Investing Profile

Ben Porterfield

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Founder and VP of Engineering
Santa Cruz, California
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Angel
$5K - $50K
$25K
17
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Luminal
SeedNov 2025$5M
$5.5M
Co-investors: Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch
Digger
SeedJun 2025$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Ed Brandler
Depot
SeedJul 2023$2M
$6M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Jake Storm (Felicis Ventures)
Kubecost
Series AFeb 2022$25M
$30M
Co-investors: David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), David Lieb
Waldo
Series AFeb 2022$15M
$31M
Co-investors: Josh Zelman (Insight Partners), Eliot Durbin (Boldstart Ventures), Mike Smith (Footwork), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Josef Feldman (Tectonic Capital), Liu Jiang, Justin Mateen, Sean Rad, Nigel Wray, Scott Belsky
1Fort AI
AngelJan 2022$430K
$12M
Co-investors: Anne Dwane (Village Global), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Karim Atiyeh, Chafic Kazoun
Magic
Series AJul 2021$27M
$500M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Ben Lerer (Lerer Hippeau), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Joel Monegro (Placeholder), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Shahed Khan (Hyper), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Paul Yacoubian, Elad Gil, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Ben Davenport, Guillermo Rauch, Sahil Lavingia, Varsha Rao, Balaji Srinivasan, Scott Belsky, Casey Neistat
Cape.ai
Series AApr 2021$20M
$25M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), Andrew McMahon (Ridgeline Partners), Thomas Noonan, Andy Brown, Jevon MacDonald