Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor	Social Network United States investments
Reid Hoffman	8
Ronald Conway	6
Mark Pincus	5
Andy Brown	4
Gary Vaynerchuk	4
Cyan Banister	4
Kevin Hartz	4
Atlas Benjelloun	4
Marc Andreessen	3
Peter Christodoulo	3
Kass Lazerow	3
Sunmeet Jolly	3
William Lohse	3
Robin Haak	3
Michael Lazerow	3
Tim Draper	3
Matthew Luckett	3
Scott Belsky	3
Jewel Burks Solomon	2
Sujay Jaswa	2
Mark Williamson	2
Vishal Rao	2
Dave Morgan	2
Mike Shoemaker	2
Adam Singolda	2
Elio Leoni Sceti	2
Trevor McFedries	2
Joanne Wilson	2
Jim Bankoff	2
Dharmesh Shah	2
Alex Menn	2
Edward Lando	2
Greg Badros	2
Michael Birch	2
Paul Vidich	2
Jenny Lefcourt	2
Jeff Clavier	2
Diego Piacentini	2
Tim Armstrong	2
Marissa Mayer	2
Marc Weinstein	2
Ihar Mahaniok	2
Wei Guo	2
Peter Thiel	2
Kevin Lin	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Reed Hundt	2
Bradley C. Harrison	2
Wayne Chang	2
Brian Requarth	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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into passive revenue.
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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, SaaS
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 — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
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

Peter Christodoulo is a Partner at Francisco Partners.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 in New York and involved in several startup companies.Peter currentlyserves 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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Private Equity, Series D, 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.
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.

Kass is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in marketing, consulting and business operations.Kass has founded several successful companies. Prior to Buddy Media, Kass founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, Kass served as co-founder, President and COO, where she helped take the company from an idea toa multi-million dollar consumer internet company.In her current role as co-founder and COO of Buddy Media, Kass’ responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the business, including marketing, PR, general operations, HR and more. This multifaceted position allows Kass to leverage her understanding of the internet and her experience as a proven entrepreneur.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
Mashable — Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.

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.

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!

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Proofs — The go-to-market for software. AI Agents building proof-of-concept apps and integrations on top your stack
SureIn — small business insurance manager
Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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.

Matthew Luckett - Managing Partner @ ALBA Holdings

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.

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.

Jewel Burks is an experienced sales and marketing professional. Jewel Burks leads the Partpic team as CEO. Since its founding in August 2013, Jewel has been responsible for building a team, goal setting and execution and fundraising. Prior to founding Partpic, Jewel worked in Enterprise Sales at Google and in Sales Management at McMaster- CarrIndustrial Supply. Jewel graduated from Howard University and is from Nashville, Tennessee.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bevy — Bevy is a community event engine fueling virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. Our platform powers your events, allowing you to focus on converting your audience into a community. Bevy is the only platform that can scale your events through enterprise integrations and insightful analytics.
Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
SoLo Funds — SoLo is a community that allows members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. Our community works together to create mutually beneficial outcomes where members can both improve their financial health.

Sujay Jaswa is founder and managing partner at WndrCo, a holding company that invests in and acquires consumer technology businesses. He serves as Chairman of Aura, Twingate, VPN Super, and is a Director of The Infatuation. Board member of Vy Global Growth (Nasdaq: VYGG). Advisor at Seven1 Sports & Entertainment Agency. He is also a lecturerat the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He formerly served as business founder, vice president of business, and CFO of Dropbox from 2010 to 2015. At Dropbox, Sujay created and led the global business and finance organization. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
point.me — Search and book award flights and maximize the value of your points. Travel on points for less with point.me's flight award search tool.
Fireside — Fireside is the first interactive streaming platform that invites you to be part of the show. Co-founded by Falon Fatemi and Mark Cuban the media and entertainment networks of the future are emerging on Fireside.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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 — Explore the Hivemapper Network's global coverage.

Advisory CTO and Angel Investor

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.
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.
GateGuru — GateGuru is a mobile application that provides a seamless platform to travelers to revolutionize how they experience their "day-of" travel. Web-based businesses have largely democratized the planning and booking experiences around travel, but the actual "day-of" travel is a very large, untapped market - GateGuru is leading thischarge. GateGuru currently works on iOS and Android devices. The Company which is led by former venture capitalist Dan Gellert, closed their initial round of financing in May 2011. Investors in the round included Chamath Palihapitiya, Allen Morgan, Brad Harrison (BH Ventures), Tom Glocer, Matt Daimler (SeatGuru Founder), Thomas Lehrman and several other prominent angel investors.

Michael Shoemaker is the chief operating officer of Roofstock. He previously worked as the Director, Global Ridesharing Product Operations at Uber.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Freelance
Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Heru — Heru builds the community of gig-economy workers and has a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.Heru was founded in 2019 by MateoJaramillo and Stiven Rodriguez Sanchez and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.

Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month.Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to driveaudience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more.Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.

Investment focus

Communities, Social Network, Private Social Networking
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Homeis — We’ve created Homeis because we know first hand how deep the experience of being foreign-born is. When you ask us what home is, we don’t have an easy answer. It’s complicated. We have the city we chose to live in and call home, and then we have our culture, the country we come from, which we call home as well. And it’s a big part of our identity,it’s who we are.Homeis was created to help people like us, who belong here and there, and feel that the Internet is undeserving them. We’ve witnessed how difficult it is for local foreign-born communities to digitally connect, share their culture, their local knowledge, and unique context. We saw how important these communities are in one’s life, how supportive they can be, and how effective their common wisdom can be to its members.So we decided it’s time to give foreign-born communities a dedicated comprehensive product. A product that understands them really well, and most importantly - empowers them. It’s what we’re here for. While local culture networks have always existed, our mission is to use technology and innovation to turn these invisible groups into visible communities.Homeis was founded in Feb 2017 in NYC and Tel Aviv. We’ve launched our first community in Dec 2017, and are planning to open many more in the next months. As most foreign-born people, we are BIG dreamers. Join us!

Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Meural — Meural is a provider of an art technology platform designed to offer a digital frame to render images lifelike and textured. Its art technology platform combines art, technology, and design to create a digitally connected canvas built to showcase artwork and photography that provide consumers with newfound access to art from the past, present, andfuture while meaningfully improving the personal space.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Fabula AI Limited — Fabula AI is now part of Twitter on 31 May 2019
Narwhal Media Group — From lead generation & web design to SEO, our Digital Agency combines our dynamic skill sets to achieve targeted results and grow businesses.

Trevor McFedries is the Founder of Friends With Benefits, Founder and CEO of Brud, the CEO - Dapper Collectives at Dapper Labs, and a Board Member at Rhizome and SCI-Arc.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Norway, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.
The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Music, Hardware, Software
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Defog — Natural language data queries, hosted on your own servers.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
FORMLESS — Smart contracts by Formless

Partner at Begin Capital (early stage VC in UK)

Investment focus

Apps, Food Delivery, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Actable AI — Actable AI is the easiest way to analyze your data with AI-Powered No-Code Data Science algorithms in Google Sheets and Web App.
Elementaree — Elementaree makes food personal every day and delivers it on a subscription basis to the doorstep. We create personal food programs catered to particular needs and goals whether it’s about losing weight, creating tasty meals for your family or increasing your body muscles. Unique personalized programs at cost of a standard grocery check. We adoptour expertise in building value chains which allows us to customize at scale. A never-repeating variety of everyday menus and personalized add-ons catered to customers' specific needs.
lifeArk — The place for love and life experience

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Greg is a well respected technology leader in the valley. Over the last 10 years he has held senior leadership positions at Facebook and Google and made key contributions in the diverse areas of search, ads and consumer apps.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trimian — Startup based in Menlo Park, focusing on mobile apps. The name comes from 'tri-simian', referring to the three wise monkeys.
Docugami — AI document engineering by Docugami. Unlock the power of AI and automation for your agreements, contracts, documents, lease agreements, proposals, and more.
Zeit Medical — Our breakthrough AI and cutting edge bioelectronics provide peace of mind to those affected by neurological injury and empower physicians to diagnose and treat with precision

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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.

Paul Vidich - Advisor @ Bitly

Investment focus

Music, Analytics, Publishing
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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 — 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.

Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner at Uncork Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Clever — Clever is a digital learning platform for K12 schools--one friendly place for single sign-on, messaging, analytics, and more.
TipTop — Get paid today for your stuff. Sell over 50,000 items instantly for cash or credit.
ClassDojo — Build wonderful classroom communities with parents and students

Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012.

Investment focus

Human Resources, SaaS, Social Network
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Italy, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).

Tim Armstrong is the Founder & CEO of Tech: NYC. He previously worked at AOL Inc as a CEO. Tim Armstrong attended Connecticut College.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
Olive & June — Olive & June is your BFF for all things nails. Whether in our salons or at home, we exist to make mani magic happen. No matter who you are, where you live, or what you do, you can have a manicure that makes you feel like your very best self. #oliveyourmani
Almost Friday — Almost Friday is a media platform, production company, and lifestyle brand.

Marissa Mayer is the Co-Founder at Sunshine. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
January AI — January's AI health app analyzes thousands of data points to help you eat smarter and live healthier. Wear a CGM once, and January creates your "digital twin," and personalized health insights via your 24/7 AI health coach.

I graduated from Wharton with a BSc in Economics and began my career as an investment banker. In 2012, I left my cushy job at Morgan Stanley to begin an entrepreneurial adventure. My first startup, TINCO, was a financial services business created to protect investors from the purchasing power destruction of then-unprecedented quantitative easing.Although TINCO failed, it led me to purchase my first Bitcoin in 2013.While building TINCO, I started an advisory business called Satya Management to serve start-ups in the consumer, media & entertainment, and wellness industries.Through a client, I fell in love with the live events industry and decided to start my 2nd company, 90sFest. 90sFest was a live events platform catered to millennials that pioneered the convergence of experiential marketing with mass social media distribution. We sold 90sFest to Scopus Media in 2017.It was at this time that I was hired to try to salvage the now infamous Fyre Festival. Many who saw the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, have called me the “voice of reason.”After Fyre, I saw that my bitcoin investment returned 20x my principal and began deep research on the cryptocurrency industry. I later became Principal at a blockchain-focused venture fund called Wave Financial. I left Wave Financial in 2019 to strike out on my own and continue to advise, coach, and invest in leading entrepreneurs.I once again fell in love with an industry – sustainable agriculture – and now lead business development at Steward.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)

Ihar Mahaniok is the Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. Ihar Mahaniok attended Belarusian State University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

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 an all-in-one automation software for coaches and tutors to easily manage and grow an online businesses. Build a personal website in few clicks, list products, services, get booked and paid, and manage the whole business in one place. Free to start and easy to manage.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

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.

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.

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

Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

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

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.

Reed was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993-97. He is currently the CEO of the non-profit Coalition for Green Capital, as well as the Principal of REH Advisors. He was a member of President Barack Obama's Presidential Transition Team (2008-09) where he was the economic agency review group head. Reedis a consultant to Skadden, Arps, and from 1998-2009, he served as a Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. He was Co-Chairman of the Forum on Communications and Society at the Aspen Institute (1998-2006). From 1982-1993 he was a Partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham & Watkins, a national and international law firm and was an associate in Los Angeles and Washington offices (1975-1982). Reed is on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, a public company, is an advisor to Infinera (also a public company) and a member of the board of Telegent Systems and Vanu, Inc., both private companies. Reed has been Principal at Charles Ross Partners, a consulting firm, since 1997. He serves as a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland and California bars (former).Books include In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006) and You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000).Reed graduated from Yale College (1969) with a bachelor's degree in History magna cum laude and with honors with exceptional distinction in history. He graduated from J.D. Yale Law School (1974) and is a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. He is married to Elizabeth Katz and has three children: Adam (b. 1982), Nathaniel (b. 1985), and Sara (b. 1989).

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, Social Network
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swayable — Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion. It uses causal data science to determine the impact that ads and messages have on public attitude and intentions, so marketing and campaign decision-makers can dramatically increase ROI.
Level Money — For the majority of people who don't like budgeting, Level is building a Financial GPS, enabling effortless personal financial control and new models for financial services. Instead of categorizing transactions and tracking bank balances, Level empowers members to easily understand cash flow by automatically detecting income and fixed expensesfrom linked financial accounts.
Social Median — socialmedian helps people easily discover and share news with their social networks.On socialmedian, users can create and join topical "news networks" on any topics. Users can also follow news clippings of people in their social graph, and be followed. The site also enables users to share news in/out of their social networks.The service aggregates news articles from around the web, which are filtered by topic. Users can pre-define which keywords and topics they'd like to receive news on, and they can also submit articles to the site by using a bookmarklet. Stories can be viewed either in chronological order or according to popularity on the network. A more thorough description of the site can be found

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
LiveNinja — LiveNinja is on a mission to help people around the world get the service and assistance they need; anytime, anywhere. The company offers unique communication tools that enable businesses to better serve and understand their customers. LiveNinja Messenger, their latest app, simplifies customer communication by bringing each conversation into onemessage thread.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).