Investing Profile

Shane Mac(490)

VCInvestorFormer CEOProduct Operator
Chairman & Co-Founder at Squared Away
shanemac.comSan Francisco, California
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48 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 45 other investors on Signal.

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IT CRUX Mobile Apps Solutions Network
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Current Investing Position
Squared Away
Investment Range
$50K - $100K
Sweet Spot
$50K
Investments On Record
8

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Shane Mac's Investments On Record (8)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Particle.News
Series AJun 2024$11M
$15M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Scott Belsky (A24), Vijaya Gadde (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Max Mullen
Laylo
Corporate RoundOct 2022$3M
$6M
Co-investors: Kevin Mayer (Smash Capital), Ammar Hanafi (Moment Ventures), Clint Chao (Moment Ventures), Damian Manning (DEV), Jason Robins
Checkmate
SeedSep 2022$5M
$23M
Co-investors: Frederique Dame (GV (Google Ventures)), Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global Management), Chris Herd (Logos Labs), John Smothers (Scribble Ventures), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Trevor Neff (Sound Ventures), Carter Reum (M13), Jeff Bonforte (Catapult Capital), Deborah Liu, Ron Pragides, Tim Kendall
Spice AI
SeedSep 2022$14M
$15M
Co-investors: Aseem Datar (Madrona Ventures), Tim Porter (Madrona Ventures), Julian Roeoes (Picus Capital), Joe McCann (Asymmetric), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Viktoriya Tigipko (TA Ventures), Thomas Dohmke
Grain
Series AApr 2022$16M
$37M
Co-investors: Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Taylor Barada (SignalFire), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Dalton Wright (Kickstart Fund), Ilana Stern (Peterson Ventures), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Zach Weinberg (Curie.Bio), Scott Belsky (A24), Eli Rubel (Offline Ventures), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Vishal Harnal (500 Global), Gabriel Jarrosson, Sahil Lavingia, Fareed Mosavat
Softr
Series AJan 2022$14M
$16M
Co-investors: Matthias Turck (FirstMark Capital), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Christian Reber (Freigeist), Philipp Moehring (AngelList Syndicator), Jaclyn Rice Nelson (Coalition Operators), Packy McCormick (Breather), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Scott Belsky (A24), Cindy Bi (CapitalX - Early Stage VC), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents), Paul Yacoubian, Koen Bok, Job van der Voort, Johnny Boufarhat, Julian Shapiro, Fareed Mosavat, Stefan Jeschonnek, Jan Deepen
Practice
SeedOct 2021$10M
$24M
Co-investors: Zachary Sims (Bowery Capital), Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Andrew Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), Dan Teran (Gutter Capital), Matthew Luckett (Lampros Capital Partners), Donna Harris (1776), Josh Cohen (City Light Capital), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Jerry Neumann (Neu Venture Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Sam Parr (The Hustle), Loic Le Meur (Leade.rs), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Russell Smith, Mike Hudack, Manik Gupta, Greg Isenberg, Steve Schlafman, Marc McCabe, Sam Corcos, Emily Kramer
Claap
Pre SeedJun 2021$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Roxanne Varza (Sequoia Capital), Alexandre Berriche (Sequoia Capital), Anh-Tho Chuong Degroote (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), George Henry (LocalGlobe), Chris Herd (Logos Labs), Aadil Mamujee (Musha Ventures), Jean de La Rochebrochard (Kima Ventures), Xavier Niel (Iliad / Free), Ian Hogarth, Tony Jamous, Mathilde Collin

Shane Mac's Experience

Co-founder & CEO Ephemera2021 - Present
Chairman Manuscripts2016 - Present
Chairman Modern Author Accelerator powered by Manuscripts2016 - Present
Chairman & Co-Founder Squared Away2016 - Present
Founder shane mac ask2008 - Present
Founder ask2008 - Present
Product IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Product and Marketing IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Musician IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Product shane macPresent
Product and Marketing shane macPresent
Senior Vice President Conversocial2019 - 2021
Senior Vice President Conversocial, A Verint Company2019 - 2021
CEO and Co-Founder Assist Inc2014 - 2019
CEO and Co-Founder Conversocial, A Verint Company2014 - 2019
Product Volkswagen Villa, Transworld Fine Cars LTD.2011 - 2014
Product Zaarly, Inc2011 - 2014
Product NewCo2011 - 2014
Product iCiDIGITAL2011 - 2014
Director of Product and Marketing RIM (Post-acquisition of Gist.com)2011 - 2011
Director of Product and Marketing BlackBerry2011 - 2011
Product and Marketing Volkswagen Villa, Transworld Fine Cars LTD.2009 - 2011
Product and Marketing NewCo2009 - 2011
Product and Marketing iCiDIGITAL2009 - 2011
Product and Marketing Gist, Inc (Acquired by RIM in Feb. 2011)2009 - 2011
Local Digital Ad Products CDK Global2008 - 2009
Musician Volkswagen Villa, Transworld Fine Cars LTD.2003 - 2008
Musician shane mac2003 - 2008
Musician NewCo2003 - 2008
Musician iCiDIGITAL2003 - 2008

Shane Mac's Education

Western Illinois University Bachelor Finance, Economics