John Ason – Startup Investor Profile

John Ason is a Kewpie Associates Angel with a focus on early-stage investments in sectors like parenting/families, local services, games, entertainment & sports, advertising, social commerce, media/content, education, e-commerce, and SaaS. He prefers thinking divergently like a ‘fox’ rather than following standard metrics like ‘hedgehogs’ in evaluating startups. His investments are primarily in pre-revenue companies, and he looks for clear core competencies and market opportunities in a one-page executive summary. John’s investment check sizes range from $200K to $5M per company. Notable investments include Owlet, Navigine, and Orbo. He values diversity of thought and challenges startups to move quickly and make focused decisions. With a professional background in technology and cybersecurity, John Ason currently advises tech firms on operations, strategy, and growth, combining his expertise from his COO role at KeyW with teaching at George Mason University.

Location: New York, NY

Country: United States of America

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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Searches for public records or press about John Ason’s investments (including Owlet, Navigine, Orbo) returned only internal EasyVC pages and no independent sources with dates of investments. No verifiable investment dates found to determine recency; therefore defaulting to not-found.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.