Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States in October 2023
Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States in October 2023
| Investor | Publishing United States investments |
|---|---|
| Joanne Wilson | 5 |
| William Lohse | 4 |
| Mitchell Kapor | 4 |
| Hesham Zreik | 3 |
| Michael Lazerow | 3 |
| David Tisch | 3 |
| Andrew Anker | 3 |
| Tim O'Reilly | 3 |
| Dharmesh Shah | 3 |
| Balaji Srinivasan | 3 |
| Avichal Garg | 3 |
| Thomas Lehrman | 3 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | 3 |
| Nick Ducoff | 2 |
| Sean Bratches | 2 |
| Joao Kepler Braga | 2 |
| Pierre Schurmann | 2 |
| Michael Leeman | 2 |
| Ram Shriram | 2 |
| Geoff Entress | 2 |
| Prince Amukamara | 2 |
| Karl Jacob | 2 |
| Barry Honig | 2 |
| Pete Flint | 2 |
| Emmett Shear | 2 |
| Erik Moore | 2 |
| Cyan Banister | 2 |
| Giora Kaplan | 2 |
| Alex Algard | 2 |
| Bashar Hamood | 2 |
| Brad Flora | 2 |
| Howard Lindzon | 2 |
| John Battelle | 2 |
| Albert Azout | 2 |
| Matt Rolandson | 2 |
| Auren Hoffman | 2 |
| Mike Verdu | 2 |
| Tarun Poddar | 2 |
| Dan Mannix | 2 |
| David Kalt | 2 |
| Elio Leoni Sceti | 2 |
| Anthony Soohoo | 2 |
| Matthew Kaness | 2 |
| Geoff Ralston | 2 |
| Kass Lazerow | 2 |
| Marc Andreessen | 2 |
| Oliver Jung | 2 |
| Scott Banister | 2 |
| Lukasz Gadowski | 2 |
| John Landry | 2 |
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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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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Poland, Germany
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.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Japan, Canada
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.
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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- Mobile, Software, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Singapore
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.
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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- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
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 Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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- Software, Advertising, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
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.
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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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Israel
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.
Andrew Anker
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- Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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.
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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- Publishing, Digital Media, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
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.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada
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.
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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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
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.
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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- Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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.
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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- Software, Education, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
- G2 — 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.
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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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, Canada
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.
Nick Ducoff is the cofounder and CEO of Edmit and the coauthor of "Better Off After College". He was previously Northeastern University's Vice President for New Ventures. At Northeastern, Nick launched the first university bootcamp which was recognized as an exemplar innovation by the U.S. Department of Education. Nick has beeninvited to White House convenings for his work at Northeastern and Edmit, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Barron's, CNBC, and Money. He earned his JD, with Honors, at the University of Texas at Austin, and his BBA at Emory University's Goizueta Business School.
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- Software, Analytics, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses
- Flipside Crypto — Free data for analysts. Build and grow with access to top protocol data, including Ethereum, Solana, Osmosis, Flow, NEAR, Axelar, Thorchain, Optimism, Terra, Binance, and many more.
- Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.
Sean Bratches was named Managing Director of the Formula 1® Commercial Operations division in January 2017.With three decades of leadership, management and operating experience at multi-billion dollar scale in the media, entertainment, and sports business. He spent 27 years at ESPN where for 10 years he served as Executive Vice President of Salesand Marketing.Sean lead a sales and marketing team that provided national advertisers access to ESPN and its media, marketing and content platforms. He was also responsible for the first unified sales organization that represents The Walt Disney Company’s premier collection of sports assets across all media platforms.In addition, he oversaw all distribution, licensing, marketing for the domestic cable and satellite networks of The Walt Disney Company to its linear and emerging multi-channel affiliates. In 2010, his team introduced the first live, streaming cable channels online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN.Sean was also responsible for ESPN’s marketing efforts including the development, direction and implementation of all branding, creative services and marketing for its growing media businesses.
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- Sports, SaaS, Casino
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
- Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Brazil, United States
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.
Pierre Schurmann is the Founder & CEO at Nuvini. He attended Nova Southeastern University.
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- Apps, Finance, Software
- Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trakto — Trakto is the first and only Latin America online editor. Our software is complete, simple and allows you to create your marketing and sales material - such as eBooks, business cards, flyers, posts, presentations, etc. - with just a few clicks. We provide 100% editable templates with a professional design so you can customize according to yourneeds (or you can create one from scratch). It makes the whole process of creation much easier and faster, for both designers and non-designers.
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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- Apps, Publishing, Software
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, South Africa
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.
Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
- 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.
- Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Migo, Inc. — Get Migo, the free search app for all your transportation options, in the App Store or Play Store. Compare times, prices and service information across mobility providers including rideshare, taxis, bikes, scooters, and public transit.
- Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
- Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
Prince Amukamara
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- Apps, SaaS, Sports
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Joy — Experience wedding planning the way it should be, from beautiful wedding websites and invitations, to registries and online RSVP.
- Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
- Ember Technologies — Ember is a design-led temperature control brand and technology platform, whose mission is to revolutionize the way people eat, drink and live. Founded by inventor and serial entrepreneur Clay Alexander, Ember creates, designs, and develops temperature control products that offer people complete customization.Named one of TIME magazine’s BestInventions, the award-winning temperature control Ember Travel Mug² and Ember Mug² are the most advanced coffee mugs on the market, allowing individuals to set and maintain their preferred drinking temperature for hot beverages.Ember’s temperature control smart mugs are available in over 10,000 retail doors in 27 countries worldwide, including top retailers such as Best Buy, Apple, Williams Sonoma, Bloomingdale’s, and Target.Ember is applying its innovative temperature control technology to new categories, including healthcare and infant feeding.
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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- Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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.
Barry Honig - CEO @ Majesco Entertainment
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- News, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
- Rant — Rant, Inc. and its expanding internet property lineup have established itself as an innovator in online media consumption. Known for the well-established brand RantSports, Rant, Inc. has recently launched RantLifestyle and RantChic to expand its reach towards the areas of lifestyle, fitness, exercise, entertainment, and celebrities.Co-foundersBrett Rosin and Grant Brown founded the company in 2010 in Winfield, Illinois and began to build and manage a rich collection of 155 sports team blogs that would eventually blossom into one centralized hub known today as RantSports. In 2012, RantSports expanded its operations to offices in Downers Grove, Illinois and San Francisco, CA and in 2013, the San Francisco, CA office expanded and moved to Laguna Beach, CA where it launched new web properties. In January 2014, the company moved to a new office in Irvine, CA where its 24 full-time employees complement its expansive writing staff.
Pete Flint is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Oxford.
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- Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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.
Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.
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- Software, Health Care, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pilot AI — Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording into structured information.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
Erik Moore is the Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures, an early-stage tech venture fund. He was one of the first investors in Zappos (sold for 1.2B to Amazon) and an early investor in Plangrid, sold to Autodesk for $875mm. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spent 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He recently joined the boardof the Common Ground Foundation, founded by Grammy, Oscar and Emmy award winning artist, Common, and he currently serves as a board member for P.A.C.E, a private philanthropic group. He was recognized as #10 on a list of the top 25 most influential blacks in tech by Business Insider (John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft was ranked #1). He mentors and advises several known professional athletes. Erik earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, an MA in French from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.
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- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Swapbox — Swapbox is an easy and convenient delivery system that enables people to send and receive packages using a Swapbox kiosk. The kiosks, which are completely automated, are situated in convenient locations including grocery stores, petrol stations and coffee shops, meaning that customers do not need to rush to the post office by 3pm to send theirpackages. Customers simply place their item/s in the Swapbox kiosk and input their details using the touchscreen. The recipient then collects the package from a local Swapbox using the code they received through text or email. Swapbox sets itself apart by focusing on consumer satisfaction, experience and convenience.Swapbox is currently available in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
- Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
- Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.
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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- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
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.
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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- Video, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed
- United States, Israel
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.
He is the founder & CEO of Hiya. He also founded Ekata, which sold to Mastercard for $850 million in 2021. He also previously founded and led Whitepages and CarDomain. He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Engineering, both from Stanford University. He was selected as Software Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
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- Social Media, Payments, Publishing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Ekata — Global customer identity verification and fraud prevention for the payments, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide.
- Swarmia — Swarmia helps modern software organizations increase visibility, eliminate bottlenecks, and ship faster. Get started with a live demo or a free 14-day trial.
- Trestle — Your partner for quality identity data APIs. Trestle provides the identity data APIs you need to create, develop and reinforce customer relationships. Contact Sales API Docs Find new customers, build better relationships. Trestle's foundation is wide and deep, spanning many ethical data sources with valuable and unique customer insights. Reverse Phone API Your most promising
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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- Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
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.
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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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
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.
Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jar — Jar is a daily gold savings app that lets you save money. It invests spare change from your online transactions into digital gold, automatically. Jar is the 1st Made in India app to come up with an innovative solution to save money daily & invest in digital gold.
- Stonks — Invest in Pre-IPO deals
- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
John Battelle is co-founder, executive chair at Recount Media.
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- Publishing, Digital Media, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- NewCo — Through events and business partnerships NewCo connects people with businesses on a mission.
- Flymachine — Flymachine is a virtual venue for live entertainment that brings the immersion and community of real life performances to the digital realm.
- The Hustle — Sign up for the free, 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop with stories on business, tech, and the internet.
Albert Azout is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Level Ventures as well as a Partner of Cota Capital and a Managing Director in Cota Ventures II. Albert has a B.A. in Finance and Economics from Babson College.
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- Internet, News, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- Qwiki — Qwiki is an industry leader in automated video production. Most recently, Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user camera roll into brief, beautiful movies to share.
- DeepScale — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
- 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.
Matt Rolandson is a Partner at Ammunition.
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- Internet, Social Media, Events
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- United States
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.
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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- Software, Analytics, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
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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.
Mike Verdu is the VP of Games at Netflix.
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- Gaming, Software, Video Games
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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.
Masters from Stanford University and this Delhi University Graduate, Tarun Poddar serves Foxhog Ventures Corp. USA as Managing Partner and India Head. he also serves Foxhog Ventures India Private Limited as Managing Director. Featured as 30 Under 30, and many recognition by Fortune India, Outlook and more, he has been a well known personality inFinance Industry.
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- News, Non Profit, Publishing
- Grant, Corporate Round, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- SUCCESS — Do you know a trailblazing woman? The SUCCESS Women of Influence awards are designed to spotlight 50 extraordinary women who exemplify what it means to be | SUCCESS
- Saint Agnes Healthcare — In 1862, The Daughters of Charity began Saint Agnes Hospital, carrying on their centuries-old mission of service. The first Catholic hospital in Baltimore, Saint Agnes was originally created to provide nursing care for the poor. The facility moved to its present location in 1876 and was reorganized as a full-service hospital in 1906.In 1999,Saint Agnes’ parent organization, The Daughters of Charity National Health System, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph Health System to create Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health care organization in the nation. As the current parent organization of Saint Agnes Hospital, Ascension Health is dedicated to reaching new heights in health care and service to our communities, as well as serving as a model for faith-based health care throughout the world.At Saint Agnes Hospital, they believe that the care we provide our patients is second to none. They offer a full range of health care services and are proud that the doctors, nurses and health care professionals on our staff are the best in the industry. We believe it is our privilege to serve the people of the Baltimore/Washington area and to care for all patients who enter our doors.
- Budding Beats Magazine — Budding Beats is a USA based Business magazine run by Foxhog Ventures Corp. A venture capital firm based at California USA.The magazine Focuses on stories of young and dynamic personality, business and people from different verticals including Healthcare, Investment, lifestyle, hospitality and more.The magazine has 3 platforms including web,Emagazine and print edition with the circulation of good numbers of copies in India and USA.Magazine claims their Copyright for BB MAGAZINE,BUDDING BEATS INDIA, BUDDING BEATS USA, BB HUMANS,BB UNDER 30 & BB SAYINGS.
Dan Mannix is a Co-Founder, Stealth Mode Startup. He Attended University of Richmond during 1985-1989.
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- SaaS, Sports, Publishing
- Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
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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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- 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)
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Lifestyle
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Chile
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- 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.
Anthony Soohoo is currently working at Spryker and the AI Fund.
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- Software, Apps, CRM
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Finland
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- Wove — Wove leverages artificial intelligence to empower more efficient opeartions for freight forwarders and co-loaders.
- Iterable — The cross channel marketing platform that powers unified customer experiences, and empowers you to create, optimize, and measure every customer interaction.
- Brandfolder by Smartsheet — Manage, distribute, and analyze your digital assets in one place with Brandfolder, the world's most powerfully simple brand asset management software.
Matthew Kaness
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- Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Italic — Atelier-grade essentials from the same manufacturers as top brands with zero markups and logos.
- Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
- Interlace Ventures — Interlace Ventures is a seed stage fund partnering with ambitious founders in their first round of financing in the future of retail. We leverage our years of international entrepreneurial experience to help bring companies from seed to growth with time and care.
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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- Software, Education, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Senegal
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- 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.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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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- Social Network, Publishing, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
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- 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.
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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- Software, Social Media, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, France, Germany
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- Lyso — Lyso is a software that fully automates the checkout process within milliseconds on retail websites. It currently supports over 1,000 retail sites, including popular ones such as Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Target.
- Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
- Redbeard Ventures — Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.
Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, India
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- Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
- Peakflo — Peakflo offers efficient account payable software, account receivable software, and cashflow management software to streamline your accounting automation. Get Free Trial Now!
- Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses
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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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- 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.
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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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States, Sweden
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- 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!
John Landry has spent nearly 30 years helping people connect with one another while building world-class software companies. John is currently Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures, a business accelerator providing emerging technology enterprises access to a well-developed network of relationship, technology and financial capital. John wasVice President for Technology Strategy at IBM where he discovered and evaluated new technologies emerging from new companies for IBM's corporate strategy. Prior to IBM, John was senior vice president of development and CTO at Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, MA.Prior to Lotus, John served as senior vice president and CTO at Dun & Bradstreet, Cullinet Software, Distribution Management Systems, and McCormack & Dodge. Additionally, Landry has served as Chairman/CTO of Agility Systems acquired by Dun and Bradstreet, Chairman of Narrative Communications acquired by Excite@Home, Chairman/CTO of Anyday.com acquired by Palm and Chairman/CTO of Adjoin Solutions acquired by Computer Associates.John has been a director of over 36 companies, and is currently a director and investor in several private high technology companies. He is a long-time Trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and an Overseer of Boston's Museum of Science. He holds a BA in Finance from Babson College, where he serves as Trustee and part-time instructor.
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- Publishing, EBooks, Finance
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- Zagster — Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States.Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design,installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services.Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
- Peach — Brighten your workday with hand-picked lunches delivered from top local restaurants. Sign up today at peachd.com.
- Prolific Works — Accelerating Great Stories and Big Ideas
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