Leo N.

Retail Tech Innovation | Partnership Builder | Venture Investor | Top AI Leader, 40U40, GenNext

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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2025
Harmonya is the AI-powered product data enrichment, insights, and attribution platform for retailers and brands. Legacy product data lacks descriptive and diagnostic power and limits what organizations can do. Harmonya enriches product data with deeper attributes and characteristics to power more impactful analytics and decision-making. Our proprietary technology ingests information from millions of online product listings and creates unique tags from titles, descriptions, ingredients, consumer reviews and more. This harmonized data asset empowers your teams and technologies that use product data to unlock growth for your business through a better understanding of what matters most to consumers. We build robust tools to help you uncover insights about the consumer drivers of market performance, improve assortment and merchandising, categorize products, guide product innovation, and engage target audiences more effectively. Founded in 2021, Harmonya is a Team8 company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
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2024
Stitched Insights has developed proprietary technology called Linguistic Demographics to determine demographics and intensity of emotion from any text. Our new SaaS platform identifies shoppers from product reviews, social forums and support requests (e.g. excited millennial women vs anxious genZ men). Were applying this technology with Fortune 500 consumer brands and Market Research companies to measure customer demographics across competitors and forecast corresponding shopping preferences based on predictive “linguistic behavioral cohorts”. Our IP provides what every marketer dreams of - high volumes of nationally-representative behavioral data, coupled with detailed segmentation and AI analysis to understand exactly what each target customer segment is currently saying, doing and feeling about products in any category. World famous investors include: Dunnhumby Ventures, Dasein Capital, Alumni Ventures, Red and Blue Ventures, Dave Edelman (former CMO of CVS/Aetna), Eric Bradlow (Head of Wharton Marketing Department), Pete Fader (Founder of Zodiac Analytics, acquired by Nike). Advisors include: Terry Jones (founder of Travelocity.com), Sol Rashidi (former Chief Analytics and Data Officer at Estee Lauder, Sony, Merck, Royal Caribbean), Chris Kung (CPO Dollar General). IP was developed by Dr. Andrew Schwartz and Dr. Johannes Eichstaedt, now at Stanford’s HAI Lab, whom are our Head of Technology and Head of Science, respectively.
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2023
Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries. Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses around the world across a range of industries from grocery and prepared meals to pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. Onfleet is based in San Francisco, California.
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2023
Point Pickup Technologies (PPUP) is a technology enabled platform (services) company disrupting legacy transportation models to solve middle and last mile delivery. PPUP is the only company to provide a single platform for both middle-mile and last-mile delivery solutions  it services the widest range of industries and company sizes, with an emphasis on big box and miscellaneous retail, food and grocery, liquor/specialty foods, automotive and pharmaceutical and laboratory markets. Based on its technology platform and diverse network of trucking vendors, independent and everyday drivers, PPUP’s complete delivery model solves the unique challenges of the same-day delivery market. Same-day delivery is complicated in that it requires precision and scale. The PPUP delivery solution is driven by its new Precision Matching System that finds the ideal, same-day delivery options based on a business’s ‘precise’ requirements. And, the same platform provides solutions that scale from individual users to small-to-midsized businesses, up to the enterprise level on a local and national basis. Since PPUP eliminates the need for third-party delivery vendors, companies can quickly and cost-effectively begin same-day deliveries just by plugging into PPUP’s platform. We invite you to learn more at: www.pointpickup.com.
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2023
Backed by the world’s top AI leaders and trusted by the largest global brands, Netomi is the leader in customer experience AI for enterprises. Netomi provides multimodal and omnichannel Sanctioned Generative AI, ensuring brand-safe conversations at scale with built-in AI governance controls for accuracy, security, and data privacy. Our innovative AI deployment guarantees cost savings, operational efficiencies, and boosts in customer satisfaction, loyalty, revenue, and profitability. Netomi’s no-code solution deploys in weeks, scales automatically, and offers comprehensive tools for non-technical users to easily manage CX AI at scale. This results in a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and reduced reliance on developer resources. Founded in 2016, Netomi leverages the latest AI developments to enhance customer experience, empowering brands with high-quality automated support and tools to augment human agent teams. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, Netomi makes it easy for brands to meet rising customer expectations and deliver exceptional service.
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2023
We are The Shelf. 🦄🌈 We’re a Full-Service Influencer Marketing Agency made up of creatives and data geeks - just your run-of-the-mill marketing experts getting paid to think and create. 🏆🥇We’ve thrice been named to the Inc 5000 list of the Fastest-Growing Companies in America - in 2021, again in 2022, and once more in 2023! * * * * We solve 3 several important challenges for brands: reaching the right audience 🎯 with the right message, grabbing and keeping the attention 👀 of said audience, and providing that audience with compelling reasons to become loyal, lifelong customers. 👍🏽 Not an easy task. We know that: a) traditional print ads dont work anymore b) many digital ads go unseen with 300M+ ad blockers install on devices and privacy laws making it hard to get the data needed to ensure ads are seen by the right people c) consumer attention is hard to get and even harder to keep d) new brands/products are providing better, cheaper options e) social media platforms are constantly shifting their algorithms in response to the ever-evolving way in which people consume content It’s a lot. But The Shelf is a pioneer of data-driven influencer marketing. What that means is we’re experts at using tons of data 📊 and exceptionally creative concepts 🎨 to help our customers achieve their marketing goals. We work with amazing creators to craft authentic stories that dont look anything like traditional ads. And we boast an impressive roster of Fortune 500 companies, agencies, game-changing startups. 🦄 Our secret sauce? Our proprietary SaaS platform discovers, analyzes, and indexes millions of Influencers. Here’s where we stand out: we use that same underlying tech to analyze the audiences of the influencers to ensure influencer partners have the appropriate amount of credibility and influence with the exact audience our client needs to reach. Ready for a supercharged pivot? Partner with The Shelf, and lets make influencer marketing magic together.
Startup Advisor & Investor
2016
Venture For America is a national nonprofit and two-year Fellowship program that gives recent college graduates firsthand startup experiences to help them become strong leaders. Fellows learn important startup skills at Training Camp, apply for jobs within our company network, and work for two years as full-time, salaried employees in one of 13 cities. When Fellows are ready to start a company — be it two years after college or nine — VFA has the resources (like a crowdfunding competition and accelerator) to help make that dream a reality. Our vision: Venture For America is creating an accessible and inclusive future of entrepreneurship in America.
Investor
2013
Pulsate is the leading provider of digital consumer engagement solutions for community financial institutions, helping them build lasting, profitable relationships in a mobile-first world. Our intuitive, easy-to-use platform lets FIs create personalized, targeted campaigns to drive product sales and activation, encourage financial wellness and more – delivered through a variety of channels embedded within existing mobile banking apps and online banking environments.
Credit Investing and Commercial Advisory
2011
Opening up a world of opportunity for our customers, investors, ourselves and the planet. Were a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Our network covers 63 countries and territories, and we’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up a world of opportunity for our customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda stock exchanges. To view our social media terms and conditions please visit the following webpage: http://www.hsbc.com/social-TandCs
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2025
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2025
Harmonya is the AI-powered product data enrichment, insights, and attribution platform for retailers and brands. Legacy product data lacks descriptive and diagnostic power and limits what organizations can do. Harmonya enriches product data with deeper attributes and characteristics to power more impactful analytics and decision-making. Our proprietary technology ingests information from millions of online product listings and creates unique tags from titles, descriptions, ingredients, consumer reviews and more. This harmonized data asset empowers your teams and technologies that use product data to unlock growth for your business through a better understanding of what matters most to consumers. We build robust tools to help you uncover insights about the consumer drivers of market performance, improve assortment and merchandising, categorize products, guide product innovation, and engage target audiences more effectively. Founded in 2021, Harmonya is a Team8 company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
2024
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2024
Stitched Insights has developed proprietary technology called Linguistic Demographics to determine demographics and intensity of emotion from any text. Our new SaaS platform identifies shoppers from product reviews, social forums and support requests (e.g. excited millennial women vs anxious genZ men). Were applying this technology with Fortune 500 consumer brands and Market Research companies to measure customer demographics across competitors and forecast corresponding shopping preferences based on predictive “linguistic behavioral cohorts”. Our IP provides what every marketer dreams of - high volumes of nationally-representative behavioral data, coupled with detailed segmentation and AI analysis to understand exactly what each target customer segment is currently saying, doing and feeling about products in any category. World famous investors include: Dunnhumby Ventures, Dasein Capital, Alumni Ventures, Red and Blue Ventures, Dave Edelman (former CMO of CVS/Aetna), Eric Bradlow (Head of Wharton Marketing Department), Pete Fader (Founder of Zodiac Analytics, acquired by Nike). Advisors include: Terry Jones (founder of Travelocity.com), Sol Rashidi (former Chief Analytics and Data Officer at Estee Lauder, Sony, Merck, Royal Caribbean), Chris Kung (CPO Dollar General). IP was developed by Dr. Andrew Schwartz and Dr. Johannes Eichstaedt, now at Stanford’s HAI Lab, whom are our Head of Technology and Head of Science, respectively.
2023
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2023
Kevel is powering innovative, flexible ad tech infrastructure APIs that fuel its Retail Media Cloud™. The Retail Media Cloud™ is the ultimate SaaS platform for building retail media networks that maximize your share of advertiser budgets. This unique offering empowers multi-brand retailers to launch differentiated retail media networks that improve the shopper experience while maintaining total control of their first-party data. Kevel believes that every digital retailer should have the capability to scale their own distinct ad platform, just like big tech players like Amazon. Customers like Edmunds, Klarna, Delivery Hero, Leroy Merlin, Slickdeals, and other leading retailers and marketplaces all launched their own retail media network with Kevel. The company has garnered numerous accolades, most recently earning recognition as one of the leading 100 innovative tech start-ups driving the future of brand-to-consumer in 2023 and awarded the MarTech Breakthrough Award for best overall ad tech company in 2022. Launch high-impact ads that your brands will love in as little as 14 days.
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2023
Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries. Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses around the world across a range of industries from grocery and prepared meals to pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. Onfleet is based in San Francisco, California.
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