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Jonathan Abrams

Member at C100

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jonathan Abrams is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor known for co-founding 8-Bit Capital, where he currently serves as General Partner. His career highlights include founding Nuzzel, Inc. and being an early investor and advisor at AngelList, with a focus on investing in various successful companies like Apptimize and SafeGraph.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder and General Partner

    2020 - Current

    8-Bit Capital invests in startups that connect people and businesses in new ways

  • Member

    2020

    C100 is the preeminent global community of Canadians in tech, a mission-driven network committed to supporting, inspiring and connecting the most promising Canadian entrepreneurial leaders.

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2023

    Girls in Tech is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology.

  • Early investor and advisor

    2008 - 2023

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.

  • Co-founder & Managing Partner

    2011 - 2022

    Founders Den was San Francisco’s favorite workspace and community for startups and investors. Founders Den alumni include August, AutoFi, Chartio, DataSift, Docker, Domino Data Lab, Eight Sleep, Fond, Kaggle, Kapwing, Naked Labs, Peek, Plaid, Rescale, Revel Systems, Rollbar, Socialcam, Streak, Survata, ThirdLove, Wanelo, and Zeplin. Founders Den has been home to top investors including Amplify Partners, Basis Set Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Correlation Ventures, Data Collective, Maveron, Norwest Venture Partners, Precursor Ventures, Spark Capital, and Uncork Capital.

  • Founder

    2012 - 2019

    Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance. Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.

Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance

Raised $5,100,000.00 from Marc Benioff, Ram Gudavalli, Akash Garg, Matt Cutts, Darren Herman, Egon Durban, Mark Goldstein, Ben T Smith, Rosecliff Ventures and Dathan Pattishall.

  • Mentor

    2018 - 2018

    Selected as a top mentor by Techstars + Comcast

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.

  • Angel Investor

    2008 - 2018

    Investor in over 50 startups, including AngelList, ClearTax, CoinList, Docker, Front, HelloSign, Instacart, Mixmax, Pachyderm, Republic, SafeGraph, Sense, Shortcut, Slideshare, Stream, and Zeplin.

  • Advisor

    2012 - 2017

    CodeNow is a nonprofit focused on teaching under-represented youth to code. CodeNow was one of the first non-profits in Y Combinator, and has been supported by Bloomberg and Google.

CodeNow is a nonprofit focused on teaching under-represented youth to code. They provide free, out-of-school training hosted at local tech

Raised $120,000.00 from Y Combinator.

  • Founder

    2005 - 2010

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