Investing Profile

James Murphy(163)

VC
protonenterprises.comNew York, New York
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17 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), and 14 other investors on Signal.

Networks James is a member of
Yale University Network
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Current Investing Position
Proton Enterprises Managing Partner
Investment Range
$10K - $2.5M
Sweet Spot
$100K
Investments On Record
3

James Murphy is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

James Murphy's Investments On Record (3)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Rabot
Pre SeedMar 2022$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Nicolai Wadstrom (BootstrapLabs), Ben Levy (BootstrapLabs), Henri Deshays (NewFund)
Eight Sleep
AngelJun 2021
$150M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Alex Rodriguez (Vision/Capital/People (VCP)), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (Positive Sum VC), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund), Avlok Kohli (AngelList), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Alexander Piskunov (KAAN Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Moshe Lifschitz, Sahil Lavingia, Anthony Pompliano, Kevin Hart, Babak Nivi, Scott Belsky, Matthew Dellavedova, Dan Romero, Marcy Simon, Karim Atiyeh, Kyle Vogt, Sahin Boydas
Prepared
Pre SeedDec 2020$3M
$40M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Joshua Browder (Browder Capital), Youcef Es-skouri

most interested in

Healthy Food and Beverage companies, working with health influencers, with an eye for long-term behavior change, rather than the most recent fad.

not interested in

I co-invest with top tier leads in a bunch of categories that I know very little about - so I just listen to other signals. Most of these areas I am not interested in directly - such as pharma, medical devices, social media apps and marketplaces. I'm not interested in ideas - we all have lots of those - but rather entrepreneurs building defensible companies.

James Murphy's Education

Yale University B.A. Arts in the Humanities