Investments
60Portfolio Exits
24About Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter is a Palo Alto-based angel investor who typically invests upto $25K in young companies. Schachter prefers to invest in Bay Area and New York companies at the seed stage. He avoids music and video startups generally. He aims to assist portfolio companies through efforts and expertise focused on product development. Schachter (born 1974) is the creator of Delicious, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool.
Joshua Schachter Headquarter Location
Palo Alto, California,
United States
Latest Joshua Schachter News
Jun 3, 2021
Stack Overflow, the leading knowledge-sharing community for developers and technologists, is being acquired by Prosus, an internet holding company and investment firm, in a transaction that values the company at $1.8BM.– Prashanth ChandrasekarFounded in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Stack Overflow has raised a total of $153M in total equity funding.Investors in the company include Stack Overflow, Prosus, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Founder Collective, Union Square Ventures, GIC, GIC, Naval Ravikant, Bezos Expeditions, Joshua Schachter, Dharmesh Shah, Bob Pasker, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Silver Lake Waterman, Nirav Tolia, Times Bridge, and Micah Siegel.Stack Overflow receives more than 100M monthly visitors, making it one of the 50 most visited websites.“We are delighted to be welcoming Stack Overflow to the Prosus family as we increasingly focus on the future of workplace learning, remarked Larry Illg, CEO of EdTech at Prosus. Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated & summarized by a computer program and has not been created by StartupAround.
Joshua Schachter Investments
60 Investments
Joshua Schachter has made 60 investments. Their latest investment was in Orion Labs as part of their Series A - IV on September 9, 2017.
Joshua Schachter Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/6/2017 | Series A - IV | Orion Labs | $10.5M | Yes | 3 | |
5/31/2017 | Seed VC | Drift Marketplace | $2.1M | Yes | 2 | |
7/18/2016 | Series A | Exact Media | Yes | Rho Ventures, and VTF Capital | 1 | |
3/9/2016 | Series B | |||||
2/11/2015 | Seed VC |
Date | 9/6/2017 | 5/31/2017 | 7/18/2016 | 3/9/2016 | 2/11/2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series A - IV | Seed VC | Series A | Series B | Seed VC |
Company | Orion Labs | Drift Marketplace | Exact Media | ||
Amount | $10.5M | $2.1M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Rho Ventures, and VTF Capital | ||||
Sources | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Joshua Schachter Portfolio Exits
24 Portfolio Exits
Joshua Schachter has 24 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Presto on November 11, 2021.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/11/2021 | Acq - Pending | 3 | |||
6/2/2021 | Acquired | 13 | |||
9/3/2020 | Acquired | 8 | |||
Date | 11/11/2021 | 6/2/2021 | 9/3/2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Acq - Pending | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 3 | 13 | 8 |