Joe Zhou

Founder, Investor

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
14
Total investments
5
Early stage
2
Mid stage
1
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Aug 2021
Pipe makes embedded financial solutions accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Underwriting is based on live transaction and business data, removing the hurdles of traditional business financing. How does it work? Eligible merchants: Receive a pre-approved or pre-qualified offer, based on their revenue Verify a few business and ownership details Then accept as much of their offer as they need and get back to doing what they love, running their business Pipe can help turn your software into a one-stop shop for your customers and help them gain access to the capital they need to thrive.
Investor
Aug 2021
Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables government and commercial customers to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles are built with common flight-proven technologies to enable speed, reliability, and cost efficiencies for each mission across cislunar space and beyond.
Investor
May 2021
SIMULATEs mission is to upgrade the world to a positive food system.
Investor
Feb 2021
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Tempo turns mobile gaming ads into shoppable storefronts. We transform how people discover and experience products by working with game developers, publishers, and brands of all sizes, everywhere in the world.
Investor
Aug 2020
The 1010 Capital Fund is a multi-strategy fund that delivers enhanced returns by allocating capital to a variety of cryptocurrency trading strategies and alternative investment funds. These strategies focus on capturing market inefficiencies and generating alpha in multiple uncorrelated ways. Including arbitrage and marketing making, buying, holding, and shorting currencies, trading futures, and options.
Investor
Jan 2020
Gigmor is a global music discovery and booking platform connecting musicians, venues and fans. Actively raising on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/gigmor
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2019
Stock Squirrel endeavors to spread the belief that people should invest where they shop. Our goal is to make investing more accessible to individuals, regardless of financial knowledge or resources. We strive to empower individuals to be involved in the financial marketplace by taking ownership in the corporations they support. Our mission is to get every person in the world to own at least one share of stock!
Investor
Jul 2019
We believe that booking live music should be easy and that our customers should focus on what matters to them, from running their venue to building their brand. The way we do that is by offering a simple to use, beautifully designed web app and mobile app for venue owners to easily book their gigs, manage their bands, and view analytics to stay on budget.
Investor
Jun 2018
Uncover what consumers say about your brand and products by using our AI-video listening tool. Now, you can understand why your influencer video marketing is effective and you can truly optimize it. Working with our partners since 2018, weve built a powerful video analytics solution by actively listening to the voices of creators and their audiences. We analyze the video and reactions at key moments, across all major social media and video platforms both live streaming and on demand. This delivers you actionable insights to help increase your marketing ROI and run powerful creator-led campaigns.
Investor
Feb 2018
Cointaxes is a secure tax preparation service for trading, mining, or exchanging any digital currency such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or Ripple. Cointaxes is trusted by both tax professionals, businesses and individuals for tax preparation. Learn more at www.cointaxes.com
Investor
Oct 2017
NewBlock Capital is reshaping the way we perceive finance. Our balanced team of managers, traders, and technology experts are catalyzing the next financial revolution with comprehensive short and longterm investment strategies. This hedge fund was built from the ground up to focus on blockchain technology, digital currencies, and innovative projects. We differentiate by offering an investment strategy that symbiotically caters to our clients and the greater blockchain ecosystem. Our team’s mission is to responsibly organize, preserve and grow wealth for our clients.
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2021
Investor
Aug 2021
Pipe makes embedded financial solutions accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Underwriting is based on live transaction and business data, removing the hurdles of traditional business financing. How does it work? Eligible merchants: Receive a pre-approved or pre-qualified offer, based on their revenue Verify a few business and ownership details Then accept as much of their offer as they need and get back to doing what they love, running their business Pipe can help turn your software into a one-stop shop for your customers and help them gain access to the capital they need to thrive.
Investor
Aug 2021
Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables government and commercial customers to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles are built with common flight-proven technologies to enable speed, reliability, and cost efficiencies for each mission across cislunar space and beyond.
Founder
Jun 2021
Innovation in products, finance, and rewards for gamers. Were a small, tight-knit group of inventors, designers, artists, and dreamers. Each one of us a gamer; striving, evolving, and building industry-breaking rewards systems.
Investor
May 2021
SIMULATEs mission is to upgrade the world to a positive food system.
Investor
Feb 2021
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
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