Investing Profile

John Fontein

Investor
Co-Founder and President at Sesame
Brooklyn, New York
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Angel
$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
15
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Fleet
SeedAug 2024$3M
Pre SeedJul 2017
$17M
Co-investors: Matthew Caspari (Alumni Ventures ), Jackie Kossmann (In-Q-Tel), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Serik Kaldykulov (Elefund)
Delfina
SeedMar 2022$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Ryan Broshar (Matchstick Ventures), Natty Zola (Matchstick Ventures), Mary Grove (Bread and Butter Ventures), Jacob Yormak (Story Ventures), Ellen Pao, Daren Cotter
Vivvi
Series BJan 2022$15M
$17M
Co-investors: Dan Sommer (Founder Collective), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Brian Hirsch (Tribeca Venture Partners)
Gemini
Series ANov 2021$420M
$420M
Co-investors: David Murray-Hundley (Pario Ventures), Sachin Jaitly (Morgan Creek Capital Management)
BlockFi
Series EAug 2021$500M
$960M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), David Beazley (Alumni Ventures ), William Guo (The Venture Collective (TVC)), Sterling Witzke (Winklevoss Capital), Ash Egan (Archetype), Kumar Dandapani (Cadenza Capital Management), Kavita Gupta (Delta Blockchain Fund), Stefan Cohen (Bain Capital Crypto), James Fitzgerald (Valar Ventures), Michael Antonov (Formic Ventures), Matthew Dellavedova, Anthony Pompliano, Jehan Chu, Alain Hanover, Nelson Chu
Verifiable
Series AAug 2021$17M
$50M
Co-investors: Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Max Altman (Saga), Jonathan Hirsch (Rebel Fund), Brian Murray (Craft Ventures), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Jon Dishotsky (Giant Ventures), Sam Altman, Parker Conrad, Mathilde Collin, Sahil Lavingia, Max Mullen
Realtime
SeedDec 2020$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Nick Caldwell, Sam Altman, Ravi Mehta, Scott Belsky, Yancey Strickler, Scott Heiferman, Kevin Lin
Rally
SeedDec 2019$4M
$94M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Ryan Sweeney (Accel), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Seth Berman (Susa Ventures), Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Jillian Williams (Cowboy Ventures), Tom Brown (Nyca Partners), Joseph Pizzolato (Felix Capital), Ron Rofe (Rainfall Ventures), Hyun Koo (March Capital), Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Greg Bettinelli (TCG (The Chernin Group)), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Habib Haddad (E14 Fund), John Occhipinti (Relay Ventures), Peter Boboff (Transmedia Capital), Chris Redlitz (Transmedia Capital), Ariel Poler (Human Augmentation Syndicate), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Nico Rosberg, Josh Spear, Sean Park, Michael Birch, Eric Ries, Sahin Boydas, Andrew Bialecki