Investor profile
Howard-Yana Shapiro
Accelerator, Corporate VC, Venture capital & Chief Agricultural Officer Retired at Mars, Venture Partner at TO VC, Senior Fellow at University of California, Davis - Department of Entomology and Nematology
Howard-Yana Shapiro works as a Venture Partner at TO VC. The firm's known portfolio counts 10 companies.
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Affiliated funds' portfolios
Chief Agricultural Officer Retired at Mars, whose known portfolio counts 8 companies
- Hydraverse
- Pawp
- Smooth Commerce
- Blue Ocean Barns
- Henderson State University
- KIND Snacks
- Oliver Pets
- We Make History
Venture Partner at TO VC, whose known portfolio counts 10 companies
- EarthOptics
- The EVERY Company
- Haven Energy
- Soma Energy
- Telo Trucks
- Applied Carbon
- EnZinc
- Element3 Resources
- OCOchem
- Universal Fuel Technologies
Senior Fellow at University of California, Davis - Department of Entomology and Nematology, whose known portfolio counts 2 companies
- Samay
- ASRobotix
Investor Profile
Howard-Yana Shapiro is listed against sectors Climate, Commerce, Consumer and Food, and focus areas Alt Protein, Battery, Biotech and CPG in the database.
Stage-wise, the deals at TO VC cluster around Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Howard-Yana Shapiro is worth approaching.
Colleagues
Padmasree Warrior
Board Advisor
San Jose, United States
David A. Mills
Distinguished Professor
Davis, United States
João Marcelo Bruno
Technology Lead
São Paulo, Brazil
William A. Singleton III
Investor
Chicago, United States
Isabel Havens
Program Manager
New York, United States
Joshua Phitoussi
Co-founder & Managing Partner
New York, United States
Mansour Bassiri
Mentor
Santa Clara, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Howard-Yana Shapiro?
Howard-Yana Shapiro is an accelerator partner and corporate venture investor based in Davis, California, United States, listed as Venture Partner at TO VC. The known portfolio of that firm counts 10 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Howard-Yana Shapiro personally.
What does Howard-Yana Shapiro invest in?
Listed sectors include Climate, Commerce, Consumer and Food; listed focus areas include Alt Protein, Battery, Biotech and CPG. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Howard-Yana Shapiro invest at?
TO VC appears in Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds across its known deals, and Howard-Yana Shapiro is listed there as Venture Partner. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Howard-Yana Shapiro listed at?
Howard-Yana Shapiro is listed as Venture Partner at TO VC. 7 other people in the database share a firm with Howard-Yana Shapiro.
How do I contact Howard-Yana Shapiro?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Howard-Yana Shapiro. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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