Howard Charney

Investor & Board Member | Founder @ 3Com & Grand Junction | Former SVP @ Cisco | Trustee @ Santa Clara

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023
Operator-angel🌍 United States
8
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5
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1
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0
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27y
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Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
Nurdle helps product teams get AI into production faster, cheaper and easier. Nurdles innovative and proprietary NurdleGPT data technology produces use-case specific "lookalike" datasets that blend performance, speed, and cost-efficiency, to make AI useful, practical, and accessible to organizations. Test your data for free at Nurdle.ai.
Investor
Oct 2022
Privateer integrates data sources from sea to space to sculpt information into answers, enabling problem-solvers across a variety of industries to understand the present, anticipate the future, and make informed decisions in the face of complex challenges.
Investor
Jul 2021
Invisible AI – is an on-premise computer vision platform that captures data from manual assembly work and uses AI to make smart recommendations to improve plant productivity, quality, and safety.
Investor
Jun 2020
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but they shouldnt have to choose between growing their business and managing complex back office operations. Were here to change that. Mainstreet was founded on the belief that small businesses deserve the same level of support and expertise that larger enterprises take for granted. We saw an opportunity to better support small businesses across several critical services they need to succeed. From bookkeeping and tax preparation to entity formation and compliance, we recognized that small business owners were juggling too many complex tasks that pulled them away from growing their business. Our comprehensive platform brings all these essential services together in one simple, seamless solution.
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2019
Path is now Rula! Follow our NEW LinkedIn company page - linkedin.com/company/rulahealth Learn more about our rebrand - https://www.rula.com/blog/brand-announcement/ Path is a healthcare company powered by technology. We’re a teletherapy company that doesn’t compromise on quality — we measure progress and prioritize patient outcomes. Path takes a patient-first approach, where treatment is more accessible, personalized, and effective. With Path, it’s easy to find a high-quality therapist or psychiatric practitioner who meets your unique needs, accepts insurance, and is taking new patients. For providers, Path offers the flexibility of private practice, while also filling caseloads and offering the necessary behind-the-scenes support. Path handles the marketing, credentialing, billing, and admin tasks so providers can focus on what they love: providing care to those in need. With no minimum caseload required and guaranteed payments, Path is a trusted partner for more than 8,000 therapists nationwide and has hundreds of 5-star reviews. Our mission is to make mental healthcare work for everyone. Path is a 100% remote healthtech company and we’re hiring! We have teams who specialize in the areas of Clinical, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and more. Were excited to bring people onto the team who are committed to changing how mental health is treated. To learn more about Path Mental Health, visit pathmentalhealth.com. If you’re a provider, visit pathmentalhealth.com/provider-sign-up.
Investor & Board Member
Mar 2017
Spectrum Labs harnesses the power of data, AI, and community to rebuild trust in the Internet, making it a safer, more valuable place for businesses, consumers, and societies. Spectrum Labs’ AI-based Trust & Safety platform identifies toxic behaviors across text, voice, and languages enabling Trust & Safety teams to reduce content moderation costs by 50% and increase detection of brand-destroying behaviors by 10x.
Investor & Board Member
2010
Salesforce DMP helps companies worldwide deliver more valuable, more personal marketing, media, and commerce experiences. Salesforce DMP’s cloud-based data platform operates in real time, unifying people data from all screens and sources into a single view of the individual; analyzing the data to understand each individuals preferences; and activating the data across any delivery channel. Monthly, Salesforce DMP interacts with 3 billion browsers and devices, serves over 20 billion page views, and processes nearly 2 billion CRM records. Salesforce DMP was founded in 2010 as Krux, a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with ten offices across five continents. Salesforce DMP clients include companies like Kellogg, ConAgra, Mondelez, Time Warner, Meredith, BBC, and Ticketmaster, with enterprises achieving a 10x return or higher on their investment. To learn more, visit www.krux.com, and follow Salesforce DMP on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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2023
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
Nurdle helps product teams get AI into production faster, cheaper and easier. Nurdles innovative and proprietary NurdleGPT data technology produces use-case specific "lookalike" datasets that blend performance, speed, and cost-efficiency, to make AI useful, practical, and accessible to organizations. Test your data for free at Nurdle.ai.
2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Privateer integrates data sources from sea to space to sculpt information into answers, enabling problem-solvers across a variety of industries to understand the present, anticipate the future, and make informed decisions in the face of complex challenges.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Invisible AI – is an on-premise computer vision platform that captures data from manual assembly work and uses AI to make smart recommendations to improve plant productivity, quality, and safety.
2020
Investor
Jun 2020
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but they shouldnt have to choose between growing their business and managing complex back office operations. Were here to change that. Mainstreet was founded on the belief that small businesses deserve the same level of support and expertise that larger enterprises take for granted. We saw an opportunity to better support small businesses across several critical services they need to succeed. From bookkeeping and tax preparation to entity formation and compliance, we recognized that small business owners were juggling too many complex tasks that pulled them away from growing their business. Our comprehensive platform brings all these essential services together in one simple, seamless solution.
2019
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2019
Path is now Rula! Follow our NEW LinkedIn company page - linkedin.com/company/rulahealth Learn more about our rebrand - https://www.rula.com/blog/brand-announcement/ Path is a healthcare company powered by technology. We’re a teletherapy company that doesn’t compromise on quality — we measure progress and prioritize patient outcomes. Path takes a patient-first approach, where treatment is more accessible, personalized, and effective. With Path, it’s easy to find a high-quality therapist or psychiatric practitioner who meets your unique needs, accepts insurance, and is taking new patients. For providers, Path offers the flexibility of private practice, while also filling caseloads and offering the necessary behind-the-scenes support. Path handles the marketing, credentialing, billing, and admin tasks so providers can focus on what they love: providing care to those in need. With no minimum caseload required and guaranteed payments, Path is a trusted partner for more than 8,000 therapists nationwide and has hundreds of 5-star reviews. Our mission is to make mental healthcare work for everyone. Path is a 100% remote healthtech company and we’re hiring! We have teams who specialize in the areas of Clinical, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and more. Were excited to bring people onto the team who are committed to changing how mental health is treated. To learn more about Path Mental Health, visit pathmentalhealth.com. If you’re a provider, visit pathmentalhealth.com/provider-sign-up.
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