Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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5 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$70M |
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Binny Bansal
Angel
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5 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $415k–$18M |
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Elad Gil
Angel
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$117M |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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5 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$18M |
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Kyle Vogt
Angel
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4 | United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.5M–$34M |
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Dan Rosensweig
Angel
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4 | United States, Brazil | Seed, Series A | EdTech, Internet, Software | $1.5M–$17M |
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Stefan Ciecierski
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Video, Software | |
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Jack Altman
Angel
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4 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$100M |
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Kunal Shah
Angel
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4 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $350k–$15M |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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4 | United States, Canada, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.2M–$100M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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4 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$5M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $7k–$5M |
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Jason Calacanis
Angel
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4 | United States, Australia, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$14M |
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Jacob Gibson
Angel
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3 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $253k–$20M |
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Rudy Gadre
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $500k–$5M |
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Volker Rofalski
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce | $713k–$1.1M |
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Brian Requarth
Angel
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3 | Brazil, Colombia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Real Estate, Software, FinTech | $289k–$5.4M |
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Rodrigo Schmidt
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Freelance, Recruiting | $4.8M–$16M |
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Anand Chandrasekaran
Angel
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3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $300k–$42M |
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Matt Mickiewicz
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Human Resources, Internet | $250k–$15M |
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Dalton Caldwell
Angel
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3 | United States, Brazil, France | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $500k–$20M |
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Paul Buchheit
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $100k–$13M |
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Eric Wu
Angel
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3 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Software, FinTech | $1.2M–$115M |
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Keith MacDonald
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom | Seed | SaaS, Video, Software | $694k–$2M |
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Jessica Livingston
Angel
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3 | United States, Mexico | Seed, Angel, Series A | Education, Health Care, Medical Device | $600k–$3.3M |
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Paul Graham
Angel
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3 | United States, Egypt, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $70k–$30M |
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Hans Robertson
Angel
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3 | United States, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Security | $2.5M–$15M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $482k–$30M |
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Martin Henk
Angel
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3 | Estonia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $300k–$5.5M |
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Drew Houston
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, SaaS | $2M–$116M |
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Diego Piacentini
Angel
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3 | United States, Italy, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Human Resources, SaaS, Hardware | $255k–$16M |
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Michael Lynton
Angel
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Seed | Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps | $1M–$59M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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3 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $500k–$21M |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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3 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $125k–$6.1M |
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Aaron Levie
Angel
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3 | United States, Ireland, Czech Republic | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$50M |
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Emmett Shear
Angel
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3 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $950k–$60M |
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Jens Schumann
Angel
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3 | Germany, Austria, Denmark | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Analytics | $549k–$1.6M |
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David Windley
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Recruiting, Human Resources, Enterprise Software | $470k–$2M |
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Alex Macdonald
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $327k–$9.2M |
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Lauren DeLuca
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $675k–$3.8M |
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Avichal Garg
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, Internet | $1M–$33M |
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James Beshara
Angel
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3 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$21M |
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Daniel Gross
Angel
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3 | United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$130M |
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Will Brooks
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $524k–$30M |
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Bas Godska
Angel
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3 | United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $85k–$2M |
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Tikhon Bernstam
Angel
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Computer | $1M–$11M |
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Will Martin
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $655k–$11M |
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Phanindra Sama
Angel
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3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, SaaS, Software | $200k–$3M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $457k–$26M |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$8.5M |
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Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qutwo — Europe’s next-generation AI lab for a quantum world.
- HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
- Advanced Machine Intelligence — AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence - builds world-model-based AI that understands the real world. We develop safe, controllable intelligent systems for industry, robotics, healthcare, and beyond.
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $415k–$8M; Series A $3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- RISA Labs — AI-powered operating system for oncology. Automate workflows, reduce treatment delays, and accelerate care delivery. Book a demo with RISA Labs.
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$20M; Series A $9.5M–$50M; Series B $28M–$117M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NavigateAI — NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs.
- Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
- Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $7M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
- Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
Dan Rosensweig is based out of Santa Clara, California, and is the CEO of Chegg. Dan previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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- Industry: EdTech, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
- Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
Stefan Ciecierski
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $10M–$30M; Series B $27M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
- Almanac — Almanac gives you everything you need to get work done without being in the same place, time, or even continent as your team.
- Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
Kunal Shah
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 257
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Helium — Helium is a proptech/residential rental startup focused on gated society apartments in India.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- Magical Nest — "At Magical Nest, we design the most important room in the house, the kids' room."Our vision is to become synonymous with excellence in creating exceptional kid-friendly homes and show our customers just how easy it is to bring functionality, style and inspiration altogether in that little precious space inside your four walls.For us, a "kid-friendly home" is all about designing that best possible environment at home that is very unique to your kids, their likings and their inclinations as well to you, your home and your interests.
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $17M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
- Preventive — Preventive mission is to determine whether the newest generation of gene editing technologies can be used safely and responsibly to correct devastating genetic conditions for future children.
- Red Queen Bio — Red Queen Bio works with frontier labs to map AI-enabled biothreats and pre-build medical countermeasures against them.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 751
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
- Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 387
- Round size: Seed $14k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 475
- Round size: Seed $875k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
Jacob Gibson is the Co-Founder and Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He is a former co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $253k–$15M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adadot — Adadot empowers developers to improve their performance and wellbeing by analysing productivity and collaboration data.
- fortú — fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics
- MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $700k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wrench — Wrench offers a convenient way to get great auto repair near me, diagnostic service and oil changes. Our mobile mechanics will come to you!
- Gamesight — The marketing platform for video game publishers to build community, engage influencers, and measure their digital marketing performance.
- Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Angel $713k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Colombia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $289k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $497k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taxflow — Taxflow is an AI agent for US tax and accounting firms and eliminate tedious tasks and reduce manual errors. Our AI agent automates data collection, client communications, transaction categorization and other end to-end tax preparation tasks.
- UltraContext — Context Infrastructure for AI Agents
- Jumpstart — AI-powered, risk-free immigration services for founders, executives, and professionals seeking US visas and green cards.
Rodrigo Schmidt is the Head Of Engineering at Meta. He attended EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne).
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- Industry: Software, Freelance, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $4.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Openlayer — Native integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, CoPilot, OTel, Snowflake, and more. Continuous CI/CD validation, production monitoring, security guardrails, and automated compliance aligned to EU AI Act and NIST.
Anand Chandrasekaran is based out of San Francisco, California and is the President of Crescendo. Anand previously worked at General Catalyst as Partner and Venture Advisor. Anand Chandrasekaran attended the Stanford University and PSG College of Technology, India. Anand Chandrasekaran has been awarded Young Global Leader by the World EconomicForum and was recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India – U.S. corridor by the HURUN India Report in their career.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $300k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $23M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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- Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
- OpsLyft — OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India.
- Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care
Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $250k–$12M; Series A $10M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zamp — The last sales tax service you'll ever need. We take care of everything: registrations, filings, notices, and support.
- Starpath Robotics — Making fully reusable missions to the Moon and Mars possible.
- Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dalton Caldwell is the current Managing Director of Y Combinator. He previously worked at App.net as a Founder/CEO. Dalton Caldwell attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Brazil, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alex AI — Alex is the AI recruiter that puts sourcing, screening, and scheduling on autopilot. Fast-track vetting so you interview the best in days.
- Alex AI — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- Porter — Porter deploys your applications into your own cloud account in just a few clicks. Get started quickly on Porter, and customize your infrastructure freely as you scale.
Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
- BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Eric Wu is the President of Opendoor. He previously worked at Trulia.com as a Head of Geo/Social Products. Eric Wu attended the University of Arizona.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $9M–$31M; Series B $20M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clau — Clau is a leading real estate platform that simplifies buying, selling, and remodeling properties. It acts as a real estate superapp combining a property marketplace with CRM tools for brokers, mortgage brokerage services, renovation connections, and a data platform for market insights. It serves homebuyers, brokers, sellers, and investors seekingstreamlined property transactions and market data.
- Crosby — Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.
- Liquid — Liquid is a decentralized trading platform that offers non-custodial crypto trading options.
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $694k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- docStribute — Secure document distribution and digital signature solutions for your business no matter the size and market you're in.
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Jessica Livingston is a Co-founding partner. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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!
- Tesseral — Okapi facilitates the storing, updating, and retrieval of customer data for businesses using CRM (customer relationship management) software.
- Hype and Vice — Hype and Vice combines on-trend fashion with University brands to create officially licensed college apparel women! Cool college apparel to wear for tailgates and gamedays or to lounge around your dorm.
Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Egypt, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Angel $70k–$700k; Series A $3.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Autosana — AI-powered E2E testing for mobile and web apps. Ship faster with self-healing tests, no code required.
- AgentMail — AgentMail provides an API-first email platform that enables AI agents to send, receive, and manage emails with automation and analytics.
Hans Robertson serves startups as an investor and advisor. He is the former chief operating officer and the vice president of products at Meraki. Previously, he served EMC as the group product manager.Prior to EMC, Robertson was an accounts manager at VMware. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a Master of Engineering degree fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3.5M; Series A $10M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Verkada — Modern, cloud-managed security cameras, access control, and smart building solutions in a single, fully integrated security system. Free 30-day trial. Easy setup.
- Tractian — Prevent machine failures and protect production with AI-powered condition monitoring and performance tracking built for safety, uptime, and reliability.
- Pilot — Meet your dedicated finance team. Pilot handles your bookkeeping, taxes, forecasting and more. See why thousands of businesses trust Pilot.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $371k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vendis.ai — Vendis is the conversation layer for sales. Voice- and chat-first, it treats conversations as data, transforming multi-channel exchanges into autonomous updates and actions. Vendis captures voice, chat, email, meeting transcripts, and calendar data. Unlike CRMs built for management, not sales, it understands sales intents, detects risks, automatesworkflows, enriches data, and recommends next steps—an AI sales companion that understands you. Conversation in, pipeline out. Zero forms. More Deals.
- Baserow — Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6.1M; Series A $9.4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Convex — Convex provides the backend building blocks for your agents. Everything you need to build your full-stack project.
- Payam Music — Payam Music is a provider of piano education services intended to serve students seeking intuitive and engaging music instruction.
- Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
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Browse database — It's Free!Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012.
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- Industry: Human Resources, SaaS, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Italy, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $255k–$16M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
- IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Michael Lynton is CEO of Sony Entertainment, where he oversees Sony's global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lynton is also Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), managing the studio's overall global operations, which includemotion picture, television and digital content production and distribution, home entertainment acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, and the development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.At Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lynton has focused on digital transformation, worldwide growth, content diversity and financial discipline, leading the studio through an era of innovation and success, putting Sony Pictures on the cutting edge of an industry experiencing rapid technological and global change.Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past several years, releasing such hits as Best Picture Oscar® nominees American Hustle, Captain Phillips, and The Social Network, as well as blockbuster franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man, Grown-Ups, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Smurfs.Between movies and TV, SPE received 26 nominations for the 2014 Golden Globes® and won seven awards, more than any other studio.Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, around the world and for a multitude of platforms. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of award-winning feature films, television shows and formats, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms. In addition to its U.S. production business, SPT has 19 wholly-owned or joint venture production companies in 13 countries.SPT's worldwide media networks include 150 channel feeds available in 178 countries, reaching more than 1.3 billion cumulative households worldwide. Popular channel brands include AXN, Animax, and SET (Sony Entertainment Television), as well as the studio's ad-supported VOD service, Crackle.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment distributes Sony Pictures produced and third-party acquired theatrical and non-theatrical product on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and other digital media globally. Among the more than 3,500 titles in SPHE's catalog are the Spider-Man and Men In Black franchises, the Seinfeld TV series, and film classics on such as Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Sony Pictures is also home to Imageworks, the only major studio Academy Award®-winning in-house visual effects unit.Under Lynton, Sony Pictures has been an industry leader in the migration to digital entertainment, from production and distribution to the introduction of new formats. The studio championed the industry's UltraViolet digital entertainment format, helped re-introduce 3D to the entertainment industry and is deeply engaged in the rapidly expanding 4K marketplace.Prior to joining Sony Pictures, Lynton worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International.From 1996 to 2000, Lynton served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group, where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet.Lynton joined The Walt Disney Company in 1987 and started Disney Publishing, serving as its President. From 1992 to1996, he served as President of Disney's Hollywood Pictures.Lynton holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature from Harvard College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.Lynton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the American Film Institute, the Smithsonian Board of Regents, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, USC School of Cinematic Arts and the RAND Corporation.In addition, he sits on the board of directors of Snapchat and Ares Management, L.P.Lynton resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth Jamie Alter Lynton, and their three daughters, Eloise Lynton, Maisie Lynton and Lucinda Lynton.
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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $8.5M–$15M; Series B $15M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- OROS — NASA inspired thin and super warm outdoor winter jackets and apparel. Great for skiing, snowboarding, trekking, alpine climbing and more.
- Impact — Impact: the entertainment industry network. The most network-driven industry in the world finally has its own network.
Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
- Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
- Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 342
- Round size: Seed $605k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humera — Humera develops AI-based solutions for CAPTCHA and bot detection, focusing on minimizing user disruption during online verification processes. Its technology uses real-time machine learning to identify bots and prevent fraud without relying on traditional visible CAPTCHA challenges. The system aims to help platforms detect automated activity whilemaintaining user privacy and reducing friction for legitimate users.
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- Heywa Labs — Heywa Labs develops Generative UX (GenUX), an AI-driven interface layer that creates dynamic, adaptive user experiences beyond static text or links. Their flagship app, Heywa, delivers visual, tappable "stories" of cards for tasks like cooking, travel, fitness, and DIY, reconfiguring in real-time based on user interactions.
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ireland, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.1M; Series A $8.5M–$34M; Series B $16M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Enclave — Enclave is a cybersecurity startup that builds an AI‑native code‑security agent for software development and DevSecOps teams. It analyzes entire codebases to triage scanner noise and surface only the vulnerabilities that truly matter, using cross‑file taint analysis and trust‑boundary mapping. The platform helps engineering teams ship code fasterwhile reducing the risk of exploitable security issues in production. Enclave primarily targets software companies and enterprises that prioritize secure, high‑velocity development.
- Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
- Deeptrace — Deeptrace develops AI SRE agents that detect, investigate, and resolve production incidents.
Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Angel $950k–$60M; Series A $6.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- DianaHR — Streamline HR, payroll, and compliance with DianaHR, the US-based fractional HR company helping startups and SMBs reduce risk, automate admin, and scale without HR headaches.
- Lemon Slice — Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets.
- Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
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- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
- Tryp.com — Find the best travel deals with artificial intelligence. Our algorithm connects flights, trains, and buses for perfect trips with matching hotels.
- aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
David Windley is the President at Caldwell. He attended San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $470k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Topia — Discover our professional services designed to elevate your business with expert solutions tailored to your needs. Contact us today for trusted support.
- Comeet — Comeet is an applicant tracking system that makes it easier to source, recruit and hire talent in today's job market.
- Atipica — Kingcobratoto merupakan situs togel online legal dengan link login cobratoto bo togel resmi terpercaya yang menyediakan pasaran togel online terbesar di asia mencapai 65 pasaran resmi dan permainan togel mode 4d.
Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $327k–$2.5M; Series A $5.9M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
- Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
- Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
Lauren DeLuca is a Founder and Managing Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Pre-Seed and Seed investor.He co-founded a family of niche FinTech firms and was an active Angel investor. In 2012, he co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged withVictory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017.He co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. His personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over thirty early- and growth-stage businesses, including Chime, HomeChef, TradingView, Appcast, Popular Pays, DeskPass and PostProcess Technologies. He received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Cum Laude in 2001.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $713k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $675k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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- Carpe — Carpe is PhD formulated, dermatologist tested, and designed for effective, everyday sweat control.
- Hallow — Pray every day this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
- Gatsby — Gatsby makes options trading social, commission free, and contract-fee free.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $10M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Bluenote Health — Bluenote Health operates as an AI platform for life sciences.
James Beshara is the founder of Magic Mind.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.7M; Series A $7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zalos — Automate repetitive Finance workflows without changing your Finance systems. AI agents that connect, act, and audit across ERPs, banks, and invoicing platforms.
- Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
- ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $12M–$34M; Series B $25M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
- Creatify AI — Creatify AI provides a platform for creating user-generated content UGC style video ads. Users can generate multiple video ads by simply pasting a product link, utilizing a library of AI avatars for a more engaging presentation. The service automates video production, allowing users to produce ads quickly and efficiently. Additionally, Creatifyoffers tools for performance marketers to analyze their advertising strategies and gain insights into their competition. This combination of video creation and analytical features supports sales teams in enhancing their marketing efforts and improving engagement with potential customers.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Co-Founder Netherlands for Ukraine Foundation (NL4UA.org) supporting Ukrainians affected by the war since 2022. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe." Bas' Angel Fund (>EUR 100mn AUM) ranked by PitchBook as #2 in success by IRR (2021). Top 50 SuperAngel worldwide (Arete Index, 2024-25)Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Skolkovo MSM MBA (2013), Guest lecturer Stanford IGC Exec MBAAngel investor in decacorn Miro, Harver (exit to Rubicon PE), Chocofamily, Piano. Bas' angel investments (~50) have helped founders raise over $1 billion from investors like Iconiq, Accel, Insight, Salesforce, Google, YC, and Techstars. The combined market cap of these companies, based on their latest funding rounds, is ~$20 billion. As a VC/LP Bas invested in 400+ companies including 20+ unicorns.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2M; Angel $90k–$110k; Pre-Seed $85k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carv.com — Carv's AI recruiting platform is designed to take over repetitive admin tasks related to intakes and interviews, for a renewed focus on the candidate.
- Helio AI — Automated AI-powered recruiting platform with ATS and gamified personality test. Reduce daily workload by 60% and hire top talents in a few clicks.
- knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.
Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
- Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Angel $250k–$350k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kraftshala — Kraftshala is a online skilling platform for non-coding domains.
- Chai Bisket — The Telugu Culture Company! Our Family - Girl Formula, Boy Formula, Chai Bisket Food, Kiraak Style, Chai Bisket Podcasts and Chai Bisket Shorts.
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $457k–$26M; Pre-Seed $4.3M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
- Hyphen SCS — Find and rent verified warehouses across 992+ cities in India. Compare 65,000+ listings on Hyphen SCS.
- Uncovr — Uncovr is an AI-powered surgical intelligence and documentation platform that automatically transforms operating room videos into structured clinical reports and billing codes.
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