Top 50 Angel Investors in United States in November 2024

Investor	Venture Capital United States investments
Ullas Naik	5
Kingsley Advani	4
Matt Monahan	3
Eileen Burbidge	3
E. Bora Uygun	3
Elliot Loh	3
Damien Tanner	3
Jeff Lawson	3
Eric Ries	3
Garry Tan	3
Aidan Fitzpatrick	2
Paul Veradittakit	2
Steve Loughlin	2
Paul Graham	2
Kamran Ansari	2
Fernando Pontaza	2
Alex Fisher	2
Chris Yeh	2
Dave McClure	2
Olivier Delfosse	2
Court Lorenzini	2
Ronald Conway	2
Jon Gelsey	2
Ryan Selkis	2
Jerry Gramaglia	2
Marc Andreessen	2
Kevin Lin	2
Eric Chen	2
Guillaume "G" Cabane	2
Chad Cohen	2
Dave Eisenberg	2
Mike McSherry	2
Naveen Selvadurai	2
Enrico Pandian	2
Kyle Wang	2
Jeremy Au	2
Nattaphol Vimolchalao	2
Joshua Browder	2
Christopher Hill	2
Erik Blachford	2
Elissa Fink	2
Eric Chen	2
Raju Indukuri	2
Vikal K	1
Diogo Mónica	1
David Topper	1
David Mes	1
James Lee Sorenson	1
Rohini Pandhi	1
Jon Staenberg	1

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 — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators 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.

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 software for tech, SMBs, e-commerce, and service businesses. Join 1000s of businesses getting - more referrals - more often from customers who love them
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.

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 — Personalized advice for meaningful relationships.
Amorai — Personalized advice for meaningful relationships.
Harmonic Security — Accelerate secure AI adoption without risking the security and privacy of your data.

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 — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — 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.

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 software for tech, SMBs, e-commerce, and service businesses. Join 1000s of businesses getting - more referrals - more often from customers who love them
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.

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

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, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

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.
Augie Studio — 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.

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, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Aidan Fitzpatrick is CEO at Reincubate. He invests through Fitcap.

Investment focus

Content, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gumroad — Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. We make it easy to earn your first dollar online by selling digital products, memberships and more.
On Deck — On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community.
Behind Genius Ventures — Behind Genius Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the future of work and play.

Paul Veradittakit is a Partner at Pantera Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Germany

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.
Kits.AI — 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.

Steve joined Accel in 2016.He was formerly CEO and co-founder of RelateIQ, which became SalesforceIQ after being acquired in 2014 for $390 million by Salesforce. RelateIQ pioneered the development of Relationship Intelligence technology, which enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of sales teams.Steve led Accel's investments in andsits on the boards of Airkit, Ascend.io, Assembly, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Productiv, Split.io, and Vivun.Steve is from Portland, Oregon, and has a BA and MBA from Stanford University. He was a member of the Track and Cross Country Team at Stanford from 1999-2003.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ClearGraph — ClearGraph provides enterprise search solutions to make data accessible to business users at massive scale. The ClearGraph proprietary semantic search platform uses context awareness and natural language processing to intelligently interpret and answer english language queries, making finding and understanding enterprise data as easy as search.
Productiv — Productiv's automated workflows and deep analytics enable smarter renewal decisions, more intelligent license allocations, and stronger application adoption.
Roam Analytics — Roam is transforming how the healthcare industry analyzes patient and provider pathways through a machine learning platform purpose-built for healthcare. Analysis powered by Roam's platform and applications enable our customers to improve development, marketing, and outreach across a wide range of therapeutic areas.Roam's approachcenters around the Roam Health Knowledge Graph™ (“RHKG”), a pre-built structured data ontology with a dedicated focus on healthcare. In the RHKG, healthcare entities are organized according to meaningful relations derived from numerous data sources. These entities include drugs, devices, diseases, procedures, providers, physicians, and many more. Public data sets have been used to develop this structure so that new data sets, whether structured or unstructured, can be integrated to create a single, integrated data asset consisting of any number of different data sources. The result is an unprecedented, ever-more comprehensive view of the industry that unlocks the value of existing data to enable more effective decision-making.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
Cartage — Cartage is an AI operating system for shippers & 3PLs that automates routine tasks and connects users to carriers.

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 — Access money tied up in net terms with the best invoicing software for small businesses. Send invoices and pay bills payments without fees.
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.

Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ecuador, Guatemala

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Picker — On-demand delivery gateway.
Atom Computing — Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California.

Alex Fisher started his first business in high school, a computer repair company, that was featured on the front page of the Detroit Free Press. With an interest in both engineering and business he majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn while creating and failing at multiple startups. His last business, CommercialProgression, was founded after getting laid-off during the Great Recession in February 2009. In 2016, after becoming one of the largest web design companies in Michigan, CP was acquired by a Chicago marketing agency. Today, Alex is head-down in blockchain technology which is disrupting the world of finance, banking, logistics and other sectors through "trustless" computing. He is helping to build the blockchain community as organizer of the Michigan Ethereum Meetup group as well as providing blockchain consulting to select enterprise clients.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
EPIC AEROSPACE — We are building a network of space-tugs to enable satellites to freely move in space, helping them see the areas that matter most to us here on Earth. Our orbit-transfer vehicles are the most compact, lowest cost, and highest performance in the market; leveraging in-house propulsion and structures for the optimal single and multi-payload performance capabilities.
Spaced Ventures — Spaced Ventures is a public investment platform for the space industry. Their platform gives direct access to investment deals and lets them back the hottest space startups. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Florida.

Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks.Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship;his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction).You can reach Chris by e-mail at chris@wasabiventures.com and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pressto — Pressto helps to develop media literacy, critical thinking and strong writing skills in students of all ages through journalism. Teachers and parents are looking to modernize their approach to critical writing and media literacy: Pressto does both.
Fêtefully — Your Style. Your Budget. Your Way. A virtual experience personalized for every couple.
Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.

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, Angel
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.

Olivier Delfosse is a Head of Strategic Partnerships and West Coast Operations at Jellysmack. He attended University of Virginia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Venture Capital, Drones
Angel, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) — Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
Able — The simplest way to manage your income.
Everywhere Ventures — Everywhere Ventures (fka "The Fund") is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Ex-CEO of Xnor.ai, which created deep neural network machine learning models that enable powerful AI even on highly resource-constrained platforms. Xnor was acquired by Apple in January 2020.Ex-CEO of Auth0, an IDaaS that eliminates the friction of identity for apps, APIs & IoT, as it grew from 5 employees to nearly 300 employeesinternationally. Auth0 has raised a over $100M in venture capital from top-tier investors. During Jon's tenure as CEO, Auth0 acquired customers in 100+ countries, developed an engineering, marketing, sales, finance and ops team that was distributed across 35 countries, with offices in Bellevue, London, Buenos Aires and Sydney, and a valuation exceeding a half-billion dollars.Broad and deep experience with VC/M&A deal analysis, evaluation, structuring, and execution, specializing in deals with complex tech & biz model components. Excellent negotiation skills. Excels in senior leadership positions charting new territories in technologies, products or business models.Publicly disclosed xactions at Microsoft: Greenfield Online, Powerset, Kidaro, Calista, Multimap, N-trig, Tellme, StorSimple, HLW Software, and Apiphany. These deals generated $1.6B+ in incremental operating income to Microsoft; Jon led 1/3 of all of Microsoft's acquisitions closed in '13 .Product management for the Convex Exemplar SPP-1xxx (acquired by HP to become the Superdome server line), and Mentor Calibre (most successful product of all time for the company).System architecture & design projects include the most successful minisupercomputer of all time (Convex C2), world's first commercially available GaAs supercomputer (Convex C3), and the massively parallel Convex SPP, which became the HP Superdome. IC design experience includes CMOS, ECL and GaAs memory & cache controllers, as well as CPU arithmetic units.Inventor of U.S. patent 7,108,933 "Thermally efficient hydrogen storage system" (pertains to fuel cells).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zuplo — Zuplo is fully-managed API Management designed for developers. Add rate-limiting, authentication and more as fast as you can commit to git.
Trinsic — Trinsic is a full-stack self-sovereign identity platform that makes sharing and verifying personal data online.
CommandK — CommandK provides the infrastructure to protect sensitive data, prevent data breaches & simplify governance.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

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.

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Phi — Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users.
Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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!

Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tavus — Programmatically create thousands of videos of yourself, without saying a word. AI generated videos for sales, product, marketing, recruiting, and more
Friday Finance — Access your bank accounts, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Set up Airbank for free in less than 10 minutes.
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

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 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, Australia

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.

Mike McSherry is the CEO at Xealth. He previously worked at Providence Health & Services as a Entrepreneur in Residence. He attended William & Mary in 1986.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Apptentive — Measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across your mobile customer journey.
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.

Naveen Selvadurai is Co-Founder, Founding CTO, and Board Member at Input.com. He previously worked at Expa as a Partner. Naveen Selvadurai attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Charm — We build tools to make the command line glamorous.
Managed by Q — Keep your workplace running smoothly with Eden Workplace's all-in-one workplace management and desk booking software. Discover how Eden Workplace's suite of solutions can streamline your workflow today!
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

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.

Kyle Wang is a US investor focusing on Mobile, SaaS, Blockchain, Lending, and Real Estate.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Celsius Network — Celsius is a Blockchain-based marketplace platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions. Celsius specializes in the fields of consumer lending, fintech, and financial services. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.
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.

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.

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.

Joshua Browder is the Founder and CEO of DoNotPay.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

Chris Hill is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. Chris founded Spotlite in 2012 to provide consumers with the education and guidance to make health benefits decisions that best fit their personal needs. In 2014, Spotlite was acquired by Rally Health (owned by UnitedHealth Group). Chris founded PerkSpot in 2006 and currently servesas its Chairman. PerkSpot provides employee perks and buying programs to more than 5 million employees from large employers including Starbucks, Yahoo!, Southwest, and Walgreens.

Investment focus

B2B, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Hunt Club — We're not like traditional recruiting firms. Hunt Club's recruiting network contains leaders, executives, founders, and entrepreneurs across all industries.
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.

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.

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.

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

E-Commerce, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Vietnam

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!

Raju Indukuri - Co-Founder @ Quantela

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.

Vikal Kapoor of New York, NY is a global executive, investor and futurist with a keen sense of the global forces and next-gen tech that unlock value for founders, investors and markets that yield socially positive consequences. He focuses on the confluence of strategy, sales and tech as applied to VC, PE and LP backed cos including success atProton Enterprises, Bloomberg, SevenTrain Ventures, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Restaurants, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Arlo Skye — Luggage and travel accessories for the design-obsessed. Enjoy free shipping and returns, plus a 90 day trial.
EquityNet — EquityNet is a financial services company that specializes in providing solutions in the fields of angel investors, investment banking, business funding, and venture capital. It provides access to thousands of approved, self-accredited investors and has helped entrepreneurs across North America raise over $300MM in equity, debt, and alternativelysourced capital.The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Resy, American Express Global Dining Network — Resy connects you to the best restaurants in the world

Diogo Mónica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage Digital, the premier digital asset platform for institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technical University of Lisbon, and has worked in software security for over 15 years. As an early employee at Square, he helped build security architecture that now moves $100Bannually. At Docker, he helped secure core infrastructure used in global banks, governments, and the three largest cloud providers.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.

David Topper is the current Chief Financial Officer of Inmagene Biopharmaceuticals. He previously worked at General Atlantic as a Partner. David Topper attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Medical, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
United States

Portfolio highlights

Alpine Immune Sciences — Alpine Immune Sciences creates modern therapies targeting the immune synapse to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.
CircleUp — Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded.
QTS Realty Trust — QTS Realty Trust operates as a technology infrastructure company that provides data center facilities and managed services. The company's managed facilities provide colocation, and monitoring and systems management services. Its managed services include managed storage/tape backup, security, disaster recovery, professional services, loadbalancing, application and database management, and monitoring and service management; and media services include media and streaming, media encoding and transcoding, event production, signal acquisition, creative services, and digital media library services. The company has strategic partnerships with IBM, Internap, Cisco Powered Network, Microsoft Gold Partner, EMC, Veritas, StorageTek (Sun), and Network Appliance. Quality Technology Services, Inc. was formerly known as e^deltacom. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Suwanee, Georgia. It has facilities in Overland Park, Kansas; Atlanta, Georgia; Jersey City and Fairfield, New Jersey; Manhattan, New York; Santa Clara, California; Miami, Florida; Lenexa, Topeka, and Wichita, Kansas; and Indianapolis, Indiana. As of September 1, 2005, Quality Technology Services, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Quality Group of Companies, Inc.

David is a Founder and Managing Partner at Off The Grid Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm. Off The Grid Ventures backs "off the grid entrepreneurs", i.e. women and foreign/immigrant entrepreneurs, in the B2B Tech and Fintech arenas. These entrepreneurs are underserved when it comes to early-stage funding, andyet the diversity of their teams lead them to reach great heights. Prior to founding Off The Grid Ventures, David was a Managing Partner at Arc Venture Partners and a Senior Principal at Cipio Partners, both secondary direct venture capital firms. In these capacities, he led and managed investments in successful companies such as Airtight Networks, Broadbus (acquired by Motorola), Continuous Computing (acquired by Radisys), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), DisplayLink, Fortemedia, Impinj (NASDAQ: PI), Polychromix (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), PSS Systems (acquired by IBM), Tropos Networks (acquired by ABB), Verimatrix, and Voltage Security (acquired by Hewlett Packard).Previously, David was an investment manager at the NESBIC CTE Fund, a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm where he notably led the firm’s investments in Outsystems and Oxxio (acquired by Centrica). Before becoming a venture capitalist, David started his career as an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in London and Banque Paribas in Sao Paulo.David holds an MBA from Wharton, a Masters in Applied Economics from the IEP de Paris, a BA in Business Law from Sorbonne University and a BA in Political Sciences from the IEP de Paris.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BaseVenture — We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
Swarm Vision — Swarm Vision is the innovation system that drives rapid growth with your current workforce. Read on to see how you can get started today!
otto-js — Stop hackers from exploiting your third-party tools and protect your web applications from Magecart, data skimming, malware, trojans, phishing, malvertising, fraud, adware, revenue skimming, customer hijacking, and spell-jacking.

James Lee Sorenson provided the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah a $13 million gift in 2013 to create the Sorenson Impact Center (formerly the James Lee Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing (SGII)), with a mission to cultivate students’ social impact expertise. Jim plays an active role in supporting the Center andmentoring its student participants.After leading a team that developed a high-quality, low-cost videophone that transformed communication capabilities for 1,000,000 deaf individuals in the early 2000s, Jim realized that his investments could ‘do well while doing good,’ and he hasn’t looked back. He was an early funder of microfinance, granting funds to non-profit Unitus in the early 2000s and then investing in Unitus’s for-profit spin-off, Unitus Equity Fund (UEF). Through UEF, Jim invested in SKS Microfinance Ltd. (now called Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd.), an Indian company providing financial services to the poor. From 2006–2009, SKS grew from serving 200,000 clients to 3,700,000 clients, and in 2009, SKS went public with a market capitalization of $1.7 billion.In 2012, through the Sorenson Impact Foundation, Jim began making program-related investments (PRIs) into high-impact, early-stage social enterprises with robust business models capable of reaching underserved populations at scale. In 2013, Jim became an early investor into Pay for Success, also called social impact bonds (SIBs). His first PFS investment was in New York State for a program that aimed to reduce recidivism. Financial returns depended on the success of job-training programs for newly released prisoners. When the project was announced, 41 percent of formerly incarcerated individuals returned to prison within three years, costing government $60,000 per prisoner annually. Since then, Jim has participated in several PFS transactions in the state of Utah and Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Travel, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Blowhorn — Grow your brand with same day delivery on our network using full stack solutions for all your logistics needs
Mission Markets — Mission Markets operates a capital market for impact investments. It provides capital market support services and data and technology solutions to the growing market of impact investors and socially responsible companies. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.
University Growth Fund — The University Venture Fund (UVF) is the largest student-managed venture capital fund ($18.2M) in the United States. UVF is an independent venture fund that leverages the innovation of students from around the country. It promotes entrepreneurship by creating a forum of students to be directly involved in venture capital. Associates in theUniversity Venture Fund are given a unique opportunity to work together with seasoned venture capitalists performing due diligence on start-up opportunities around the nation. UVF has invested alongside many nationally recognized venture funds including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, Battery Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Opus Capital, Best-Buy Capital, etc. Major investors include Morgan Stanley and UBS.University Venture Fund invests in compelling new technologies, high growth opportunities and stable cash flowing businesses across a broad range of industries and sectors. This opportunistic investment approach allows UVF to take advantage of the latest trends and market dynamics and leverage the diverse backgrounds of our students. UVF only co-invests alongside other reputable institutional investors.Each year UVF hosts the University Private Equity Summit when business students from around North America gather to share best practices and learn from investment industry professionals.

Rohini is the Product Lead at Square and spent a number of years as the Senior Product Manager at PubNub, a startup providing a global Data Stream Network for developers. In her free time, she also advises tech startups in the Bay Area. Her previous experiences have been in building new products with entrepreneurs, developing and marketing existingproduct lines for startups, and creating innovation strategies for larger corporations. Rohini is from the Midwest and studied Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and completed her MBA from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

doola — Doola is a trusted partner for helping global entrepreneurs confidently form their companies in the US. We help our customers incorporate, access US payment systems, and stay legal year after year through continued support, business basics, and a global-first mindset.
Sydecar — Sydecar is a deal execution platform for venture investors. We handle back-office operations for emerging venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.

Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two fundstotaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups.Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com.Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies.Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Proxifile — Our mission is to use technology and design to level the playing field for small businesses and the common person in a world where typically on the wealthiest people and large corporations can afford expensive counsel.
ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
Legalpad — Need a work visa? Contact Legalpad by Deel, one of the best visa service companies providing premium visa services. Sign up for a consultation today!