Top 50 Venture Capital Angel Investors

Investor	Venture Capital investments
Ullas Naik	5
Kingsley Advani	4
Eric Ries	3
Daniel Undurraga	3
Eileen Burbidge	3
Elliot Loh	3
Sergio Furio	3
Matt Monahan	3
Jeff Lawson	3
David Vélez	3
E. Bora Uygun	3
Matias Woloski	3
Damien Tanner	3
Sebastian Mejia	3
Garry Tan	3
Sergio Fogel	3
Sagar Ratilal Bavarva	3
Reece Chowdhry	3
Court Lorenzini	2
Edward Lando	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Erik Blachford	2
Marc Andreessen	2
Jerry Gramaglia	2
Jon Oringer	2
Kevin Lin	2
Nattaphol Vimolchalao	2
Svetozar Georgiev	2
Paulo Silveira	2
Jon Oringer	2
Joshua Browder	2
Atakan Atalar	2
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	2
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	2
Paul Graham	2
Ryan Selkis	2
Dave Eisenberg	2
Elissa Fink	2
Alex Macdonald	2
Surojit Chatterjee	2
Enrico Pandian	2
Eric Chen	2
Aaron Henshaw	2
Jeremy Au	2
Ronald Conway	2
Paul Veradittakit	2
Kamran Ansari	2
Phillip Sebole Masango	2
Chad Cohen	2
Dave McClure	2

Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
Sunshine — Sunshine is a digital lifestyle service that learns and predicts your feelings based on your environment, location, and time of day and provides personalized advice for your wellbeing.
Love.com — Love is a healthcare company that considers community input while creating new therapies.

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — Content Moderation made easy: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users safe.
Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Chile, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

Eileen Burbidge is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere.In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also the Chair of TechCity UK, which is the Britishgovernment-backed organisation supporting digital business across the UK. She is also HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech appointed by then Chancellor George Osborne; Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London’s office and served on former Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group.Eileen was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Meeno — Meeno provides everyday relationship advice - friends, family, romance, workplace. Informed by experts, powered by AI.
Amorai — Meeno provides everyday relationship advice - friends, family, romance, workplace. Informed by experts, powered by AI.
Harmonic Security — Accelerate secure AI adoption without risking the security and privacy of your data.

Elliot Loh is the Founder and CEO at Antenna Radio. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Referly — Referral program software built for tech, SMBs, e-commerce, and service businesses who are serious about getting more referrals.
Twitmusic — Twitmusic is the leading Twitter marketing platform for the music industry.SaaS solution enables music artists & labels to launch campaigns to help them grow their followers, go Trending and reach new audiences on Twitter. In addition, they provide labels with actionable insights & analytics to determine the effectiveness of theirmarketing campaigns.- Registered musicians: 44,000 (with 500,000,000+ followers). - Artist sign up up 200% annually- Registered Artists: Lil Wayne, Jason Mraz, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sean Kingston, Steve Aoki, The Lumineers, Cody Simpson, Cher Lloyd, MC Hammer, Brandy, Muse, Jon Secada, Amanda Palmer, Asher Roth, Miguel & many more.- Partners: Sony, Warner Music, Universal, EMI, Def Jam, Epic Records, RCA, Columbia Records, Tool Room Records, RED Music, Scooter Braun Projects, CAA, Atom Factory, Stricly Rythme, Bill Silva, Hashtag Mgmt, Stampede Mgmt & many more.
Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam

Matt is a Stanford University graduate, investor,entrepreneur, and artist.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Big Data
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Referly — Referral program software built for tech, SMBs, e-commerce, and service businesses who are serious about getting more referrals.
Glimpse — Glimpse is a new way to meet people through Instagram. They use the data behind your photos to make compelling introductions to people you should know. Glimpse combs your photo history to match you with like-minded people who share similar interests, around you.
Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.

Jeff Lawson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Twilio. He is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. Prior to co-founding Twilio, Jeff was Founder & CTO of NineStar, Founding CTO of Stubhub.com and Founder, CEO & CTO of Versity. He was also one of the original product managers for Amazon Web Services.Atevery business, Jeff identified the fundamental need for a platform for developers and companies to easily build communications-based business solutions.Jeff grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, started his first company in middle school, and earned his BS in Computer Science & Film/Video from University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

RevOps — Close deals faster, with fewer errors, and have full visibility throughout the process.
Welcome — Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Superblocks — Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs. Drag and drop UI components. Extend with Python or Javascript. Deploy in 1-click. Secure and Monitor using your favorite tools

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BSin Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

E. Bora Uygun is the Founder and CEO of BORA&SONS. He holds a Ph.D. in information technologies from Marmara University and has an MBA from the same institution.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Anyplace — Rent move-in-ready apartments designed for productivity. Fully furnished, including a state-of-the-art home office setup. Available for short or long-term stays.
RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Argentina, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Num Finance — We build stablecoins of emerging countries to facilitate access to loans, yields and financial tools to millions of people and companies.

Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Digital Media
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vayu — Vayu builds affordable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for healthcare supply chain management and post-disaster aid delivery.Currently, healthcare providers and disaster relief responders in Asia, Africa, and South America depend on unreliable ad-hoc availability of motorcycles, cars, and trucks to serve remote communities, where over onebillion people live all or part of the year without access to all-weather roads.Their vehicle will provide reliable, fast, and affordable delivery of vital goods to these isolated areas, both on a regular basis and in times of crisis.
Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
Strateos — Strateos' Cloud Lab Automation-as-a-Service platform helps scientists more efficiently and reproducibly design, run, and analyze experiments to achieve new and faster scientific discoveries

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.

Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Giga ML — AI first customer service
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

Investment focus

Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Sagar is a 6th Gen. young social researcher, sustainable explorer & energy investment partner from Netherlands & India Sub.Studied M.S (Associate - Executive Degree) in Business & Data Science with Specialization in Energy & Sustainable Technologies at Harvard University, an M.S (Executive) in Finance & Negotiation at YaleUniversity & M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology with Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Breakthrough Innovation at TU Delft, and Bachelors in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.Previously he had been worked at Shell, Netherlands & London, Microsoft - Netherlands and Deloitte - the Edge Amsterdam. His recent association was with World Economic Forum, Netherlands, and Switzerland Sub as a Young Digital Associate. Currently he manages and work as a Joint Managing Director / Industrial Researcher at AASAN Group of companies - a family-owned business group of companies since 1988. Primarily focused over Large scale Industrial Management and Energy Audit, providing expertise over new renewable energy investments, sustainability and innovation tech solutions. As of now his current venture project is to create a next generation renewable energy park of 100 MW to create a sustainable fossil free energy living source for the Indian Subcontinent. Over global scenario he has achieved many Awards/Accomplishments listed below:Finalist as Entrepreneur / Startup leader at Outstanding Leadership Awards 2022 - Australia Nomine: Dutch Intrapreneur Award 2021 - Netherlands UN ECOSOC Youth Leader 2021 - New York Positive Change Ambassador - Erasmus Rotterdam University - April 2021 Wall of Changemakers 2030 - Catalyst London Antler's Copenhagen Founder's Program Feb Cohort 2022 Shortlisted @ World Startup Factory Scholarship Program 2021 | Rotterdam Speaker @ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day - Hamburg Winners @ Futurepreneurs Dutch Open 2020 Recognized as one of top 25 AI based Innovators @ Rockstart Accelerator AI 2019 - Netherlands Finalist of Global Biomimicry Design Challenge 2018-19 - Minneapolis, USA Winner of the worlds biggest Blockchain & AI Hackathon - Odyssey 2019 At present he also creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution of exploration and people's life storyline through building up to tomorrow's food for today's future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. - BDF 1.0He also associated within other portfolio family run ventures such as: Habaple Partners, B'onwterp Labs, Spark Renewables LLP, Solwave Group of Companies.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Private Equity, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Notte Group — A family run venture organization mainly focused over investment management and project planning within areas of energy, renewables, farming, agritech!
AASAN Consultancy — AASAN Consultancy is a management consulting firm providing energy management and engineering services.Its primary focus is on cost reduction, energy consumption analysis, and evaluation, as well as future-oriented planning for the cost-saving strategies for the energy supply. The firm identifies the possibilities to reduce current energy billswithout any impact on the consumer's current quality, volumes, or safety standards.Ratilal M. Bavarva founded the firm in 2018 with its headquarters in Rajkot, Gujarat.
Habaple Solar Technology Limited — An intertwine solar technology company with a next generation of 2.1 MW powerhouse grid base module system with an annual source of electricity generation. The project will be under the guideline of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Ministry of Power.

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

Court Lorenzini is the Director, Board of Directors at United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

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
Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
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.

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralised social network that is ready for you to build atop, so that you can concentrate on building a fantastic experience, rather than increasing your user base.

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

Sleepbox — With questions and inquiries please reach out to mk@sleepbox.com We will get back to you as soon as we can.
CANOPY — CANOPY is an exceptional network of shared workspaces for both accomplished professionals and aspirational entrepreneurs alike - a sophisticated and diverse community of thinkers, creators, builders and innovators. They cater for those who appreciate a more inspiring, contemporary design environment, insist on generosity of space, and need adistraction-free, calm place of work for contemplation and concentration. Their members are more demanding, and won't settle for the contrived, compromised or dumbed down alternatives out there. They value being around others they feel a genuine affinity with, and being part of a valuable ecosystem that meaningfully creates more opportunities, and greater success. They believe the workspace you are a member of is part of your personal brand. It says something about who you are. It partly defines you. If you’re serious about your work, come to CANOPY.
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.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lyso — Lyso is a software that fully automates the checkout process within milliseconds on retail websites. It currently supports over 1,000 retail sites, including popular ones such as Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Target.
Canonical Crypto — Canonical Crypto is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in technology companies building blockchain infrastructure
Redbeard Ventures — Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.

Gramaglia has been a director of Acxiom since 2009 and serves as the non-executive chairman of the board and as a member of the Board’s Executive Committee and Governance/Nominating Committee. He served in 2011 for a four-month period as Acxiom’s interim chief executive officer and president while a search was conducted for a new CEO. Mr.Gramaglia, a private investor and advisor to technology start-ups, previously served as partner for Arrowpath Venture Partners, and as president and chief operating officer of E*TRADE Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ETFC).Mr. Gramaglia began his career at Procter & Gamble and later held senior marketing and general management positions at Nestle, PepsiCo, Imasco and Sprint.He currently serves on the board of WageWorks (NYSE: WAGE), a leading provider of tax-advantaged employee benefits, and is a former director of Coldwater Creek (NASDAQ: CWTR), a national retailer of women’s apparel.He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Denison University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Analytics, Venture Capital
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

CircleUp — Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

Nattaphol Vimolchalao is the Chief Executive Officer at Siamrajathanee Public Company. He attended the University of Cambridge from 2010-2012.

Investment focus

Venture Capital
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Revere VC — Venture capital for the modern asset allocator.

Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Save time and money, manage spend, and scale your business with Payhawk. Get premium Visa Cards, dedicated IBANs, SEPA, and Faster Payments, all in one place.
Reloyalty — Get rewarded automatically for staying loyal to local businesses in London
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.
Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.

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

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Joshua Browder is the Founder and CEO of DoNotPay.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Galvanick — Secure industrial operations. Galvanick's industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform secures industrial systems and networks against cyber attacks.
POSH — Event marketing made easy.
Somethings — Somethings is a platform for wellness tailored to young people that links youngsters with qualified mentors.

Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Financial Services, Information Technology
Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
Gateway — Gateway is a decentralized protocol for creating, consuming, and displaying verifiable credentials.
Ion Protocol — Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others).

Dave Eisenberg joined Zigg Capital as Founding Partner in 2019. Co-Founder & CEO of Floored www.Floored.com Previous Experience: EIR at Accel Partners (NYC) Head of Product Marketing at TellApart (SF) Chief of Staff at Bonobos (NYC) Associate Consultant at Bain (NYC) College: A.B. Harvard Twitter: @Eisenberg

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Great Jones — At Great Jones, our mission is to deliver software & services to the several trillion (!) dollars in rental homes owned by small-scale investors.To reach that potential, we are starting with modern, full-service, highly technology-fueled property management – itself a $30-40 billion market, as well as the connective tissue to hundreds ofbillions of dollars’ worth of products & services to owners, residents, and other relevant stakeholders.Our leadership team has spent over a decade building digital platforms and operational machines that have powered billions of dollars' worth of transactions for businesses like 1stdibs, Skillshare, Uber, and Warby Parker.We are well-funded by leading global investors including Crosslink Capital, Zigg Capital, Juxtapose, and top NYC angels & real estate entrepreneurs including Kevin Ryan, David Rosenblatt, and Jason Finger, who have founded or led companies such as Seamless, Gilt Groupe, MongoDB, DoubleClick, 1stdibs, Floored, and others.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Braavo Capital — Braavo provides on-demand funding for mobile apps and games. Revenue-based funding allows founders to scale on their own terms, without giving up equity.

Elissa Fink is the Member Board Of Directors at Talend.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Sales
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Goldcast — Goldcast is the purpose-built platform for B2B marketers to run more engaging events and drive revenue. Marketers use Goldcast to create a Netflix style user experience for attendees and provide actionable engagement insights for the sales team through seamless integrations
Keyplay — Keyplay is a software company that focuses on account research to help B2B teams cut waste and improve sales confidence. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Magnify — Magnify is a post-sales orchestration platform and uses AI and Machine Learning to optimize and automate the customer lifecycle for enterprise software. From emails to training videos to in-product interactions to customer success platforms, Magnify creates the ideal sequence and timing of the customer interactions. Designed to drive deep adoptionand usage in a customer account, Magnify will identify where churn or expansion is likely and automatically launch the appropriate action in software.

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Atman Labs — Atman Labs works to create the AI softwares and trying to reach the true human intelligence.

Surojit Chatterjee is an Angel Investor at Angel Investor. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management, the University at Buffalo, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Enrico Pandian is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartupGym and the Founder of FrescoFrigo. He previously worked at Checkout Technologies as a Co-Founder and President of the Board. Enrico Pandian attended the University of Verona.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quisto — On Quisto, Ho.Re.Ca. retailers can find the best suppliers in their area and purchase 24/7 whatever they need for their business --> www.quisto.it
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atomic Loans — Atomic Loans is a protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen. By extending atomic swap technology, Atomic Loans enables users to interact with trustless, cross-chain debt agreements. We use the functionality of the native Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to enable lending without requiring customers to delegatetrust to centralized custodians, ensuring their funds will never be stolen or seized.
Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Jeremy Au is the Head of Strategic Projects at Monk's Hill Ventures. Jeremy Au attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CozyKin — CozyKin provided personal care by matching families to share a Montessori-trained nanny with modern tools. The platform raised over $8 million in venture capital and was acquired by Higher Ground Education in 2020.“Who will take care of my baby when I go back to work?” Millions of new mothers in America asked this question every year as theyincreasingly plan to return to the workforce earlier and earlier. Millennial families struggle to find the right care due to the shortage of childcare, complexity of the search and their increasing desire for cognitively-appropriate care. CozyKin ran the two-sided market between new families and great nannies. Families were grouped based on location, schedule and preferences. CozyKin-employed nannies cared for 2-3 infants at the same time in the private home of these families.For parents, we delivered better quality, convenience, socialization and value than daycares or nannies. We backed this up with easy-to-use tech, 24/7 customer support and our 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Midstay — Experience the perfect team retreat with Midstay's full-service planning. From logistics to local concierge support, stress-free and memorable retreats.
Revere VC — Venture capital for the modern asset allocator.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Paul Veradittakit is a Partner at Pantera Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
Arpeggi Labs — Arpeggi is a web3 music creation platform where musicians can publish their sounds for others to create with. Begin remixing samples, loops, and songs in our free in-browser DAW in one click. Connect with artists. Grow your following.

Kamran Ansari is a Venture Partner at Greycroft and was a Head of Corporate Development at Pinterest. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, and Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Estonia, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Hopscotch — We believe the flow of money between businesses should mirror the seamless flow of money between individuals. As former small business owners ourselves, we're all too familiar with the intricacies of getting paid and making payments to service providers. Hopscotch's stored value accounts and consumer-like business profiles enable us tocreate an unmatched payments experience. But our vision extends beyond a payments platform. We're building a destination for small businesses to connect, transact, and grow together. A simple, easy-to-use interface. A community of businesses thriving. Together. As one.
Hopscotch — Hopscotch is an open, mobile experiences platform for teams, venues and event organizers that want to increase loyalty and generate new revenue streams. Our company is founded on the principle that mobile apps should be easy – easy for the fan to use and easy for customers to manage. Our ease-of-use is how we’re successful with customers of allsizes, even those with very limited resources.
Braavo Capital — Braavo provides on-demand funding for mobile apps and games. Revenue-based funding allows founders to scale on their own terms, without giving up equity.

Phillip Sebole Masango is a Mentor at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eclipde Hub and Black Silver Capital, a Strategic Intelligence Member of World Economic Forum, a Member of Norval Foundation, Heavy Chef, Startup Grind Stellenbosch, The Silicon Cape Initiative, DueDash, and SimplyBiz_SA, and an ExecutiveDirector and Founder of Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics Co.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Robotics, Aerospace
Series A, Seed, Private Equity
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Black Silver Capital — Black Silver Capital invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth companies and businesses with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. We invest growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but still high-risk ventures in expanding activity such as creatingadditional traction launching products into diverse markets as well as creating new products & technology lines.
Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

Chad Cohen is the Board Director of Vacasa and an Operating Partner at Cota Capital. He previously worked at Trupanion as a Board Chairman. Chad Cohen attended Harvard-Westlake School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Incubators, Venture Capital
Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

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 McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.