Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors (May 2026)
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Sven Fund
Angel
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5 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media | |
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Miles Morland
Angel
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5 | Mozambique | Pre-Seed | Internet, Education, Publishing | $7k–$12k |
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Ali Omar
Angel
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5 | Finland, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $54k–$2.1M |
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Joanne Wilson
Angel
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5 | United States, Poland, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail | $500k–$11M |
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Mitchell Kapor
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Software, Education | $300k–$9.2M |
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Tim O'Reilly
Angel
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4 | United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Publishing, Digital Media, Social Media | $750k–$25M |
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William Lohse
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Social Media, Advertising | $60k–$1M |
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Thomas Glocer
Angel
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $150k–$33M |
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Simon Franks
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Health Care | $307k–$9.8M |
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Avichal Garg
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, Financial Services | $968k–$33M |
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Brian S. Cohen
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $100k–$2.5M |
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David Tisch
Angel
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3 | United States, France, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $565k–$30M |
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $125k–$6M |
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Alain Bankier
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel | Seed | Publishing, SaaS, Video | |
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $125k–$18M |
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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services | $214k–$8.6M |
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Michael Lazerow
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Advertising, Mobile | $2.2M–$26M |
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Internet | $650k–$53M |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $750k–$9.9M |
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Andrew Anker
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Publishing, Digital Media | $750k–$1M |
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Education, Internet | $550k–$157M |
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Dave McClure
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $100k–$30M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $50k–$472k |
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Michael Leeman
Angel
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3 | United States, South Africa | Angel, Seed | Apps, Publishing, Software | |
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Alexis Ohanian
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$152M |
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Auren Hoffman
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Analytics, Internet | $160k–$26M |
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Giora Kaplan
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed | Video, Internet, Software | $5M–$13M |
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Mike Verdu
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Software, Video Games | |
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Klaas Kersting
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, Finland | Seed, Angel | Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce | $750k–$2.3M |
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Aayush Phumbhra
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Australia | Seed, Debt Financing, Angel | Mobile, Software, Education | $600k–$4.3M |
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Karl Jacob
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, E-Commerce, Software | $550k–$1.4M |
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Kass Lazerow
Angel
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2 | United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Social Network, Publishing, Apps | $13M–$14M |
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Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Education | $264k–$5M |
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Cyan Banister
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Social Media | $500k–$11M |
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Oscar Pierre
Angel
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2 | Spain, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, SaaS | $396k–$2.1M |
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel
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2 | France, India, Cameroon | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Internet, Software | $123k–$2.3M |
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Pete Flint
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce | $120k–$25M |
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Geoff Ralston
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Education, Social Media | $1M–$4.7M |
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Joao Kepler Braga
Angel
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2 | Brazil, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Financial Services, SaaS | |
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Chloe Steinberg
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Australia | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Fitness, Wellness | $5.7M–$22M |
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Peter Hinssen
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, SaaS, EBooks | $492k–$4.8M |
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Lukasz Gadowski
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | $1M–$59M |
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Brad Flora
Angel
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2 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $350k–$3.6M |
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Baris Gultekin
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Travel, Internet | $1.5M–$2.5M |
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David Kalt
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music | $500k–$1.8M |
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Ratan Tata
Angel
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2 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care | $419k–$14M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | $500k–$7.8M |
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Matt Rolandson
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Internet, Social Media, Events | |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps | $50k–$500k |
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Elio Leoni Sceti
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Chile | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle | $369k–$50M |
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Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp
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- Industry: Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
- Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.
Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Publishing
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Mozambique
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $7k–$12k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ethale Books App — The Ethale Books App by Ethale Publishing is the first-ever East African multilingual book app featuring local content. It is one of the first in the developing world to be specifically designed for android mobile phones and not e-readers. The trilingual app will make books available in Portuguese, Swahili and English for free, with revenuesustained via a mobile advertising strategy.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $215k–$2.1M; Angel $54k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $54k–$707k
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
- GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
- Builderhead — Builderhead is a construction management software designed for real estate developers and general contractors. The software combines project development, procurement, and construction management into a streamlined pipeline. We bring an industry spesific Project Development CRM, Bid Management Tools and Project Management Software in one easy-to-useplatform which integrates easily with other most used software in the industry. Even thought the construction industry accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP, there's been a global problem of poor productivity within the industry as productivity growth has increased only 1% over the past 20 years. From the real estate developers and general contractors point of view, the biggest issue is the projects that turn unprofitable unexpectedly. One unprofitable project destroys the whole year profits and another one can bankrupt the entire company. Most of the decisions that affect the success of a project are made before construction begins, but still there are no smart tools available for that stage to help the construction companies avoid unprofitable projects. We solve this global problem by bringing the most critical steps to the success of a construction project on the same platform.
Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Poland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3.7M; Angel $500k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
- Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
- Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.
Mitchell David Kapor was the founder of Lotus Development Corporation (/organization/lotus-development-corporation) and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist,and philanthropist.Kapor has been the Chair of the In 1990 Kapor's new company On Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk. "We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first," Kapor said. "It's a richer medium than MS-DOS, and if we have a hot product in the Mac market, it will be easier to get into the PC market."In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is now working on Chandler, a modern personal information manager built using open source tools and methods.In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup,
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; Angel $300k–$400k; Series A $2M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
- DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, andmany others. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media.Maker Media's Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
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- Industry: Publishing, Digital Media, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $750k–$2.5M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medium — Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.
- Metabiota — Metabiota provides data, analytics, advice, and training to prepare for global health threats and mitigate their impacts. With a strategic global presence and sustained partnerships, Metabiota’s agile approach is helping the world track, transfer, and terminate the risk associated with epidemic threats. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered inSan Francisco, California.
- ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $60k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Beatrust — BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration, and driving innovation. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
- SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
- Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $7M–$33M; Series C $20M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
- Hive — Hive is a distributed data storage and computing platform, enabling users to rent their computing resources and co-localized storing and processing.
- Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
Simon Franks is the founder of Redbus Group. Simon serves on the board of (or advisor to), a number of early stage companies. Simon has won a number of awards for business, including the Sunday Times Fast Track award. In 2013 Simon was selected as one of the world's 100 top innovators by British Airways and was part of the "BAUngrounded" flight for the 2013 G8 summit. Simon is also philanthropically and politically engaged, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to international development and separately, economic policy. Simon was an advisor to Ed Balls and the Labour Party on business, entrepreneurialism and innovation. Simon serves on the advisory board of the Labour campaign for International Development, the advisory board of Campaign Bootcamp, is International Chairman of the Lake Clinic in Cambodia and advisor to Tilganga Hospital in Kathmandu.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $492k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $307k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$9.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $968k–$5M; Series A $12M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pulley — Pulley has helped thousands of companies manage their cap table and equity. Onboard with us today.
- Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
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Browse database — It's Free!Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications - founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who's who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBMCorporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses.Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community.Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally.Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill - a new organizational product launch model.Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Communications.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 198
- Round size: Seed $565k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$12M; Series B $11M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
- The Happy Home Company — The Happy Home Company is your Personal Home Manager. Managing your home is expensive, complicated, and time consuming. They solve this problem by connect homeowners with an affordable Personal Home Manager, who is supported by powerful technology, and a trusted service network
- Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M; Angel $125k–$1M; Series A $1.5M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entre — Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Network, Entrepreneur Community, Startup network, startup community, Creator Economy, Creator Community, Freelancers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Start a business, How to start a business, Startup jobs, Startup events, Cofounder, Find a cofounder, Find a mentor, Find an Investor, meet entrepreneurs, host virtual event, host virtual meeting, entrepreneur events, tech events, entrepreneurship, find gigs, freelancing jobs, online business
- Peerlist — Peerlist is a platform for professionals to discover, connect & collaborate based on their projects, mutual skills, and interests.
- Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.
Alain Bankier is an Operating Partner to the Management Company. Mr. Bankier is a serial entrepreneur and an active early stage investor, with over 20 years of experience investing in early stage and start-up companies. Until late 2013, Mr. Bankier was Co-President and chief executive officer of The Manischewitz Company. In 2002, Mr. Bankierco-founded the Saveur Food Group (“SFG”) to create, acquire and build branded food companies and in 2008 Manischewitz was merged with SFG. In the mid 90’s, Mr. Bankier was the co-founder of a leading New York based angel investment group, which was the precursor of the New York Angels. As a leading member of the New York Angels, Mr. Bankier invests in a wide variety of technology, media and content companies, as well as companies in France and Israel. Mr. Bankier is a board member and advisor to a variety of companies and has been instrumental in achieving exit opportunities for several of these business. Combining his operating experience and his knowledge of the technology startup world, Mr. Bankier has focused on investment opportunities which leverage technology and data to disrupt, or add efficiencies, to traditional media and manufacturing industries. Before being involved as the chief executive officer of operating companies, Mr. Bankier was a founder of an international boutique investment bank, which he sold to BNP Paribas and where he remained as the head of mergers and acquisitions-corporate finance North America for over 10 years. Mr. Bankier has a has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and from HEC, Paris.
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- Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- Territory Foods — Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
- 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.
Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $214k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $614k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $3.4M–$26M; Series B $7.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
- Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $8.3M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Paul Forster
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $2.9M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Andrew Anker
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- Industry: Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $750k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Byliner — Byliner helps you live life to the fullest, discover great reads and access current information on books, TV shows with the aims to satisfying all your curiosities
- PandoDaily — Always on Employee Progression
- Federated Media — Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions.Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns andoperates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.
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Browse database — It's Free!Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Series A $550k–$3M; Series B $10M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
- G2 — G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.The company was founded in 2012 andis based out of Chicago, Illinois.
- Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $1.2M–$6.5M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $67k–$472k; Pre-Seed $70k–$390k; Series A $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
- AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
- Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.
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- Industry: Apps, Publishing, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Personera — Personera is a technology company focused on the development of Facebook applications and personalized products. Personera's unique platform allows brands to offer their communities a variety of branded print products or digital downloads, easily ordered directly from the brand's Facebook fan page and fully personalized with their socialnetwork content. Personera's platform is white-labeled and completely customizable for any unique brand identity. Products include calendars, photobooks, cards, and posters, and are available in professional print versions or digital downloads. All of their products include shared content between the brand and the individual consumer, creating a one of a kind keepsake or merchandise piece for every customer. Implementing Personera on websites or Facebook fan pages (or both) is easy. All it requires is installation of an app by adding a new tab to a fan page or embedding a line of code onto a website. Personera handles payments, printing and delivery via their global network.Personera's business model works on a per-sale revenue share basis, so there are zero setup fees for clients. They have a global network of commercial print partners that manage physical production and delivery of the products, ensuring high quality, fast and reliable service worldwide. Personera makes it easy for brands to monetize their Facebook page while engaging their fans with personalized product offerings. The Personera personalized products platform has been used by a variety of brands including leading magazines, musicians, celebrities and consumer focused companies.
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.
Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexiscontinued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission.At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn't want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him.The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled "How to Start a Startup." After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he'd launched called Y Combinator. Alexis and Steve's original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they'd come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $15M–$152M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
- Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Angel $160k–$1M; Series A $900k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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- Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
- Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
- Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Giora Kaplan is our Co-Founder, and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2008, was our Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to March 2008, and has served as one of our directors since 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he served as a technology and product management consultant to several start-up companies.Giora was the founder andChief Executive Officer of Promotix Technologies Ltd., an Internet advertising and publishing company, from 1999 to 2001. He also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer or Optimedia Ltd., an electronic and online publishing company, from 1992 to 1999. Giora served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1988 until 1991.
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- Industry: Video, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
- OpenWeb — It's time to save online conversations
- SHOWBOX — Showbox is a cloud-based video creation platform that enables Brands, Online Marketplaces and Websites to provide their communities with fully controlled, easy-to-use, video creation tools, ensuring high quality results.
Mike Verdu is the VP of Games at Netflix.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Azarus — Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways. The core of the Azarus network is a 'smart-challenge' system that creates a new dynamic between and among Streamers and Gamers. As part of the pilot program, Azarus will allow a select number of Rainbow 6 Streamers, viaa proprietary Twitch extension, to award tokens to Viewers who correctly answer real time questions about their streams. Get creative, define your own rules and start challenging your friends on games you love.
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
- Rogue Games — Rogue Games is here to make your craziest, wildest, and even unhinged gaming dreams a reality. We publish your games irreverently.
Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $750k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
- Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
- Aggero — Aggero is a B2B SaaS/Marketplace for esports&gaming and livestreaming industry. Connecting brands and streamers.
Aayush Phumbhra - Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ Nectar
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Do — Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.
- TravClan — TravClan empowers travel agents and new age travel entrepreneurs to generate more business online by enabling businesses to build and grow their digital presence and earn more profit by booking flights, hotels, holidays with suppliers across the world at best B2B prices on its platform. TravClan’s vision is to empower SMBs in travel across theworld to grow their business. It aims to bring on board over 10 million SMBs and enable a GMV of over $10 billion by 2025 on its platform.
- Apartment List — Apartment List is a smart, simple, and seamless renting platform that’s dedicated to making the process fair and transparent for all. Their mission is to build a better world of renting for everyone, to get rid of the pain and complexity, and makes it more personal, flexible, and transparent.They make finding a home to love easy and enjoyable,with a personally curated search feature that gets to know the individual.It was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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Browse database — It's Free!Karl Jacob is the Founder and CEO of LoanSnap. He was a Founder and CEO at Wallop. He attended the University of Southern California in 1992.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.4M; Angel $975k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- June — Looking for the best cooking results? The June Oven is a do-it-all smart convection oven that makes cooking perfectly easy.
- Boost Media — Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry.They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013.Boost Media is an enterprisesolution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile.The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.
- Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.
Kass is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in marketing, consulting and business operations.Kass has founded several successful companies. Prior to Buddy Media, Kass founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, Kass served as co-founder, President and COO, where she helped take the company from an idea toa multi-million dollar consumer internet company.In her current role as co-founder and COO of Buddy Media, Kass’ responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the business, including marketing, PR, general operations, HR and more. This multifaceted position allows Kass to leverage her understanding of the internet and her experience as a proven entrepreneur.
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- Industry: Social Network, Publishing, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $13M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Mashable — Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $264k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
- BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
- The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3M; Angel $500k–$600k; Series A $1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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?
- Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
- Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, Oscar Pierre, is CEO and co-founder of Glovo. He began his studies at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After two years, he moved to Georgia Tech, in United States, to explore better opportunities.After graduating, he began his professional career as aerodynamics engineer at Airbus, at his base inToulouse. After 6 months he decided to look for new challenges and dedicate to creating a new business. Glovo began in early 2015. Previously, while studying,Pierre had already founded Zikkomo.com, a solidarity platform with 30 children sponsored in Malawi, and LoveItLocal.es in 2014, a market destined to boost local craft businesses. In January 2017 he was on Forbes magazine's 30under30 annual list of most influential young people.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Spain, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Angel $396k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $964k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.
- Premiumguest — All-in-one SaaS to manage and promote events.
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, India, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $214k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $123k–$321k; Series A $857k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Pete Flint is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$450k; Series A $7.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.
- Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
- Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.7M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
- Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
- Dost Education — Dost Education is a tech nonprofit that promotes early childhood development.
Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
- Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
- Vista Fintech — Vista Fintech connect financial planners with clients using technology.
Chloe Steinberg is a partner at Sapphire Sport, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies shaping the future of consumption. Chloe has deep industry expertise in the health & wellness sector, stemming from her 5+ years as an operator and investor with the Equinox Group of Brands. During that time, Chloe launched and led EquinoxVentures, the group’s investment arm focused on high performance living. She also supported Business Development & new business incubation, including the launch of Equinox Media in 2020. Earlier in her career, Chloe cofounded Vayner Capital in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and was a member of the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, where she focused on consumer tech and enterprise software investments. Chloe is deeply passionate about people doing work they love so in her free time, she founded and runs ExclusiveJobs, a not-for-profit, bespoke talent placement network in the consumer sector.Chloe graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played varsity lacrosse. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2020. A Baltimore native, Chloe now resides in Westport, CT with her husband and son.
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $5.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
- Market AI — Market increases sales for eCommerce businesses. Deploy custom AI models that increase traffic, develop new creative, and reach high-value customers.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, EBooks
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $492k–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Rita Personal Data — Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.
Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
- MILES — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Wallets — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Travel, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoinTracker — CoinTracker is a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. It automatically syncs transactions into one unified dashboard and helps users file their crypto taxes with the click of a button.
- WaveOne — Building AI-native video. WaveOne is leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to reinvent the way video is compressed, transported, stored, and analyzed.
- Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the founder and CEO of Reverb.com, an online marketplace for used, vintage and handmade guitars and gear. Kalt is also the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, one of the world's largest vintage guitardealers.Prior to launching Reverb.com, Kalt was the cofounder and CEO of online broker optionsXpress (#10 on the 2005 Inc 500 list), which went public in 2005 and was sold to Schwab in 2008 for $1 billion.Kalt was also the founder of ClientBASE, the first CRM solution for travel agents and tour group operators, which is now offered by the Sabre Travel Network.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
- Songfinch — Give a unique gift with a personalized song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love...
- Fleet Device Management — Open-source device management and security for teams with thousands of laptops and servers. (macOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS)
Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $419k–$6.7M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
- Repos energy — Repos Energy is redefining the energy distribution system by making all fuels available at your doorstep with just a click on the Repos app! Contact us now!
- Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $650k–$2.8M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
Matt Rolandson is a Partner at Ammunition.
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- Industry: Internet, Social Media, Events
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seen — Seen’s mission is to connect people more deeply to the world and their collective stories by making every event visible. New tools for a new type of media, Seen identifies signal in the noise of the real time web, reconstructing stories from their social data. At the heart of Seen is an engine that can automatically surface real-time trends withinfeeds. Seen is built on Google award-winning research, and was selected as one of the first companies for The New York Times incubator initiative,
- Thington — Thington is a San Francisco-based company, founded by Dopplr founder Matt Biddulph and ex-Yahoo Brickhouse Head of Product Tom Coates is building out a new consumer-facing product that combines Smart Home technology with their expertise in location, social networks and the web of data.
Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $50k–$500k; Angel $100k–$400k; Pre-Seed $120k–$340k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
- Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
- Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.
Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $369k–$3M; Series A $13M–$14M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Victor — Compare hundreds of private jet charter prices. Victor makes comparing private jet hire quotes and costs easier than ever before. Get a quote today
- Fabula AI Limited — Fabula AI is now part of Twitter on 31 May 2019
- Narwhal Media Group — From lead generation & web design to SEO, our Digital Agency combines our dynamic skill sets to achieve targeted results and grow businesses.
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