Livestar is a mobile app that lets you get recommendations quickly and easily from critics, friends and people with the same taste as you. Currently Livestar provides recommendations for restaurants, movies, music and apps, with more categories coming soon.  

Livestar is founded by former Microsoft executive and investor Fritz Lanman, whose angel investments include Square and Pinterest, and its engineering team is comprised of primarily of former Amazon engineers.  It is backed by world class investors in Silicon Valley, Seattle, LA and New York, including: SV Angel, Allen and Co, Betaworks, Paul Buchheit, Mitch Kapor, The Chernin Group, William Morris Endeavor, Hank Vigil, Ray Ozzie, Hadi and Ali Partovi, Matt Mullenweg, Morado Ventures and others.

Livestar

CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to shareholdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing their own amount, and compete to see who performs best, enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions.

Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming).

The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CommonStock

Ariel Emanuel

Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Aug 05, 2021	Polywork	Series A - Polywork	13.0M
Oct 05, 2021	CommonStock	Series A - CommonStock	25.0M
Mar 23, 2022	Waitroom	Seed Round - Waitroom	3.0M
Jun 25, 2024	Function Health	Series A - Function Health	53.0M

Ariel Emanuel

Ariel Emanuel has made 6 investments. Their Latest investment was Series A - Function Health on Jun 25, 2024

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