Top 50 Social Angel Investors in United States in January 2026

Investor	Social United States investments
Ronald Conway	4
Cyan Banister	4
Tim Kendall	3
Pascal Levy-Garboua	3
Wei Guo	3
Princeton Taylor	2
Scott Cook	2
Scott Belsky	2
Larry Braitman	2
Kathleen Hale	2
Auren Hoffman	2
Gary Griffiths	2
Christian Dörffer	2
Russell Hirsch	2
Andrew Chen	2
Andreas Klinger	2
Tom Williams	2
Baron Davis	2
Nisha Dua	2
Chris Hameetman	2
Matt Cheng	2
Marc Randolph	2
Marc Andreessen	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Andy Dunn	2
Russell Hirsch	2
Bruce Dunlevie	2
Princeton Taylor	2
Amanda Bradford	2
Jenny Lefcourt	2
Ryan Allis	2
Dharmesh Shah	2
Trevor Wright	2
Tom Vorisek	2
Dave Morgan	2
Nish Bhat	2
Nat Turner	1
Jim Nichols	1
Kevin Lin	1
Alexander Cutler	1
Brad Bao	1
Chris Kitze	1
Job van der Voort	1
Sapna Shah	1
Jason Calacanis	1
Brad Jenkins	1
Ravi Garikipati	1
Ben Silbermann	1
Jason Rosenthal	1
Yechiam Yemini	1

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TipTop — TipTop is a crypto startup.
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.

Tim Kendall is the Co-Founder of Moment.He attend to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2004.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pendulum — Save Up 60% on New Subscriptions! Improve glucose control, metabolic health, gut function, and support a healthy weight. The only brand with live Akkermansia. Pendulum Metabolic Daily | Optimizes metabolism Pendulum Akkermansia | For gut health Pendulum Glucose Control | For A1C management
Alto Neuroscience — We leverage brain biology to develop personalized medicines, helping patients get better faster.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Morocco, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Origin — Introducing Origin One, a manufacturing-grade printer that enables additive mass production of end-use parts.
Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.
Set Labs — Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

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.

Princeton Taylor attended the University of Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Social
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
Trustworthy - The Family Operating System® — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
Grow Credit — Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California.

Scott Cook is the Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Intuit Inc.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Social Media
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zumper — Zumper is the largest private rental platform in North America—supporting over 75 million people every year find their next place. We believe finding your new apartment is more than just a move. It’s something bigger. A step forward. A new beginning. A fresh start. Whether you’re moving across the country or across the street, you deserve to lovewhere you land.But today’s rental experience is broken. It’s outdated, exhausting, and slow. We spend hours of our lives searching just to settle for places that don’t feel like home. Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next.To date we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by BuiltIn SF.
Fernish — Fernish is a furniture rental startup company that offers provides furniture as a subscription model to consumers living a mobile lifestyle.The company seeks to redefine the way the market sees furniture rental by positioning itself as a lifestyle brand. It offers a rent to own program that allows subscribers to apply their previous paymentstowards the cost of the piece or pieces they want to buy at the end of their subscription. Users are allowed to subscribe to an entire room or specific pieces and can even swap out things they don’t like or simply want to change up at any point.Founders Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey launched the company in Los Angeles, California in 2017.
Brain Technologies — Brain™ invented the world’s first AI that learnt to utilize other AI and software for general purposes. The company has recently raised more than $50M from its venture partners. Brain's investors include Laurene Powell Jobs, Goodwater Capital, and Scott Cook.

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Extend — The document processing platform built for the next generation.
Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
Hero Assistant — Hero is a comprehensive daily assistant app designed to help users manage and run their life all in one place. It features integrated tools for grocery lists (with direct ordering via Instacart), to-dos, calendar events, habit tracking, weather updates, AI-powered search, notes, and notifications that alert even when the phone is on silent.

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.

Kathleen is an entrepreneur, venture capital fund manager and early-stage investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As the COO and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen is working in communities across the country to restore personal agency, increase capacity forentrepreneurial thinking, identify promising solutions and ultimately scale and fund the ones that work.As a partner in Builders + Backers Capital, Kathleen invests in early-stage startups and helps other accredited investors do so as well through investment syndicates.Kathleen also is the Director of Operations the 1776 Ventures, a venture capital fund with some of the world's most promising startups, including Twiga Foods, Guild Education, HopSkipDrive, and Swiftly.Previously Kathleen has founded and grown multiple consumer products companies, including one of the earliest treadmill and standing desks companies in the US. She helped to take these companies from idea to manufacturing, e-commerce and retail success, and licenses with international brands.Prior to launching her first e-commerce business, Kathleen was an accomplished attorney and founding partner of a law firm. She served clients of all sizes and helping to secure tens of millions of dollars in judgments for them.Kathleen is an experienced public speaker who has been featured at conferences around the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and interviews have appeared in FastCompany, Tech.Co, PBS, Forbes.com and Livestrong.com.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Automotive
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Autonomy — The radically new way to get your next car. Month-to-month car subscriptions at affordable all-in prices.
Statt — Technology firm
Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web’s most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP, Griffiths was president and CEO of Trapit, Inc., the world's largest Wi-Fi network. iPass was acquired by Pareteum (NASDAQ: TEUM) in February 2019.Previously, Griffiths was president of products andoperations at WebEx, acquired for $3B by Cisco Systems, Inc. Griffiths was also co-founder and CEO of Everdream Corporation, a SaaS company, from 1999 to 2005, as well as CEO at HEAT.net from 1996 until its acquisition by Sega, Inc. in 1999.Griffiths has extensive experience overseeing financial and accounting matters as well as strategic initiatives at small technology companies. Over his long career in high tech, he has founded and/or invested in several successful businesses. Investments include Rackable Systems (which acquired SGI, and then was acquired by HP in 2017), CubeTree (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand), Biba (acquired by Amazon), Janrain (acquired by Akamai), and DataFox (acquired by Oracle). In addition, Griffiths was a pre-seed investor in Zoom Communications (NASDAQ: ZM), which had its IPO in April 2019.Griffiths holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the US Naval Academy, as well as a Masters of Science in business administration from the George Washington University School of Business..

Investment focus

Information Technology, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Biba — Amazon Chime lets users meet and chat online, and the Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add audio and video collaboration to their applications.
TappIn — TappIn, Inc., a subsidiary of GlobalSCAPE, is the leading innovator and award-winning provider of digital content access and sharing for mobile users. TappIn connects people to content and content to people. The TappIn cloud service makes available documents and rich media to mobile devices (including Apple iPhone® and iPad®, Google® AndroidTM andWindows® Phone 7) or web-browsers regardless of where files are stored - without having to upload and sync files or pay for additional online storage.Located in Seattle, WA, TappIn was founded in 2009 by a team of veterans with deep expertise in building sophisticated security and connectivity products that are simple and don't interfere with how people use their computers. These years of experience and know-how are fully incorporated into the TappIn solutions. TappIn is the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades, including: the Golden Bridge Award for Best Mobile/Wireless Innovation, OnMobile One to Watch, 2011 Red Herring North America 100 finalist, Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards finalist and a Global Top Mobile 500 App by The Sunday Times. For more information or to try the free Lite Edition, visit http://www.TappIn.com. Follow TappIn on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TAPPN and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Tapp_In.
DataFox — A complete cloud marketing suite to unify all prospect and customer data in a single view, make AI-fueled predictions, and launch omnichannel marketing campaigns.

Christian Dörffer is the Founder and General Partner of Defiance Capital. He previously worked at Midnight Runners as a Co-Founder and Owner. Christian Dörffer attended Copenhagen Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Medley — Medley is a membership for curious, growth-minded people who want a structured, social, and accessible way to invest in themselves.
Mental — Mental app offers action-oriented Coaching and Programs that help you become your most energized, disciplined, and motivated self.
Fiction Foods — A technology-first, architectural approach to food to deliver purpose-driven nutritional solutions that advance both human and environmental health.

Russell is a Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners. Russell co-founded Prospect Venture Partners II and III, as dedicated life science funds with over $1 billion in capital under management. Prior to establishing Prospect Venture Partners II and III, Russell was a member of the Health Care Technology Group at Mayfield. He joined Mayfieldin 1992, served as a Venture Partner from 1993 to 1994 and as a General Partner from 1995-2000. Russell played a key role in Mayfield's investment activities in the biotechnology and medical device sectors. As an Associate, he participated actively in the incubation of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and as a General Partner he was responsible for the incubation of Intuitive Surgical Devices both of which are now publicly traded. (NASDAQ: MLNM), (NASDAQ:ISRG).Prior to Mayfield, Russell was at the University of California San Francisco from 1984-1992 where he was engaged in biomedical research. His work, published in a variety of respected journals, focused on important aspects of hepatitis B viral replication. His descriptions of the reverse transcription and packaging functions of polymerase gene products merited publication in Nature.Russell serves or has served on the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), Opus Medical (NASDAQ: ARTC), Orquest (NASDAQ: JNJ), AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Visiogen, Baxano, Dfine, Allux Medical, SentreHEART, Portola Pharmaceuticals and several other privately-held companies. Russell serves as the Vice Chairman of the BOD of Interplast and on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Glooko — Glooko is the universal diabetes platform that provides insights to improve outcomes for people with diabetes (PWDs) and their care teams. Glooko connects to the world’s most popular diabetes devices, major fitness and activity trackers and supplies personalized, timely patient information such as glucose level, food, insulin, medications, bloodpressure, diet and weight data. Trusted by the world’s leaders in diabetes care, we are in over 7,000 clinical locations and used by over 1.5 million PWDs in 23 countries across 15 languages. Learn more by visiting www.glooko.com.
Sholder — Get access to inner wisdom, power, and peace in a confidential session with a skilled sholder.
Enwoven — Build a single source of truth for your brand stories, design knowledge, & product innovations with Enwoven.

Andrew Chen is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer technology. Previously, he led the the Rider Growth teams at Uber.For the past decade, he’s written about mobile, metrics, and growth at http://andrewchen.co. He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Boba Guys, Dropbox,Front, Gusto, Kiva, Product Hunt, Tinder, Workato and others.Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management.He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Ramen VR — Zenith is an expansive open world VR MMORPG inspired by JRPGS and Anime, like Sword Art Online (SAO) . The massively multiplayer online game features real-time action adventure gameplay and also takes cues from MMOs like WoW, Final Fantasy, and BDO. Zenith is coming to Oculus Quest, Quest 2, Sony's PS VR and Steam.
Promise — Promise is a film, series, and innovative format studio powered by the world’s best Gen AI artists and storytellers.
The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta

Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Atlas.co — Your all-in-one map builder
Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.

Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.

Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.
COMMUNITYx — COMMUNITYx connects likeminded changemakers with another, as well as around calls-to-action. You can create events and petitions all from within the App! Whether you care about Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, Universal Healthcare, Poverty, and more, COMMUNITYx is the place for you!
The Gathering Spot — The Gathering Spot is an invitation only, private membership club redefining the traditional club model & experience.

Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.

Chris Hameetman - Chairman Emeritus @ Tech Coast Angels

Investment focus

Apps, Events, Mobile
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

GonnaBe — GonnaBe: Plans, made simple.The social planning space is crowded, noisy, and confusing – as are the apps themselves.Simplicity and elegance are key. GonnaBe's UX and patent-pending technologies change the game:The ease of Instagram.The utility of Twitter.The allure of Path.GonnaBe is a platform – not a planning tool.Seamless integration, frictionless sharing, and device agnostic. GonnaBe is the simplest way to share information, period.
TradeYa — TradeYa helps people get whatever they need and want without having to buy it. Our web-based barter platform leverages the social graph and patent pending trade process to connect people who want to trade goods and services. Existing web 1.0 barter platforms are bad digital swap meets requiring users to sift through countless listing to trade.

Matt Cheng is the founder and managing partner of Cherubic Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco Bay Area, Beijing and Taipei. Matt Cheng was the earliest investor of Tian Ge Interactive Holdings(1980.HK), China's largest live social video platform and currently also serving as the Chief Strategy Officer. Mattwas selected as a "Top 20 under 40" early stage investor in China by Cyzone Media in 2013 & 2014. Matt was also a top-ranked ITF world junior tennis player.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Taiwan, Japan

Portfolio highlights

ONEHOPE — ONEHOPE is a Napa Winery Built on Hope and Rooted in Purpose
Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] playground for beauty enthusiasts
Tonic Music — From your home, to the world. Sign up now to take lessons from the best musicians in the world.

Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant for numerous early stage tech companies.Prior tofounding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Revolution RE — JoyHub is a tech integration layer for multifamily operators for workflow automation and data aggregation.
Wibond — Paga a tu red de clientes en una wallet marca blanca y habilita servicios financieros integrados al momento.
Overlap — Overlap uses AI to help you extract the best moments from video content.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Canonical Crypto — Canonical backs technical founders building decentralized AI infrastructure. We invest early in the picks-and-shovels of the post-AGI future.
Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
Paradigm — The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.
Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.

Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!

Russell is a Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners. Russell co-founded Prospect Venture Partners II and III, as dedicated life science funds with over $1 billion in capital under management. Prior to establishing Prospect Venture Partners II and III, Russell was a member of the Health Care Technology Group at Mayfield. He joined Mayfieldin 1992, served as a Venture Partner from 1993 to 1994 and as a General Partner from 1995-2000. Russell played a key role in Mayfield's investment activities in the biotechnology and medical device sectors. As an Associate, he participated actively in the incubation of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and as a General Partner he was responsible for the incubation of Intuitive Surgical Devices both of which are now publicly traded. (NASDAQ: MLNM), (NASDAQ:ISRG).Prior to Mayfield, Russell was at the University of California San Francisco from 1984-1992 where he was engaged in biomedical research. His work, published in a variety of respected journals, focused on important aspects of hepatitis B viral replication. His descriptions of the reverse transcription and packaging functions of polymerase gene products merited publication in Nature.Russell serves or has served on the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), Opus Medical (NASDAQ: ARTC), Orquest (NASDAQ: JNJ), AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Visiogen, Baxano, Dfine, Allux Medical, SentreHEART, Portola Pharmaceuticals and several other privately-held companies. Russell serves as the Vice Chairman of the BOD of Interplast and on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Glooko — Glooko is the universal diabetes platform that provides insights to improve outcomes for people with diabetes (PWDs) and their care teams. Glooko connects to the world’s most popular diabetes devices, major fitness and activity trackers and supplies personalized, timely patient information such as glucose level, food, insulin, medications, bloodpressure, diet and weight data. Trusted by the world’s leaders in diabetes care, we are in over 7,000 clinical locations and used by over 1.5 million PWDs in 23 countries across 15 languages. Learn more by visiting www.glooko.com.
Sholder — Get access to inner wisdom, power, and peace in a confidential session with a skilled sholder.
Enwoven — Build a single source of truth for your brand stories, design knowledge, & product innovations with Enwoven.

Bruce Dunlevie is the General Partner at Benchmark. Additionally, Bruce Dunlevie has had 5 past jobs including Systems Designer & Programmer at Accenture.Bruce previously served as a member of the board of directors of Rambus Inc., a technology licensing company, from March 1990 to June 2011, and as a member of the board of directors of Palm,Inc., a provider of mobile products, from October 2003 to October 2007. Bruce holds a B.A. in History and English from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Series A, Series C, Series D
United States

Portfolio highlights

Euclid — Euclid connects the physical world by understanding how people relate to spaces and how spaces relate to each other. Using Wi-Fi signals in a privacy-safe way, Euclid’s proprietary technology delivers insights that inform more efficient, convenient and relevant experiences.Backed by leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and NEA, as wellas Cox Enterprises and Groupe Arnault, Euclid was founded by Will Smith and is led by CEO Brent Franson.
Mon Ami — Scale community based support for seniors using Mon Ami's intuitive software solutions, designed specifically for use by senior agencies and nonprofits.
Wealthfront — Diversify your investing with an automated portfolio that can help maximize your returns and minimize your taxes. Control your risk, investments, and allocations by customizing your portfolio with the things you care about most.

Princeton Taylor attended the University of Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
Trustworthy - The Family Operating System® — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
Grow Credit — Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California.

Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Idiomatic — Idiomatic believes that if you can listen to your customers at scale, you will make better business decisions. Its voice-of-customer platform helps companies do just that, by using AI to identify and track all issues and trends that customers bring up in customer support inquiries, NPS survey responses, and app reviews. Idiomatic quantifies thosegranular issues so that their clients have clear, data-driven criteria for prioritizing resources in order to improve their products or services. Beloved companies like Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, and Disney rely on Idiomatic.
Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Social Media, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crux — Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl
Bento — The refreshingly delightful email marketing platform. Send product, marketing, and transactional emails with Bento.
Butter.ai — The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a virtual world filled with cute, formidable creatures known as Axies. Axies can be battled, collected, and even used to mine tokens through gameplay.

Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
Hammock — Hammock is the first landlord software recognised by HMRC for Making tax Digital. We provide real-time monitoring of rental income and expenses, bookkeeping and property tax statements, compatible with MTD for IT, all in one place.

Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOLin 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

Investment focus

Marketing, Advertising, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ombu — Ombu uses invisible digital watermarks to connect mobile devices and facilitate the sharing of digital information when you are face-to-face. With Ombu, it is very easy to exchange contacts, social networks, websites, images, files, and practically anything else digital all at once and in the moment.
HIMERA — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.
Namely — Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

Nish Bhat invests in biotech companies. He was a co-founder of Color before that.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
Tonic Music — From your home, to the world. Sign up now to take lessons from the best musicians in the world.
General Proximity — General Proximity is a pioneering future-oriented proximity medicine that envisions the future of medicine.

Nat Turner is based out of New York, New York, and is the CEO and Chairman of Collectors. Nat previously worked at OneOncology as a board member. Nat Turner attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Connie Health — At Connie Health, our Medicare advisors help older Americans find the right Medicare plan - all at no cost to you.
Memora Health — Meet patients where they are. Digitize your clinical workflows to modernize and simplify patient care.
Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes

Jim Nichols is Product, Technology & Brand Communications at Volvo Cars.

Investment focus

Social, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Roboinvest — Roboinvest is the new way to invest. Roboinvest is a social investing platform that allows you to follow and copy other traders in real-time.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

A director since April 2008, Mr. Cutler is chairman and chief executive officer of Eaton, a global diversified industrial manufacturer. He formerly served as president and chief operating officer, executive vice president and chief operating officer-Controls and executive vice president-Operations.Mr. Cutler is a director of KeyCorp, TheElectrical Manufacturers Club, The Greater Cleveland Partnership, United Way Services of Greater Cleveland, and the Musical Arts Association. He also chairs the Corporate Leadership Initiative of the Business Roundtable and is a member of The Business Council. Mr. Cutler serves on the Human Resources & Compensation and Corporate Governance committees for the Board.

Investment focus

Social, Education, Communities
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

The United Way of Greater Cleveland — The United Way of Greater dClevelan is a non-profit organization that aims to make Cleveland a better place.The organization use the extensive research of more than 100 of our volunteers to decide which organizations or causes to support in the area’s battle with poverty. It invests in innovative solutions, passionate people, and ideas that workfor our community. By collaborating within the public, private and nonprofit sectors, we can tackle systemic problems to create long-term change.

Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the global leader in micromobility. Prior to Lime, he cofounded Kinzon Capital, a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Prior to that, Brad established Tencent'sinternational footprint, led its internationalization over the course of 8 years, served as GM for Tencent America, and VP-BD for Tencent Games. Brad holds MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.
Titan — Aware Healthcare is the first network of therapists who use treatment based on science and data shared by patients to deliver truly personalized mental health care.

Chris Kitze is the Community Member at FLASHcoin Community.He attended University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Social, Travel, Finance
Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Yaga, Inc. — Yaga, Inc. (www.yaga.com) provides an advanced, hosted ASP platform that addresses emerging revenue and payment infrastructure needs of online businesses. Yaga's sophisticated payment and accounting application supports micropayments, aggregated billing and stored value accounts while also managing royalty and affiliate accounting. In additionYaga provides advanced services such as digital rights management (DRM) and content access control to help manage, sell and merchandize digital content, goods and services.
Safe Cash — Safe Cash makes cash more secure, convenient, and profitable for banks, merchants, and consumers. Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Job van der Voort is the Co-founder and CEO of Remote. He previously worked at GitLab as a VP of Product. Job van der Voort attended the University of Amsterdam.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
The Network — A people search engine.

Sapna Shah is the Principal at Red Giraffe Advisors. Sapna Shah attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Stantt — Button up shirts and pants for every man. With 3 simple measurements we match you to one of our 150 custom shirt sizes, tailored to fit you perfectly.
Dough — Meet Dough. We empower you to shop the best products from woman-owned brands.
Silk and Sonder — Self-care monthly planners and journal subscription service. We make planning, reflecting, and achieving easy and fun by bringing a new pen to paper experience every month.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
CyberFilm AI — Bring your story to life!

Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor, Founder

Investment focus

Education, Communities, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

BeeReaders — ## Build Setup
Kaya Climb — Kaya Climb is a climber’s app designed to connect users with the gym and local climbing community and find and share beta. It enables climbers to build an ascent pyramid, and review past climbing sessions. The company was founded in 2019 when a crew of climbers and technologists got together to create a platform for the climbing community.
Adelante — Looking for a comfortable pair of handcrafted shoes? Check out our unique collection of handmade leather boots, sandals, loafers, and more!

Ravi is a seasoned Technology leader and an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience leading and building scalable businesses both in India and silicon valley, driven by technology.He recently founded Davinta, a Fintech startup focussed on financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid with a vision to build digital first platform todeliver micro lending and micro insurance for the last mile.As CTO at Flipkart, he lead a very talented team spanning all of Product management, Engineering, Design and User research, Data Science, IT, Security, Infrastructure . Defined and executed Technology vision, strategy and roadmap to democratize commerce through technology for 100s of millions of Indians at scale. He also incubated Ad Tech and Fin Tech businesses (within FK) with P/L ownership to create two significant revenue pools.Prior to Flipkart he was President and Chief Technology Officer at 247.ai, A silicon valley AI/Enterprise company where he led global product and technology groups to build customer acquisition & engagement platform driven by predictive modelling hosted in the cloud.He is also on board of a few companies in Financial Services domain and actively invests and advises many startups in India and US.

Investment focus

Internet, EdTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rapawalk — Rapawalk is an online brand that offers a personalized service of creating your own shoes. At the heart of their bespoke service is the relationship between the customer and their craftsman who passionately serve to fulfill each customer's shoe desire become a reality
ByteLearn — ByteLearn is an AI-powered assistant for math teachers and students in managing curriculum. ByteLearn offers personalized, one on one attention by leveraging artificial intelligence technology and guides students when they get stuck on math problems, enabling them to connect with teachers, and grasp concepts better.
Onsite — #1 Construction Software for project management. 1000+ Companies are SAVING 7-10% of their Project Costs with ONSITE Construction Software. Book Free Demo

Ben Silbermann is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Pinterest. He previously worked at Google as a Product Specialist. Ben Silbermann attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Video
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.

Jason Rosenthal is CEO of Lytro which is transforming the camera into a powerful computational photography platform. Rosenthal joined Lytro from Silver Lake Partners where he was an Operating Executive.Previously, he was CEO of Ning which was acquired by Glam Media. At Ning, Rosenthal led the transition of the company from a free, ad supportedservice to a premium subscription model. Under Rosenthal's leadership, Ning grew from 17,000 paying subscribers to over 100,000 in less than 18 months.Before joining Ning, Rosenthal was Vice President of HP Software's Business Service Automation product line which encompasses the former Opsware product portfolio (acquired by HP for $1.6B) and leading solutions in the storage management, desktop management, and mobile device management space. Prior to Opsware's acquisition by HP, Rosenthal held multiple executive positions at the company including Senior Vice President and General Manager of Server Automation Products at Opsware, Inc.Earlier in his career, Rosenthal served as director of product management for the AOL's E-Commerce Platform Division which he joined through the company's acquisition of Netscape Communications.Rosenthal began his career working for Rebuild LA, the inner city economic development organization founded in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots by Peter Ueberroth.Rosenthal holds a B.A. in history from Pomona College where he also serves on the board of trustees and he received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Specialties: Social Media, Cloud Technologies, Mobile Applications, Executive Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, Engineering Management, Professional Services

Investment focus

Gaming, Social, Virtual Reality
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kite & Lightning — Kite & Lightning is a cinematic VR company that blends gaming, social and story to create emotionally transformative experiences. Founded by film industry veterans in 2013, the company is currently creating immersive computer-generated (CG) worlds that meld cinematic storytelling with interactive gaming. Known for its unprecedented technicaland creative innovations in VR storytelling, the Los Angeles-based startup has succeeded in many genres to critical acclaim such as the Cannes Lions festival and the Toronto International Film Festival POP exhibits. Recent projects include a 4D VR experience for NBC’s “The Voice” featuring Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, & Gwen Stefani; and Lionsgate’s first VR narrative, a hybrid live action and CG experience starring Kate Winslet, Mekhi Phifer and Miles Teller

Yechiam Yemini is the current Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor at Turbonomic. He previously worked at Comverse Technology as a Co-founder. Yechiam Yemini attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
Pensa Systems — Learn how Pensa's syndicated data solution drives growth for CPG brands and retailers through accurate and actionable shelf visibility.
Social Studios — SocialStudios brings the unparalleled visual impact of television to web content. Videos are the most engaging rich media format, but because video production is expensive and requires talent, publishers face obstacles to producing compelling video content at scale. SocialStudios' proprietary software platform, which combinesalgorithmic strength and crowdsourcing functionality, allows publishers to transform original web content into engaging, promotional videos viewable on all devices. These videos enrich their source web pages and extend the reach and brand of publishers via promotional placement on social and video networks. Social Studios, an edgy media start up which recently closed $3.1M investment, is looking to hire top notch developers. Join their team and be part of the movement to Televise the web. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-mati-kochavi-sets-up-120m-israel-start-up-fund-1000965107