William Shapiro, Md, Mba

Early Stage Investor | Physician

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020
VC🌍 United States
7
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8y
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Mar 2020
Queenly is the largest marketplace and ML-driven search engine for the formalwear industry. Queenly helps women of all ages find the exact dress they’re looking for (and resell it after!). They offer a premium service that involves authentication assurance, dry cleaning, packaging and shipping, to truly offer a white glove experience to their users. Queenly aims to foster a community of women that uplifts and strives to help one another look and feel like a queen on their special occasion. Live on iOS, Android and web. Backed by Y Combinator.
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Sep 2019
Your Fare is a leading online ordering management solution for restaurants that integrates multiple third party delivery services into one simple, user-friendly platform. Now more than ever, online ordering is an essential component to the restaurant business. Your Fare has built a single platform for all online orders. The platform allows restaurateurs to replace their online ordering tablets and track all their daily sales on one dashboard.
mid stageRestaurants
Investor
Jun 2019
At Arovia, we make the technology to enable fully expandable displays. Our second product, Splay, is coming out later this year! Signup at getsplay.com
Investor
Oct 2018
Car IQ is on a mission to streamline the way the world pays. Our cutting-edge payments solution, Car IQ Pay, eliminates the physical card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure and seamless payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed insights, allowing them to follow every payment and eliminate fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. Merchants in Car IQ’s Network can better understand their customers needs and take advantage of technology-forward marketing opportunities with personalized, location-based offers tailored to the needs and preferences of individuals. This ground breaking technology mitigates risk with each transaction, eliminating friendly fraud, chargebacks and disputes. Car IQ is headquartered in San Francisco, California and backed by strategic investors including Visa, Forte Ventures, State Farm Ventures®, TELUS Ventures, Avanta Ventures (the corporate venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group), Bridgestone, Navistar, and Circle K. Car IQ is a financial technology company and not a bank. Credit Card Services are provided and issued by Lewis & Clark Bank, Member FDIC.
Investor
Sep 2018
At Colabs we are developing The Ventor, an emergency airway and ventilation system which will consistently deliver the new standard of care. Born from experience and designed with passion, The Ventor changes how we approach airway management and ventilation during cardiac arrest. The Ventor is not an accessory or an additional piece of equipment for emergency medicine. It is a complete solution that's going to make you wonder.​.. "Why didn't I think of that?"​.
late stageMedical Device
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Apr 2018
CALLING ALL OMNIVORES! As seen on Shark Tank 🦈 Find Phil's at Sprouts, Whole Foods, Fresh Direct, Imperfect Foods, Good Eggs, and Misfits Market. Phil's Finest has been featured on ABC's Shark Tank, Forbes 30 Under 30, Good Morning America, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Nosh, and Fast Company. Phil's Finest was also 1 of 6 companies nationwide chosen for the inaugural class of the Chobani Food Incubator and has recently been selected to participate in the fourth cohort of The Food Foundry, an accelerator program by Relish Works, Gordon Food Service and built in partnership with 1871! Phil's Finest is a Public Benefit Corporation on a mission to create foods with less meat and more veggies to fight climate change.
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2023
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Aug 2023
Our fund invests in high potential early-stage software startups (SaaS). We’re a collective startup investment and social group, like a VC, but a non-profit, managed by the members. We are an exclusive membership club consists of like-valued people, all optimistic and curious. We use a collaborative fund model to learn together, share ideas and build friendships. Meet others, grow your investing skills, and have fun through the shared activity of collectively investing in innovative, early stage, B2B software startups.
2020
Investor
Mar 2020
Queenly is the largest marketplace and ML-driven search engine for the formalwear industry. Queenly helps women of all ages find the exact dress they’re looking for (and resell it after!). They offer a premium service that involves authentication assurance, dry cleaning, packaging and shipping, to truly offer a white glove experience to their users. Queenly aims to foster a community of women that uplifts and strives to help one another look and feel like a queen on their special occasion. Live on iOS, Android and web. Backed by Y Combinator.
2019
Investor
Sep 2019
Your Fare is a leading online ordering management solution for restaurants that integrates multiple third party delivery services into one simple, user-friendly platform. Now more than ever, online ordering is an essential component to the restaurant business. Your Fare has built a single platform for all online orders. The platform allows restaurateurs to replace their online ordering tablets and track all their daily sales on one dashboard.
mid stageRestaurants
Cello Lighting
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Jul 2019
Investor
Jun 2019
At Arovia, we make the technology to enable fully expandable displays. Our second product, Splay, is coming out later this year! Signup at getsplay.com
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