
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mike Verdu is the VP of Games at Netflix.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Video Games
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Azarus — Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways. The core of the Azarus network is a 'smart-challenge' system that creates a new dynamic between and among Streamers and Gamers. As part of the pilot program, Azarus will allow a select number of Rainbow 6 Streamers, viaa proprietary Twitch extension, to award tokens to Viewers who correctly answer real time questions about their streams. Get creative, define your own rules and start challenging your friends on games you love.
Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
Rogue Games — Rogue Games is here to make your craziest, wildest, and even unhinged gaming dreams a reality. We publish your games irreverently.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
MILES — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!

Investors by industry

Media (entertainment)

Hardware

Proptech

Marketplace