Joshua Kauffman

embodied reverent aliveness with all kinds of minds

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor in new monetary system
Jan 2021
Eco is a protocol for stablecoins and the apps that use them. Eco enables apps to unlock stablecoin liquidity from any connected chain and give users the simplest onchain experience. It brings together an Ethereum-based rollup and permissionless liquidity network designed from the ground up for the most capital-efficient transaction execution. Eco accelerates how money moves onchain.
Member Investor
Jun 2019
Braingels is not a typical angel group or syndicate. It’s a unique community dedicated to supporting early-stage ventures focused on the brain, mind, mental health, and related themes, and a portal to a broad and rich network of advisors, mentors, and sometimes investors. Interests range across the spectrum of brain-related research, development, and commercialization – from deep neurotech devices to platforms promoting wellness, spanning products that impact neurological, psychiatric, and mental health. We believe that by creating a collaborative ecosystem that brings together diverse expertise, we can drive significant progress in understanding and innovating within these critical areas.
INVESTOR
2016
It’s no secret that managing money is hard. Keeping track of bills can feel overwhelming. So we built Clarity Money to help give our community a simple view into their finances. We provide insights that could improve our customers’ financial health, all within a beautifully designed app. Clarity Money is on a mission to give consumers a financial champion.
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2024
Founding Partner & Advisor
Jan 2024
Naia Trust is an animist steward of capital dedicated to creating the conditions on Earth for all beings to thrive. We are passionate about equipping human and ecological communities with inner and outer resilience, empowering them to live in dignity and act with agency within the context of the current polycrisis. This could manifest in qualities such as regenerative agricultural systems, thriving exuberances of biodiversity, the advancement of scientific knowledge, empowered local governance systems, innovative jurisprudence models, and poetic spaces to breathe and heal.
2021
Member
Apr 2021
Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) is an initiative of funders and investors working together to accelerate the emergence of regenerative agriculture, heathy soils, and working lands that support people and the planet. Regenerative agriculture is one of the most promising approaches to immediately addressing a planetary emergency characterized by climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity, floods and fires, economic and social inequality, systems collapse, loss of countless species and rising political unrest. Time is not on our side so we must act immediately and with a sense of urgency.
Investor in new monetary system
Jan 2021
Eco is a protocol for stablecoins and the apps that use them. Eco enables apps to unlock stablecoin liquidity from any connected chain and give users the simplest onchain experience. It brings together an Ethereum-based rollup and permissionless liquidity network designed from the ground up for the most capital-efficient transaction execution. Eco accelerates how money moves onchain.
2020
Ground Effect
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Feb 2020
Founder
Feb 2020
Ground Effect is an animist investment studio. We think of ourselves as an interspecies partnership. Our activities expand co-evolutionary possibilities between humans and planetary life. We revere the living systems from which we humans emerged by considering all life — and the conditions that animate it — to be the responsibility of our earthly inheritance.
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