Investing Profile

Ben Porterfield

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Founder and VP of Engineering
Santa Cruz, California
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Angel
$5K - $50K
$25K
17
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Luminal
SeedNov 2025$5M
$5.5M
Co-investors: Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch, Paul Graham
Digger
SeedJun 2025$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Ed Brandler
Depot
SeedJul 2023$2M
$6M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Jake Storm (Felicis Ventures)
Kubecost
Series AFeb 2022$25M
$30M
Co-investors: David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), David Lieb
Waldo
Series AFeb 2022$15M
$31M
Co-investors: Josh Zelman (Insight Partners), Josef Feldman (Tectonic Capital), Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Mike Smith (Footwork), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Eliot Durbin (Boldstart Ventures), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Liu Jiang, Scott Belsky, Nigel Wray
1Fort AI
AngelJan 2022$430K
$12M
Co-investors: Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Chafic Kazoun, Karim Atiyeh
Magic
Series AJul 2021$27M
$400M
Co-investors: Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Ben Lerer (Lerer Hippeau), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Wendy Xiao (Northzone), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Shahed Khan (Hyper), Joel Monegro (Placeholder), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, Balaji Srinivasan, Varsha Rao, Sahil Lavingia, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Sahin Boydas, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Ben Davenport, Paul Yacoubian, Casey Neistat
Cape.ai
Series AApr 2021$20M
$25M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners), Andrew McMahon (Ridgeline Partners), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), Jevon MacDonald, Thomas Noonan, Andy Brown