Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors (May 2026)

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 170
Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Angel $50k–$1M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 130
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.

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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.

Investment focus

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.

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Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 333
Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!

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Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 129
Round size: Seed $500k–$30M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

JusticeText — JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.

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Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Investment focus

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.

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Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Social Media, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Angel $500k–$750k; Series A $1.6M–$10M
Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.

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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.

Investment focus

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.

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Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 44
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Angel $1M–$1.7M; Series A $2.6M–$5M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Reloadly — Reloadly is the #1 mobile top-up platform when it comes to developer-friendly technology. With our API and a few lines of code, you can easily integrate mobile top-up features into your website or mobile app.
Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!

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Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 164
Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$25M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
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.

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Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Software, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Geography: United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 85
Round size: Seed $375k–$2.1M; Series A $2M–$7M; Convertible Note $100k–$1.8M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
LiveNinja — LiveNinja is on a mission to help people around the world get the service and assistance they need; anytime, anywhere. The company offers unique communication tools that enable businesses to better serve and understand their customers. LiveNinja Messenger, their latest app, simplifies customer communication by bringing each conversation into onemessage thread.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.

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Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 87
Round size: Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $1M–$40M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Bravado — An exclusive Sales Community for the Best Sales Professionals

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Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Social Media, SaaS
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 102
Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4.5M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $6.7M–$65M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lyso — Lyso is a software that fully automates the checkout process within milliseconds on retail websites. It currently supports over 1,000 retail sites, including popular ones such as Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Target.
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.

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William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

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.

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Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, France, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 67
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $1M–$13M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

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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

Investment focus

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.

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Keith Rabois is the General Partner at Founders Fund. He has a unique background as an entrepreneurial executive and investor. Since 2000, he has been instrumental in driving five startups from their early stages to successful IPOs. He has provided seed capital to another ten companies that are currently valued at over $1 B, including Airbnb, Lyft,YouTube, Wish, Yammer.Since March 2013, Keith Rabois has served as a senior partner at Khosla Ventures, a technology venture capital fund founded by Vinod Khosla. He specializes in funding early-stage companies with a primary focus in consumer, financial services and health care innovation. At the same time, Keith co-founded Opendoor, a startup which transforms the painful process of selling a home into delightful and immediate experience. At KV, Rabois has led investments in a broad array of startups including, DoorDash, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Affirm, Even Financial and Piazza.Over the prior decade, he forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms. Keith began his career in the industry as Executive Vice President of Business Development & Public Policy at PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL, later acquired by EBAY] and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn [NYSE: LNKD] and as a chief operating officer of Square [NASDAQ: SQ].As a board member, Keith guided Yelp [NYSE: YELP] and Xoom [NASDAQ: XOOM] from inception to successful initial public offerings.Earlier in his career, Keith Rabois served as a litigator at the pre-eminent Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, specializing in antitrust, IP, and complex commercial matters. He joined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Edith H. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After leaving the practice of law, Keith served as policy director for former Vice President Dan Quayle.Keith Rabois earned a bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa in political science with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 159
Round size: Seed $1M–$16M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $8M–$45M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

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Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Pomelo — Need to send money to the Philippines? Send a Pomelo Card. Never again think about transfer fees or where your money is. No more sending money again and again.
All Day Kitchens — Virtual Kitchen operates as a platform that empowers restaurants to take full advantage of the delivery opportunity. Its delivery-optimized kitchens and technology unlock delivery coverage with minimal upfront investment. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Ireland, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 105
Round size: Seed $553k–$5M; Series A $1M–$30M; Series B $10M–$50M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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Granica — The AI Efficiency Platform
Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
Microverse — Want to learn how to code? Pay $0 until you become a software developer and land a job. Learn programming from the best online coding school and connect with a global community.

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Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Social Media
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 45
Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Angel $225k–$1M; Series A $1.6M–$9.8M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
Anagram — Anagram's software platform helps eye care practices automate vision insurance eligibility, claims, billing, and their supply chain from lab ordering, to instant rebates to help eye care providers differentiate themselves and advance their practices.
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.

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Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, France, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 129
Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $2.3M–$9.1M; Series B $2.7M–$65M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

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Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 70
Round size: Seed $450k–$6.2M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $1.9M–$50M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Kenya, Spain

Investor stats

Total investments: 75
Round size: Seed $2M–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$7M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lindy — Lindy is an AI assistant that puts your life on autopilot.
Cortina — Cortina is an ecommerce marketplace saas platform helping brands sell complementary products without inventory or capital risk.
Dorsia — Dorsia is the # 1 clinic in cosmetic surgery and medicine in Spain. We have 84 clinics throughout Spain and Andorra and we continue to grow because you ask us to. We like to fulfill your wishes for improvement and we advocate for a Responsible Beauty.

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Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 93
Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.

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David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 92
Round size: Seed $1M–$6.7M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $8.2M–$100M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Waitroom — With real-time AI capabilities, Waitroom isn't just a tool, it's your intelligent meeting assistant.
Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
Sandbox VR — Step inside a new dimension and experience a new reality with your friends. See, touch, and hear. VR as it was meant to be. Sandbox VR, In Here, It's Possible.

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Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 129
Round size: Seed $800k–$4M; Series A $5.5M–$87M; Series B $4.6M–$112M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

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Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 180
Round size: Seed $500k–$5.6M; Series A $5.4M–$20M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Advertising, FinTech, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 99
Round size: Seed $800k–$5.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.2M; Series B $6M–$20M
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 69
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$9.7M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping container easy & deliver it right to your door. Buy a storage container today!
Way — Way is a mindful eating app that replaces restrictive diets.
Humanity — Slow down, or even, reverse your aging.

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Nevo is the owner of NV Investments, a venture capital firm that is believed to invest in technology companies around the world. Vivi has also been backing The Weinstein Company. His mutli-million fortune has built up through his investments to cable companies with the initial $10 million that he inherited. He has bought some big stakes in Comcastand U.S. West and Charter Communications. Today, some of his earnings come from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and recently, with Twitter.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 33
Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $5M–$40M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Popshop Live — Popshop.live - Discover, interact, and shop with live videos. Popshop.live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where users create their own pop-up channel and create listings on the fly, interact with other merchants in real time, and discover unique products and services available for sale with
Subject — Subject provides high school learners access to premium, on-demand courses for credit or study support
Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends

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Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to foundingThird Wave, Allen built a strong track record as an Angel Investor in the digital media sector and has had over 15 high-multiple exits/NAVs. Allen is currently the Chairman of Machinima and sits on several digital media company boards including StyleHaul, MiTu, Tubular Labs, DanceOn, INDMusic, and Mondo Entertainment. He was an early investor and outside board member for several companies. LowerMyBills.com and Dealer.com are examples of two companies that had highly successful exits. He was featured on the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power List 2009 and on Digital Media Wire's 2010 List of "25 Executives to Watch” and dubbed the Godfather of Online Video. Allen is a frequent speaker at major digital media conferences and considered an important leader in the rapidly growing Silicon Beach venture capital community.Allen has been engaged on the leading edge in the digital media / interactive arena for over three decades including working on the first uses of computer animation in entertainment ("Tron"), the first interactive video on the Mac ("Guernica"), the first interactive television trial (Time Warner Orlando) and the first broadband cable Internet prototype ("@Home").Allen has an A.B. in Mathematics and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Industry: Video, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Seed $750k–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals, a professional esports organization with teams competing in League of Legends, League of Legends Wild Rift, and VALORANT
Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.

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Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 138
Round size: Seed $150k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M
Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

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Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

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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,

Investment focus

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

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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.

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Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, founder of ten companies over the course of his career. In 1984, while still in college, Martin started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan. This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadianbiotechnology company, a pioneer in AIDS and PSA testing. Martin's third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin’s first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1990. This company is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization. Martin’s best-known ventures were founded during the last decade. In 1998, Martin started Jazz Telecomunicaciones (Jazztel), Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator. In 1999 Martin founded Ya.com, Spain’s third largest internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agency www.viajar.com. But not all of Martin’s companies were successful. In 2000, Martin started Germany’s leading cloud computing company, Einsteinet, and the company was sold in 2003 at no return to him or investors. In 2005, Martin founded Fon. With over 23 million hotspots, Fon is the largest WiFi network in the world. The company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain but its customers are worldwide. Its investors include Atomico, British Telecom, Coral Group, Skype, Google, and Index Ventures. In 2014 Martin joined the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer, the largest media company in Germany. In 2015, Martin founded Prelude Fertility, which raised $200M in financing and is now one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States. Prelude Fertility offers egg freezing, IVF, and egg donation. In 2017, Martin started VAS Ventures in partnership with Axel Springer to invest in early stage ventures across Europe and the USA. In 2019, Martin launched the MVB fund, a $200M fund of funds based in Spain. MVB invests in top performing venture capital funds and pre-IPO technology companies. Martin also manages the Varsavsky Foundation and is best known as the founder of two large educational projects in Latin America – Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile) and the Safe Democracy Foundation. Martin was Ambassador at Large of Argentina from 2001 to 2005. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Instituto de Empresa, Spain’s leading business school, where he taught entrepreneurship for eight years. Since 2012 he teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia University and New York University. Martin has written numerous articles on business and international relations that have been published in several international publications including El Pais and Newsweek. Martin is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and an active blogger. He is the recipient of various honors and rewards. Martin received his BA, from New York University, and holds a MA, in International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia University. In his spare time, Martin enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, piloting, photography and sailing. Martin is married to Nina Varsavsky and has seven children.

Investment focus

Industry: Social Media, Health Care, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

Total investments: 19
Round size: Seed $429k–$3M; Angel $214k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

TympaHealth — The award-winning Tympa system is designed to empower clinicians to deliver ear and hearing healthcare within local communities.
NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.
Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.

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Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 46
Round size: Seed $600k–$1.3M; Angel $250k–$800k; Series A $800k–$15M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nimble Robotics — Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment.
TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology
Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.

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Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Education, Social Media
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, India, Senegal

Investor stats

Total investments: 43
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.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

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As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 113
Round size: Seed $150k–$3.3M; Angel $30k–$353k
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!

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Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Content, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 67
Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personalinvestments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 125
Round size: Seed $260k–$3.8M; Series A $6.1M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.
Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.

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Kristian Andersen is a co-founder and partner at High Alpha and was a Co-founder at Octiv. He attended Anderson University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 111
Round size: Seed $665k–$4M; Series A $3M–$10M; Series B $102k–$23M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

The Bee Corp — The Bee Corp’s product, Verifli applies data analytics to beehives to help growers ensure effective pollination through infrared inspection technology. The Bee Corp increases yield for farmers by monitoring the number, health and distribution of pollinating bees.
The Prepared — Expert guides and deeply researched reviews to help you get prepared for emergencies without wasting time or money.
Sportsman Tracker — Sportsman Tracker is a cross-platform digital toolset designed to increase success opportunities for hunters and fishermen and allow them to quickly share their experiences. Powered by W.I.T. (Wild Life Intelligence Technology), the tracker calculates the variables that directly affect wildlife behavior. The platform lets track species and getsadaptive features that are specific only the species.Founded in 2012 by Jon Schwander and Jeffrey James Courter, Sportsman Tracker is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 216
Round size: Seed $350k–$3.7M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $3M–$32M
Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, News, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 57
Round size: Seed $440k–$3.2M; Angel $150k–$420k
Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

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Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 189
Round size: Seed $810k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $2.8M–$13M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
Peping — India's best digital gastrointestinal care clinic. For gut health issues like constipation, bloating, acidity.Care plans by the best gastroenterologists and nutritionists.
Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!

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Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, Iceland

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $150k–$2.4M; Angel $91k–$1M; Series A $115k–$6.1M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.

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Co-Founder & Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 45
Round size: Seed $175k–$3.1M; Series A $7.5M–$12M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
Dulce Vida — Making great tequila means we start with the finest ingredients. The foundation of our tequila differentiates us from the competition: Organic. 100% Blue Agave. Los Altos (Highlands). Handcrafted. Discover what happens when we infuse our award-winning 100% blue agave blanco tequila with refreshing
Milestone Brands — Milestone Brands LLC, premium spirits company based in Austin, Texas, was founded in February 2016 by two local entrepreneurs and veterans of the beverage and spirits industry, Eric Dopkins, former CEO of Deep Eddy Vodka and Chad Auler, creator of Savvy Vodka and co-founder of Deep Eddy Vodka. As a national spirits supplier and acquirer, innovatorand marketer of alcohol beverage brands, Milestone Brands' portfolio includes Dulce Vida Spirits, parent company of the world's only 100 proof, USDA certified organic tequila, and American Born Moonshine, a family of moonshine whiskey products that honors the tradition and spirit of American moonshiners.

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Caterina Fake is an investor at Yes VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund, and is the host of the #1 Tech Podcast Should This Exist? addressing the question of our times: how is technology impacting our humanity? Previously, she worked at Founder Collective as a Founder Partner, served as Chairman of Etsy and was the co-founder ofFlickr. Yes VC invests in scalable social systems, brands that embody cultural movements, and founders who recognize the opportunity in the rising power and affluence of women. Caterina sits on the boards of Public Goods, the Sundance Institute and McSweeneys. Caterina is an early creator of online communities and a long time advocate of the responsibility of entrepreneurs for the outcomes of their technologies. In her work she addresses the cultural impact of new technologies, human interactions online, design, good governance, innovation and creativity–and how we can all make the internet a kinder, more human place. Ms. Fake has received Honorary Doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design and The New School. Time Magazine named her one of the Most Influential People in the world, and she was given the Silicon Valley Visionaries award in 2018.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $320k–$3.3M; Series A $1M–$8.5M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Frolo — Make your single parent experience a positive, empowered and supported one.
June Care — June Care is a childcare service that matches working parents with stay-at-home parents who can help with childcare. If you're looking for a way to earn income while parenting, or need in-home daycare or babysitting services, June Care offers full-time and part-time childcare by a qualified host par
Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.

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Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.

Investment focus

Industry: Social Media, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.
Albora Technologies — High-precision geolocation open ecosystem that delivers accurate positioning coordinates ubiquitously, specially addressing problems in challenging environments.

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Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 72
Round size: Seed $625k–$3.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
Hidden Door — A new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.

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Upon graduation from Williams College in 1986, Jonathan started his career at Bain & Co. After earning his MBA at Harvard Business School, he joined The Kraft Group in 1990. Since that time, he has worked to help drive the growth and diversification of the Group. In his role as President, he is actively involved in the day to day operations ofthe Group's companies.Jonathan serves on the board of directors for several organizations including the Children's Hospital Trust and Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. He is also currently serving as a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard Business School and on the Board of Trustees for Williams College, the Belmont Hill School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, Jonathan coaches Little League baseball and youth soccer in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Pillar — Build a beautiful website and monetize with a media kit that saves you time.
Searchable.ai — Stop wasting 20% of your workweek clicking through emails, chats, cloud and local storage for the files you need. Introducing Searchable.ai - one search for all your files.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

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