Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in United States (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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| Ronald Conway | 86 | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $50k–$10M | |
| Alan Blaine | 84 | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, IT, Financial | $2M–$75M | |
| David Tisch | 79 | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $565k–$30M | |
| Max Levchin | 77 | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial, Internet | $1.3M–$116M | |
| Wayne Chang | 76 | Seed, Series A | Software, IT, Internet | $500k–$20M | |
| Auren Hoffman | 66 | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Data and Analytics, Sales/Marketing | $160k–$26M | |
| Tim Draper | 65 | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Financial | $350k–$32M | |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | 59 | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $180k–$25M | |
| Daniel Curran | 59 | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial, Mobile | $600k–$23M | |
| Dharmesh Shah | 56 | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Sales/Marketing | $125k–$6M | |
| Nat Turner | 56 | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics | $650k–$26M | |
| Marc Benioff | 55 | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, IT, Other | $850k–$40M | |
| Bryan Rosenblatt | 54 | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Hardware | $120k–$22M | |
| Reid Hoffman | 53 | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $500k–$65M | |
| Kevin Lin | 53 | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Media and Entertainment | $150k–$20M | |
| Bashar Hamood | 53 | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, IT, Mobile | $50k–$500k | |
| Hesham Zreik | 52 | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, IT, Internet | $50k–$472k | |
| Louis Beryl | 51 | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial, Mobile | $605k–$12M | |
| Dave Morin | 51 | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $1M–$13M | |
| Mitchell Kapor | 50 | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | $300k–$9.2M | |
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Jackson Moses
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18 | United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government | $350k–$28M |
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Lee Linden
Angel
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18 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, Logistics | $1.2M–$11M |
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Wei Guo
Angel
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16 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $150k–$33M |
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Dylan Taylor
Angel
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15 | United States, Canada, Finland | Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication | $32k–$16M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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14 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | $500k–$7.8M |
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Justin Waldron
Angel
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11 | United States, Japan, Chile | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $150k–$5.3M |
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Cyan Banister
Angel
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11 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Social Media | $500k–$11M |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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10 | United States, Ghana, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$100M |
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Kevin Mahaffey
Angel
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9 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $550k–$25M |
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Mark Pincus
Angel
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8 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Software, FinTech | $750k–$40M |
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Shervin Pishevar
Angel
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8 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $1M–$100M |
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David O. Sacks
Angel
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7 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $1M–$100M |
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Kevin Moore
Angel
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7 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $120k–$3M |
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Güimar Vaca Sittic
Angel
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7 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace | $600k–$400M |
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Kyle Vogt
Angel
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7 | United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$8M |
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Joshua Schachter
Angel
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7 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | $625k–$13M |
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Paul Buchheit
Angel
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7 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $100k–$8.5M |
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Fabrice Grinda
Angel
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7 | United States, France, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace | $600k–$65M |
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Lachy Groom
Angel
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7 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $2M–$45M |
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Clark Landry
Angel
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7 | United States, Mexico, Bulgaria | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Advertising | $100k–$12M |
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Mark Cuban
Angel
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7 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$23M |
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Jason Finger
Angel
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6 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $875k–$21M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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6 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $80k–$32M |
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Rick Marini
Angel
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6 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1M–$50M |
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6 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $325k–$14M |
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Immad Akhund
Angel
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6 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $500k–$10M |
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Baron Davis
Angel
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6 | United States, Sweden, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps | $2M–$50M |
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Shane Neman
Angel
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5 | United States, Kenya, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $2M–$7M |
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George Baker Sr.
Angel
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5 | United States | Series B, Convertible Note | Mobile, Automotive, Parking | |
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Brian Spaly
Angel
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5 | United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$9M |
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Founder & Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel Founder @ Smart Tech Foundation CEO @ Personal Training Systems Founder @ FWD.us
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Investor stats
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Angel $50k–$1M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Co-founder @ Color
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- Industry: Software, IT, Financial
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $10M–$30M; Series B $20M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup HEAD OF STARTUP STUDIO @ Cornell Tech
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $565k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$12M; Series B $11M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Founder & CEO @ Affirm Founder & General Partner @ SciFi VC Founder & President @ HVF Labs Co-Founder & Chairman @ Glow
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- Industry: Software, Financial, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $3.4M–$25M; Series B $9M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Digits
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- Industry: Software, IT, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
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- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.6M; Series A $5.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
CEO and Chief Historian @ SafeGraph
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- Industry: Software, Data and Analytics, Sales/Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
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- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Angel $160k–$1M; Series A $900k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Founder and Managing Partner @ Draper Associates Adviser @ Bancor Founder @ SpeedUPAfrica Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ DDF Founder @ DFJ VinaCapital Co-Founder & MD @ DFJ DragonFund Founder/Partner @ VenturesLab Founder & Partner @ Gotham Ventures Co - Founder & MD @ Zone Ventures Co-Founder @ ePlanet Capital Founder @ Draper University Ventures Co-Founder @ Draper Dragon Founder @ Draper Fisher Jurvetson
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.7M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $3M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Chairman & CEO @ VaynerX Creator & Founder @ VeeFriends Co-Founder @ VCR Group Co-Founder @ VaynerSports Co-Founder @ GrapeStory Co Founder @ Resy, American Express Global Dining Network Founder @ Cinderella Wine Partner & Co-Founder @ Vayner/RSE CEO @ Vayner Media Co-Founder @ Empathy Wines
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
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- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.1M; Angel $180k–$500k; Series A $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Founder & CEO @ CustEx
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- Industry: Software, Financial, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
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- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.3M; Series A $3.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Founder & CTO @ HubSpot Blogger @ OnStartups.com Angel Investor @ Backupify Founder @ Inbound Marketing Founder/CTO @ Twitter Grader Co-Founder, CTO @ HubSpot Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Sales/Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
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- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M; Angel $125k–$1M; Series A $1.5M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $1M–$15M; Series B $18M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Chair & Co-CEO @ Salesforce Owner @ Time Ventures Founder, Chair & CEO @ Salesforce Ventures Chair & Chief Executive Officer @ CloudCraze
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- Industry: Software, IT, Other
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
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- Round size: Seed $850k–$11M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Partner @ Craft Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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- Round size: Seed $560k–$4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Partner @ Greylock Chairman @ Research Bridge Partners Founder @ FWD.us Co-Founder @ Silicon Valley Comes to the UK
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
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- Round size: Seed $500k–$30M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Visiting Partner @ Y Combinator
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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- Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Venture Partner @ FasterCapital
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- Industry: Software, IT, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
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- Round size: Seed $50k–$500k; Angel $100k–$400k; Pre-Seed $120k–$340k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
CEO, Founder, developer and publisher of mobile apps, and Technical Manager @ ZGroup Mobile Investor, CoFounder @ Dooet
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- Industry: Software, IT, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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- Round size: Seed $67k–$472k; Pre-Seed $70k–$390k; Series A $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Venture Partner, CEO & Co-Founder @ Rocketplace
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- Industry: Software, Financial, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
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- Round size: Seed $605k–$4.1M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Offline Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
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- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Founder & Partner @ Kapor Capital Co-Chair @ Kapor Center for Social Impact Director @ SMASH | Level Playing Field Institute Co-founder @ Lotus Founder @ Mitchell Kapor Foundation
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
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- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; Angel $300k–$400k; Series A $2M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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Browse database — It's Free!A proven serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also manages Silent Capital, a private syndicate that providesits members exclusive access to leading defense and frontier tech deals. As a serial founder, Jackson’s companies - MainStreet (FinTech) and Spectrum Labs (enterprise AI) - have raised over $120M, employ hundreds of people, and generate $30M+ in ARR.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet - the first company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows, integrations, and back-office technologies. As a founding executive, he was responsible for defining GTM strategies, scaling revenue, building a world-class sales organization, and managing business development initiatives. To date, MainStreet has helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs - a frontier tech company that develops cutting-edge AI to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, and their users. Its customers span gaming, dating, and social media, and include Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Afore Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc
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- Industry: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $7.2M–$28M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.2M; Series A $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Galvanick — Secure industrial operations. Galvanick's industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform secures industrial systems and networks against cyber attacks.
- Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Series A $3.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
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.
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- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $32k–$4M; Series A $5.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
- Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
- Spaced Ventures — Spaced Ventures is a public investment platform for the space industry. Their platform gives direct access to investment deals and lets them back the hottest space startups. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Florida.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $650k–$2.8M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
- Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
- Breakr — Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
- 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.
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 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.
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ghana, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $23M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $550k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$2.2M; Series A $2.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- RecruitBot — RecruitBot Is A Platform That Helps You Find Top Talent Through Machine Learning, AI & Cloud Tools. Contact RecruitBot, The Top Online, AI Recruiting Agency
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.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
- Augmend — AI-augmented knowledge transfer across developers through a platform that captures and shares expertise.
Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Series A $6M–$33M; Series B $9.5M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
- Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
Kyle Vogt is the CEO of Cruise and former cofounder of Twitch
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BetterBrand — Designing a Better future of food. The Better Bagel features Fewer Carbs and More Protein.
- Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
- Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
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.
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- 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.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1M; Series A $650k–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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.
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- 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.
i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $8M–$32M; Series B $11M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Bulgaria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.3M; Angel $250k–$1.1M; Series A $2.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
- Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
- AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
- Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
- Bequest Finance — Succession and protection for digital assets. Trusts, Wills, Payable on Death, LLCs, tax efficient structuring for Crypto, Documents, Email data, and more.
Jason Finger is the founder of Salvo Health.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $875k–$4M; Series A $3M–$10M; Series B $10M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Thrasio — Take the tension out of selling your ecommerce or Amazon FBA business and get on a path to a well-earned payout while we grow your brand. Contact Thrasio today.
- Constructor — Constructor ecommerce search and product discovery increases revenue. Deliver superior experiences with AI, NLP, data and personalization.
- StayTuned — through results-driven software, merchant-focused support, and an experienced team.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $321k–$4M; Pre-Seed $80k–$2.5M; Series A $2.5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
- Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
- Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $325k–$2M; Series A $10M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
- Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
- 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.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $9M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
- KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.
- COMMUNITYx — COMMUNITYx connects likeminded changemakers with another, as well as around calls-to-action. You can create events and petitions all from within the App! Whether you care about Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, Universal Healthcare, Poverty, and more, COMMUNITYx is the place for you!
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.
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- 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.
Entrepreneurial, practical, and a visionary. These words seem somewhat contradictory, but these words truly describe George’s leadership style. His experience and education have led him to the point where he is today - building his own brand in the parking industry and beyond. Even though he has big ideas, he possesses the pragmatism to see thelimitations, challenges and obstacles at hand. He believes in others and enjoys building teams and driving innovation through collaborative effort. This team-first ethos forms the foundation upon which George built ParkHub into the successful and driven organization that it is today. George has nearly 17 years of hands-on experience in the parking realm, focusing on managing the parking operations of class-A office garage facilities and comparable top-tier parking operations across the continental United States. He prides himself on deep domain knowledge of the event parking space and providing a comprehensive suite of services both software and hardware to support his ever-growing clientele therein. In order to consistently exceed customer expectations in the event-parking space, ParkHub provides logistics and occupancy management services, as well as cutting-edge insights into parking management. Truly, George is reshaping the parking universe, one satisfied customer at a time. When he’s not modernizing the parking world, he’s at his home in Dallas, Texas, spending time with his wife Chelsey and their two children, George II and Kuper. George graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s of Science in Regional Development | City Planning. George is a proud Eagle Scout, Past Worshipful Master of his Texas Masonic Lodge, winner of the 2016 Greater Dallas Business Ethics Award, multiple recipient of the National Parking Association 40 under 40 award, 2016 finalist of EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and devoted member his local Highland Park United Methodist Church congregation.
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- Industry: Mobile, Automotive, Parking
- Stage:Series B, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vinli — Vinli is an automotive technology company that builds data intelligence solutions and services for the connected world. In just three years, the team has built the most advanced vehicle data computing platform, grown into the largest app ecosystem for the car, and secured global partnerships with significant players in the telecom and automotiveindustry. Vinli’s fully customizable platform has enabled sophisticated brands to easily engineer connected car services and capitalize on its vehicle data.The company finds the meaningful connections and correlations between data posts and increases the opportunity for monetization across the automotive value chain by consuming and normalizing behavioral, diagnostic, and contextual data with its proprietary cloud-based data intelligence system. It also provides customized application solutions that keep the automotive-based software competitive and relevant. Through finding and highlighting those hidden data relationships, it creates customized mobility solutions our partners can market and monetize through white-label offerings.Vinli was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Parkaze — Parkaze is an online shared-economy marketplace where you can host and rent privately owned parking spots. As a host, you get a seamless experience by leveraging your privately owned parking spot when you are away to earn more money. You still have complete control of its availability, price, and rules. As a driver, you can find cheaper and safealternatives to parking by letting you book spots where ever you go and whenever you go.
- ParkHub — ParkHub is a Dallas-based technology company that provides software and hardware services for the destination industry. The company's products provide multiple payment options, real-time reporting of parking revenue, support for dynamic pricing, and inventory availability and control. ParkHub leads the industry in integrations with prepaidparking reservation and ticketing providers. Founded by parking industry veteran, George Baker Sr., ParkHub has effectively fast-tracked traditional parking operations into the digital age. For more information, visit parkhub.com.
Brian Spaly is the General Partner of Brand Foundry Ventures and Executive Chairman of Tecovas. He is a former CEO at TrunkClub. He attended Princeton University and Stanford University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $5.3M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cann — THC & CBD Infused Social Tonic For a Light, Uplifting Buzz Without the Hangovers
- Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
- Crown Affair — Redefine your relationship with your hair through our products, guidance, and community.
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