Andrew Cleland
Chief Investment Officer at Techstars
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Investment Officer
2024 - Current
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor
2022
Alter Ventures invests in deeply technical seed and series A start-ups.
Board Member
2022
Conversational AI platform that helps salespeople to build a better rapport with more prospects more quickly. Results in greater sales velocity and improved conversion rates.
Eva is helping businesses build authentic relationships with their clients by making it easy to send personalized gifts.
Raised $13,690,000.00 from Forefront Venture Partners, Founders Committee Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, MPG Fund, Alumni Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and Comcast Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2012
FanDuel is the leading daily fantasy sports operator.
FanDuel is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games.
Raised $416,200,000.00 from The K Fund, FJ Labs, True Capital Management, Pentech Ventures, True Capital Management, Jose Marin and Shamrock Capital Advisors.
Board Member
2014
Lytics provides a marketing activation platform that integrates all brand-consumer touch points, surfaces previously undiscoverable behaviors of customers and prospects, then enables superior targeted marketing by integrating into web, mobile, email and social marketing engines so that marketers can take action.
Lytics helps companies personalize engagement with customers through an advanced Customer Data Platform.
Raised $58,300,000.00 from Voyager Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, JMI Equity, Comcast Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures.
Board Member
2018 - 2023
React.js co-pilot that helps developers to create high-quality UX with fewer errors in half the time.
Your Design to Code Co-pilot - Generate production-grade code from Figma designs. Build stunning apps and web pages faster.
Raised $219,996.00 from Techstars.
Board Member
2013 - 2022
SundaySky, the creator of SmartVideo, helps customer-centric brands engage people with personalized, real-time video experiences at every step of the customer lifecycle. The SundaySky platform generates hundreds of thousands of SmartVideos daily, powering customer acquisition, support, growth and loyalty initiatives for leaders in e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, banking and travel.
SundaySky's SmartVideo Platform combines the power of video with personalized storytelling at scale
Raised $74,000,000.00 from Globespan Capital Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Viola Growth, Comcast Ventures, Carmel Sofer, Liberty Global, Norwest Venture Partners, Viola Growth, Comcast Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
The only project management platform for hybrid work, shaped by users.
Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Raised $26,000,000.00 from Zoom, Rembrandt Venture Partners, AngelPad and Tribeca Venture Partners.
Board Member
2013 - 2022
Provides comprehensive data about the identity and financial health of millions of small and medium businesses. Companies use Enigma’s data to power sales & marketing, onboarding, and risk monitoring.
Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Raised $129,640,000.00 from Nimble Ventures.