Eric Kagan

Trusted Strategic Advisor to HNW/UHNW Individuals and Family Offices. Investor / Board Member in Finance, Aviation, Tech and Real Estate

📍 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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5
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Investor and Advisor
Nov 2023
La Leyenda, a meticulously crafted spirit, emerges once a year from a secluded family estate in Zacatecas, Mexico, carrying the legacy of four generations. This craft mezcal distinguishes itself from the widespread, mass-produced spirits of Jalisco and Oaxaca by utilizing fully matured blue weber agave. These plants, requiring over six years to reach full maturity, yield a mere 7-10 bottles each, ensuring exclusivity and quality. Characterized by its smooth texture, subtle earthy notes, and clean finish, La Leyenda boasts a natural purity, free from additives, celebrities, or misleading promotions. It’s the pride of an independent family enterprise, committed to authenticity. By embracing modern technology, the founders of La Leyenda are revitalizing a 400-year-old tradition, celebrating the rich, untainted flavors of 100% mature blue weber agave. Join the Legends Club
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Nov 2020
Founded on the principle of democratizing access—first to music in 1999, now to creative expertise in 2025—Napster has consistently been at the forefront of transformational technology shifts that expand markets and empower users. The company’s latest platform turns passive consumers into active creators, providing the interface layer between foundation AI models and human creativity. For more information, visit napster.com.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2020
SCP, Corp is the Distributed Datacenter, building cloud storage for SME backup and recovery with sharing economy pricing and public key cryptographic security. This is what the Internet was supposed to be, before large corporations centralized everything. The company is fully distributed with a diverse team in places like New Zealand, Russia, Latvia and the USA. Founded in 2018, with a successful capital raise in 2020, we are well positioned for the first product iteration release at the beginning of 2021. We're currently seeking beta testers to try out S3-based backup/recovery. SCP, Corp also is the developer entity for ScPrime, an ASIC-mined Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency that is used underneath the storage product for frictionless payments to entities providing storage to the network around the globe. If you are passionate about the cloud, data storage or distributed networks, join us.
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Mar 2020
LeaseUp helps commercial real estate brokers get deals done with tools that support every part of the deal, from site selection, to touring, to signature. Brokers use LeaseUp to create, organize, and share surveys, tours, and documents in one central place. Clients love LeaseUp’s polished output, mobile-friendly site, and messaging features that make collaborating with their broker seamless. With LeaseUp, brokers are able to work with data in a completely flexible way — from intuitive CSV import and customizable building fields, to complete control over how you display data to the client, to quick copying of data from past projects. LeaseUp gives brokers the ability to work the way they want, with technology that supports, not dictates, their workflow.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Mar 2017
Fairmarkit is an autonomous sourcing platform that helps organizations source more competitively at scale. Procurement teams use Fairmarkit’s AI and GenAI capabilities to manage 10x more events per FTE and uncover $40k in savings per buyer per week.
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Mar 2016
Davì Audio Inc is a company based out of Orlando, Florida, United States.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Aug 2015
A premium custom athletic slide company that create opportunity. The company founded by Justin Kittredge, a 20 year footwear industry veteran, enables consumers to create their own design on high quality, athletic sandals enabling individual expression and self-representation with peers, family, and friends. Each sandal offers the newly designed Relief Pro Lining [pronounced ripple] technology - a wave-like, antimicrobial foam footbed designed to help feet recover after workouts. Each pair also includes the highest quality midsole EVA foam cushion, a signature sneaker inspired outsole and an ultra-soft, lyrca adjustable strap to ensure a smooth, comfortable fit. With big and small box retailers already buying into the product, ISlide sandals are entirely customizable via an online, fully responsive website enabling all consumers to choose from a variety of color-ways to upload and position logos and personal I.D.s, add graphics, and choose from endless different color options for font.
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2023
Investor and Advisor
Nov 2023
La Leyenda, a meticulously crafted spirit, emerges once a year from a secluded family estate in Zacatecas, Mexico, carrying the legacy of four generations. This craft mezcal distinguishes itself from the widespread, mass-produced spirits of Jalisco and Oaxaca by utilizing fully matured blue weber agave. These plants, requiring over six years to reach full maturity, yield a mere 7-10 bottles each, ensuring exclusivity and quality. Characterized by its smooth texture, subtle earthy notes, and clean finish, La Leyenda boasts a natural purity, free from additives, celebrities, or misleading promotions. It’s the pride of an independent family enterprise, committed to authenticity. By embracing modern technology, the founders of La Leyenda are revitalizing a 400-year-old tradition, celebrating the rich, untainted flavors of 100% mature blue weber agave. Join the Legends Club
2020
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Nov 2020
Founded on the principle of democratizing access—first to music in 1999, now to creative expertise in 2025—Napster has consistently been at the forefront of transformational technology shifts that expand markets and empower users. The company’s latest platform turns passive consumers into active creators, providing the interface layer between foundation AI models and human creativity. For more information, visit napster.com.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2020
SCP, Corp is the Distributed Datacenter, building cloud storage for SME backup and recovery with sharing economy pricing and public key cryptographic security. This is what the Internet was supposed to be, before large corporations centralized everything. The company is fully distributed with a diverse team in places like New Zealand, Russia, Latvia and the USA. Founded in 2018, with a successful capital raise in 2020, we are well positioned for the first product iteration release at the beginning of 2021. We're currently seeking beta testers to try out S3-based backup/recovery. SCP, Corp also is the developer entity for ScPrime, an ASIC-mined Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency that is used underneath the storage product for frictionless payments to entities providing storage to the network around the globe. If you are passionate about the cloud, data storage or distributed networks, join us.
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Mar 2020
LeaseUp helps commercial real estate brokers get deals done with tools that support every part of the deal, from site selection, to touring, to signature. Brokers use LeaseUp to create, organize, and share surveys, tours, and documents in one central place. Clients love LeaseUp’s polished output, mobile-friendly site, and messaging features that make collaborating with their broker seamless. With LeaseUp, brokers are able to work with data in a completely flexible way — from intuitive CSV import and customizable building fields, to complete control over how you display data to the client, to quick copying of data from past projects. LeaseUp gives brokers the ability to work the way they want, with technology that supports, not dictates, their workflow.
2017
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Mar 2017
Fairmarkit is an autonomous sourcing platform that helps organizations source more competitively at scale. Procurement teams use Fairmarkit’s AI and GenAI capabilities to manage 10x more events per FTE and uncover $40k in savings per buyer per week.
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