Josh S.

Investor, Entrepreneur, Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Investor and Advisor
Sep 2021
Spotnana is the travel platform that connects humanity. We are modernizing the infrastructure of the travel industry in order to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers everywhere. Our groundbreaking Travel-as-a-Service platform revolutionizes travel for corporations and consumers, modernizes how travel suppliers sell their inventory, and enables any company to provide the world’s best global travel experiences to their customers. To learn more, visit spotnana.com.
Investor
Feb 2021
Were on a mission to revolutionize IT by making it simple, effortless, & lightning-fast for businesses everywhere. Through a first of its kind technology, paired with an elite squadron of IT technicians, Electric delivers lightning-fast IT support. Whether youre remote, onsite, or hybrid, Electric provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management solutions. Founded in New York City in 2016, Electric is a Series D startup backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates, 01 Advisors, Bowery Capital, The Slack Fund, Vintage Investment Partners, and Atreides Management.
Investor
Jan 2021
Maximize your profits with our Point-Of-Sale! No contracts or monthly fees. The perfect solution for growing businesses.
Investor
Oct 2020
The all-in-one community platform for creators.
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2020
Voyager is a defense, national security and space technology company, pioneering transformative, mission-critical solutions that redefine possibilities for civil, commercial and government missions. By tackling the most complex challenges, Voyager aims to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security and protect critical assets from ground to space.
Investor
Jul 2020
Archer is designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for use in urban air mobility networks. Archer’s mission is to unlock the skies, freeing everyone to reimagine how they move and spend time. Archers team is based in Santa Clara, CA. To learn more, visit www.archer.com.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
EpiBone is a revolutionary bone reconstruction company that allows patients to “grow their own bone”. EpiBone’s pioneering technology utilizes a scan of the patient’s bone defect and the patient’s own stem cells to construct and cultivate a defect-specific autologous-like bone graft. EpiBone is strategically positioned to provide a superior bone graft that will provide exact defect repair, a simplified surgical procedure, improved bone formation and regeneration, and shorter recovery times, without the complications of foreign body implantation, to the over 900,000 patients who undergo bone-related surgeries each year.
Investor and Advisor
May 2020
Atmo is an AI meteorology company building an operating system for forecasting and modifying the atmosphere
Seed Investor
Mar 2020
PARABOL: Remote Retrospectives // Online Meetings // Distributed Collaboration Parabol is a remote retrospective and meeting app that generates automatic insights about team performance from online collaboration activity. Our software allows distributed, cloud-based teams to run meetings from anywhere, across time zones, in real time or asynchronously. Team notes and tasks are automatically rolled into a meeting summary which is instantly posted to the team timeline and emailed to stakeholders. Teammates can also export their tasks to Jira, Confluence, Github, or Slack. Parabol also analyzes meeting data to generate powerful leadership insights about what’s holding your team back, and how to unlock better performance. --- "Parabol helped us successfully redirect an initiative that spans 9 counties in 3 states, and includes over 600 stakeholders. It was an effective and enjoyable introduction to digital transformation."​ — Tatiana Orlov | Sr Program Manager, National Parks Conservation Association “I was blown away at how smoothly the meetings ran. People held themselves accountable and things got done.” — Joseph Rosenfeld | SVP FP&A @ Dow Jones “Parabol has transformed our organization. We needed a strong platform to lead us out of ingrained hierarchical mindsets. It was the change of scenery we needed.” — Megan Sheridan | Program Mentor @ iMatter “We tried Parabol to retool the way our leadership operates and it’s been great. In 4 weeks we were running like a top: priorities and accountabilities are clear, and frankly, our meetings have been a lot more enjoyable.” — Adam Pisoni | Founder & CEO @ Abl Schools “Parabol was key to unlocking performance on our leadership team. Our meetings went from business-as-usual to focused, fun, and productive. Each week we know where we are, where we’re going, and who’s responsible for each step.” — Ian Myers | General Manager, Platform @ Quartz --- 2019 - Techstars Anywhere 2017 - Alchemist Accelerator
Investor
Jan 2020
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
Seed Investor
Feb 2015
Atlas Obscura is a media and entertainment company on a mission to inspire wonder and curiosity about the world. We uncover hidden places, incredible histories, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders via our site, app, video, social media, books and podcast. Atlas Obscura creates hundreds of unique global trips and local experiences every year, bringing our community with us to visit the worlds most unusual places and try the worlds most extraordinary foods.
Seed Investor
Sep 2014
Hipcamp is the #1 app to discover and book incredible campsites. Over the past decade, Hipcamp has unified the world’s best camping options across peaceful private spots, iconic public lands and well-equipped campgrounds. Hipcamp has grown into a community of over 7 million campers who use our app to explore all of their options in one place — tent sites, RV spots or glamping — and find the perfect site to match their style. Each year, Hipcamp helps millions of campers sleep happily under the stars, boosting local economies and biodiversity along the way. To see a full list of our job openings, https://www.hipcamp.com/careers
Seed Investor
Dec 2013
A new kind of storage company, MakeSpace is taking the struggle out of storage—and reinventing an antiquated industry in the process. We’ve designed a hassle-free experience that allows people to store and retrieve their belongings on-demand, so they can skip the whole schlep-to-a-storage-unit thing. We pick up your stuff, haul it to storage, and deliver it back when you need it. Simple as that. To support this seamless experience, we built the industry’s first fully integrated system, from back-end routing to warehouse logistics, and a consumer app complete with a digital photo inventory of stored items. Our superior operations, tech, and talent enable us to be infinitely more convenient, affordable, and user-friendly than traditional self-storage. In just over 6 years, we’ve become a top-5 consumer-rated storage company in NYC, and expanded to 24 major cities in North America. Join us as we disrupt a $38 billion industry, and change the way people think about storage (and the stuff they store).
Seed Investor
Feb 2013
Winc is a modern winery with a direct connection to the consumer, building a portfolio of brands for the next generation of wine drinkers. After launching in 2011 with the goal of making discovering great wine easy, Winc continues to disrupt the $220BN wine industry. Driven by the vision of a great bottle on every table and a great story in every bottle, Winc seeks to create more custom experiences for its members and bring ease and exploration to the process of buying and enjoying wine. The company's unrivaled access to consumer insights has helped shape the development of iconic brands like Summer Water, the viral hit embodying the rosé state of mind, and Folly of the Beast, the supremely accessible Pinot Noir of uncompromising quality. In addition to its online subscription service, Winc’s sought-after brands are available in progressive restaurants and premium retailers nationwide.
Investor
Jan 2013
Warby Parker was founded with a mission: to inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose, and style. We’re constantly asking ourselves how we can do more and make a greater impact—and that starts by reimagining everything that a company and industry can be. We want to demonstrate that a business can scale, be profitable, and do good in the world—without charging a premium for it. And we’ve learned that it takes creativity, empathy, and innovation to achieve that goal. Glasses, sunglasses, contacts, and eye exams—we’ve got your eyes covered. Shop prescription eyewear starting at $95 online or find a store near you at warbyparker.com Ultimately, we believe in vision for all, which is why for every pair of glasses or sunglasses we sell, a pair of glasses is distributed to someone in need through our Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. As of 2020, over eight million pairs have been distributed—and we’re only just getting started. Learn more at warbyparker.com/buy-a-pair-give-a-pair. Community Guidelines: https://warbyparker.tumblr.com/post/680985512416313344/community-guidelines
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Investor and Advisor
Sep 2021
Spotnana is the travel platform that connects humanity. We are modernizing the infrastructure of the travel industry in order to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers everywhere. Our groundbreaking Travel-as-a-Service platform revolutionizes travel for corporations and consumers, modernizes how travel suppliers sell their inventory, and enables any company to provide the world’s best global travel experiences to their customers. To learn more, visit spotnana.com.
Investor
Feb 2021
Were on a mission to revolutionize IT by making it simple, effortless, & lightning-fast for businesses everywhere. Through a first of its kind technology, paired with an elite squadron of IT technicians, Electric delivers lightning-fast IT support. Whether youre remote, onsite, or hybrid, Electric provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management solutions. Founded in New York City in 2016, Electric is a Series D startup backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates, 01 Advisors, Bowery Capital, The Slack Fund, Vintage Investment Partners, and Atreides Management.
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Jan 2021
Maximize your profits with our Point-Of-Sale! No contracts or monthly fees. The perfect solution for growing businesses.
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