Seraph Group is an angel group in Foster City that prefers to invest in invests in technology startups. Founded 2005 by Tuff Yen in Foster City, California, the firm invests in early stage ventures, seed stages, series A, and series B rounds. The notable investment portfolio OF Seraph Group includes BUTTON Wallet, Eko, Molecula, Lucira Health, and Second Genome. Seraph Group typically invests between $50,000 and $1,000,000 in early-stage companies. As of January 2020, Seraph Group has made 45 investments and 12 exits; and is actively looking for new investment opportunities.
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Funded Companies
A data virtualization company than enables instantaneous, secure access to large, fragmented and geographically dispersed datasets to support demanding Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.
Planetary Resources is a company that is known for developing asteroid mining technologies in order to attain outer-Earth natural resources
A technology service that monitors patients with cardiovascular diseases in California.
GAIN Fitness is a fitness company founded by Nicholas Gammell.
A company developing microbiome modulators for infection, immunity and metabolic diseases
PBworks is a San Mateo, California-based company founded in 2005 by David E. Weekly.
Lucira Health is a company developing and producing health diagnostic hardware that transforms a smartphone into a portable and real-time health-monitoring device for rapid, accessible, multiplexed analysis of bodily fluids.
Syntiant is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2017 by Pieter Vorenkamp.
Lucira Health is an Emeryville, California-based diagnostics company supplying disposable test kits for infectious disease diagnostics in RNA and DNA.
People
Peter Truwit
Associate
Tuff Yen
CEO
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
BitMovio
BUTTON Wallet
Eko
Jido Maps
Lucira Health
Molecula
Realism
Supermedium
Syntiant