Joseph Luchs

Making Data Useful @ Datalinx AI

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
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Jun 2023
We’re reimagining cookie dough - keeping the joy, skipping the junk. At Doughy, we believe indulgence should feel good. That’s why our dough is made with only clean, plant-based ingredients you can actually pronounce. No grains, no gluten, no oil, no soy - just simple goodness, sweetened with maple syrup and crafted to make you smile. Every spoonful is proof that better-for-you can still taste incredible.
early stageFood & Beverages
Investor
Mar 2022
Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners helps you understand the complex world of technology and make better vendor decisions through in-depth interviews with CEOs and product leaders at dozens of platforms. Subscribe to our podcasts on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen.
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Jan 2021
lockr is a data collaboration platform that enables publishers to take control of data, provides the infrastructure to match with alternative ID providers, merge in additional audience data, and port to other platforms for activation and measurement.
Investor
Dec 2020
Optery is at the forefront of personal data protection, offering state-of-the-art removal software that empowers users – from individuals to large enterprises – to take control of their online information. We opt you out of all the top data brokers that trade in your personal information and post sensitive details like home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and other private info online. Leveraging the most advanced data broker scanning software in the world, Optery far surpasses Google and other services in uncovering user profiles. Combining sophisticated automation with our Privacy Agents expertise, we ensure the industrys highest quality results in PII removal from over 340+ data broker sites. Our service features monthly automated scans and visual, evidence-based reporting for continual data removal and clear before-and-after results. Whether for personal use or enterprise-level deployment, Optery equips users with a robust defense against escalating PII-based threats such as phishing, social engineering, identity theft, doxing, and harassment. Optery was awarded "Editors Choice" by PCMag.com as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and received Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023. Try us today by signing up for a free account!
Angel Investor and Advisor
Sep 2013
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2025
Founder and CEO
Mar 2025
Datalinx is an AI-powered "data refinery" that uses AI agents to transform messy consumer data into fuel for Marketing, Advertising, and Customer Experience applications. Think of it like Uber for data: enter your business goal, and our agentic system maps and prepares your data from origin to destination. Founded by a killer team with backgrounds at Amazon, Oracle, Verizon, Intuit, Unity, and multiple exited startups, Datalinx is combining purpose-built data schemas, agentic automation, and state-of-the-art AI models to accelerate time-to-value for use cases like personalization, marketing, and analytics. Our mission is to help business teams grow revenue faster, and data science teams become heroes instead of data janitors.
2023
Investor
Jun 2023
We’re reimagining cookie dough - keeping the joy, skipping the junk. At Doughy, we believe indulgence should feel good. That’s why our dough is made with only clean, plant-based ingredients you can actually pronounce. No grains, no gluten, no oil, no soy - just simple goodness, sweetened with maple syrup and crafted to make you smile. Every spoonful is proof that better-for-you can still taste incredible.
early stageFood & Beverages
2022
Investor
Mar 2022
Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners helps you understand the complex world of technology and make better vendor decisions through in-depth interviews with CEOs and product leaders at dozens of platforms. Subscribe to our podcasts on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen.
2021
Investor
Jan 2021
lockr is a data collaboration platform that enables publishers to take control of data, provides the infrastructure to match with alternative ID providers, merge in additional audience data, and port to other platforms for activation and measurement.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
Optery is at the forefront of personal data protection, offering state-of-the-art removal software that empowers users – from individuals to large enterprises – to take control of their online information. We opt you out of all the top data brokers that trade in your personal information and post sensitive details like home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and other private info online. Leveraging the most advanced data broker scanning software in the world, Optery far surpasses Google and other services in uncovering user profiles. Combining sophisticated automation with our Privacy Agents expertise, we ensure the industrys highest quality results in PII removal from over 340+ data broker sites. Our service features monthly automated scans and visual, evidence-based reporting for continual data removal and clear before-and-after results. Whether for personal use or enterprise-level deployment, Optery equips users with a robust defense against escalating PII-based threats such as phishing, social engineering, identity theft, doxing, and harassment. Optery was awarded "Editors Choice" by PCMag.com as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and received Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023. Try us today by signing up for a free account!
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