Howie Schwartz

Serial Entrepreneur, Angel & Venture Capital Investor, Strategic Advisor, and Early LP in Emerging Managers' First Funds

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2010
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Founding Investor
Jan 2010
ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others. The Fund has a primary focus towards NYC and the surrounding North-East and Mid-Atlantic area companies. ARC Angel Fund invests in industries with which its members have experience, with investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment. ARC Angel Fund is a member-led Angel Fund. An Angel Fund is, in essence, a hybrid model between an Angel Group and a Venture Fund. The members of ARC Angel Fund range from experienced Angel Investors and Partners in VC Funds, to executives of successful companies. Our members bring their own expertise to the table and can actively participate as much as they like in the Funds investment decisions. .
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2020
Co-founder and COO
Feb 2020
AlwaysLegit is pioneering the future of alternative investments with advanced AI, computer vision, and proprietary pricing algorithms that transform how luxury assets are identified, valued, and acquired. Our platform uncovers hidden opportunities, delivering precise, real-time insights that enable smarter decision-making and consistently strong returns. With over $10M in transactional volume from investment-grade sneakers, AlwaysLegit is leading the rise of passion-based investments. We are rapidly scaling into high-end watches and culturally significant collectibles, redefining AI-driven luxury asset management for the next generation of investors.
2012
CEO, Founder
Feb 2012
Founded February 2012, Human Demand (HD) is the leading independent mobile Demand Side (DSP) & Data Management Platform (DMP) company providing mobile audience solutions to advertisers. Human Demand provides brands and agencies with a fully transparent, highly scalable and efficient mobile media solution. HD utilizes real-time bidding (RTB) programmatic exchange buying, and layers in unique data targeting sets including hyper local geo-targeting. We execute rich media and video mobile ad campaigns, in addition to standard mobile display banners. As a DSP, Human Demand offers agencies and trading desks the industry’s most robust RTB self-serve platform for mobile ads. The Company leverages its proprietary technology platform to bid on and serve advertisements across all Mobile Ad Exchanges. As a DMP, the Company enriches the typically undifferentiated mobile display and video inventory in real time and makes it intensely more valuable. The Company delivers targeted mobile audiences at scale through its proprietary "AppAudience" data, superior location insights, campaign optimization, and visual analytics. Human Demand has a team of 15 and is headquartered in New York City.
2010
Founding Investor
Jan 2010
ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others. The Fund has a primary focus towards NYC and the surrounding North-East and Mid-Atlantic area companies. ARC Angel Fund invests in industries with which its members have experience, with investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment. ARC Angel Fund is a member-led Angel Fund. An Angel Fund is, in essence, a hybrid model between an Angel Group and a Venture Fund. The members of ARC Angel Fund range from experienced Angel Investors and Partners in VC Funds, to executives of successful companies. Our members bring their own expertise to the table and can actively participate as much as they like in the Funds investment decisions. .
2009
Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder
Sep 2009
The MOKO Performance Network is a boutique network that focuses on providing advertisers with risk-free performance based advertising campaigns on thoroughly vetted mobile inventory. Publishers can expect the highest quality campaigns with payouts unmatched by other networks in the mobile space. With a publisher parent company, MOKO Social Media, the MOKO Performance Network can provide high volume and top quality traffic to its clients not only through our publishing partnerships but also through our owned and operated web properties and apps.
2001
Director, Co-Founder
Jan 2001
The FundingPost.com mission is simple: To introduce Entrepreneurs to interested VCs and Angel Investors. For over 19 years FundingPost has worked to bring entrepreneurs together with leading investors worldwide. We believe that it is important to reach investors in every medium possible - both online and offline. Through our successful Venture Capital Events in 20 cities and our online Venture Exchange, FundingPost has had the opportunity to work with thousands of Angel and Venture Capital investors representing over $104 Billion. We make an introduction from an Investor to an entrepreneur through our online exchange every day! Weve seen Millions and Millions of Dollars raised as a direct result of our Online Exchange, our Magazine, and our Events. We are the single largest venture exchange in the country. We work with more Real Accredited Angel Investors, VC Firms and entrepreneurs than anyone else.
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