I have served on the boards of Action Tank (Chairman & cofounder); Ionic (sold to Twilio); Authorea (sold to Wiley); Earnest Analytics (Observer, sold to Consumer Edge); Signup.com (exited to management); and Whisk (sold to Deem).
Orange Collective’s portfolio is here.
I have particular interest in “investment tech“. Among my past investments in this space, most of which I made while a Partner at my prior VC firms:
- Addepar – Make smarter investment decisions and drive greater outcomes for the portfolios in your care
- Asaak – Asset-financing and mobile financial services in emerging markets
- Clarity – AI-powered platform to manage consumer spending; generates rich behavioral data (acquired by Goldman Sachs Marcus for a reported $100m)
- Earnest Analytics – helps companies and investors understand the world through data (acquired by Consumer Edge)
- Cardify from Drop Technologies unlocks the what and the why behind consumer spending
- Indiegogo – Platform to launch & fund innovative products (acquired by Gamefound)
- Republic – Access vetted investments in startups, real estate, video games, crypto, etc.
- Stratifi – Client-profiling tools to make measuring risk simple
- Xperiti – A modern expert network, leveraging AI and ML for greater efficiency (acquired by Ipsos)
Other fintech investments include:
- Cardflight– Enables SMBs to accept payments via mobile
- Distil – Advanced bot protection (acquired by Imperva)
- Estify – Enable a faster, safer and more efficient vehicle repair process
- Flutterwave – Fully-unified set of payment tools focused on Africa
- Ionic – System of record for data access policy management, encryption key management, and real-time policy enforcement (acquired by Twilio)
- Skip – Self-checkout kiosks (acquired by Standard AI)
- Socure– Graph-defined identity verification platform that utilizes every element of identity—delivering the most accurate fraud detection and identity verification in real time
- Sure – Mobile-native, on-demand insurance, focused on micro-duration policies and personal property
