Joshua Y. Lee

Founder of Ardius (Acquired by Gusto)• OctaneOC #BestTechCEO •LATimes #OCVisionary• UCLA #BruinBusiness100 • LA Business Journal: 40-Leaders of Influence Award•AHN UnsungHero Award• (Venture+Builder/Accelerator/Investor)

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 United States
12
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4
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14y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
Admisio provides a personalized roadmap, expert insights, and stress-free tools to help students and families confidently navigate the admissions process.
Investor and Advisor (Strategic / Corp Dev)
Jul 2023
Connecting schools through smart data integrations, modern software, and a little bit of magic.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2023
Reimagined Hospitality: Our platform enables hotels to offer endless food options to guests with no investment in food services operations. End to end technology to facilitate and grow your direct-to-consumer contactless mobile ordering. Unlimited brands, managed by you or our team. We are your extended team providing solutions for your operators and employees. We are an inspired team of technology and hospitality professionals committed to delivering a great guest ordering experience to our merchant. Our passion for innovation mixed with our dedication to restaurant owners led us to develop our services and products.
Investor / Angel Squad
Jan 2023
Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders. Learn more about Hustle Fund and pitch us here: hustlefund.vc If you are here to learn about ANGEL SQUAD, youve come to the right place. We help teach professionals how to invest in startups alongside Hustle Fund. Learn how we do this here: https://hustlefund.vc/squad
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2023
A premiere startup community in the SoCal areas
Investor & Advisor (Strategic / Corp Dev)
Jun 2022
At serviceMob, we are transforming customer service and support through a groundbreaking approach to experiential analytics. Based in Irvine, CA, our mission is to solve the persistent issues of customer interaction by going deeper than traditional metrics. We focus on not just understanding, but preventing the root causes of customer frustration, rising contact demand, and inefficiencies. Our Unique Approach Unlike traditional tools, serviceMob’s platform leverages Multivalent Ontological Blocks (MOBs) and Large Ontological Models (LOMs) to connect and analyze customer interactions across all touchpoints. We help businesses move beyond reactive strategies by offering insights into customer experiences at a systemic level, enabling proactive solutions. Through our platform, organizations can: Reduce customer effort and contact volume Enhance CSAT, NPS, and FCR metrics Optimize costs by streamlining workflows and reducing reliance on live agent interactions Prevent churn with our Post-Experiential Churn Risk Score Who We Serve We work across industries, including insurance, financial services, technology, and consumer goods, partnering with Fortune 500 companies to deliver measurable results. Our platform is built to meet the needs of organizations aiming to improve both their top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Recognition & Awards serviceMob has been recognized for its innovations in customer experience and was featured at the MIT Emerging Innovations in AI conference. We continue to receive accolades for our ability to deliver tangible, long-term results through our data-driven solutions. Why serviceMob? We’re not just solving customer service tickets; we’re solving systemic service issues. Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, turning data into actionable insights that drive customer satisfaction, loyalty, and operational efficiency.
Investor & Advisor (Strategic / Corp Dev)
Jun 2022
Xrossworld AI is the programmatic infrastructure layer for influencer media — built to make influencer marketing structured, measurable, and performance-driven. Influencer marketing has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar channel, yet execution remains fractured: spreadsheets, manual workflows, opaque pricing, inconsistent performance measurement, and complex global payments slow teams down. Xrossworld brings structure and intelligence to influencer media buying by automating entire workflows and applying AI where human processes break down. Our platform enables agencies and enterprise brands to: → Launch influencer campaigns with dramatically faster setup and execution → Forecast performance with AI-powered insights before spending budget → Benchmark creator pricing with transparent, data-backed intelligence → Automate approvals, contracting, and reporting in one console → Secure global payments, compliance, and documentation without friction With Xrossworld, influencer media becomes a scalable, measurable infrastructure channel — not a fragmented service. Built for agencies. Designed for enterprise brands. Engineered for performance.
Investor & Advisor (Strategic / Corp Dev)
2019
Highlighting great family and kid spots in #SoCal. #LA #OC #Family #Kids #established2019
Investor and Partner
2018
VentureTwelve invests and mentors with intention, providing entrepreneurs with funding, knowledge and network to actualize their dreams.
Investor and Limited Partner (Luma Capital Fund I)
2015
LUMA is the leading investment bank focused on digital media and marketing. We leverage our extensive network of executive leaders, vast industry knowledge and proven M&A expertise to optimize outcomes for our client. We provide strategic advisory and private capital and public finance services to large media and technology leaders as well as entrepreneurial growth companies. Our recent transactions include: - Scibids acquired by DoubleVerify - BC Partners acquired Madison Logic - Yahoo has agreed to a native advertising business partnership with Taboola - Martin acquired by PubMatic - Verve Group, a subsidiary of Media and Games Invest Group acquired Dataseat - Dreamscape, a Portfolio Company of GTCR strategic investment in Standard Media Index - iSpot.tv $350mm investment from Goldman Sachs - Dreamscape, a Portfolio Company of GTCR strategic investment in SQAD - TVSquared’s $160mm acquisition by Innovid - AppLovin’s $1.1bn acquisition of MoPub from Twitter - Integral Ad Science’s $220mm acquisition of Publica - Vungle’s acquisition of JetFuel - Blackstone’s investment in Simpli.fi at a $1.5bn valuation - Zynga’s $250mm acquisition of Chartboost - Magnite’s $1.2bn acquisition of SpotX - Digital Turbine’s $400mm acquisition of AdColony from Otello - Blackstone’s majority investment in Liftoff - Comcast’s acquisition of Beeswax - Experian’s $280mm acquisition of Tapad from Telenor - TransUnion’s acquisition of Tru Optik - Factual’s merger with Foursquare For the latest Thought Leadership content, transaction updates, and news subscribe to our newsletter. — https://www.lumapartners.com/.
Investor (merged and acquired)
2012
Two Coins Media ("TCM”) partners with investment groups, local governments, and media/entertainment companies to develop entertainment destinations around the world. 我们通过多年的经验,联合我们在媒体,娱乐界及地方政 府的多方合作伙伴及一站式服务方式来为我们的客户打造 最理想的娱乐景点。 TCM works with a variety of companies in China’s booming LBE industry. From Fortune 500 companies to growing start-ups, TCM prides itself on its ability to meet every client’s particular needs. 作为一个全方位的游乐场址服务公司,我们结合了 在各领域的精英打造中国的游乐场址。我们的合作 客户方包括了从世界500强到新星成立的企业,致力 于满足每一位客户的需求。
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2025
Venture Scout
Jun 2025
Venture capital firm that invests in tech and tech-enabled companies. The firm and its 100+ investor base have unique expertise in building leading software companies, generating substantial revenue through on and offline customer acquisition, and in marketing in general.
Partner
Jan 2025
We engineer strategic exits, not Silicon Valley moonshots.
2024
Mentor and Advisor
Nov 2024
The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded, AI-powered startups. Since 2009, our structured methodology, global mentor network, and platform have helped over 8,900 founders across 100+ countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Whether you’re an employee ready to make the leap, a solo founder with a big idea, or a first-time entrepreneur looking for direction, we provide the AI toolkit, structured sprints, expert feedback, and investor network to take you from Zero to Founder, faster and cheaper than ever before. And when you’re ready, our venture fund Founder Capital and global investor network are there to write your first check.
Venture Partner
Aug 2024
We provide capital and strategic partnership to values-driven, market-leading companies with potential for outsized returns for all stakeholders. We invest in two market segments: profitable, lower middle market companies (with $10 million to $100 million in revenue, and $2.5 million to $10 million in owner earnings) and promising, early-stage technology companies (with $500,000 to $5 million in annual recurring revenue). We are distinct in our capacity to match values-motivated entrepreneurs with values-aligned investors, our ability to hold investments long-term, our willingness to customize solutions to owner needs, and our ability to drive value through disciplined strategic, operational, and financial partnership. We have investment team members based in Silicon Valley, CA; Atlanta, GA; Chattanooga, TN; Raleigh, NC; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Please consider the charges, risks, expenses and investment objectives carefully before investing. Sovereign’s Capital Flourish Fund Disclosures: For a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus containing this and other information, please call 404-260-2798 or download the file from www.SCETFs.com. Read it carefully before you invest or send money. The Sovereign’s Capital Flourish Fund is distributed by Paralel Distributors LLC, FINRA Member Firm.
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
Admisio provides a personalized roadmap, expert insights, and stress-free tools to help students and families confidently navigate the admissions process.
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