Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Social network startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social network companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in November 2024
Investor | Social Network investments |
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Reid Hoffman | 10 |
Mark Pincus | 7 |
Ronald Conway | 6 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 6 |
Gary Vaynerchuk | 4 |
Andy Brown | 4 |
Cyan Banister | 4 |
Atlas Benjelloun | 4 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 4 |
Kevin Hartz | 4 |
Tom Varkey | 3 |
Tim Draper | 3 |
Frederic Montagnon | 3 |
Michael Lazerow | 3 |
Kass Lazerow | 3 |
Roger Ehrenberg | 3 |
Sujeet Kumar | 3 |
Matthew Luckett | 3 |
Scott Belsky | 3 |
Sunmeet Jolly | 3 |
Shubhrendu Koche | 3 |
Robin Haak | 3 |
Marc Andreessen | 3 |
Klaus Nyengaard | 3 |
Kensuke Furukawa | 3 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 3 |
William Lohse | 3 |
Shrishti Sahu | 3 |
Peter Christodoulo | 3 |
Daniel Kuhagen | 2 |
Vishal Rao | 2 |
Dharmesh Shah | 2 |
Joachim Behrendt | 2 |
Jenny Lefcourt | 2 |
Paul Vidich | 2 |
Jitendra Gupta | 2 |
Jonathan Miller | 2 |
Riku Mäkelä | 2 |
Marat Kichikov | 2 |
Michael Birch | 2 |
Baron Davis | 2 |
Mark Williamson | 2 |
Philipp Moehring | 2 |
Mo Larbi Bennis | 2 |
Steve Olechowski | 2 |
Jim Bankoff | 2 |
Jeff Clavier | 2 |
Ihar Mahaniok | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
Miki Kuusi | 2 |
Reid Hoffman is the Partner of Greylock. He previously worked at Convoy Inc as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
- 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.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
- Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
- Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.
Andy Brown is a seasoned enterprise technology executive with over 30 years of hands-on experience running large organizations in Banking, Telecoms, Oil and Pharma. Andy has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2015. Andy was Group CTO of UBS from 2010 to 2013; Head of Strategy, Architecture & Optimization at Bank ofAmerica Merrill Lynch from 2008 to 2010; and from 2006 to 2008 the CTO of Infrastructure at Credit Suisse. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served for 10 years in various leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, including Chief Technology Architect and CIO of Direct Markets.Andy is a board member of Guidewire (GWRE), Zscaler (ZS), Pure Storage (PSTG), Digital Asset, LMRKTS and Moogsoft, and is advising a number of technology startups, including in his role as CTO in Residence at Fintech Innovation Lab in NYC. Andy holds a BSc. Honors degree in Chemical Physics from University College London.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Social Network
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tornado — Tornado is an investing app that advances financial wellness through community, insights & data for investors at all stages. Tornado promotes financial wellness and empowerment through a highly personalized investing experience and a social network of trusted sources. Tornado's technology leverages machine learning to meet users on theirinvesting journey, whether they're investing for the first time or are veterans with decades of experience. The platform allows users to buy and sell stocks and ETFs, while utilizing world class analytical tools, risk assessment metrics, performance benchmarks and a portfolio optimization tool powered by independent, Nobel Prize-winning research.
- Cape Privacy — Agentic workflow automation across all of your data
- Lionize — Influencer Marketing. Simplified. The easiest way to build credibility with branded stories told by influencers.
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
- Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Morocco, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
- Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
- Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt.
Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, E-Learning, Education
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Knocksense — A local news and recommendations platform.
- Clever Harvey — Clever Harvey JuniorMBA is an online programme led by IIM and Ivy league alumni to teach your child the essentials of entrepreneurship, strategy and technology!
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
- Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
Kass is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in marketing, consulting and business operations.Kass has founded several successful companies. Prior to Buddy Media, Kass founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, Kass served as co-founder, President and COO, where she helped take the company from an idea toa multi-million dollar consumer internet company.In her current role as co-founder and COO of Buddy Media, Kass’ responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the business, including marketing, PR, general operations, HR and more. This multifaceted position allows Kass to leverage her understanding of the internet and her experience as a proven entrepreneur.
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Investment focus
- Social Network, Publishing, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Mashable — Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Advertising, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
- Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
- Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
- Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
Matthew Luckett - Managing Partner @ ALBA Holdings
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Misen — Better Tools for Better Cooking: Thoughtful design, premium materials and honest prices.
- Podchaser — Use Podchaser's extensive podcast database, advanced search and list functionality to follow, share and rate your favorite podcasts and episodes.
- Show-Score —
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oboe — Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning.
- Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
- Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.
Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
- AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
- Pops Diabetes Care — If you are an employer, caregiver, or just someone who wants an easy diabetes management system, Click here to learn how we can help!
Shubhrendu Koche
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
- Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
- BazaarNXT — BazaarNXT is an e-commerce company that optimizes the packaging procurement for Businesses using technology. It is a modern, futuristic, and extended version of the local bazaar. BazaarNXT was founded by Gaurav Badharkhe and Dhananjaya S. in 2017 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.
Robin Eric Haak was born in Hanover, Germany and was graduated from Gymnasium in Hanover. Haak studied political science, law and economics at the University of Salzburg. He later studied media management at Hamburg Media School, as well as University of Hamburg and graduated with an MBA degree.[3] Haak started his career at Versace in New York.Later, he was employed by Axel Springer SE in Berlin.[3][4] where he worked for the Axel Springer Digital Ventures, and co-founded the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator.[5][6] With this company, he acted as the first investor in the Fintech company N26.[7]After leaving Springer, Haak worked as a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Jobspotting GmbH;[8] the company merged with Smartrecruiters Inc.,[6][9] where he became Shareholder as well as Managing Director; the company later reached an unicorn status.[10][11] Haak holds a stake in the company Woman Inc. UG[12] and founded the company as Chief Marketing Officer.[13][14]He is also shareholder and board member of other companies.[15][16][17] He co-created and built up Revaia, a German and France based Growth Equity Fund, with Environment Social Governance focus, and a crossover investment strategy (public and private investing), with a first fund size of 250 million €.[18] January 2021, he joined the advisory board of Stepstone.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Germany, United States, France
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Phi — Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users.
- Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace.
Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies.
In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
- Spotahome — Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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Investment focus
- Content, Media and Entertainment, Social Media
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Japan, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
- SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
- Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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- Internet, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, South Korea
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- OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
- Thermoflyde — Refractory
- leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.
Peter Christodoulo is a Principal with Francisco Partners and focuses on investments in the financial technology sector.Prior to joining Francisco Partners in 2008, Peter was an Associate with Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston. Earlier in his career Peter was an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group of Credit Suisse Securities inNew York and involved in several startup companies.Peter currently serves on the board of directors of Allston Trading, eFront and Paymetric and is a board observer of City Index. He previously served on the board of SmartFocus.
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Private Equity, Series D, Angel
- United States
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- Tornado — Tornado is an investing app that advances financial wellness through community, insights & data for investors at all stages. Tornado promotes financial wellness and empowerment through a highly personalized investing experience and a social network of trusted sources. Tornado's technology leverages machine learning to meet users on theirinvesting journey, whether they're investing for the first time or are veterans with decades of experience. The platform allows users to buy and sell stocks and ETFs, while utilizing world class analytical tools, risk assessment metrics, performance benchmarks and a portfolio optimization tool powered by independent, Nobel Prize-winning research.
- Paradigm — Paradigm offers legal software solutions that help you manage, automate, and grow your firm.
- Drawbridge — Drawbridge is a premier cybersecurity software and services firm specializing in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers.
Daniel Kuhagen - Investment Professional @ Paragon Partners
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- Dating, Timber, Software
- Seed, Angel, Secondary Market
- Germany
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- Mixtable — Mixtable is an online platform that enables its users to setup offline dates with each other. It was launched in 2013 by Tobias Henning and is based in Bayern.
- SEMA Software — SEMA Software is a software company offering software solutions for timber industry, in staircase , metal processing industries etc.
Advisory CTO and Angel Investor
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy
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- Idiomatic — Turn your customer feedback data into instant voice of customer within minutes. Any help desk, any survey, any feedback, any scale. Try it for free today.
- 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.
Paul Vidich - Advisor @ Bitly
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- Music, Analytics, Publishing
- Seed, Angel
- United States
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- Bitly — Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their owncustom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics.Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.
- Qloud — Qloud (pronounced "cloud") is an online music service launched by former AOL'ers Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock and backed by Steve Case's Revolution LLC and former music industry executives. The service allows users to enjoy and share their music collections within their favorite social networks. The company powers the My Musicapplication on Facebook, was also a launch partner in The service grew to over 3 million users in its first 6 months after launch. In Q2 2008, it was acquired by The My Music application competes with similar social music services like Following the acquisition, Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock became EVP of Product and Engineering at BUZZMEDIA
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
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- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
Jonathan Miller is a Partner at Advancit Capital. He has been a director of TripAdvisor since the completion of the Spin-Off from Expedia in December 2011.Miller was the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s digital media group and News Corporation’s Chief Digital Officer from April 2009 until October 2012. Miller had previously beena founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group (“Velocity”), an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet, from its inception in February 2007 until April 2009.Prior to founding Velocity, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC (“AOL”) from August 2002 to December 2006. Prior to joining AOL, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer and President of USA Information and Services, of USA Interactive, a predecessor to IAC/InterActiveCorp (“IAC”). Miller also served as a director of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. from August 2008 until January 2010, and as a director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. from January 2010 through April 2011.Miller is currently a member of the Board of Directors of J2 Global, Inc. Miller also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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- Advertising, News, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
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- Knotch — Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies.
- Fresco News — Visit FrescoNews today to find informative and engaging insights, news, and trends in technology and business. Check out the website for more details!
- Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises
Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.
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- Gaming, Computer, Software
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States
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- Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor.
He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund.
He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group.
In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders.
Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law.
In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!
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- Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Latvia
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- Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
- Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.
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- Apps, Social Media, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
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- Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
- HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
- Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.
Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
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- Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
- 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!
Mark Williamson is the Chief Operating Officer of Restore Health. He previously worked at RestoreHealth.com as a CEO & Co-founder. Mark Williamson attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Poland, United Kingdom
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- Tylko — Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.
- Xip — Creators use Xip to monetize their expertise and interact 1-on-1 with their followers. Deliver personalized help at scale, earn real money, and hear directly from your biggest fans.
- Hivemapper — Build a better map together
Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin.
He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
- consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
Mo Larbi Bennis
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- Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
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- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.
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- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- AMPY — AMPY is a wearable motion charger that captures its users’ energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. Its team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devicesAMPY was founded in 2013 by Tejas Shastry,Mike Geier, and Alex Smith. It is based in Chicago, I.L.
- Selltag — Selltag offers a simple online platform for people to sell and buy items. It brings together buyers and sellers using the power of social networks. That means people can sell goods that is no longer needed or not used anymore, maybe something people have made or even digital contents to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Pluspeople can get help from those same contacts, if the link is shared to an ad users will get more potential buyers to see it.Selltag was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Valencia, Spain.
- Avail — Avail is a provider of tools and guidance that makes it easy to be a landlord. It offers a platform that helps independent landlords and property managers to navigate the rental cycle, as well as provides rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online payments, and maintenance requests services. Until now, landlords with less than10 units haven’t had access to online tools designed specifically for them. Avail is an intuitive app that helps advertise vacant units, request rental applications and credit reports, sign leases, and collect rent — all online. Today, 70,000 landlords use Avail because it’s the only end-to-end platform that helps in scaling from beginner to professional with tools, support, and education.
Jim Bankoff is the Chairman and CEO of Vox Media, the pioneering media company known for building modern media properties and the platforms that enable them. Vox Media’s editorial networks and businesses include SB Nation, Eater, The Verge, Vox, Curbed, Recode & Code Conferences, Polygon, Vox Creative, Concert, Chorus, Vox Entertainment, andthe Vox Media Podcast Network.A veteran of the digital industry, he also developed and led dozens of the most notable digital brands including AOL, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music and Engadget as an EVP at AOL. Bankoff co-founded TMZ.com, won an Emmy award for his production of the Live8 Concerts, and oversaw AOL’s industry-leading applications including AIM, ICQ, and Netscape.Bankoff has been named to Adweek’s Power List; The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media; The Washingtonian’s Tech Titans; Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100; and The Guardian’s 100 Most Powerful People in Media.
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- Music, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Angel
- United States
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- gdgt — Find the latest technology news and expert tech product reviews. Learn about the latest gadgets and consumer tech products for entertainment, gaming, lifestyle and more.
- Qloud — Qloud (pronounced "cloud") is an online music service launched by former AOL'ers Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock and backed by Steve Case's Revolution LLC and former music industry executives. The service allows users to enjoy and share their music collections within their favorite social networks. The company powers the My Musicapplication on Facebook, was also a launch partner in The service grew to over 3 million users in its first 6 months after launch. In Q2 2008, it was acquired by The My Music application competes with similar social music services like Following the acquisition, Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock became EVP of Product and Engineering at BUZZMEDIA
Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner at Uncork Capital.
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- Software, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Spain
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- Clever — Clever is a digital learning platform for K12 schools--one friendly place for single sign-on, messaging, analytics, and more.
- TipTop — TipTop adds instant trade-in to any online retailer, unlocking billions in untapped purchasing power for every transaction with a couple lines of code.
- ClassDojo — Build wonderful classroom communities with parents and students
Ihar Mahaniok is the Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. Ihar Mahaniok attended Belarusian State University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Ukraine
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- Localie — No guides here. No boring tours. Just real locals. Localie is just like visiting a friend all over the globe who can't wait to show you around as their guest.
- Workee — Workee is a software platform that builds business for freelancers. Scale and autopilot business routing as bookings, payments, client, and work management.
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
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.
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- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.
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- E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Kenya, Lithuania
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- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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