Ben Gotow

Active Investor

Founder & Principal Engineer at Foundry 376

Nashville, Tennessee

Ben Gotow, Founder & Principal Engineer at Foundry 376 is an active investor based in Nashville, Tennessee. This profile covers what Ben Gotow backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Ben Gotow is the Founder and serves as Principal Engineer at Foundry 376. Mr. Gotow is an Angel Investor. He Co-Founded Kodiak Learning and served as its Chief Technology Officer. His first iPhone app, NetSketch, was available the day the App Store went live in March 2008. His second app-Layers-received an App of the Year award and sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide after being featured by Apple three times. As competition for small publishers grew on the App Store. He got a master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. From, he also worked at Nylas, Inc. and led development of Nylas Mail, an open-source Electron app built with React. He's an Electron contributor and a big fan of web technologies.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: SaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & Retail
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 2

Notable investments

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