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KNOW THE INVESTOR. SHARPEN THE PITCH.

Angel investor · London, United Kingdom

Guy Podjarny.

Recorded investments.
A clearer sense of fit.

Find where your company fits, how rounds are assembled, and what happened after the first investment.

THE ENTRY PATTERN2019–2026
63%

of dated first investments
were at Angel, Pre-Seed or Seed

First investment stage across 19 companies12 Seed, 0 Angel and 7 other-stage entries. Each dot represents one company.
Seed 12Angel 0Other 7

One dot = one company at first recorded investment.

19 companies · 20 recorded equity rounds
Dataset’s latest round 22 May 2026/Latest recorded investment 05 Feb 2025
THE FOUNDER’S BRIEF

Read the pattern before the pitch.

Written insights from the recorded portfolio, with the evidence linked below.

01

Start with the first entry

Guy Podjarny has dated investments in 19 companies. 12 first entries were at Angel, Pre-Seed or Seed (63.2%). An early-stage founder can use the sector and stage filters to find comparable companies before approaching the investor.

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02

Separate activity from reputation

3 first company relationships appear in the latest 24 months, compared with 10 in the preceding window. The latest recorded investment is 2025-02-05. This describes observed activity through 2026-05-22; it does not establish current availability.

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03

Plan the next financing step

6 of 16 companies with a full 24-month observation window raised another equity round. This investor backed 1 of those companies again within that window. The difference is a reason to research the wider syndicate, rather than assume the same investor will fund the next round.

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04

Use a specific point of relevance

Cybersecurity is the largest displayed sector by company count, appearing in 8 portfolio companies; sector tags overlap. 0 first entries carry a recorded lead flag and the median first-round syndicate includes 7 other named backers. Shared rounds are evidence of co-investment, not evidence of an introduction route.

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01 / THE READOUT

Four signals before you pitch.

Start with observed behavior.
Every rate has a defined denominator.

01 — ROUND CONTEXT
$4.5M–$14M

The middle half of entry rounds

25th–75th percentile across 19 disclosed first rounds. Total round size; the investor’s own cheque is undisclosed.

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02 — NEW RELATIONSHIPS
3companies

First investments in the last 24 months

22 May 2024–22 May 2026, versus 10 in the preceding 24 months.

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03 — NEXT FINANCING
38%

Another equity round within 24 months

6 of 16 companies with a full observation window. The next round can include any investor.

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04 — REPEAT BACKING
6%

This investor invested again within 24 months

1 of the same 16 companies. Build a financing plan around the wider investor market.

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02 / FIND YOUR FIT

Where does your company sit?

Choose your sector and stage to find
companies he first backed in that space.

YOUR COMPANY

A match means a recorded investment in this category. It does not establish current interest or availability.

19matching companies
$6.5Mmedian first round (19 disclosed)
3first backed in last 24 months

All sectors · All entry stages. Round amounts are total financing, in USD.

Seed

PriorLabs ↗

Developer of tabular foundation models for data science

$9.3M total first round
Seed

Dash0 ↗

Cloud based application monitoring software

$9.5M total first round
Seed

Tracebit ↗

Cloud infrastructure security solutions

$5.0M total first round
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The sector × stage map

First investments · companies can appear in more than one sector
Number of first investments by sector and entry stage. Select a cell to explore companies.
SectorSeedSeries AAll stages
Cybersecurity8
Artificial Intelligence4
AI Infrastructure3
AI as a Service3
DevOps3
Identity Access Management3
Identity as a Service3
03 / ROUND DESIGN

The round around the investor.

Use stage-specific financing ranges
to frame the size of your syndicate.

First-round size, by entry stage

USD · middle 50% and median
Seed12 disclosed
$5.0M$3.5M–$6.5M
Series A7 disclosed
$18M$14M–$24M
$10K$100K$1M$10M

Logarithmic scale. A dot marks the median; the band spans the 25th–75th percentiles. These are entire rounds, not individual cheques.

04 / WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

One investment. Two different paths.

A subsequent round and repeat backing
answer different fundraising questions.

16
companies with 24 months
of observable history

Raised another equity round

Any investor · within 24 months
37.5%
6 of 16 companies

Backed again by this investor

A subset of the companies above
6.2%
1 of 16 companies
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Includes first investments on or before 22 May 2024. 3 newer companies and 0 undated histories are excluded. Follow-up stops at the dataset’s latest round on 22 May 2026. These observations do not measure returns or predict a company’s outcome.

See the stage-by-stage denominators +
First stageEligible companiesNext round ≤24 moSame investor again ≤24 mo
Seed93 / 91 / 9
Series A73 / 70 / 7
05 / INVESTMENT RHYTHM

New names. Returning relationships.

Separate first investments from later
rounds in companies already backed.

New companiesRepeat rounds

*2026 is partial, through 22 May. Bar height counts first investments + repeat rounds; earlier years are complete calendar periods in this dataset.

06 / THE CO-INVESTOR MAP

Who else belongs on your research list?

Frequent shared rounds suggest a place
to investigate sector and stage alignment.

01
FIRM

Boldstart Ventures

6 shared rounds · 5 companies

Latest shared round Jun 2023
02
FIRM

Accel

4 shared rounds · 4 companies

Latest shared round Nov 2024
03
ANGEL

Peter McKay ↗

3 shared rounds · 2 companies

Latest shared round Jan 2023
04
FIRM

Chalfen Ventures

2 shared rounds · 1 companies

Latest shared round Jan 2023
05
FIRM

Dig Ventures

2 shared rounds · 2 companies

Latest shared round Nov 2024
06
ANGEL

Elad Gil ↗

2 shared rounds · 2 companies

Latest shared round Nov 2021

Shared rounds establish recorded co-investment. They do not establish a personal connection, introduction route, or current willingness to invest.

07 / THE EVIDENCE

Explore the portfolio.

First investment comes first.
Amounts refer to that entry round.

19 dated companies
Complete dated portfolio, ordered by first investment, newest first.
CompanyFirst backedEntry stageTotal entry roundSame investor again?
PriorLabs ↗Freiburg Im Breisgau
Feb 2025Seed$9.3MNo later round recorded
Dash0 ↗New York City
Nov 2024Seed$9.5MNo later round recorded
Jul 2024Seed$5.0MNo later round recorded
Apr 2024Series A$23MNo later round recorded
Oasis Security ↗New York City
Jan 2024Series A$40MNo later round recorded
Aug 2023Seed$3.5MNo later round recorded
Kinnu ↗London
Jul 2023Series A$6.5MNo later round recorded
Memphis ↗Palo Alto
Jun 2023Seed$5.5MNo later round recorded
Riot ↗San Francisco
Feb 2023Series A$12MNo later round recorded
Digma
Feb 2023Seed$6.5MNo later round recorded
Helios ↗Tel Aviv Yafo
Jun 2022Seed$5.0MNo later round recorded
ConductorOne ↗San Francisco
Jun 2022Series A$15MNo later round recorded
Jun 2022Series A$25MNo later round recorded
Beam ↗New York City
May 2022Seed$3.5MNo later round recorded
Nov 2021Seed$6.5MNo later round recorded
Cord ↗London
Oct 2021Series A$18MNo later round recorded
Jun 2021Seed$4.0MYes · Jan 2023
CodeSee ↗San Francisco
Jun 2020Seed$3.0MNo later round recorded
env zero ↗Givatayim
Dec 2019Seed$3.4MNo later round recorded
0 more companies have undated investments

Kept in the 19-company portfolio; excluded from entry-timing calculations.

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