Number of Portfolio Companies 11
Number of Exits 
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  • Primary Job Title President
  • Primary Organization 
    Lime
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed
  • Number of Exits 
Joe Kraus is the President at Lime. Additionally, Joe Kraus has had 6 past jobs including as a Partner at GV. He graduated from Stanford University in 1993 with a BA in Political Science.
Number of Investments 12
Joe Kraus has made 12 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - Synapticure on Feb 2, 2022, when Synapticure raised
$6M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Feb 2, 2022
Synapticure
Seed Round - Synapticure
$6M
Jan 20, 2022
Vartana
Seed Round - Vartana
$7M
Oct 24, 2018
Spatial
Seed Round - Spatial
$8.3M
Aug 5, 2016
Wave
Seed Round - Wave
$2.5M
Jun 1, 2016
Loom.ai
No
Seed Round - Loom.ai
$1.4M
Dec 16, 2015
UploadVR
Seed Round - UploadVR
$1.3M
Aug 1, 2007
Kongregate
No
Series B - Kongregate
$5M
Mar 22, 2007
Kongregate
No
Series A - Kongregate
$1M
Jul 13, 2006
Feedster
No
Series A - Feedster
Aug 10, 2005
Odeo
No
Series A - Odeo
Number of Partner Investments 15
Number of Exits 
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Joe Kraus has exits. Their most notable exits are PlanetOut, Inc.Odeo, and Loom.ai.
  • PlanetOut, Inc. PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company.
  • Odeo Odeo is a digital media company developing tools to support podcasting services.
  • Loom.ai Loom.ai's technology combines deep learning, computer vision and VFX to transform a single selfie into a fully expressive 3D avatar.
  • Kongregate Kongregate is a mobile game publisher and web gaming portal.
  • InfraSearch Infrasearch is a provider of distributed, peer-to-peer search engine and networking technology.
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 6
Joe Kraus is the President at Lime. Additionally, Joe Kraus has had 6 past jobs including Partner at Google Ventures.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Google Ventures
PartnerOct 1, 2009Nov 2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Board Of DirectorsJun 2005Sep 2012
Google
Director of Product ManagementNov 2006Oct 2009
JotSpot
Co-Founder & CEOJun 2003Oct 2006
Excite
Co-FounderJun 1993Apr 2000
DigitalConsumer.org
Co-Founder
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 3
Joe Kraus holds 10 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Lime, Member of Spruce Board of Directors at Spruce Finance, and Member of the Advisory Board at UploadVR.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Highfive
Board Member2018
HomeLight
Board Member2014
Post Intelligence
Member of the Advisory BoardSep 1, 2010
Joe Kraus studied at Stanford University.
Number of News Articles 200
Funding RoundFeb 2, 2022
Synapticure raised $6,000,000 / Seed from Adam Koppel and 13 other investors
Funding RoundJan 20, 2022
Vartana raised $7,000,000 / Seed from Adil Syed and 7 other investors
NewsNov 6, 2018
Funding RoundOct 24, 2018
Spatial raised $8,300,000 / Seed from Andy Hertzfeld and 18 other investors