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Seed Investor
Nov 2025
Pet Krewe, Inc. is a dynamic pet portfolio company that consists of seasonal hardgoods for Halloween and Holiday, novelty consumables, cat supplements and wet pet food. Pet Krewe offers brands such as Ellas Best, Pet Krewe Foods, Pet Krewe costumes, VitaCat and Salty Cat.
Seed Investor
Feb 2024
Botco.ai is a HIPAA-compliant platform enabling meaningful and intelligent conversations between providers and consumers. Botco.ai is a fully-automated, AI-powered marketing chat solution that can be implemented at scale. The company offers industry-leading authoring, webchat, and AI machine-learning capabilities to quickly and effectively convert more customers. Botco.ai’s Integrated Analytics Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of chat campaigns across multiple channels such as web and Facebook Messenger. The API-based interface can be used to transfer leads, transcripts, and data into enterprise sales and marketing automation products like Salesforce, Hubspot, Adobe Marketing Cloud, and Zoho. For more information, visit Botco.ai.
Seed Investor
Dec 2022
123 Baby Box is a monthly subscription service for babies delivering a box of joy for your bundle of joy.
Investor
Oct 2021
For all people undergoing chemotherapy who want to keep their identity, Cooler Heads is transforming cold cap therapy. We are making cold caps affordable, easy to use, and effective so all solid tumor patients facing hair loss from chemotherapy can choose to keep their hair.
Investor
Jun 2021
Cameo’s mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences on earth!
Cameo is celebrating another busy and exciting year as the world’s leading fan engagement platform having enabled over 27,000 hours of personalized connections across the globe. From TV stars and notable athletes to TikTok creators and comedic legends, Cameo has helped fulfill 2.5 million magical moments since our launch in 2017, and just in this past year, we have welcomed almost 10,000 new stars.
In support of our employer brand efforts, we’ve grown our employee base by 30% and reached 50/50 gender parity on our global leadership team. In addition, in March of 2021, we announced Cameo’s $100M Series C funding, which brings our total funding to more than $165M, at a valuation of just over $1B.
Some of the recognition were most proud of includes LinkedIns Top 50 Startups in 2021, our very own Steven Galanis being recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021, Cameo was ranked #1 on The Information’s TI50 Most Promising Startups, among Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best In Business 2020, and Business Insider’s Top 100 Startups of 2020.
Read more on our Cameo Blog today: https://cameoblog.medium.com/
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
Carlsmed is a commercial-stage medical technology leader and creator of the personalized spine surgery market with pioneering technology that is transforming spine surgery. The Company has developed the cutting-edge aprevo® Technology Platform that personalizes surgical procedures through a combination of proprietary AI-driven software and patient-specific fusion devices.
Seed Investor
Mar 2019
Parenting comes with a lot of questions. And with these questions comes doubt, anxiety, and sometimes even fear. Tot Squad is here to answer your pressing parenting questions by connecting you with our trained, caring parenting experts, from pregnancy through
early childhood. Because every parent needs a squad.
Investor
Jan 2018
Figg is a leading transaction-based digital advertising platform company with a mission to uncover value in everyday transactions. In July 2022, Figg was acquired by JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S. The acquisition affords us the funding of a major bank, where we will continue expanding our team to create a best-in-class commerce platform for consumers and for merchants.
Investor
Jan 2018
Cove Fund is a family of seed-stage venture capital funds that provides startup funding for promising new Southern California ventures. The funds are headquartered in “The Cove” at UC Irvine Applied Innovation, a centrally located and vibrant gathering place for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors in the Southern California startup ecosystem.
Cove Fund I, a $6M fund, opened in 2015 and is fully invested. Cove Fund II, a $14M fund, launched in early 2018 and is actively investing. The funds invest in early stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address large markets with highly differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seed funding.
Board Member
Jan 2016
Creator Republic is the place to discover, connect to, and reward independent web content creators, big and small. Videos for the people, by the people. Engage the web’s most influential personalities in a global, amateur community Amateur Creators and their fans index 3x higher for audiences 12-24*. Median # of FB friends for Creator Republic users is more than 2x that of the average Facebook user.
Creator Republic is the place to discover and connect to web creators, big and small. A Solution for Social Brands. Turn a typical promotion into an socially-driven entertainment experience and let your best customers do the selling!
Everyone loves a talent competition! We engage “Brand Fans”, potential customers and targeted Influencers in a video-based contest, which rewards your customers.
Creator Republic is a place for who and what is awesome online.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/creatorrepublic
Tumblr: http://creatorrepublic.tumblr.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/creatorrepublic
Board Member
Mar 2013
Are you tired of the way seasonal allergies affect your life? So were we and thats why we created AllergEase. We wanted to get back to enjoying our beautiful spring and fall days, running, being outside with our friends and family, gardening, walking, and just living life without having to worry about sneezing up a storm every time we went outside. AllergEase is the industries first all natural allergy lozenge. Our lozenges were created by a doctor to provide seasonal support for indoor and outdoor allergies without the side-effects that come from chemical based drugs. AllergEase is clinically proven (IRB approved clinical study) to reduce a runny nose and sneezing within 15 minutes. Were the all-natural, non-drowsy solution youve been searching for! You can find us at your local Walgreens, DuaneReade, Winn-Dixie, BI-LO, Supervalu, Amazon.com, and many other retailers.
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2025
Seed Investor
Nov 2025
Pet Krewe, Inc. is a dynamic pet portfolio company that consists of seasonal hardgoods for Halloween and Holiday, novelty consumables, cat supplements and wet pet food. Pet Krewe offers brands such as Ellas Best, Pet Krewe Foods, Pet Krewe costumes, VitaCat and Salty Cat.
2024
Seed Investor
Feb 2024
Botco.ai is a HIPAA-compliant platform enabling meaningful and intelligent conversations between providers and consumers. Botco.ai is a fully-automated, AI-powered marketing chat solution that can be implemented at scale. The company offers industry-leading authoring, webchat, and AI machine-learning capabilities to quickly and effectively convert more customers. Botco.ai’s Integrated Analytics Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of chat campaigns across multiple channels such as web and Facebook Messenger. The API-based interface can be used to transfer leads, transcripts, and data into enterprise sales and marketing automation products like Salesforce, Hubspot, Adobe Marketing Cloud, and Zoho. For more information, visit Botco.ai.
2022
Seed Investor
Dec 2022
123 Baby Box is a monthly subscription service for babies delivering a box of joy for your bundle of joy.
Investment Committee
Mar 2022
We invest in and help build social enterprises with sustainable and scalable business models to solve important social problems.
We are looking to invest a total of $14M of mission-aligned patient capital to build a portfolio of for-profit social enterprise start-ups with sustainable and scalable business models. Investments will range from $100K to $1M per company, with potential follow-on investment on a case-by-case basis.
2021
Investor
Oct 2021
For all people undergoing chemotherapy who want to keep their identity, Cooler Heads is transforming cold cap therapy. We are making cold caps affordable, easy to use, and effective so all solid tumor patients facing hair loss from chemotherapy can choose to keep their hair.
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