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Top 35 Facebook Startup Investors in United States in October 2023

A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Facebook startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Facebook companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Facebook Startup Investors in United States in October 2023

Investor Facebook United States investments
Delta Partners 3
TMT Investments 3
Sierra Ventures 2
CABRA VC 2
Val Katayev 2
FirstMark 2
Union Square Ventures 2
Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund 2
Mattias Westman 1
Jonathan Miller 1
Mana Ventures 1
ICU Ventures 1
Gaingels 1
Manatt Venture Fund 1
TheVentureCity 1
Monster Venture Partners 1
Pequot Capital 1
Schoffstall Ventures 1
Andrew Filev 1
Kai Huang 1
TA Ventures 1
Larry Marcus 1
Mike Merkulov 1
Aitarget Tech 1
Scott Banister 1
Robert Goldstein 1
Roger Ehrenberg 1
Boost VC 1
Andrew Boszhardt Jr. 1
Sue Decker 1
Digital Future 1
Roman Kirsch 1
Jason Johnson 1
Tim Draper 1
Mika Salmi 1

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Delta Partners
VC Fund · Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
  • Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
  • Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.
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TMT Investments
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 3 investments in the past 12 months

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

  • Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
  • Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
  • Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.
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Sierra Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of enterprise, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Paro — Paro empowers businesses & finance professionals to pursue meaningful work & achieve success, harnessing the power of people and technology.
  • Qualiti — Qualiti uses AI to test any software product with no human input.
  • PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.
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CABRA VC
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Cabra.vc is a venture fund for technological startups that want to scale out to international markets

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
  • Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
  • Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
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Val Katayev
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is apioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it's AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years.Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $100M through profits and exits, all before taking any venture capital.While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world's largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College.These days Val is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies. As always on the lookout for the next big project to dedicate himself to.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Audio
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
  • Thismoment — Thismoment is a marketing technology company that enables the world’s biggest companies to connect with their target audiences in real time on any device. Through Thismoment Content Cloud, our digital storytelling platform, they enable effortless content curation, digital experience creation and sharing, content rights management and seamlessenterprise technology integrations. More than 150 top brands and agencies use Thismoment, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Levi’s, Sephora, Fleishman Hillard and Digitas. Thismoment's vision is to give their customers endless opportunities to engage their customers with any content, anywhere. That’s no small feat, but after working with over 150 of the Fortune 500 brands since 2007, we think we’re in a unique position to make it happen.
  • Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify) — Signal360 is the leading in-venue mobile notification platform for real-time user engagement. Signal360's platform uses cross-platform patented inaudible-sound mobile notification technologies as well as the emerging BLE standard (full support for iBeacon and Android BLE) to wirelessly enable retail locations to interact with customersthrough existing consumer mobile apps, retailer-specific mobile apps, and/or custom created apps.
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FirstMark
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders of iconic and industry-defining companies.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
  • Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
  • Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
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Union Square Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, 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.
  • Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
  • Lydian — Lydian aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry by electrifying the chemical production process. Founded in 2021 by Branko Zugic, Lydian is headquartered in
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Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Based in Dublin, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund supports management teams that need capital to expand their businesses into new markets.

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Investment focus

  • Personalization, Software, Advertising
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fenergo — Client Lifecycle Management Technology Developed in Collaboration with 60+ Global Banks. Home.
  • StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
  • HeyStaks — Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle and Dr Peter Briggs.HeyStaks patented intent analytics platform analyses web usage data to build rich, accurate profiles that capture a person's intent and interests. It does this in a privacy-enhanced way and is sensitiveto context signals such as location and time to create a dynamic view of customer intent. For mobile operators, HeyStaks helps them know their customer and unlock entirely new revenue streams by delivering superior user experiences, advertisements and offers that are timely and relevant.
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Mattias Westman
Angel

Mattias Westman is the Founding Partner of Prosperity Capital Management, an investment firm specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. PCM is an active investor with assets of some 2.8bn USD. Prior to founding PCM in 1996, he worked for investment banks Hagströmer & Qviberg and Alfred Berg and started investing in Russia in 1993.Westman has also served on the boards of several Russian companies and as Deputy Chairman of the Investor Protection Association in Russia. He holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • SMS, Medical, Facebook
  • Series A, Series C, Debt Financing
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
  • Bluestar Genomics
  • Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.
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Jonathan Miller
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Jonathan Miller is a Partner at Advancit Capital. He has been a director of TripAdvisor since the completion of the Spin-Off from Expedia in December 2011.Miller was the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s digital media group and News Corporation’s Chief Digital Officer from April 2009 until October 2012. Miller had previously beena founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group (“Velocity”), an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet, from its inception in February 2007 until April 2009.Prior to founding Velocity, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC (“AOL”) from August 2002 to December 2006. Prior to joining AOL, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer and President of USA Information and Services, of USA Interactive, a predecessor to IAC/InterActiveCorp (“IAC”). Miller also served as a director of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. from August 2008 until January 2010, and as a director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. from January 2010 through April 2011.Miller is currently a member of the Board of Directors of J2 Global, Inc. Miller also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, News, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Knotch — Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies.
  • Fresco News — Visit FrescoNews today to find informative and engaging insights, news, and trends in technology and business. Check out the website for more details!
  • Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises
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Mana Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Virtual Reality
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
  • TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
  • Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
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ICU Ventures
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine

ICU Ventures is a venture investment branch of ICU, an independent asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specialising in the emerging markets of CEE. Our main focus are early stage technology companies with Eastern European roots. This means it's preferable for us that either Founders or Engineering & Softwaredevelopment are from/located in Eastern Europe. We provide companies not only with a necessary capital but also with strategic support and a network of contacts in order to expand them internationally. Apart from gaming and gambling ICU is interested in investing across all the sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Computer Vision, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Germany, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

  • Jenfi — Drive growth with Jenfi's revenue-based financing. Tailored funding for marketing & expansion. Flexible repayments. Apply now.
  • Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
  • Revenue Grid — Revenue Grid is a revenue intelligence platform that helps improve sales performance and shifts your CRM from the "view mode" to the "do mode"
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 89 investments in the past 12 months

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
  • Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
  • Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
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Manatt Venture Fund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States

The Manatt Venture Fund is the investment arm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm. The Fund makes early-stage investments, and since its founding in 2000 it has made investments in over 90 companies. The official investment entity is MPP Holdings, LLC.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
  • Kitterly — Kitterly sells knitting & crochet kits to make anything from accessories, clothing and dog sweaters.
  • Genome Medical — We are genetic experts who partner with healthcare organizations to deliver best-in-class genetic counseling services and bring precision medicine to more lives.
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TheVentureCity
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
  • Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
  • BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
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Monster Venture Partners
VC Fund · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Monster Venture Partners is the early stage venture fund started and managed by Monster Venture Partners promotes its philosophy as being founder focused, and takes an alternative approach to funding that could bedescribed as somewhere in between the position of angel investors and larger venture funds.They typically invest $250K to $1.5 million in a single deal, and if larger funding is needed, they will co-invest or syndicate with other strategic investors.

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Investment focus

  • Facebook, Software, Advertising
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Clickable — Clickable solves a problem other advertising technologies do not address- the Company helps advertisers and brands measure their marketing ROI by connecting disparate products and services into one platform. Clickable connects to any data source, and visualizes data in any layout, providing the information that marketers, advertisers and agenciesneed to make marketing placement and spending decisions. Clickable is 100% owned by LookSmart, a public company which purchased the Company’s technology, assets and team in Fall 2013 for less than $10 million and re-launched in 2014. In its previous incarnation, the Company raised a total of $60 million from leading venture capital investors before its sale to a company that failed due to excess business concentration with a single customer, creating the 2013 acquisition opportunity. Over $30 million alone was invested in the data warehouse infrastructure.The Company is looking to raise $2 million through the sale of preferred stock in Clickable to expand its sales and marketing team and accelerate growth. Please click on Executive Summary under External Links (to the right) for an overview of the Company.For more information, please contact Church Lewis, Partner at Gruppo, Levey & Co. at clewis@glconline.com or 646-723-8904.
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Pequot Capital
VC Fund · Westport, Connecticut, United States

Pequot Capital Management, Inc. announced its closing in 2009.Pequot Capital Management, Inc. is a U.S. registered investment adviser founded in 1998 by Arthur J. Samberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to manage the Pequot Family of Funds, which began trading in 1986. The firm manages approximately $5.0 billion in assets as of September30, 2008 (including approximately $580 million of uncalled committed capital) in multiple strategies. An institutional quality infrastructure and an extensive proprietary research platform supports over 150 employees, with offices in Connecticut, New York, California and London. Pequot Capital offers a diverse range of investment products tailored to the needs of domestic and offshore investors. Their clients include institutions and sophisticated high net worth investors. They continually evaluate their product line and encourage innovation within the firm.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series C, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • AcuFocus — Acufocus, Inc., a medical device company, engages in the research, development, and marketing of solutions for the treatment of presbyopia. The company develops KAMRA, a corner inlay for the treatment of near vision loss that allows patients to see near and intermediate objects clearly; and AcuTarget, a system that is used to guide surgeons onsurgical placement of the KAMRA.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Irvine, California.
  • Facet Solutions — Facet Solutions develops surgical devices for the treatment of degenerative spinal disorders. Facet Solutions was founded on 2003 and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
  • iBiquity Digital Corporation — IBiquity Digital develops and licenses a digital HD Radio technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting in the United States and internationally. Its HD radio technology allows digital radio signals to ride the same airwaves as analog AM and FM radio broadcasts. The company provides a Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessoryand a Gigaware HD Radio application for iPhone and iPod touch users to receive HD Radio FM broadcasts. iBiquity Digital Corporation was formerly known as USA Digital Radio, Inc. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, with additional offices in Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Pontiac, Michigan.
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Schoffstall Ventures
VC Fund · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Schoffstall Ventures invests in innovative technologies backed by strong managements and business plans. They invest in Internet and information technology ventures in the seed and early stages, focusing on communications and networking technologies, information services, and the use of technology in realizing business and process efficiencies.The Schoffstall Ventures team brings decades of experience in operating and growing early stage companies from inception to the liquidity event, as well as one of the largest networks of industry contacts in the country. Their goal is to partner with visionary entrepreneurs in a company's early stages, providing the benefits of their operational experience, contact network and potential synergies with their portfolio companies to help create long-term value in today's competitive marketplace.

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Investment focus

  • Software, B2B, Facebook
  • Series A, Series C, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Ikimbo — Get this domain name before someone else does. Quick and painless shopping. Affordable payment options available.
  • Clickable — Clickable solves a problem other advertising technologies do not address- the Company helps advertisers and brands measure their marketing ROI by connecting disparate products and services into one platform. Clickable connects to any data source, and visualizes data in any layout, providing the information that marketers, advertisers and agenciesneed to make marketing placement and spending decisions. Clickable is 100% owned by LookSmart, a public company which purchased the Company’s technology, assets and team in Fall 2013 for less than $10 million and re-launched in 2014. In its previous incarnation, the Company raised a total of $60 million from leading venture capital investors before its sale to a company that failed due to excess business concentration with a single customer, creating the 2013 acquisition opportunity. Over $30 million alone was invested in the data warehouse infrastructure.The Company is looking to raise $2 million through the sale of preferred stock in Clickable to expand its sales and marketing team and accelerate growth. Please click on Executive Summary under External Links (to the right) for an overview of the Company.For more information, please contact Church Lewis, Partner at Gruppo, Levey & Co. at clewis@glconline.com or 646-723-8904.
  • XMLSolutions Corporation — XMLSolutions Corporation enables the secure, reliable, real-time B2B exchange of direct and indirect materials transactions over the Internet, among trading partners, exchanges and marketplaces of all sizes. XMLSolutions' technology provides true dialect independence among all existing and future EDI and XML standards. The XMLSolutionsintegrated solution includes support for XML-to-XML transformations; EDI-to-XML integration; and over 3000 mission-critical, industry-specific EDI business documents.XMLSolutions delivers a complete solution for the secure purchase of mission-critical goods over the Internet.XMLSolutions industry expertise extends well into the aerospace, automotive, petrochemical, computer and electronics, financial, insurance, utilities, healthcare, and retail industries.
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Andrew Filev
Angel · San Jose, California, United States

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, provider of popular social project management software with customers from 50+ countries.Andrew started his first software development company at the age of 18. Today, he is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager, and advisor to several fast-growing ventures. Andrew'sviews on project management, business and technology are reflected in his Project Management 2.0 blog and occasionally in guest posts in tech and business media (VentureBeat, PandoDaily, etc.)Apart from business, Andrew is interested in human and artificial intelligence - from cognitive psychology to neuroscience to machine learning. He also trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Drones, Google
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • TraceAir — Construction platform providing drone flights, 3D mapping, analytics, and data processing services to accelerate site work.
  • Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
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Kai Huang
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States

Kai Huang is the Senior Advisor of Grishin Robotics. He attended the University of California Berkeley.Kai is a Venture Partner at Idea Bulb Ventures. He is the co-founder and ex-CEO of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise, acquired by Activision in June 2006. Kai was also co-founder and CEO of Adux Software, asoftware company developing solutions for the server appliance market. Prior to Adux Software, he was a consultant with Accenture, where he worked with Fortune 500 clients in the area of supply chain management. He is an active, serial angel investor. Kai holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Gaming, Advertising
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
  • Taelor — Taelor is a subscription fashion service that powers men to rent styles for work, weekends and events.
  • 4D Sight — 4D Sight is a native video monetization platform with a focus on live gaming and sports broadcasts.
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
  • Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
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Larry Marcus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
  • Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
  • Fetch Delivery — Shop and dine, snap your receipts, and easily get free gift cards, merch, and rewards to your favorite brands with Fetch, the #1 rewards app!
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Mike Merkulov
Angel

Mike Merkulov

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Investment focus

  • Software, Furniture, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • United States, Germany, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

  • Welltory — Helping millions reach peak health and productivity. A Heart Rate Variability App that navigates you to the summit of your potential.
  • Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
  • Pufetto — Pufetto creates furniture for those who value in the present life. They want you to devote more time to really important things. It is very important for us that their products delight you for a long time and serve reliably. Therefore, they have done everything to make the choice and purchase of the best furniture surprisingly simple and pleasantfor every guest.
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Aitarget Tech
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

Aitarget Tech | Commerce

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Investment focus

  • Google, Big Data, Facebook
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
  • Mo: Meditation & Sleep — The #1 app for sleep, meditation and rest. Our 1,100,000 happy users already know how to lower their stress level and get sound and restful sleep.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
  • Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
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Robert Goldstein
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Robert Goldstein joined VPC in 2011 and is a Vice President. He is primarily involved in various operational roles with the Firm’s portfolio companies.Previously, Mr. Goldstein was managing partner of New Trier Real Partners LLC, a real estate private equity firm, and New Trier Merchant Partners LLC, a merchant banking firm he founded. He alsoserved as a transactional attorney and co-managing partner at Levenfeld Pearlstein, a Chicago-based, middle market law firm. Before practicing law, Mr. Goldstein was a registered Certified Public Accountant at KPMG LLP.Mr. Goldstein received a B.S. in business at Indiana University and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is also the vice chair of the Business Economic Development Committee of the City of Highland Park, IL. Mr. Goldstein is a member of the Illinois bar.

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Investment focus

  • SMS, Energy, Facebook
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • XL Batteries — XL Batteries develops a technology platform to reduce waste formation. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, FinTech, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
  • FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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Boost VC
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ShapesXR — ShapesXR is a provider of a web-based platform for content creation and collaboration for VR applications.
  • Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
  • Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.
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Andrew Boszhardt Jr.
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Andrew Boszhardt Jr. is a Founder and Managing Partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital and was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tunnel X, Inc. — Tunnel X is secure, private conversation for everyone.Tunnel X offers web-based and mobile-based messaging which allows users the peace of mind they need to have private conversations without fear that co-workers, roommates, hackers, or government agencies will be snooping on their conversations.Users log in not with a traditional usernameand password (which are easily hacked), but with a photo which they have taken themselves, protected with a PIN. Digital information from this same image is used to encrypt all communications, whether they are text-based messages or shared files (users may share files of any type with each other).Unlike email, social media, and other forms of online communication, Tunnel X is geared specifically towards one-to-one, substantive conversation. Typing a message to the "wrong" person is essentially not possible on Tunnel X. Hitting "reply-all" is also not possible. And Tunnel X messages are not surrounded by the clutter of email spam or social-media clutter. Users use Tunnel X when they want to chat without distraction.Tunnel X SSL is configured for a post-Snowden world: all SSL connections are secured by PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy), which disallows government agencies from storing encrypted communications for later decryption. And messages in Tunnel X databases are superenciphered: triple-encrypted using three different algorithms (AES-256 and two AES runners-up, TwoFish and Serpent).
  • Karma — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
  • SuperPhone — Increase engagement, drive revenue, and build better relationships with SMS / MMS marketing. Guaranteed ROI with 98% open rates for Shopify and BigCommerce stores.
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Sue Decker
Angel · Belvedere Tiburon, California, United States

Sue Decker is principal of Deck3 Ventures LLC. She serves on the boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel Corporation, and Costco Wholesale. She is also a trustee of Save the Children.During the 2009- 2010 academic year, she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Harvard Business School (HBS). In this role, she was involved in casedevelopment activities, worked with students, and helped develop and deliver portions of the January 2010 Silicon Valley Immersion Program for HBS students.Prior to joining HBS, Decker performed a number of roles for Yahoo!, from June 2000 to April 2009. Her most recent position was president of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to April 2009. In this role, she was a key participant in determining Yahoo!'s business strategy and vision and was responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo!, including sales, product marketing and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers and publishers. Prior to becoming President, from December 2006 to June 2007, Decker served as the head of one of Yahoo!'s two major business units, the Advertiser and Publisher Group (APG). Before that, Decker was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2000 to June 2007, managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative direction within key functional areas, including finance, facilities, investor relations (and human resources and legal through December 2006).Prior to joining Yahoo!, Decker was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) for 14 years. Most recently, she served as the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, where, among other things, she was responsible for building and staffing a non-U.S. research product based on global sector teams. Before she assumed these responsibilities, Decker spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.Decker holds a B.S. degree from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and an M.B.A. from HBS. She also received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1989 and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term, from 2000 to 2004. She served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to Disney, and on the board of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from March 2005 to May 2007.

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Investment focus

  • Enterprise Software, Software, SMS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Gusto — Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.
  • Rakuten Americas — Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasinglymobile centric customers.
  • Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.
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Digital Future
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine

Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Advertising
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Moodmate — I will help you learn more about mental health and self-care, fight stress and stay optimistic no matter what
  • OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
  • Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
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Roman Kirsch
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

  • Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
  • Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
  • Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Jason Johnson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jason Johnson is a Silicon Valley technologist and entrepreneur with nearly twenty years of technology expertise. He is currently the CEO of August. Jason is also a managing partner of startup incubator Founders Den and the chairman of the Internet of Things Consortium. Jason co-founded mobile security software company AirCover (acquired by MDream, HK:8100). Previously he was vice president of Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB), vice president of Global IP Solutions (acquired by Google) and was the co-founder and CEO of InterQuest (acquired by Darwin Networks). Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Pepperdine University and currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife and son.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, iOS, Internet
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Shyp — Get convenient, secure, and affordable shipping and packaging solutions anywhere with Shyp. Our goal is to make this the best shipping experience in the world.
  • ThirdLove — Bras designed for your body so you always look & feel your best. Available in A-H and half-cup sizes.
  • BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
  • Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
  • SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Mika Salmi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Mika is a serial entrepreneur whose work life has been primarily centered on discovering talent and driving new ideas. He has done this in numerous industries and have discovered Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winning artists, created the original online short video company, run the internet’s most popular casual games web sites, built one of the firstsports tracking apps, and pioneered new business models in education.A few examples are the Nine Inch Nails (music), Jason Reitman (film), JibJab (animation), AtomFilms (online video), Shockwave/AddictingGames (games), MadRaces (sports) and the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation (education). he did this as a founder, a CEO, or as a senior executive.Entrepreneurs are Mika's favorite kind of talent, and he enjoys helping them realize their ideas and dreams for their start ups. He has done this working with Accel, Raine, and Sequoia and now leads Lakestar, a top global VC based in Europe.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Gaming, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
  • GemShare — GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared amongone's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.
  • Thismoment — Thismoment is a marketing technology company that enables the world’s biggest companies to connect with their target audiences in real time on any device. Through Thismoment Content Cloud, our digital storytelling platform, they enable effortless content curation, digital experience creation and sharing, content rights management and seamlessenterprise technology integrations. More than 150 top brands and agencies use Thismoment, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Levi’s, Sephora, Fleishman Hillard and Digitas. Thismoment's vision is to give their customers endless opportunities to engage their customers with any content, anywhere. That’s no small feat, but after working with over 150 of the Fortune 500 brands since 2007, we think we’re in a unique position to make it happen.
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