Investments

Angel investor, now via and advisor to startups. Generally looking for compliance systems, developer tools, b2b saas, and profit-driven companies with a cultural advantage.

Investments

• Backend Capital / HF0 (Immersive Accelerator For Hackers, funded Pave (unicorn) / Ramp (unicorn) and others) - Inside SF’s Most Competitive ‘Hacker House,’ Where Workers Will Eat, Sleep and Breathe Tech
• Secureframe (Automated Compliance Platform) - Secureframe Raises $56M in Series B Funding​
• Roboflow (Computer Vision APIs) - Roboflow, vision AI startup, raises $40 million Series B
• ConvertKit (Marketing Hub For Creators) - Boise startup passes on acquisition by Spotify, takes secondary investment
• Upstream (Shopify for DAOs) - Upstream Raises $12.5M Series A and Launches No-Code DAO Platform to the Public​​
• Rosebud.ai (Generative AI for Games) - Raised $6.6M from Khosla Ventures And Others
• ​​Tipple (Compliance for Alcohol Cross Border Sales) - Tipple secures €4m to improve industry’s digitalisation
• Micsi - (Higher Resolution MRI via Diffusion)  ​- FDA grants MICSI 510(k) for brain MRI image enhancement algorithm
• Wattson Health (Automating Pharmacy Operations)
  
• Martin (Your Personal Voice AI) - These Yale and Berkeley dropouts just raised $2 million to build an AI assistant that could rival OpenAI
• ChowCentral (Food Delivery for Africa)
• Avenhq (Shopify for Professional Services)​
• Edlyft (Computer Science Mentorship Program) - The Youngest Black Women to Raise More Than $1M in VC Funding
• AKUA (Kelp-based Food Products) - AKUA partners with Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants to introduce two kid-friendly variations of their best-selling ocean-farmed kelp burgers.
• Kreatures Of Habit - Celebrity chef Michael Chernow whips up new lifestyle brand, Kreatures of Habit, raises $2.2M
• Volta Audio - Viral Headphone Company (first check)
• Delphi Terminal - Prediction Markets Bloomberg Terminal (first check)
• Atria - Agentic Real Estate Research

Formal Advisory

• One Second Everyday (The Movie of Your Life) - Why I Recorded a One-Second Video (Almost) Every Day in 2015
• Fourthwall - Backed by Alexis Ohanian, Fourthwall aims to be the creator economy’s all-in-one platform
  
• Black Women Talk Tech (A series of conferences and communities)
  

Informal Advisory / Connected Companies

• 26 Companies For 2026 - https://blog.frankdenbow.com/26-startup-investments-for-2026/