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Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in United States in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Transportation startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Transportation United States investments
Ronald Conway	86
Alan Blaine	84
David Tisch	79
Wayne Chang	76
Auren Hoffman	66
Tim Draper	65
Gary Vaynerchuk	59
Dharmesh Shah	56
Nat Turner	56
Marc Benioff	55
Bryan Rosenblatt	54
Reid Hoffman	53
Kevin Lin	53
Bashar Hamood	53
Hesham Zreik	52
Dave Morin	51
Louis Beryl	51
Mitchell Kapor	50
Jackson Moses	21
Lee Linden	18
Dylan Taylor	17
Wei Guo	16
Scott Banister	14
Sam Altman	12
Cyan Banister	11
Justin Waldron	11
Mark Cuban	11
Kevin Mahaffey	10
Immad Akhund	8
Mark Pincus	8
Shervin Pishevar	8
Kyle Vogt	7
Clark Landry	7
Fabrice Grinda	7
Jason Finger	7
Kevin Moore	7
David O. Sacks	7
Joshua Schachter	7
Lachy Groom	7
Güimar Vaca Sittic	7
Paul Buchheit	7
Jon Oringer	6
Rick Marini	6
Rick Marini	6
Mark Cuban	6
Qasar Younis	6
bumpkins profile	6
Jett McCandless	6
Baron Davis	6
Daren Cotter	6

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Founder & Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel Founder @ Smart Tech Foundation CEO @ Personal Training Systems Founder @ FWD.us

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Seed, Angel

Co-founder @ Color

Investment focus

Software, IT, Financial
Seed, Series A, Series B

Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup HEAD OF STARTUP STUDIO @ Cornell Tech

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Series B

Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Digits

Investment focus

Software, IT, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

CEO and Chief Historian @ SafeGraph

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, Sales/Marketing
Seed, Series A, Angel

Founder and Managing Partner @ Draper Associates Adviser @ Bancor Founder @ SpeedUPAfrica Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ DDF Founder @ DFJ VinaCapital Co-Founder & MD @ DFJ DragonFund Founder/Partner @ VenturesLab Founder & Partner @ Gotham Ventures Co - Founder & MD @ Zone Ventures Co-Founder @ ePlanet Capital Founder @ Draper University Ventures Co-Founder @ Draper Dragon Founder @ Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial
Seed, Series A, Series B

Chairman & CEO @ VaynerX Creator & Founder @ VeeFriends Co-Founder @ VCR Group Co-Founder @ VaynerSports Co-Founder @ GrapeStory Co Founder @ Resy, American Express Global Dining Network Founder @ Cinderella Wine Partner & Co-Founder @ Vayner/RSE CEO @ Vayner Media Co-Founder @ Empathy Wines

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Angel

Founder & CTO @ HubSpot Blogger @ OnStartups.com Angel Investor @ Backupify Founder @ Inbound Marketing Founder/CTO @ Twitter Grader Co-Founder, CTO @ HubSpot Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Sales/Marketing
Seed, Series A, Angel

General Partner @ Operator Partners

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B

Chair & Co-CEO @ Salesforce Owner @ Time Ventures Founder, Chair & CEO @ Salesforce Ventures Chair & Chief Executive Officer @ CloudCraze

Investment focus

Software, IT, Other
Series A, Seed, Series B

Partner @ Craft Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed

Partner @ Greylock Chairman @ Research Bridge Partners Founder @ FWD.us Co-Founder @ Silicon Valley Comes to the UK

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Series B, Seed

Visiting Partner @ Y Combinator

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed

Venture Partner @ FasterCapital

Investment focus

Software, IT, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel

CEO, Founder, developer and publisher of mobile apps, and Technical Manager @ ZGroup Mobile Investor, CoFounder @ Dooet

Investment focus

Software, IT, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Offline Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Venture Partner, CEO & Co-Founder @ Rocketplace

Investment focus

Software, Financial, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A

Founder & Partner @ Kapor Capital Co-Chair @ Kapor Center for Social Impact Director @ SMASH | Level Playing Field Institute Co-founder @ Lotus Founder @ Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel

A successful serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also founded and manages Silent Capital, a privatesyndicate that provides its members exclusive access to leading multi-stage defense and frontier tech deals. Additionally, Jackson serves as a Senior Advisor to the founding teams of Castelion and Privateer.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet (acquired by Employer.com): the first tech company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows and integrations. As a founding executive, he was responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building a world-class sales organization, managing business development initiatives, and scaling annual revenue to over $30M. To date, MainStreet has employed hundreds of people and helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in tax savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum AI, which was acquired by ActiveFence after last being valued at $137M. Spectrum AI pioneered multimodal LLMs, specifically a series of proprietary GPT foundation models, designed to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, influencers, and their users. Its customer base spanned gaming, dating, and social media, and included Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum AI, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Having raised $120M+ across his two companies, Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Founders Fund, a16z, Lightspeed, NEA, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures, family offices, defense primes, and university endowments.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.

Investment focus

Aerospace, National Security, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Wurthy — Wurthy specializes in developing financial software designed to support business growth and enhance customer purchasing power. The company focuses on creating solutions that allow businesses to eliminate credit card fees and increase their earnings. Wurthy's offerings are tailored to meet the needs of companies looking to optimize theirfinancial transactions and payment processes. By leveraging technology, Wurthy aims to provide tools that facilitate smoother, more efficient financial operations for businesses across various industries.
Durin — Mining technology company developing next-generation exploration drilling hardware and software.
Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
Jupiter — Jupiter is a specialized manufacturer of hair, scalp care and dandruff products.

Dylan Taylor is based out of Denver, Colorado, and is the Chief Executive Office and Chairman at Voyager Technologies. Dylan Taylor attended University of Arizona.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.

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.

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI and CEO of World. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Coco — Coco Robot Delivery | Food Delivered Cheaper, Faster, and Fresher. Every Time.

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

Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ESAI — Join over 450,000 students crafting their story
Kind Designs — We specialize in Seawall Construction using advanced 3D-printing technology in Florida. Get a free consultation today!
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
Town — Tax prep that never stops working for your small business.
Orbital Operations — Orbital Operations is developing high thrust space vehicles for satellite defense.

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

Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
Schemata — Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises.

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hestus — Hestus is AI-powered CAD software that speeds up hardware development.
Vercept — Vercept is a software development company.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.

Jason Finger is the Co-Founder and Director of Salvo Health. He previously worked at LiveAuctioneers as an Executive Chairman. Jason Finger attended New York University School of Law.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axion Ray — AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work.
Constructor — The only site search and product discovery built for ecommerce KPIs. Delivering superior experiences with AI, NLP, data and personalization.
StayTuned — Discover powerful Shopify apps designed to boost sales and streamline operations. Trusted by 50,000+ merchants for supporting growth on Shopify.

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rumi.ai — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for gpt-oss, Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen3 LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is a social impact company driven by a mission to grow faith & cultivate community. Started by Steve Gatena and his three co-founders in 2016, the company is comprised of people from all backgrounds and is building Pray.com as the digital destination for faith. At Pray.com prayer is the priority and the Pray.com app is the easiest wayto incorporate prayer into your daily life. The Pray.com app is the world's #1 app for Daily Prayer and faith-based media content. In 2020, Pray.com became the highest-grossing religious media app in history. In addition to its explosive growth in revenue and subscribers, Pray.com became the first and only mental & spiritual health app federally approved to host the President of the United States as well as other elected officials on the platform so they could promote the power of prayer, highlight the health benefits of faith, and promote religious equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an inter-faith platform, Pray.com has brought together religious, celebrity, and political leaders across industries for major events that pray for, discuss, and act on social issues like: race relations, forced migration, and religious inclusion. Pray.com's marque events include participation from the White House, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the Vatican City state, the Southern Baptist Convention, and more. In addition to the success of the Pray.com app, Pray.com's marquee events, and fundraising for social causes, Pray.com's studio division has produced the largest library of Biblically inspired original content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and its content has been syndicated across broadcast media platforms and new media platforms like SiriusXM Satellite Radio, DirectTV, and YouTube. Pray.com's mission is to grow faith & cultivate community and its vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Grove Collaborative delivers home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, beauty, and pet products, for a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle.

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is a social impact company driven by a mission to grow faith & cultivate community. Started by Steve Gatena and his three co-founders in 2016, the company is comprised of people from all backgrounds and is building Pray.com as the digital destination for faith. At Pray.com prayer is the priority and the Pray.com app is the easiest wayto incorporate prayer into your daily life. The Pray.com app is the world's #1 app for Daily Prayer and faith-based media content. In 2020, Pray.com became the highest-grossing religious media app in history. In addition to its explosive growth in revenue and subscribers, Pray.com became the first and only mental & spiritual health app federally approved to host the President of the United States as well as other elected officials on the platform so they could promote the power of prayer, highlight the health benefits of faith, and promote religious equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an inter-faith platform, Pray.com has brought together religious, celebrity, and political leaders across industries for major events that pray for, discuss, and act on social issues like: race relations, forced migration, and religious inclusion. Pray.com's marque events include participation from the White House, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the Vatican City state, the Southern Baptist Convention, and more. In addition to the success of the Pray.com app, Pray.com's marquee events, and fundraising for social causes, Pray.com's studio division has produced the largest library of Biblically inspired original content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and its content has been syndicated across broadcast media platforms and new media platforms like SiriusXM Satellite Radio, DirectTV, and YouTube. Pray.com's mission is to grow faith & cultivate community and its vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.
Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
Grove Collaborative — Grove Collaborative delivers home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, beauty, and pet products, for a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ESAI — Join over 450,000 students crafting their story
Kind Designs — We specialize in Seawall Construction using advanced 3D-printing technology in Florida. Get a free consultation today!
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple

Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nevoya — Zero-emissions capacity, AI-native orchestration, and diesel prices
Convoke — Convoke is curating high-quality datasets, automating workflows, and building a software platform.
Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.

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Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement

Jett McCandless is Founder and CEO of project44.

Investment focus

Logistics, Transportation, Freight Service
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

GoodShip — Streamline your shipping with Goodship. Discover efficient, cost-effective solutions and optimize your logistics for better results.
Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
Interstate Health Systems — A cutting-edge, technology-based provider of medical services, Interstate Health Systems offers urgent and primary care along the interstate highway system of the country.

Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonsai — Bonsai is the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth. Trust your marketing data, make confident decisions, drive revenue.
Franzy — Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible.
Bonsai Data Solutions — Bonsai is the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth. Trust your marketing data, make confident decisions, drive revenue.

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