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What does Social Starts invest in?
Social Starts invests most often at Seed and Venture (84% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Advertising (AdTech) and Apps.
Social Starts highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 84% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 90 rounds, median $50K
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19 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Filed 1 private fund offering with the SEC, the most recent in 2015-10From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- AI & Machine LearningAdvertising (AdTech)Apps
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first294 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Apr
- Mar
- 2025
3 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- Feb
- 2024
6 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
8 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- Feb
- Feb
- 2022
13 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2021
11 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
ANAndrew NealonManaging DirectoriForm ADV
BGBradley George Harrison WelchManaging DirectoriForm ADV
JDJun DengManaging DirectoriForm ADV
MEMichael EdelhartManaging Director of Social Starts Health and Happiness GP, LLC, the Issuer's General PartneriFiling they signed
PTPatrick Thomas NicollManaging DirectoriForm ADV
WLWilliam LohseManager of the Manager of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 12 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$160Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Ataraxia Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 317485
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
47 of 60 we have independently watched raise
Art19Barn2DoorBeam HealthBloom ScienceClinOneConcourseCopper Cow CoffeeCourseKeyDyad MedicalEdifice HealthEdlyEmbr LabsEnspectra HealthFaircraftFinless FoodsFolia HealthGentemHackNoticeHey JaneINSOInformAIInspectivKidzToProsMANTLMadorraMedalMission BarnsMybacsNovel FarmsNymbl ScienceOnedayOrdwayOsanoOsmosisOutlierParadromicsProbiusDXProper GoodRavnSharper SenseStructionSiteWayfinder BiosciencesWeRecoverWellerWild WonderZehitomoZone7BrainKeyBreakthroughCoeditionCurie CoDigbiElectric EraEmpathic TechnologiesFlux BiosciencesFreeplayFulcrumGroLensHeartbeatJavelin Biotechand 24 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed19 in all
HeartThisBought by ThumbtackUndisclosedSept 2015
Kanvas LabsBought by AOLUndisclosedAug 2015
Chronos Mobile TechnologiesBought by Life360UndisclosedAug 2015
Open MeBought by RowlUndisclosedMay 2015
AppinionsBought by ScribbleLiveUndisclosedApr 2015
Elite DailyBought by DMG MediaUndisclosedJan 2015
EarbitsBought by You42UndisclosedJun 2014
ComixologyBought by AmazonUndisclosedApr 2014
Mass RelevanceBought by SpredfastUndisclosedApr 2014
Big FrameBought by AwesomenessTV$15MApr 2014
Nerve.comBought by HowAboutWeUndisclosedJan 2014
Health Guru Media Inc.Bought by Kitara MediaUndisclosedDec 2013
Optimal, Inc.Bought by Brand Networks$35MOct 2013
BestVendorBought by DocstocUndisclosedAug 2013
GateGuruBought by TripAdvisorUndisclosedJun 2013
Lucky SortBought by TwitterUndisclosedMay 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.