Ben Boyer

Investor / Entrepreneur

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States20+ investments
21
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21y
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Co-Founder and Board Member
Jan 2024
The Honor Pet Comfort Center is dedicated to all your pets end-of-life needs, from thoughtful pre-planning and tranquil in-center euthanasia, to earth-friendly water cremation and memorialization as unique as the relationship shared.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Tanihub Group is South-East Asia’s largest #Agritech & fast-growing startup of supplier for Food and Beverages industry. We strive to enable better lives for #Farmers, drive the backbone of Indonesian economy, reduce food waste across the value chain and delight culinary business players with high-quality and easy-to-order farm/ #FreshProduce (fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat, seafood) and groceries. We do this by employing innovative technological solutions, combined with operational excellence to help farmers access a wider market, with greater predictability. By doing this, we will empower farmers to become better cultivators of the land, and be more prosperous over the long run. Founded in 2015, TaniHub along with TaniFund focus on connecting farmers with market while ensuring their access to financial (through P2P lending system) and technical supports. Our business values consist of social impact, excellence and innovation. We strive to achieve more by empowering more farmers across the country. Join us or Partner with us to improve the overall end-to-end agricultural sector!
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Kargo Technologies is Indonesia’s largest B2B trucking platform. Kargo’s product suites can seamlessly integrate with any business and empower supply chains to work with more transparency & efficiency. Kargo’s workflow tools allow freight to be priced, tracked and billed with technology. Kargo’s platform has highly managed and vetted transporters along with reputation systems to instill trust. The platform has managed to grow to tens of thousands of truckers and attracted notable clients such as some of the worlds largest MNCs, the largest eCommerce platforms, and thousands of SME businesses. WE ARE HIRING!
Board Member
Dec 2018
Wheels bike is one of the safest micro-mobility vehicles. It's designed for a comfortable and safe ride no matter the rider's level of experience or their physical abilities.
Board Member
Jul 2018
Wrench is a nationwide marketplace that connects automotive experts to vehicle owners, removing the hassle of vehicle ownership through trust, transparency, and convenience. Wrench deploys certified experts, on-location, providing over 750 services from vehicle inspections to maintenance and repair, and everything in between. Wrench is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, WA, with investments from prominent Venture Capital firms, including Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Marubeni Corporation.
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Board Member
Aug 2017
TruSignal, Inc., a TransUnion Company, is an innovative leader in people-based marketing technology for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, platforms, publishers and data owners. TruSignal uses predictive scoring, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to make big data actionable for one-to-one addressable marketing. TruSignal delivers incredible results by pinpointing the best people to target at scale and optimizing the bid price for every impression. This is all accomplished through the TruAudience Platform, which combines a robust deterministic identity graph, a massive third-party data set, an advanced AI engine with multiple machine learning algorithms, extensive people-based, omnichannel ID matching technology and a robust set of integration APIs that fuel partner platforms with powerful insights, custom audience building, lookalike audiences, audience expansion and bid price optimization solutions that are easy, accurate, scalable and fast. Founded in 2012, TruSignal’s team brings decades of experience in data-driven marketing, machine learning and actionable Big Data solutions.
Board Member
Aug 2017
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing an actionable picture of each person so they can be reliably represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world. A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Board Member
Feb 2017
Tenor (formerly Riffsy) helps people find the right GIF at the right moment. In a world that now largely operates via texts, social media messages, DMs and Slack channels, it can be hard to articulate exactly what you mean with keystrokes alone. Tenor’s GIF Keyboard makes it easy for people to visually express what’s on their mind. Beyond Tenor's GIF Keyboard, we extend our mobile-focused experience through our API, powering GIF sharing for partners like Facebook Messenger, Google’s G Board, LinkedIn, Kik, LinkedIn & Vodafone. Together across Tenor's offerings, hundreds of millions of users perform billions of searches every month for GIFs and videos from the world’s greatest content creators. The company is based in San Francisco, and is backed by Redpoint and Menlo Ventures.
Board Member
Nov 2015
PlanGrid builds simple, powerful software construction teams love to use. The company’s mobile-first technology gives general contractors, subs, owners and architects access to information in real-time, enables greater collaboration and provides actionable insights. With PlanGrid, any construction team member can manage and update blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, punchlists and other information from any device. PlanGrid is used on 1.5 million projects across commercial, heavy civil and other industries in 100+ countries. With over 150 million digital blueprints on its cloud-based platform, PlanGrid is also the largest digital blueprint repository in the world. PlanGrid was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco. The company was acquired by Autodesk in 2018.
Board Observer
Apr 2015
Doctor On Demand is now part of Included Health, delivering integrated virtual care and navigation. We’re on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone. We break down barriers to provide high-quality care for every person in every community — no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. We offer our members care guidance, advocacy, and access to personalized virtual and in-person care for everyday and urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty care. It’s all included.
Board Member
Aug 2013
Smartlings AI-Enabled Translation Platform, Neural Machine Translation and Language Services empowers teams to create multilingual websites, marketing communications, web and mobile apps and customer experiences. Grow your business faster, with the #1 translation management platform.
Board Observer
Apr 2013
ResearchGate is the professional network for researchers. Over 25 million researchers use researchgate.net to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. Based in Berlin, ResearchGate was founded in 2008. Its mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. If youd like to join us on this journey please get in touch: https://www.researchgate.net/careers Facebook: facebook.com/ResearchGate Twitter: twitter.com/ResearchGate Instagram: instagram.com/researchgate_official
Board Member
Aug 2012
baihe.com is the leading online dating service in China.
Board Observer
Jul 2011
The leading classified site in China, focusing on C2C, and listing services. We're hiring! http://jobs.baixing.com/ 百姓网(baixing.com)成立于2005年3月1日,是国内最大的分类信息网站。截至2012年9月,百姓网月活跃用户数超过7000万,月新增信息量超过1000万条,覆盖全国367个城市。百姓网致力于提供“连接所有生活需求”的信息平台,帮助用户方便查找和发布二手物品交易、二手车买卖、房屋租售、招聘求职、交友活动、宠物领养、生活服务等本地生活信息。 百姓网从2005年3月1日作为中国第一家在线分类网站正式成立至今,已经从每天几个人发布信息发展到成为一个每天几十万人发布信息,几百万人查找信息的超大型网站。通过我们的平台,各种各样的生活需求被连接了起来,让人们享受到网络带来的便利。
Board Observer
Sep 2010
A global platform that allows anyone to create, share, find and attend events that fuel their passions. For support, please visit https://bit.ly/EBhelp
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2025
Co-Owner
Dec 2025
The official LinkedIn page of the Akron RubberDucks, the Double-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians.
Co-Owner
Dec 2025
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are the Class Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins playing at VyStar Ballpark. The Jumbo Shrimp strive to be a part of the greater Jacksonville community year-round with events and partnerships while providing affordable, family, fun to all.
Co-Owner
Oct 2025
The Lancaster Stormers provide affordable family friendly entertainment at beautiful Penn Medicine Park in Central Pennsylvania! In addition to 70 annual home baseball games, the ballpark offers year round opportunities for functions, including: company fantasy days, corporate team building, holiday and birthday parties, award dinners, job fairs, company picnics, tradeshows, and more! We have a dedicated team of professionals who will make your day memorable.
Co-Founder
Jun 2025
Prospector Baseball Group is creating the most advanced and community-connected Minor League Baseball platform in the country. We combine deep operational expertise, long-term ownership, and cutting-edge technology to improve team performance, enhance the fan experience, and drive lasting value. Our model unifies locally cherished clubs under one efficient, modern system—elevating every element of the game without compromising what makes it beloved.
2024
Co-Founder and Board Member
Jan 2024
The Honor Pet Comfort Center is dedicated to all your pets end-of-life needs, from thoughtful pre-planning and tranquil in-center euthanasia, to earth-friendly water cremation and memorialization as unique as the relationship shared.
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