Ben Keighran
About Ben Keighran
Ben Keighran is based in Jackson, Wyoming, and is the founder and CEO of Super Carl AI. He was born in Sydney, Australia, and attended the Scots College. In 2006 he moved to San Francisco and raised $6.5 million for Bluepulse, a mobile social messaging app. BusinessWeek named him one of America's Top Entrepreneurs under 25 in 2007.
He later advised on mobile strategy at the social search company Aardvark, which Google acquired in 2010. In 2009 he co-founded the app search engine Chomp, which Apple acquired in 2012. He then worked at Apple on Apple TV product design.
In 2016 he left Apple to start Caffeine, a live social broadcasting platform. Wikipedia reports it raised $146 million across 3 rounds, including a $100 million investment from 21st Century Fox in September 2018. Crunchbase lists 3 companies he has founded. His current company is Super Carl, which sells a people-search and warm-introduction product.
Ben Keighran's public angel record is small. Crunchbase counts 1 investment, 1 portfolio company, 0 lead investments and 0 exits. CB Insights and Tracxn record an angel investment in Givego on December 21, 2021. Crunchbase's investor page instead lists a seed investment in BrightSky Labs, and the dates on that page are obscured. The sources do not agree, so founders should confirm details with him directly.
He also holds mentor roles listed on Crunchbase, including Teens in Tech Labs, Web FWD by Mozilla and 500 Global.
No AI-specific angel investments by Ben Keighran are public. His AI work is operating Super Carl, which says it has a dataset of more than 1 billion professional profiles. The product connects to Claude and ChatGPT. He has posted that it can help founders find investors they can reach through warm introduction paths.
He has not published a thesis, stage preference or check size. Tracxn lists his single recorded investment as consumer and US-based. That is too small a sample to show a focus. Givego's round was reported at $1M in total with several co-investors, including Park City Angels. That figure is the round size, not his own check.
- Givego: seed-stage angel investment recorded by CB Insights and Tracxn on December 21, 2021, in a round reported at $1M total.
- BrightSky Labs: seed round listed on Crunchbase as his personal investment. The date is not shown publicly.
- crunchbase.com/person/benjamin-keighran
- crunchbase.com/person/benjamin-keighran/person_overview_investor/timel
- linkedin.com/in/bkeighran
- x.com/benkeighran
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Keighran
- cbinsights.com/investor/ben-keighran
- tracxn.com/d/people/ben-keighran/__WUGYOA1uLQ_8yY3Bk-BxvAT-_haQxqGxxR1
- about.me/benkeighran
Investing activity
Ben Keighran has made 1 investment according to Crunchbase across 1 portfolio company, and has founded 3 companies.
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Frequently asked questions about Ben Keighran
Is Ben Keighran an active angel investor?
His public record shows 1 investment on Crunchbase, with 0 lead investments and 0 exits. He is mainly an operator, running Super Carl AI.
What companies has Ben Keighran founded?
Crunchbase counts 3 companies founded. They include Bluepulse, Chomp (acquired by Apple in 2012), Caffeine and Super Carl AI, according to Wikipedia, Tracxn and Crunchbase.
What is Ben Keighran's check size?
No check size is public. Givego's round was reported at $1M in total, but his share is not disclosed.
Does Ben Keighran invest in AI startups?
No AI angel investments are public. He builds in AI as founder and CEO of Super Carl AI.
How can founders contact Ben Keighran?
He is on LinkedIn and X, where he posts about Super Carl. Super Carl is also pitched as a way for founders to find warm introduction paths to investors.
Is Ben Keighran an angel investor?
Yes. Ben Keighran invests personally as an angel. Crunchbase counts 1 investment.
Where is Ben Keighran based?
Ben Keighran is based in Jackson, Wyoming, United States.
How can founders reach Ben Keighran?
Founders on Lounge can see Ben Keighran's contact details in AI Investor Contacts (paid plans), check for a warm introduction through members who worked with them under Warm Paths, and add Ben Keighran to their Investor Pipeline to track the conversation.