# Accelerated Growth Partners

> Accelerated Growth Partners is a VC fund in Stamford backing SaaS and FinTech. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2017
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accelerated-growth-partners
- Website: http://acceleratedgrowth.partners/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accelerated-growth-partners-1601422340076553

Accelerated Growth Partners is a business development and business acceleration firm. They grow business and bottom-line revenue for their clients, partners, and investment platforms. It was founded by Merrill Squires and John von Stade and is based in Madison Ave, New York.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Merrill Squires | Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Animusoft | Animusoft is a software company - makers of the Alive platform. Alive is an edge computing software platform designed for robots and drones and their use in the enterprise. The platform is drone agnostic and applies to land, sea and air based drones and robots.Drones and robots are the next wave of automation to hit enterprises worldwide. Similarto the advent of computing and how it impacted businesses worldwide. Drones and robots act as a work force multiplier while allowing for work force automation at the same time. Drones and robots will generate more data than any other technology to date. Video, imagery, audio and other sensory data are a few of these examples.Alive is a SaaS. Four subscriptions models available for customers.1. Alive Standard – $199 / monthly – 128GB of data / monthly 2. Alive Professional - $399 / monthly – 256GB of data / monthly 3. Alive Advanced - $699 / monthly – 512GB of data / monthly 4. Alive Enterprise - $1199 / monthly – 1TB of data / monthly | $1M | Seed | Jul 27, 2017 | http://www.alive.ai |
| ClassWallet | ClassWallet streamlines manual, time-intensive tasks of collecting receipts, reconciling invoices, and making vendor and reimbursement payments by digitizing and automating those processes. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 13, 2015 | https://www.classwallet.com/ |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cito Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cito-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Edovate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edovate-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Kaplan Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- MaverixLab — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Accelerated Growth Partners invest in?

Accelerated Growth Partners invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Accelerated Growth Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Accelerated Growth Partners?

The team at Accelerated Growth Partners includes Merrill Squires (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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