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Make me a list of Seed investors (names/linkedin profiles/emails) who: (1) are angels or VCs, (2) don't invest in anything below $25k, (3) in the San Francisco bay, (4) and have invested in the email productivity space within the last 6 months.
Hi! Thank you for your question about creating a list of seed and VC investors investing in the email productivity space.
In short, I have provided a list of 9 VCs and Angel funds and a list of angels who have been actively investing in the email productivity space in the last 1 year. I found the cbinsights, information week, computer world and crunchbase to be the most helpful in answering this question. I have provided a deep dive of my findings below.
METHODOLOGY
I was not able to find any pre-compiled list of such seed or VC investors. HR Tech has been a segment investors have been interested in however, email productivity forms a very small subset of this. Furthermore, the timeframe of last 6 months is short. Therefore, I looked up startups who are innovating in the space of email productivity. Only Boomerang and Asana came up. However, upon looking at workplace productivity startups, I was able to get a longer list. I then research for startups who are innovating in the space of workplace communications area to improve productivity under the premise that emails are not efficient anymore. This gave me further leads into startups such as Mailbox, Slack and Tribe. Boomerang has not raised any funds till data while Mailbox was acquired and closed in 2015 with a fund raise in 2011. Therefore, I have used the other startups to identify their latest fund raises, preferably within 6 months however, I have had to use last 1 year to complete the list of atleast 10 investors, and then filtered the investors on basis of their presence in Bay area. While the individual investments by these seed investors and VCs in unknown, it can be sufficiently estimated based on funding round size that they all invest above $25,000 each. I have created the list of 9 such investors along with their last activity mentioned.
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3. Founders Fund: Based out of San Francisco, it invested in Asana in Mar 2016 along with other investors.
6. Comcast Ventures: SF based VC fund, it invested in Slack in April 2016 along with other investors.
8. Institutional Venture Partners: HQ in Menlo Park, it invested in Slack in April 2016 along with other investors.
10. Mark Zuckerberg along with Adam D’Angelo, Aditya Agarwal, Andrew Mason, Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Ries, Justin Rosenstein, Priscilla Chan, Roger McNamee and Ruchi Sanghvi invested as angels in Asana and are based in the San Francisco Bay area. Though their individual investments are unknown.
I have uploaded the spreadsheet here. However, email addresses for most are not available. Many don’t even list a group email address or phone numbers.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, I have provided a list of 9 VCs and Angel funds and a list of angels who have been actively investing in the email productivity space in the last 1 year.
I hope the research is useful. Thank you for using Wonder!