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Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

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

Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in United States in April 2025

Investor	Travel United States investments
Jason Calacanis	12
Erik Blachford	11
Spencer Rascoff	7
Hugh Crean	5
Eric Schmidt	5
Jack Dorsey	5
Daniel Curran	4
Thomas Lehrman	4
Barney Harford	4
Scott Banister	4
Thomas McInerney	4
Walter Winshall	3
David Bonderman	3
Wei Guo	3
Alexis Ohanian	3
Naval Ravikant	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
Kevin Hartz	3
Neil Giugno	3
Aman Bhutani	3
Luc Levesque	3
Gil Penchina	3
Devon T Rogers	3
José Manuel Anderson	3
Shervin Pishevar	3
Christopher Shonk	3
Rudy Gadre	3
Dave Morin	3
Keith Rabois	3
Keisuke Honda	2
Adam Goldstein	2
Rob Solomon	2
Dan Rosenbledt	2
Sunmeet Jolly	2
Blaine Vess	2
Richard McIntyre	2
Adam Guild	2
Matt Mullenweg	2
David Zaslav	2
Sahin Boydas	2
Rick Marini	2
Todd Kimmel	2
Larry Bock	2
Andrea Rota	2
Jason Zeng	2
Charlie Songhurst	2
Jaffray Woodriff	2
Sam Altman	2
Andrei Kulik	2
Chris Sang	2

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Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Currently a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO at Butterfield & Robinson and CEO atTerrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.

Spencer Rascoff is the Co-Founder and the Chairman of Board at Pacaso.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
Ohana — New York City Largest Sublet and Sublease Community. NYC short term rentals, furnished apartments, monthly rentals, and rooms for rent.
Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.

Hugh Crean is the current Chief Executive Officer of Operix. He previously worked at JPK Capital as an Operating Partner. Hugh Crean attended Boston College.

Investment focus

Travel, Mobile, Hospitality
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Plot — Plot pairs IoT sensors and cloud-based software to deliver facility, city, airport, and roadway monitoring. We are currently installed at Los Angeles International and Sacramento International Airports to monitor their TSA wait times and provide automated alerts to staff on changing environments.Once our sensors are installed, we are able toprovide airport staff with custom reporting, as well as, provide travelers with predicted wait times. We are the only solution on the market that actively tries to reach travelers before they leave for the airport.Before renaming to Plot, the company was named Park Evergreen and focused on parking solutions. Park Evergreen was accepted into Batch 19 of 500 Startups. Plot was founded in 2016 by Jenn Starr, Jason Cass, Christopher Addington, Ben Cantey, and Ben Smith and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Eric Schmidt is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rogo — Rogo is the secure generative AI (GenAI) platform built for elite financial institutions. Save time, unlock insights and automate workflows in days.
SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Block, Inc. He previously worked at Elliott Investment Management as a CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ocean — Ocean empowers miners to reclaim control of the intelligent portions of mining and is designed to be non-custodial, transparent, and permissionless.
Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
SimpleX Chat — SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.

Barney currently serves on the boards of directors of United Airlines and RealSelf. At United Airlines he serves on the Finance, Audit and Public Responsibility committees. Barney has an extensive track record operating and governing large and rapidly growing technology-enabled companies. He has particular experience in the fields of loyalty andsegmentation, experiment-driven optimization, lean process improvement, cybersecurity, and transportation safety.Barney served as Chief Operating Officer of Uber from January 2018 to July 2019. As COO he was responsible for the company’s global ridesharing business, leading operations, strategy, marketing, customer support, safety and insurance in over 60 countries, and for the company's food-delivery business Uber Eats. Barney launched consumer and driver loyalty programs, increased focus on high-value segments, extended the platform to embrace lower cost transport modes in emerging markets, and significantly reduced trip defect rates. He led a 15,000 person organization during a critical phase in the company’s history, and played a significant role in the company’s May 2019 IPO, which raised $8B.Prior to Uber, Barney served as CEO and a director of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) from January 2009 to November 2015, leading a turnaround that culminated in the company’s sale to Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) for $1.6B. While at Orbitz Worldwide he launched the groundbreaking Orbitz Rewards loyalty program and built the Orbitz Partner Network into a leading provider of private label travel solutions to airlines, hotels, travel agencies and banks.Prior to Orbitz Worldwide, Barney served in a variety of roles at Expedia from 1999 to 2006, including as President of Expedia Asia Pacific from 2004 to 2006, where he led Expedia’s market entry into China, Australia and Japan.Barney has previously served on the boards of directors of Crystal Orange Hotel Group (formerly Mandarin Hotel Holdings), eLong, GlobalEnglish, LiquidPlanner and Lola Travel.Barney is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Barney received an MBA from INSEAD and an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (Clare College).

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
TROOP (formerly TroopTravel) — Plan your next in-person meeting in minutes! Our meeting planning platform helps to save time, cut costs and reduce CO2. Check it out!

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.
Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.

Tom McInerney is a notable angel investor. He was a seed investor in Segment, Notion, GetAround, Tala, MemSQL, Mode Analytics, OpenTrons, Arcadia Power, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ware — Ware deploys autonomous, self-flying drones—combined with machine learning—inside warehouses to automate their inventory tracking. Designed to solve some of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s most pressing issues, Ware’s product helps their customers operate more efficiently. A partner of Skydio and funded by Bloomberg Beta, Ware works withthe world’s largest 3PL’s and global brands to improve their accuracy, workflows, and save money.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.

Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your

David Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG. TPG generally makes significant investments in operating companies through acquisitions and restructurings across a broad range of industries throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. TPG and its affiliates have more than $45 billion of capital under management. Portfolio companies controlledby TPG have combined revenues of over $85 billion, operate in more than 130 countries and employ approximately 400,000 people. Among the portfolio companies of TPG are: Burger King; PETCO; Debenhams; Shenzhen Development Bank; Avaya; Harrah’s Entertainment, Energy Future Holdings (TXU); Neiman Marcus; and Univision.Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone Group, L.P.) in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to joining RMBG in 1983, Mr. Bonderman was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC, where he specialized in corporate, securities, bankruptcy, and antitrust litigation. From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Bonderman was a Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law in conjunction with Harvard University, and from 1968 to 1969, he was Special Assistant to the US Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. From 1967 to 1968, Mr. Bonderman was Assistant Professor at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.Mr. Bonderman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1966. He was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle. Mr. Bonderman serves on the Boards of the following public companies: Armstrong Worldwide Industries, Inc., CoStar Group, Inc., and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is Chairman. He also serves on the Boards of The Wilderness Society, the Grand Canyon Trust, The University of Washington Foundation, and the American Himalayan Foundation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Parrot — Stenographic Transcription and Digital Reporting for Depositions and EUOs. Nationwide court reporting service combined with cutting-edge AI to deliver more accurate transcripts and make attorneys more effective and cost-efficient.
Parrot — The all-in-one platform for remote depositions. Reliable and remarkably easy.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

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.

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

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, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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.

Neil Giugno

Investment focus

Retail, Travel, FinTech
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Keyo — Keyo lets you customize palm vein authentication to your business. Discover the most secure, contactless, privacy-first biometric. Request a demo today.
GenoPalate — GenoPalate uses your DNA to create a customized genomic nutritional plan for your unique genetic make-up. Discover the healthiest foods for you.
OneH — OneH connects innovators with investors in a brand new way, making investing in the private market simpler than ever.

Aman Bhutani is the Chief Executive Officer at GoDaddy, Aman Bhutani attended Lancaster University.

Investment focus

Travel, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
BookOutdoors — Search BookOutdoors to easily find and book campsites, RV parks, cabins and glamping with no fees, and unlock amazing rewards and benefits with every trip.

Luc Levesque is the VP of Growth at Shopify.

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Alumni
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

@hotel — Tripscout is the center of the world for passionate travelers. We bring you the best articles and videos to satisfy your wanderlust and help you plan amazing trips.
Hivemapper — Explore the Hivemapper Network's global coverage.
ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!

Gil Penchina is retired

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Fairy — Fairy offers 30 minute daily “hotel like” cleanings and is a great service for busy professionals and families -- their mission is to deliver happiness to every home in the world. Their team has started and sold venture-backed startups and have helped scale companies like Instacart, NextDoor, Box, and LinkedIn through their IPOs.
Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Origin Protocol — Origin Protocol is bringing NFTs and DeFi to the masses

Rogers is a well proven investor and entrepreneur with 7+ years experience in backing many ranges of startups in different markets, such as Flight Car, Silver Car, Blue Apron, Asana & many more. Rogers, once a Venture Partner, Fund Manager, and LP, now actively invests in certain projects as an angel and so much more.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Messaging
Seed, Funding Round, Series C
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Hike — Hike team is building the Rush Gaming Universe.
Asana — Work anytime, anywhere with Asana. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on their goals, projects, and tasks with Asana.
Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.

Jose Manuel Anderson, one of the youngest tycoons ever, is the Founder and Chairman of NewSwing Academies Global. His love for golf and former success in entertainment allowed him to launch NewSwing, which has become a steadily growing global spectator sports and entertainment enterprise. In addition to his achievements with NewSwing, Andersonestablished Newman Executive Talent Acquisition Partnerships (Newman ETAPs), formerly AndersonWorks. Despite his youth, Jose Anderson has made a significant mark in the industry by catalyzing the careers of numerous social media creators and athletes. His visionary leadership and astute business acumen have enabled the formation of strategic partnerships with various entertainment entities, fostering unprecedented growth and collaboration within the sector.Notably, his outstanding contributions to the field culminated in the $28 million acquisition of Newman ETAPs by Endeavor Group Holdings in April 2023, solidifying his position as a reformatory force in the entertainment world. Renowned for his instrumental role as a Client Partner, Anderson continues to shape the landscape of the industry, leaving an indelible imprint on the trajectory of contemporary entertainment.

Investment focus

Sports, Media and Entertainment, Golf
Private Equity, Angel, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

NewSwing (Academies) Corporation — We stand as a global enterprise dedicated to democratizing the game of golf across the globe. Through our cutting-edge clinics, lessons, programs, and empowering initiatives for the youth, we emerge as the ultimate destination for those yearning for a fresh perspective on the golfing experience. The visionary behind NewSwing-Academies is none other than the trailblazer, Jose Manuel Anderson.
Hopeful Path Sober House Community — Hopeful Path Sober Living operates six premier sober living homes, including a beautiful location in Malibu, providing a safe and supportive environment for individuals in recovery. The program emphasizes personal growth, accountability, and long-term sobriety through a structured, community-driven approach. With serene surroundings, professionalguidance, and tailored resources across all locations, residents are empowered to rebuild their lives and navigate the path to sustained recovery.
Newman Executive Talent Acquisition Partnerships — Newman ETAPs became a global leader in the entertainment industry, known for developing and supporting top social media talent. Working with high-net-worth clients and partnering with major entertainment companies, the company earned widespread recognition and financial success.Focused on identifying and nurturing talent, Newman ETAPs helpedlaunch the careers of figures like Noen Eubanks and groups like Hype House, Clubhouse LA, and AMP World, driving their success in the digital space.Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Newman ETAPs demonstrated resilience and adaptability, achieving continued growth and success. Its innovative strategies allowed the company to thrive during a period of widespread adversity.The company's rapid ascent was driven by its founder, Jose Manuel Anderson, also known as Jose Newman. A visionary entrepreneur, Anderson's leadership and strategic insights were instrumental in establishing Newman ETAPs as a leader in social media entertainment, empowering the next generation of Gen Z talent and leaving a lasting impact on the industry. Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Newman ETAPs demonstrated resilience and adaptability, achieving continued growth and success. Its innovative strategies allowed the company to thrive during a period of widespread adversity.Distinguished by its expansive network and global reach, Newman ETAPs maintained a presence across 22 offices strategically positioned around the world. This extensive infrastructure facilitated seamless engagement with a diverse array of social media luminaries, enabling the company to exert a profound and far-reaching influence within the digital sphere.Central to the company's meteoric rise was its visionary founder, the avant-garde entrepreneur Jose Manuel Anderson, known affectionately as Jose Newman. A trailblazing figure within the industry, Newman's visionary leadership and entrepreneurial acumen were instrumental in guiding the company to its position of prominence, empowering a new generation of Gen Z talent to realize their full potential and leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of social media entertainment.

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.

Christopher Shonk is the Managing Director of ATX Venture Partners. Christopher Shonk holds 10 board and advisor roles including Investor & Advisor at RoverPass, Investor & Director at Slingshot Aerospace, and Advisor at SourceDay. He attended ACTON MBA and Campbell University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Travel, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RealKey — Go straight to funding with facilitated documentation gathering that ensures underwriters get everything needed for a clean approval.
Localeur — Founded in Austin, Texas, in early 2013, Localeur is a global community of locals spanning 180+ cities and destinations around the world who share recommendations on their favorite places to eat, drink, and play to help travelers experience locally in their cities. Unlike review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, Localeur has an exclusive communityof local insiders who share authentic recommendations on places in the cities they live in, not the ones they visit. The company has partnered with brands like JetBlue Airways, Lyft, Nike, and Match.com to create campaigns that use their vision to help their ideas come to life.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Kiss & Tell — Kiss & Tell is a private social network with integrated group booking that gets everyone there without the headache. Rethink weddings, celebrations and retreats for the better! When you're ready to gather, plan & go again, reschedule with us!

Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

neu — Get on-demand enhanced cleaning for your Airbnb. Use neu to auto-schedule cleans after every checkout, get access to vetted service professionals, and peace-of-mind
Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Pomelo — Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.
Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

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.
Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Adam Goldstein is a Visiting Scientist at Levin Lab. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Arist — Inspired by Stanford research, Arist helps leading companies deliver microlearning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Slack, Microsoft Teams, and text messages.
Scotty — Scotty Rideshare is the first and only two-wheel rideshare Company in Turkey
Scotty — Leading e-commerce logistics player in Turkey

Internet and Consumer Technology investor and executive with over 18 years of experience, including CEO, President/COO, general management, business operations, product management, product development, M&A, and strategy.Currently, Venture Partner at Accel Partners. Prior to Accel, President & COO at Groupon responsible for Sales,Marketing, Business Development, Operations & International. Prior to Groupon, Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), one of the largest and most successful growth equity tech-focused VC firms with $8 billion under management.Previously, served as the President and CEO of SIDESTEP, the web's first real-time vertical search engine in the travel category. Led successful turnaround and $200 million all-cash merger with KAYAK.Prior to SideStep, served in multiple executive management roles at YAHOO including Senior Vice President, Commerce and Vice President/General Manager of the Yahoo Shopping Group responsible for Yahoo's Shopping, Travel, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate, E-Commerce Hosting and Vertical Product Search businesses.Other roles included product management and marketing at Electronic Arts, Cendant, Golfweb (funded by Redpoint), and Zaplet (funded by Kleiner- Perkins).Rob also competed at a high level in water polo earning All-America honors at UC Berkeley and was a member of two NCAA national championship teams.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Software
Seed, Angel, Series C
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

SOTE — Where logistics, capital, and technology meet.
Okra — Okra is empowering companies to build fintech solutions with ease. We provide trusted real-time financial data for your applications. Get started - It's free.
Caymus Technology Ventures — Learning & education decisions made easier

Dan Rosenbledt

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Virtualization
Seed, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Owlized — An online page and the right place to visit if you need to master the field of technology as well as understand its impacts and applications in life. Our site offers cross-topics, such as the use of technology in business, education, medicine, and the automotive industry.

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!

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

Education: Allegheny College, BS Chemistry 1988, Carnegie Mellon University MBA 1992, University of Pittsburgh JD 1992. Work: Kass Shuler 1992 - 1994, Trenam Kemker 1994 - 2006, McIntyre Thanasides 2006 to present. Richard McIntyre enjoys providing business and legal consulting services to technology companies. Mr. McIntyre has invested 10+local technology companies with investments ranging from $10,000 to $300,000. With some local friends and clients he started First Round Tampa Bay, which has pooled investments to fund two local technology startup companies.

Investment focus

VoIP, Local, Events
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Phonism by Inlayer — Phonism offers device management & provisioning solutions that enables VoIP organizations (Service providers, Call centers...) to set up and manage all of their VoIP devices in a single pane of glass. Phonism's Portals & APIs provide our customers with the ability to offer true zero-touch deployments and eliminate support costs ofon-site visits.
MyArea Network — MyArea Network is a fast growing Media Tech Company that redefines Local and Social marketing.We provide a Digital First, Mobile First proprietary marketing platform for local businesses to connect directly with their customers and local communities. We own over 150 websites based on area code, 813area.com for Tampa, 407area.com Orlando, etc. topromote all things Local across North America.Our mission is to Help Every Local Business Prosper in a fragmented digital world.Our vision is to become the go to source for all things LOCAL.We have a winning solution to save local businesses the two most valuable assets, time and money in digital marketing. Traditional media is ineffective and diminishing in viewership. Social Media like Facebook, Yelp and Google are disconnected from local communities causing it difficult for local businesses as it is time consuming, confusing and constantly changing. Local Digital agencies are expensive and not scalable.We are one of the few, if not only, media tech company that has a national footprint for all LOCAL markets. We combine new media with the cutting edge technology - real-time analytics, AI & personalized experience for businesses to successfully grow both offline and online.

Adam Guild

Investment focus

Travel, Fashion, Aerospace
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
July — July is the only platform that automates brand deals, so creators can focus on what matters: creating great content.
Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.

David Zaslav is the President and CEO at Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav attended Boston University.

Investment focus

Video, Travel, Aerospace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
Group Nine Media — Group Nine Media is a family of digital media brands - Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker, and POPSUGAR.

Sahin Boydas is the Head of RemoteTeam at Gusto.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valur — Tax planning with Valur is the easiest way to reduce your taxes on capital gains, ordinary income, carried interest, and more. Create a tax plan today!
Heyday AI — Manage all your social media messages in one place, including private messages and comments, with Hootsuite. Clean up your inbox with a free trial now!
MULTI·ON — We are a technology and design group exploring novel ways to use AI to expand what people are capable of.

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 the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
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.

Todd Kimmel is the current Managing Partner of Montage Ventures. He previously worked at Pacecar as a Co-Founder. Todd Kimmel attended Amherst College.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FLYR — Helping airlines and hospitality businesses around the globe improve revenue performance, reduce cost, and modernize their e-commerce experience.
OLSET — OLSET is a San Francisco based big data technology company focused on helping large travel brands (OTAs, TMCs and GDSs) provide a superior experience through personalization. We work with some of the world's largest travel brands and our implementations have resulted in 20%+ conversion improvements.You can read more about OLSET atwww.olset.comOLSET is also the company behind Cinch, an app specifically focused on enabling repeat business travelers complete highly personalized travel bookings with 1 click.You can learn more about Cinch at www.cinchtravel.com
Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.

Larry Bock is the founder and organizer of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and a former founder of the San Diego Science Festival. Mr. Bock is a Special Limited Partner to Lux Capital, a $100M nanotechnology-focused venture capital fund. He is a member of the Board of Directors of FEI Corporation (NASDAQ: FEIC), the leading supplier oftools for nanotechnology research. He is a General Partner of CW Ventures, a $100M life sciences venture capital fund.Mr. Bock was the founder and former executive chairman and initial CEO of Nanosys and the founder and initial CEO of Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX), Pharmacopeia (NASDAQ: PCOP), GenPharm International, which was acquired by Medarex for $100 million; Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ: CALP); Illumina Technologies (NASDAQ: ILMN), among numerous other firms.He was also a seed or early-stage investor in variety of firms, including Acceleron Pharma, Aurora Biosciences, Biosym Technologies, ekoVenture. Gen-Probe, Gensia Pharmaceuticals, Genocea Biosciences, IDEC Pharmaceuticals Magen Biosciences, Oclassen Pharmaceuticals Plexikon Pharmaceuticals, Poland Partners, Sequana Therapeutics, Sapphire Energy, Siluria, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Software Transformation, and Viagene.Mr. Bock started his career as a researcher in the early days at Genentech, the field of infectious diseases, where he was on the team that received the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for demonstrating the world’s first recombinant DNA vaccine. He was a Venture Capital Associate with Fairfield Ventures (now Oxford Bioventures).Larry and his wife, Diane, established the Larry and Diane Bock Chair in Nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley. They also founded Community Cousins, a non-profit foundation focused on breaking down racial barriers, that was selected by former Vice President Al Gore as one of 10 outstanding grass root efforts nationally. Larry is organizing the San Diego Science Festival with BioBridge of UCSD. He works extensively with the Sudanese and Burmese refugee’s networks in San Diego and is a tutor in math and sciences for Sudanese refugee children in St. Lukes Sudanese Refugee Network and a Mentor for Burmese refugee families through Jewish Family Services. Larry received his B.A. in Biochemistry (summa cum laude) from Bowdoin College and his M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Investment focus

Software, TV, Social Impact
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aira — Aira is live, on-demand visual interpreting, a productivity tool that connects you to actual humans who describe your visual surroundings using your smartphone.
ZOZI — ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses. It offers introductory flight lessons, vineyard tours and wine tasting by horseback, diving for abalone, ice climbing frozen waterfalls, celebrity and athlete experiences, and various accessible adventures. Thecompany also provides weekend getaways and vacation packages for customers.ZOZI was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Nanosys — Nanosys is an nanotechnology company developing, manufacturing and selling products based on high-performance, inorganic nanostructures.

Andrea Rota is a Managing Director at Investors Club. He attended IMD (International Institute for Management Development).

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
AdEspresso — AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual workneeded to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%.The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast.We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting.Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically.
30SecondsToFly - Claire — We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a "super" user experience to their travelers.In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travelagents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy. While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC.30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019. Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo

Jason Zeng, one of the Core Founders and Advisor Emeritus of Tencent Group. Jason founded the Group in 1999. As the Chief Operating Officer during 1999 and 2007, Jason was responsible for overseeing the Company's business lines and product portfolios and the managing the Company’s sales and marketing activities across China. Prior toTencent, Jason worked in the Shenzhen Data Telecommunications Bureau and was familiar with the Internet and telecommunications industries in China. Since June 2007, Jason has been the Advisor Emeritus of the Company.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quivr — A new way to date. Let matchmakers do the work for you or play Cupid yourself.
Quivr — Quivr empowers you to take control of your digital identity, making it easier to connect with a community that truly shares your passions and values.
Little Spoonful — Little Spoonful 小勺满满 provides fresh, safe, and nutritious foods for children in China.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Angel Investor located in Charlottesville, VA

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Yogi — Yogi's analytics platform lets you easily sift through customer Reviews & Ratings data. Get actionable insights from your product Reviews, Ratings, and Sentiment Analysis to improve your brand reputation and product experiences.
Caju AI — Caju AI revolutionizes customer engagement with Generative AI, boosting your workforce's productivity and providing invaluable business insights. Elevate your customer experience with the power of AI.
Starchive — AI enriched Digital Asset Management designed by creators for creators, to maximize the control and ownership of their content, community, and commerce in the Visual Media Economy.

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. 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

Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Helion Energy — Enabling a future with unlimited clean energy
Retro Biosciences — Our mission is to extend healthy human lifespan by 10 years.

Andrei Kulik - Sr Staff Software Engineer @ Google

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cherry Labs — Founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to Facebook, Google and Apple, Cherry Labs works on making our homes the safer. Cherry employs over 20 engineers, AI scientists and product designers in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow and Shenzhen.
FRAMEN — Advertise in locations with an addressable context. Reach people without them opening an app to skip your ad. Inside of Hotels, Offices, Gyms, etc.. Click here
80days.me — Book multi-city trips around Europe and explore the most popular cities by train, ferries, and flights in one multi-city trip with Eightydays.me. Easy and fast booking. Trusted payments. Carefree travel. 24/7 Customer support

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.

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