Ernesto DiGiambattista

Founder & CEO, AptusPAR | Managing Partner, Genesis Accel | Board Director, MassCyberCenter & Mass Tech Collaborative

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
VC🌍 United States
10
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Portfolio

10 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor
2023
Seekr delivers AI you can trust in mission-critical environments. As a privately held artificial intelligence company, we help government and critical infrastructure leaders make accurate, explainable decisions when the stakes are highest. From defense to telecom to finance, we power the systems society depends on. Build accurate, explainable AI securely with your data with SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end platform with comprehensive content-scoring capabilities and a toolset to build domain-specific large language models and AI agents. By addressing bias, data integrity, and model complexity, we power informed, auditable decisions that drive real-world results. Our AI solutions are optimized for various enterprise and government use cases and run on all leading cloud and hardware providers. As a SOC 2 certified company, we provide you with full control to deploy on our cloud, your cloud, your data center, or at the Edge.
Investor
2022
Moon Mortgage is a crypto-backed mortgage provider. As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, Moon Mortgage is offering a financial product to democratize access to generational wealth. Their business model revolves around the collateralization of mortgages with cryptocurrency assets, and offers lending solutions to whole new populations that might not otherwise qualify for a traditional real estate loan. For the first time, borrowers will now be able to leverage their digital assets to easily and safely purchase homes, investment properties, and other real property. For those who may not have access to a conventional bank, may not be able to show standard income statements, or otherwise are unable to purchase a home the "old-fashion" way, Moon Mortgage provides an answer.
Investor
2022
Allocations was founded in 2019 by Kingsley Advani, a successful serial angel investor. Advani became determined to build a more democratic fund raising platform after being fed up with how slow and expensive fund lawyers were. Allocations levels the playing ground between normal investors and institutions via SPVs, funds and SPACs. It is the company’s mission to democratize capitalism. The Allocations platform empowers emerging fund managers to easily raise capital and gives normal investors the opportunity to invest in companies that are changing the world. Allocations has enabled investments in companies such as SpaceX, Axiom Space and Udemy. In addition to this, the company has facilitated early-stage funding for innovative companies that are addressing some of the biggest problems in the world right now: cancer, pollution and sustainable meat production. Allocations is rapidly expanding to build the world’s most programmatic approach to fund management. The company was started in Silicon Valley and has since moved to Miami, where it is steadily becoming a crucial pillar of Miami’s burgeoning tech hub. Notable investors include Jamie Rogozinsky (Founder of WallStreetBets), Joshua Browder (Founder of DoNotPay) and Zachary Hargreaves (Ex Founders Fund).
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2022
Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide services that were previously unavailable. Wasoko aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary. Thousands of retailers across Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda use Wasokos mobile ordering and delivery service to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time.
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2022
Trilio is a leader in cloud-native data protection for Kubernetes and OpenStack environments. Our Trilio technology is trusted by cloud infrastructure operators and developers for backup and recovery, migration and application mobility. Customers in telecom, defense, automotive and financial services leverage Trilio to recover from disasters, migrate workloads, move workloads to new infrastructure and migrate to new software distributions.
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2022
Highsman, positioned at the intersection of sports and cannabis, is the official lifestyle brand of entrepreneur, thought leader, and one of the most electric NFL running backs of the century, Ricky Williams. Featuring an innovative line of personally curated cannabis, apparel, and accessories, Highsman was created to Spark GreatnessTM — no matter how you define it.
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2021
MoonPay simplifies access to buy, sell and trade crypto using everyday payment methods like cards, Apple Pay, PayPal and Venmo, while also providing simple tools to send, receive and manage stablecoins. Whether you are new to digital money or a company exploring new ways to use it, MoonPay provides the trusted infrastructure to onboard users into the blockchain-based financial ecosystem safely and seamlessly. With 30 million customers and powering the infrastructure for nearly 500 companies across the decentralized economy, MoonPay is a key driver behind mainstream crypto adoption. It is fully licensed in the U.S. and regulated in the UK, EU, Canada and Australia—and has been certified for its enterprise-grade security. MoonPay is changing payments.
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2021
Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini (NASDAQ: GEMI) envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging cryptoeconomy, we are providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure.
Investor
2021
Versus taps the power of proprietary AI to gamify content, making fandom fun & rewarding and increasing engagement, retention and revenue for our partners across entertainment, news, sports, social and search.
Investor
2021
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.
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2025
Founder & CEO
2025
AptusPAR began as an internal initiative within a workforce solutions firm and quickly evolved into a standalone company focused on enabling digital transformation. Built on deep expertise in cloud technologies, cybersecurity, and enterprise operations, AptusPAR exists to help organizations move with clarity, confidence, and speed. Grounded in the philosophy of Assess. Advise. Advance., we start by identifying gaps and opportunities, deliver strategic guidance rooted in real-world impact, and implement solutions that drive measurable progress. Our mission is to empower businesses with tailored strategies and expert execution to achieve sustainable growth and digital leadership.
2023
Investor
2023
Seekr delivers AI you can trust in mission-critical environments. As a privately held artificial intelligence company, we help government and critical infrastructure leaders make accurate, explainable decisions when the stakes are highest. From defense to telecom to finance, we power the systems society depends on. Build accurate, explainable AI securely with your data with SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end platform with comprehensive content-scoring capabilities and a toolset to build domain-specific large language models and AI agents. By addressing bias, data integrity, and model complexity, we power informed, auditable decisions that drive real-world results. Our AI solutions are optimized for various enterprise and government use cases and run on all leading cloud and hardware providers. As a SOC 2 certified company, we provide you with full control to deploy on our cloud, your cloud, your data center, or at the Edge.
2022
Investor
2022
Moon Mortgage is a crypto-backed mortgage provider. As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, Moon Mortgage is offering a financial product to democratize access to generational wealth. Their business model revolves around the collateralization of mortgages with cryptocurrency assets, and offers lending solutions to whole new populations that might not otherwise qualify for a traditional real estate loan. For the first time, borrowers will now be able to leverage their digital assets to easily and safely purchase homes, investment properties, and other real property. For those who may not have access to a conventional bank, may not be able to show standard income statements, or otherwise are unable to purchase a home the "old-fashion" way, Moon Mortgage provides an answer.
Investor
2022
Allocations was founded in 2019 by Kingsley Advani, a successful serial angel investor. Advani became determined to build a more democratic fund raising platform after being fed up with how slow and expensive fund lawyers were. Allocations levels the playing ground between normal investors and institutions via SPVs, funds and SPACs. It is the company’s mission to democratize capitalism. The Allocations platform empowers emerging fund managers to easily raise capital and gives normal investors the opportunity to invest in companies that are changing the world. Allocations has enabled investments in companies such as SpaceX, Axiom Space and Udemy. In addition to this, the company has facilitated early-stage funding for innovative companies that are addressing some of the biggest problems in the world right now: cancer, pollution and sustainable meat production. Allocations is rapidly expanding to build the world’s most programmatic approach to fund management. The company was started in Silicon Valley and has since moved to Miami, where it is steadily becoming a crucial pillar of Miami’s burgeoning tech hub. Notable investors include Jamie Rogozinsky (Founder of WallStreetBets), Joshua Browder (Founder of DoNotPay) and Zachary Hargreaves (Ex Founders Fund).
Investor
2022
Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide services that were previously unavailable. Wasoko aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary. Thousands of retailers across Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda use Wasokos mobile ordering and delivery service to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time.
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