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Top 50 Restaurants Angel Investors in United States in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Restaurants startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Restaurants Angel Investors in United States in January 2026

Investor	Restaurants United States investments
Donald C. Moore III	6
Jason Finger	4
Dylan Field	4
Max Mullen	4
Michael Seibel	4
Kimbal Musk	4
Brendan Wallace	3
Wayne Chang	3
Naval Ravikant	3
Steven Kamali	3
Igal Weinstein	3
Justin Waldron	3
Dave McClure	3
Marc Rowan	3
Ben Leventhal	3
Güimar Vaca Sittic	3
Michael Schroepfer	2
Shawn Tsao	2
Ryan Graves	2
Andy Cohen	2
Jonathan Swanson	2
Scot Wingo	2
Mike Greenfield	2
Josh Spear	2
David Wieland	2
Brett Hurt	2
Arielle Zuckerberg	2
Paul Hedrick	2
George Bousis	2
Kristian Andersen	2
Michael Yasiejko	2
Yves Behar	2
Clark Landry	2
Lee Fixel	2
Jason Fiedler	2
Bedy Yang	2
Shervin Pishevar	2
Ligaya Tichy	2
Wei Guo	2
Chaz Felix	2
Bryan Rosenblatt	2
Pankaj Jain	2
Brian Costello	2
Alexis Ohanian	2
Raj Kapoor	2
Tony Hawk	2
Orlando Bloom	2
Ryan Petersen	2
Stacy Brown-Philpot	2
Rob Chesney	2

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Donald C. Moore III is the Partner at DOM Food Group.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Robotics, Industrial Automation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zitti — Zitti is a first-of-its-kind payment and credit platform built for food industry management and vendors.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.

Jason Finger helped found Salvo Health as an early advisor and Board member. He previously was the founder and CEO of Seamless which he merged with GrubHub. He was Executive Chairman of LiveAuctioneers and is currently Executive Chair of Upper90, an alternative credit firm with over $1 billion in AUM. Jason Finger attended New York UniversitySchool of Law.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Thrasio — Take the tension out of selling your ecommerce or Amazon FBA business and get on a path to a well-earned payout while we grow your brand. Contact Thrasio today.
Cents — Cents is the #1 point of sale and business management platform for laundromats to grow, manage and understand their business. Schedule a free demo.
Wunderkind — Wunderkind is a global performance marketing solution powered by AI, data, and identity. We help brands acquire and retain customers via owned channels at unprecedented scale.

Dylan Field is the CEO and co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Huxe — Huxe enables users to explore subjects in depth by automatically generating podcasts featuring multiple AI hosts who discuss, analyze, and clarify key points on any chosen topic.
PlayerZero — PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data.
Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours.

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
Palabra.ai — AI-Powered Speech Translation & Voice Interpreter App. Get real-time translation in 30+ languages with minimal latency for smooth global communication.
Crosby — Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CTGT — CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions.
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.
Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.

Kimbal Musk is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Big Green.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, News
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Goodr — Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businessesto earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
BlocPower — BlocPower is your one-stop-shop for modern, all-electric heating and cooling. Secure big incentives & save up to 40% on energy bills when upgrading to a sleek, comfortable and extremely efficient heat pump system.
Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rinse — We personally pick up, professionally clean, and hand deliver your clothes to your door. Rinse gives you superior quality and personal service. Guaranteed.
dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
Vocate — Vocate is the online upgrade of the student career center. The key feature is a matching marketplace for student jobs and internships, supported by tools that guide customers along their path.

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aalyria — We are revolutionizing the orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks using any radio or optical spectrum, any orbit, and any hardware across land, sea, air, and space.
T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Ghost Message — Record and turn your classes into automated notes, quizzes, flashcards together with classmates.

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wabi — The first personal software platform is arriving soon. Join the waitlist.
Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
SimpleAutomation — General purpose robot to automate repetitive manual work

A serial investor and entrepreneur with a passion for hospitality, restaurants and technology.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bbot — Bbot is a restaurant and hospitality tech startup dedicated to simplifying and improving the ordering and payments process. Bbot offers a configurable solution for restaurants, bars, hotels, cinemas, and other hospitality organizations to create digital menus and provide guest-controlled, contactless ordering, and payment.It was founded in 2017by Greg Jaworski, Luke Allen, and Steven Simoni and is based in Astoria, New York.
Kitchclub — Now more than ever food drives employee experience and company culture. Kitchclub was created to provide a convenient and streamlined way to feed your team. Powered by our tech enabled platform, we offer our clients a variety of menu choices from any of our family of brands, delivered together in one seamless order. Kitchclub’s customizableapproach to catering and group orders simplifies the logistics of bringing your team together for a meal.
Blanket — A work management platform designed and built for the multi unit restaurant operator

Igal Weinstein

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

mealco — Mealco is a food-tech platform to create delivery-native food brands, with a mission to bringing the world's favorite food to peoples door step.
Heyday — Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.It aims to amplify the eCommerce entrepreneurs' marketplace brand. Heyday is backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Arbor Ventures.The San Francisco-based company started in August 2020 and is founded by Sebastian Rymarz and AdamGerchen.
HAAT Delivery — Finally, Food Delivery that accepts Cash! HAAT brings your favorite local food & groceries right to your door, even in areas without a street name. Order today!

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
MoBagel — MoBagel’s vision is to bring AI-driven decision making to enterprises through software and services. MoBagel has empowered global enterprises to extract business insights and create value from their data across industries including retail, telecom, manufacturing, banking, and more.
Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.

Mr. Rowan is the CEO and a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of, inter alia, Apollo Management, L.P. Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Athene Holding Ltd., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Caesars Acquisition Co. He has previously served on the boards of directorsof the general partner of AP Alternative Assets, L.P., AMC Entertainment, Inc., Beats Music, Cablecom GmbH, Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Countrywide PLC, Furniture Brands International, Mobile Satellite Ventures, LLC, National Cinemedia, Inc., National Financial Partners, Inc., New World Communications, Inc., Norwegian Cruise Lines, Quality Distribution, Inc., Samsonite Corporation, SkyTerra Communications Inc., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.Mr. Rowan is also active in charitable activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Youth Renewal Fund and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. Rowan also serves on the boards of directors of Jerusalem Online and the New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Private Equity
United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.

Ben is the co-founder of Eater, the national food blog network now owned by Vox Media. Recently he’s worked with food, tech and media companies like Food Network, Kitchensurfing, and Cover. Outfits like NBC Universal, InterActive Corp, Scripps Networks, DailyCandy and New York Magazine also make appearances on his CV. He is on the board ofdirectors of Hot Bread Kitchen, an organization that prepares minority women for careers in the culinary industry,and is on the James Beard Awards restaurant voting committee. He’s currently working on Resy.

Investment focus

Restaurants, SEO, Apps
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

BentoBox — From website design to online ordering and reservations, BentoBox helps restaurants around the world create outstanding hospitality experiences for guests.
Cover — We help high performance people unlock the vast potential of their lives in the digital age. Welcome to concierge, reimagined.

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Examedi — Examedi is a healthcare startup that provides nurse and lab technician services directly at patients' homes for appointments. Examedi connects the availabilities of healthcare providers with patients.
Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.

Mike has spent 25 years building technology companies as a founder, CTO of Facebook/Meta, and head of engineering at Mozilla. He’s scaled teams from 0 to 30,000+ and built real world stuff like datacenters (powered by 8GW of renewable energy!), consumer hardware, and drove long term R&D in AI, AR, and VR. He’s using these skills to fundscience, policy, and companies needed to fight the climate crisis.Mike holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Restaurants
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
GitStart — YC backed tech startup which helps teams scale engineering velocity through its unique Pull Requests as a Service platform and delivers world class code quality so customers can ship faster.
Philz Coffee — We specialize in customized blends with coffee shops in California and Chicago, IL Buy coffee online or find your nearest Philz location.

Shawn Tsao is the Founding Partner at Umai Hospitality Group. He Attended University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Restaurants, B2B, iOS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
Byte Kitchen — ByteKitchen is a next-gen operating system for the best restaurants across the U.S. Created by operators and for operators, we help restaurants drivee profitability and consistency across fast-casual and quick service restaurants.
Perfect Venue — Easy to use event management software with no subscriptions or setup fees. Say goodbye to the chaos of spreadsheets, papers, and double bookings with Perfect Venue's all-in-one event management tool for restaurants and venues. Easily manage all of your venue's event bookings in one place.

Ryan Graves is the Founder and CEO at Saltwater. He attended Miami University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketplace, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
Neighbor — Save 50% on secure storage in your neighborhood or rent out your empty space for income.
Holey Grail Donuts — Discover fresh, taro-based donuts cooked in organic Fera Fruit Oil. Weekly new flavors from local Hawaiian farms.

Andy Cohen is the Advisor and Angel Investor at Cohen Global LLC. He is an accomplished executive with 25 years of experience successfully growing businesses.Prior to joining Bill.com, he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable venturegenerating $24 million in revenue with a team of 150 people. Before founding Caring.com, he held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, where he grew businesses from start-up to tens of millions of dollars in revenue. He earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in history from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, Credit Cards
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Zitti — Zitti is a first-of-its-kind payment and credit platform built for food industry management and vendors.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.

Jonathan Swanson is the Founder and Chairman of Athena. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Openlayer — Our platform automates model inventory, risk classification, and compliance workflows, while applying 100+ behavioral tests to detect issues like hallucinations, bias, PII leakage, and toxicity.
Pareto.AI — Pareto is a data research partner to the world's frontier AI companies. We equip models with expert knowledge to serve humanity's progress.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Scot Wingo is based out of Raleigh, North Carolina and is the CEO and Co-Founder of ReFiBuy. Scot previously worked at Forbes Technology Council as a Contributor. Scot Wingo attended the University of South Carolina.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

GroupUps — GroupUps give you better pricing on dental equipment, without the hassle of negotiating. A GroupUp is a purchase placed on behalf of multiple doctors, so you each get better pricing than you do when you order alone. Place a deposit to lock in your spot, and we'll handle all the negotiating and logis
GreenPlaces — Gain visibility into your carbon emissions, reduce your environmental impact, and reach your company's sustainability goals with ease.
Peoplelogic — Grow your people, cultivate better leaders, and increase business efficiency with AI designed to help you optimize your business more effectively.

Mike is co-founder of

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
Fieldbook — Fieldbook is the Leading Tour Management System for Tour Operators. Streamline Operations and Build Beautiful Digital Itineraries With Our Simple and Easy to Use Platform
Literably — Literably is an online reading assessment that listens to students read and generates a full running record with data on fluency, accuracy, and comprehension.

Josh Spear is a trend spotter, blogger and brand strategist. He is Founding Partner, Chairman at Undercurrent, a digital think tank based in New York City that provides planning, strategy and ideation services to global brands hoping to engage a new generation of human beings that were born digital.

Investment focus

Mobile, Enterprise Software, Travel
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

MakeSpace — Save on modern moving & storage. We have customizable solutions for everyone including warehouse storage, self storage, moving, and packing supplies.
Atlas Obscura — Definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.
Cover — We help high performance people unlock the vast potential of their lives in the digital age. Welcome to concierge, reimagined.

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

Brett Hurt current job as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at data.world. Brett joined Austin Ventures in 2012 and focuses on early-stage software investing. Prior to AV, Brett founded Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV) and served as CEO and President for seven and half years, leading the company from bootstrapped concept to almost 2,000 clientsworldwide and through its successful IPO. He subsequently guided the company through a successful follow-on offering and two acquisitions, PowerReviews and Longboard Media. Brett continues to actively support Bazaarvoice as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Brett founded Coremetrics and helped grow the company into a global, leading marketing analytics solution for the eCommerce industry before its acquisition by IBM.Brett holds an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Wharton School and previously served on the Board of Directors of Shop.org. Brett established the Bazaarvoice Foundation and is very active in the philanthropic arena. He received the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation's Community Leadership Award in 2012. Brett is entrepreneur empowerment group RISE's Serial Entrepreneur of the year for 2012. He was named by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for Austin in 2009 and is a member of the Austin chapter of the International Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). Brett was also named CEO of the Year for large companies by the Austin Business Journal in 2012.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ladder — Get stronger & workout more. Free 7 day trial, no credit card needed!
Pani Systems — Pani Source is a water personalization appliance that will upgrade your drinking water with multi-use/naturally-formulated enhancement pods.
Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery — Tso is Austin and Round Rock's favorite Chinese Takeout and Delivery, with free delivery and a no-tipping policy. Order online. Catering services available.

Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Business Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.
Juni Learning — Achieve your target score faster with Acely. Get a personalized study plan, an AI tutor, and 35+ practice tests for the SAT, ACT, and PSAT.
The Ticket Fairy — Discover amazing events and buy tickets online. Find concerts, festivals, and experiences near you. Plus, powerful event ticketing platform for organizers with transparent fees.

Paul Hedrick - Founder @ Tecovas

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Catering
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Prefix — Welcome to PreFix. Our home maintenance membership saves you money and time. Learn more about us here.
Disco — Disco is a clean skincare brand for men based in Austin, TX.Disco offers variety of different skin and body care products formulated by an ivy-league dermatologist. Disco's aim is to solve frustrations with the men’s grooming market: lack of simplicity, confusion, and shortage of education. Benjamin Smith established the brand and isheadquartered in Austin, Texas.
Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery — Tso is Austin and Round Rock's favorite Chinese Takeout and Delivery, with free delivery and a no-tipping policy. Order online. Catering services available.

George Bousis is Founder & CEO at Raise Marketplace.

Investment focus

Software, Restaurants, Wine And Spirits
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
Owner — Save Money By Converting Third Party Orders To Order Through Your Website. Build Your Customer Database. Increase Sales With Automatic Text and Email Marketing. Setup For You. Built In Loyalty.
Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.

Kristian Andersen is a co-founder and partner at High Alpha and was a Co-founder at Octiv. He attended Anderson University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

The Bee Corp — The Bee Corp’s product, Verifli applies data analytics to beehives to help growers ensure effective pollination through infrared inspection technology. The Bee Corp increases yield for farmers by monitoring the number, health and distribution of pollinating bees.
The Prepared — Expert guides and deeply researched reviews to help you get prepared for emergencies without wasting time or money.
Sportsman Tracker — Sportsman Tracker is a cross-platform digital toolset designed to increase success opportunities for hunters and fishermen and allow them to quickly share their experiences. Powered by W.I.T. (Wild Life Intelligence Technology), the tracker calculates the variables that directly affect wildlife behavior. The platform lets track species and getsadaptive features that are specific only the species.Founded in 2012 by Jon Schwander and Jeffrey James Courter, Sportsman Tracker is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Michael Yasiejko is the General Manager, Executive Vice President at Tempus.He attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Home Chef — Our weekly deliveries of fresh, perfectly-portioned ingredients have everything you need to prepare home-cooked meals in about 30 minutes.
Aclaimant — Aclaimant offers a risk reduction platform designed to save time and money on workplace incidents and insurance. It engages the employee, employer, and insurance carrier in making workplace incidents everyone’s responsibility. The Aclaimant system comes with three great tools that are easy to use in reporting and resolving workplace incidents.The company was founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois.
Codeverse — Codeverse is the world's first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.

Yves Behar is the Founder and CEO of fuseproject. He attended ArtCenter College of Design.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
Telo Trucks — Say hello to TELO, the all-electric mini truck. Designed from the ground up for efficiency and practicality.
Holey Grail Donuts — Discover fresh, taro-based donuts cooked in organic Fera Fruit Oil. Weekly new flavors from local Hawaiian farms.

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Lee Fixel is the Founder and Managing Partner of Addition. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
TAG — TAG Innovation provides digital wallets and payment services.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Jason brings to early-stage investing a combination of experience as a startup founder, VC-backed operator, growth-stage institutional investor, and angel investor. In early 2013, Jason joined Uber in San Francisco where he launched and managed three of Uber's first 100 market launches. Prior to Uber, Jason spent two years at Insight VenturePartners as an investment analyst focused on growth-stage internet and software. Jason began his career in startups as a college Senior, co-founding Splash.FM, a social music discovery platform. Jason graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and received the Frederick H. Gloeckner award in Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School. Jason was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital in 2018.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Spaw — Stealth
Parachute Health — Delightfully simple digital ordering and E-Prescribing for medical equipment, supplies, and services.
The Farmer's Dog — A smarter, healthier dog food: 100% human-grade food, pre-portioned and delivered to your door. Better for them & easier for you. Create your plan today!

Bedy Yang is a Managing Partner at 500 Global, a Fellow at Kauffman Fellows, and a Lecturer at VC Unlocked at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Founder of +INNOVATORS. Prior to that, he was a Management consultant at Integration Consulting. He attended FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas and the University ofPennsylvania.

Investment focus

iOS, Hospitality, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Floqq — Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Latin America.Speak a different language, get a promotion, change your profession, create a company, play a musical instrument, learn a new sport, or impress your friends with an exotic meal:- More than 10,00 high-quality online videos featuring all kinds of topics and skill-sets- Each course is taught by an real-world expert in the area - Learn at your own rhythm, with courses ranging in levels of difficulty - All the videos are always available on the website and mobile apps
Pick1 — While whoever doing polls/surveys focus on how to create the questions, Pick1 focuses on how to leverage the answers: social insights crunched to deliver actionable data.A Brand using Pick1 gets an highly customizable, flexible and integrated solution that connects seamlessly with third party technologies (SalesForce, MailChimp, Lithium),enabling the brand to process this information in an automated way: a "survey/marketing intelligence suite".The result of this is that: a) the Brand doesn't need to go through the pain of integrating a polling tool into its own properties, because Pick1 is taking care of that via API, b) any other solution would be not providing any kind of context data anyway, which Pick1 instead provides.The Brand can then leverage this further layer of data to create clusters of users, matching them with a more specific content/advertising to generate higher engagement and conversion.
Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.

Ligaya launches new markets for consumer technology companies. She kickstarted Airbnb's international development as Global Head of Offline Marketing & Community during their most rapid growth phase. Prior to that, she was a Marketing Manager for Yelp, helping the company expand their footprint across the US. Ligaya now angel invests andadvises startups and serves as a mentor for 500 Startups. She is also a regular speaker at SXSW, various TEDx, and CMX Summit. Ligaya was also selected as a 2014 TechWomen by the US Department of State.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
Holey Grail Donuts — Discover fresh, taro-based donuts cooked in organic coconut oil. Weekly new flavors from local Hawaiian farms.

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.

Chaz Felix is a Operating Partner at Jurassic Capital. Chaz previously worked at Bronto Software as a Founder and COO, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business within the email marketing industry. As Chief Operating Officer, Chaz has guided the day-to-day business operations from start-up through years of highly profitable, rapid growth. Heattended the University of Virginia and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Consistently building success upon success, Chaz has been instrumental in effective application of the SaaS business model and scaling the operations of Bronto. Prior to co-founding Bronto in 2002, Chaz developed broad business and financial acumen through his years as Business Development Manager for Red Hat, Investment Banking Analyst at Bank of America and earlier, at Economic Analysis Group.He has been featured in numerous publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, DM News, The News & Observer, Triangle Business Journal and Business Leader Magazine.Chaz received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, CRM
Funding Round, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Levitate — Our Happiness Platform combines authentic communication tools, dedicated success specialists and AI to help you build lasting relationships.
GreenPlaces — Gain visibility into your carbon emissions, reduce your environmental impact, and reach your company's sustainability goals with ease.

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neuralink — Developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
Feastables — Feastables is setting out to build the most engaging brand on the planet, bringing the games, stunts and spectacle.
Jomboy Media — A creator-led media company that breaks down sports at the expense of no one (except ourselves). Click to read Jomboy Media, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.

Brian Costello is an Executive at Nobska Point Capital.

Investment focus

Analytics, B2C, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

CRAVE — Discover CRAVE's luxurious collection of pleasure jewelry and fine bedside products. Explore waterproof, rechargeable vibrators made of high-quality and body-safe materials. Discreet, compact and quiet for your pleasure and enjoyment.
ezCater — EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers. Co-founded by Briscoe Rodgers and Stefania Mallett in August 2007, ezCater is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Crayon — Crayon's suite of competitive intelligence software tools helps you see and seize opportunities so you can create a sustainable business advantage.

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexiscontinued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission.At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn't want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him.The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled "How to Start a Startup." After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he'd launched called Y Combinator. Alexis and Steve's original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they'd come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Raj Kapoor is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Climactic. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Search Engine, Transportation, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

kea — Never miss a call with Kea AI. Personalize your restaurant's Voice AI to capture orders, answer questions, streamline operations, and grow revenue.
ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
Enara Health — Medically guided, from lifestyle changes to GLP-1 medications, to achieve lifelong results.

Tony has won numerous awards, including Make-A-Wish’s Favorite Male Athlete, Teen Choice Awards’ Choice Male Athlete and Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards’ Favorite Male Athlete, beating out such sports icons as Shaquille O’Neal, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant. From video games to skateboards to online media to clothing to world tours, Tony hasdominated the Action Sports market with his laid-back style. He is the most recognized Action Sports figure in the world and, according to some marketing surveys, one of the most recognizable athlete of any kind in the United States.Tony regularly appears on television and in films, and hosts a weekly show on Sirius XM. His autobiography, HAWK—Occupation: Skateboarder was a New York Times bestseller and is currently available in paperback. In 2010, Wiley Publishing released How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO.As his income reached a level he never could have imagined, Tony made an effort to give back to the subculture that has given him so much. His Tony Hawk Foundation has donated over $4 million to 525 skatepark projects throughout the United States. The foundation helps finance public skateparks in low-income areas, providing a safe place to skate and helping young skaters from Marathon, Florida, to Sitka, Alaska, build their self-confidence. Skateparks that received financial assistance from the Tony Hawk Foundation currently serve more than 3 million young Americans annually.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Apps
Series C, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Estimated Inc. — A new world for artists
Life360 — Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360.
Holey Grail Donuts — Discover fresh, taro-based donuts cooked in organic Fera Fruit Oil. Weekly new flavors from local Hawaiian farms.

Orlando Bloom is an English actor known for his breakthrough character as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean. He was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England.

Investment focus

Local, Banking, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Stacy Brown-Philpot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cherryrock Capital. She previously worked at TaskRabbit as a CEO. Stacy Brown-Philpot attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.
Braintrust — Braintrust is the new model for how work gets done. We connect organizations with top technical talent to complete strategic projects and drive innovation.

Rob Chesney is a the Chief Operating Officer at Trunk Club since December 2011. Rob is a former Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. In that role Rob advised entrepreneurs who were looking to scale their early stage startups and turn them into thriving, independent companies. Rob's particular interest was in consumer-focusedbusinesses with e-commerce, marketplace or payments-related business models. Rob has led small and large teams through periods of hyper growth, intense change and fierce industry competition. Prior to joining Greylock Rob was a Vice President at eBay. Most recently Rob ran the Company’s Buyer Experience team where he oversaw the Company’s largest business verticals including fashion, technology, media, collectibles and home. These verticals represent more than half of eBay’s $2 billion North America business. Prior to running eBay’s Buyer Experience team Rob was Vice President and General Manager of eBay Motors, which he joined shortly after it launched in 2001. When Rob left the group it was eBay’s largest stand-alone vertical. eBay Motors receives more than thirteen million unique visitors a month, ranking it in the top 10 for e-commerce properties. During his eight-year tenure as a General Manager at eBay, Rob managed teams across sales, business development, product management, engineering and customer service, as well as brokered partnerships and led acquisitions. Rob launched eBay’s first local classified offering, executed the company’s first social media integration and initiated eBay’s first private sale. Rob graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at McGill University. Rob was born and raised in Toronto.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Wholesale
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Hallow — Pray every day with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
Beauty By Design — Beauty By Design is a modern technology-led retail called prescriptive commerce, which can prescribe the solution faster and more accurately using digital technology. Beauty By Design is a vertically integrated, personalized skincare platform that solves the well-known problem of selecting and buying the right skincare products for skin types.
Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery — Tso is Austin and Round Rock's favorite Chinese Takeout and Delivery, with free delivery and a no-tipping policy. Order online. Catering services available.

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