Harrison Metal
San Francisco, California · Invests in US · Website
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Exceptional entrepreneurs with clear thinking and strong execution capability, backed by operational mentorship and management discipline. We invest in founders who value learning and can benefit from hands-on advisory support rooted in operating experience.
Likely not a fit for
Serial unsuccessful founders, founders primarily motivated by quick exits, teams without operational depth, capital-intensive businesses at seed stage, founders unable to benefit from operational advisory.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Preferred
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Between funds
- Assets under mgmt
- $200M
- Decision process
- Solo GP
Partners & team
3 contacts on file
Portfolio
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Heroku is an AI Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed for effortless app deployment and scaling, offering a robust ecosystem to power modern applications.
Quilter is one of the UK’s leading wealth management companies, providing high-quality products and services for the entire investment journey.
Jeli is a platform designed for post-incident reviews, helping organizations analyze incidents to build more resilient infrastructure and teams. It aggregates data from various tools to provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
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Recent activity
- Oct 2025
CoreStory
Series A
- Feb 2024
Quilter
Series A · Participated
- Jan 2023
Crowdbotics
Series B · Follow-on
- Nov 2022
Roboto Games
Series A · Participated
Harrison Metal in the news
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Guild - 2026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors
2 months ago
CircleCI - 2026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors
2 months ago
CoreStory Raises $32 Million Series A to Modernize the World’s Legacy Software with AI for Code Intelligence
10 months ago
ConductorOne scores $79m, heavy-duty trucking merger and GSK's COPD bet
10 months ago
Crowdbotics raises $40M to help devs build apps from modular code
Jan 2023
Mixmax Investor Sues In Del. To Inspect Corporate Books
Oct 2021
Meet the 30 solo capitalists writing a lot of checks to startups who every founder should scramble to pitch
Sep 2021
A startup that spun off from Snap just raised $8 million to help companies visualize their customer data
Jun 2021
The 16 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of April 2021
May 2021
Orbit raises $4M for its community experience platform
Dec 2020
Pulse 2.0
Workplace Training Platform Company Hone Raises $3.6 Million
Jan 2019
Denver’s Guild Education rakes in $40M in venture funding with employee-education program
Aug 2018
CircleCI Closes $31M Series C Funding Round
Jan 2018
Box acquires team behind data analytics startup Wagon, service shutting down on October 3
Aug 2016
Meet Erik Rannala, Managing Partner at Mucker Capital
Jul 2016
Startup MasterClass Raises $15 Million, Launches Kevin Spacey Acting Tutorial
Feb 2016
Dustin Hoffman, Serena Williams and James Patterson Team for MasterClass Project
May 2015
vox.com
With Primary, Trend of Vertically Integrated E-Commerce Brands Comes to Kids’ Clothes
Mar 2015
With a focus on mobile engagement, Liftoff's app marketing platform goes beyond simple user acquisition
Feb 2015
Alibaba Invests $50 Million in TV-Remote App Startup Peel
Oct 2014
Twitter adds MoPub to flock
Sep 2013
Personalized E-commerce Startup Wantful Shuts Down
Sep 2013
Toronto's 500px Ready to Scale with $8.8 Million Investment
Aug 2013
Photo-sharing site 500px snaps its way to $8.8M from Andreessen Horowitz, others
Aug 2013
adage.com
Millennial Media In Talks to Acquire Mobile Ad Buying Platform Metaresolver
Feb 2013
pehub.com
Doing a Solo: Single GP VC Funds Forge a New Path
Aug 2012
Venture capital deals
Mar 2012
I Just Sold My Startup To Google!
May 2010
The Start-Up Whisperer: Michael Dearing Is the Hottest Angel Investor You've Never Heard Of
Feb 2010
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