Investing Profile

Ben Huh

InvestorVC
Explorer (New Cities) at Y Combinator
orangedao.notion.siteSan Francisco, California
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NewCo Network
1599 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University Network
158 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University Network
158 CONNECTIONS
Y Combinator Network
79 CONNECTIONS
Nepasoft solutions Network
39 CONNECTIONS
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$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Analog
SeedFeb 2024$16M
SeedJan 2022
$16M
Co-investors: Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Louis Kang (Accelr8), Jared Madfes (Velorum Capital), Kyle Chasse (Litentry), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital), Orion Willow Parrott (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Peter Bordes (Trajectory Ventures), Orion Depp (Master Ventures Investment Management), Ruslan Lynnyk (Majinx Labs), Joi Ito, Balaji Srinivasan
Yakoa
SeedNov 2022$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Brittany Yoon (NFX), Orion Willow Parrott (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures), Aniq Kassam (Stealth Capital), Stephen McKeon (Collab+Currency), Imran Khan (Volt Capital), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital)
Origami
SeedApr 2022$6M
$87M
Co-investors: Simon King (Octopus Ventures), Andrew Williamson (Cambridge Innovation Capital), David Lieb, Dylan Field, Balaji Srinivasan
XMTP
Series AAug 2021$20M
$45M
Co-investors: Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Aaron Batalion (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Itamar Lesuisse (Ready (formerly Argent)), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), William Boebel (Capital Factory), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Fiona Kelly (Baseline Community + Fund), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Chris Kurdziel (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Kneeland Youngblood (Pharos Capital Group), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joshua Baer (Capital Thought), Ethan Beard (Piazza Venture Labs), Narendra Rocherolle (The Start Project), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Maaria Bajwa (Timespan Ventures), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Scott Belsky (A24), Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Joe Stump, Stani Kulechov, Tegan Kline, Fernando Martinelli, Courtney Guertin, Paul Stamatiou, Jess Sloss, Anthony Pompliano, Michael Dunworth, Balaji Srinivasan, Shishir Mehrotra
SparkToro
AngelJun 2018$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Spencer Rascoff (75 & Sunny), Dharmesh Shah, Dan Shapiro, Jeffrey Wilke
HONK
SeedNov 2014$2M
$32M
Co-investors: Aaron Batalion (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Mark Mullen (Bonfire Ventures), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Jillian Manus (Structure Capital), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Mike Walsh (Structure Capital), Paige Craig (Outlander VC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)
Circa
SeedMay 2013$1M
$6.2M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Gary Vaynerchuk (Coinbase Ventures), Ian Hathaway (Techstars), Jonathan Fentzke (Explorer Equity Group), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Mohamed Nanabhay (Mozilla Ventures), Habib Haddad (E14 Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), David Cohen (Techstars), Bradley C. Harrison (Scout Ventures), Oleg Rogynskyy, Chung Ng, Josh Spear, Merlin Kauffman
Explorer (New Cities) Y Combinator2016 - Present
Co-Founder Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Co-Founder NewCoPresent
Founder and CEO CheezburgerPresent
Founder and CEO SCRI PartnershipPresent
CEO and Founder ChaindropPresent
CEO and Founder OrigamiPresent
General Partner at Orange Fund Orange DAOPresent
Founder and CEO Social ConstructPresent
General Partner Orange FundPresent
Founder and CEO Cheezburger, Inc.2007 - 2015
Co-Founder Circa2011 - 2015
Northwestern University BSJ Journalism, Sociology
Northwestern University BS Journalism