Investing Profile

Ben Huh

InvestorVC
Explorer (New Cities) at Y Combinator
orangedao.notion.siteSan Francisco, California
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NewCo Network
1587 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University Network
111 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University Network
111 CONNECTIONS
Y Combinator Network
63 CONNECTIONS
Nepasoft solutions Network
39 CONNECTIONS
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$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Analog
SeedFeb 2024$16M
SeedJan 2022
$16M
Co-investors: Jared Madfes (Tribe Capital), Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Louis Kang (Accelr8), Kyle Chasse (Litentry), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital), Orion Willow Parrott (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Peter Bordes (Trajectory Ventures), Orion Depp (Master Ventures Investment Management), Ruslan Lynnyk (Majinx Capital), Joi Ito, Balaji Srinivasan
Yakoa
SeedNov 2022$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Brittany Yoon (NFX), Orion Willow Parrott (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures), Aniq Kassam (Stealth Capital), Stephen McKeon (Collab+Currency), Imran Khan (Volt Capital), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital)
Origami
SeedApr 2022$6M
$87M
Co-investors: Simon King (Octopus Ventures), Andrew Williamson (Cambridge Innovation Capital), David Lieb, Dylan Field, Balaji Srinivasan
XMTP
Series AAug 2021$20M
$45M
Co-investors: Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aaron Batalion (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Fiona Kelly (Broadstone), Linda Xie (0x%00%0a), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Packy McCormick (Breather), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Chris Kurdziel (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Kneeland Youngblood (Pharos Capital Group), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joshua Baer (Capital Thought), Ethan Beard (Piazza Venture Labs), Narendra Rocherolle (The Start Project), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Maaria Bajwa (Timespan Ventures), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Ricky Engelberg, Joe Stump, Reggie James, Stani Kulechov, Tegan Kline, William Boebel, Courtney Guertin, Itamar Lesuisse, Fernando Martinelli, Paul Stamatiou, Jess Sloss, Anthony Pompliano, Michael Dunworth, Balaji Srinivasan, Shishir Mehrotra
SparkToro
AngelJun 2018$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Spencer Rascoff (75 & Sunny), Dan Shapiro, Jeffrey Wilke, Dharmesh Shah
HONK
SeedNov 2014$2M
$32M
Co-investors: Aaron Batalion (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Mark Mullen (Bonfire Ventures), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Jillian Manus (Structure Capital), Rick Marini (Protocol Ventures), Mike Walsh (Structure Capital), Paige Craig (Outlander VC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)
Circa
SeedMay 2013$1M
$6.2M
Co-investors: Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Gary Vaynerchuk (Coinbase Ventures), Ian Hathaway (Techstars), Jonathan Fentzke (Explorer Equity Group), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Mohamed Nanabhay (Mozilla Ventures), Habib Haddad (E14 Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), David Cohen (Techstars), Bradley C. Harrison (Scout Ventures), Josh Spear, Oleg Rogynskyy, Chung Ng, Merlin Kauffman
Explorer (New Cities) Y Combinator2016 - Present
General Partner Orange FundPresent
Founder and CEO Social ConstructPresent
General Partner at Orange Fund Orange DAOPresent
CEO and Founder OrigamiPresent
CEO and Founder ChaindropPresent
Founder and CEO SCRI PartnershipPresent
Founder and CEO CheezburgerPresent
Co-Founder NewCoPresent
Co-Founder Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Founder and CEO Cheezburger, Inc.2007 - 2015
Co-Founder Circa2011 - 2015
Northwestern University BSJ Journalism, Sociology
Northwestern University BS Journalism