Access Venture Partners
VC Fund
Westminster, United States
Access Venture Partners is a VC fund in Westminster focused on Software and SaaS. Access Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in fiercely passionate founders leading visionary, early-stage technology companies. We seek to add significant value beyond simply the capital invested and throw our resources, decades of operating & investing expertise, broad networks, and every ounce of our emotional energy behind ourfounders' success. We actively help our portcos build and recruit teams, fundraise, develop business strategy, and advance to an exit. We typically make our initial investment as part of the first institutional round and we often continue investing in subsequent rounds. Access was founded in 1999 by
- Total investments:
- 108
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $47M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Access Venture Partners invests in
Stages Access Venture Partners invests in
Countries Access Venture Partners invests in
Contacts
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Brian Wallace
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Elyse Kent
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Frank Mendicino III
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Frank Mendicino III
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Jay Campion
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 25 (23%)
- SaaS 16 (15%)
- Information Technology 9 (8%)
- Internet 7 (6%)
- Analytics 6 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 32 (30%)
- Series B 19 (18%)
- Seed 18 (17%)
- Funding Round 12 (11%)
- Series C 10 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Brian Wallace
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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Elyse Kent
Head of Platform and Investor
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Head of Platform and Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Frank Mendicino III
Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner
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Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Frank Mendicino III
Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner
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Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Jay Campion
Previous Founder and Managing Director
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Previous Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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RADICL Defense
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We secure small and medium sized businesses from nation state level cyberthreats. | $31M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Hydden
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Hydden is the standard for continuous discovery, bridging the gaps between siloed security teams and technologies. Rather than replacing your existing solutions, Hydden accelerates your IAM implementations by building a single data layer across your identity technology stack that provides total visibility into every identity and continuously takesaction to reduce your attack surface. It automatically maps human and non-human accounts to managed identities, continuously analyzes access rights to enforce least privilege, and maintains strong identity hygiene to proactively remediate risks automatically. | $4.4M / Seed / Sep 17, 2024 | |
Iris Finance
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Iris Finance provides operators and investors with the necessary information about a company's financial performance in real-time, enabling them to make informed future plans. | $2M / Seed / Apr 08, 2024 | |
Dapple Security
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Phishing-resistant passwordless login for businesses | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Jan 18, 2024 | |
The Regis Company
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The Regis Company is on a mission to grow great thinkers through the power of technology and the wisdom of neuroscience. Our global customers regard us as their go-to experiential design resource and the industry’s best builder of diverse and immersive learning simulations. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 11, 2023 | |
GoodBuy Gear
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Good Buy Gear is a developer of an online marketplace used to extend the life of the baby and kids' gear and make the lives of parents a little easier. Its platform uses product photos, descriptions, recommends pricing, and promotes kids' items in order to sell products quickly, enabling customers to enjoy a safe and easy shoppingexperience with curated product collections.Good Buy Gear was co-founded by Kristin Langenfeld and Jessica Crothers in 2016 and is headquartered in Arvada, Colorado. | $14M / Series B / Jun 20, 2023 | |
Bonusly
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Bonusly is a fun and easy way to engage employees and improve collaboration, productivity, and retention at every level of organizations.Key Benefits -------------------- Save time with an employee engagement solution that’s efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Bonusly helps clients celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automatetime-consuming HR admin processes, incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards their employees will love.Get actionable data about your employee experience from powerful people analytics tools. Bonusly delivers unique insights on individual, team, and company levels so clients can make strategic decisions about culture, professional development, performance management, and retention.Build a greater sense of alignment and purpose. By making recognition social and engaging to everyone across teams, departments, and locations, Bonusly helps people understand what it means to embody the company's core values and how contributions of all kinds support their mission.Transform employee engagement with the highest-rated, most-reviewed recognition and rewards solution on the market. With a simple interface and nifty features that people love, Bonusly is an HR initiative employees will adopt quickly and use frequently: 89% of Bonusly users participate within their first month and 79% receive recognition at least once a month.Make it quick and easy for everyone to give recognition no matter where or how they work. Trusted by a wide variety of organizations, including startups, corporations, hotels, factories, and animal hospitals, Bonusly offers robust HRIS, SSO, and chat app integrations, highly-rated mobile apps, and customizable office display and kiosk options that fit seamlessly with your existing tools. | $18.9M / Series B / Feb 28, 2023 | |
Tidal Cyber
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Tidal Cyber is a cybersecurity company that provides a threat-led defense platform. The platform maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to measure the effectiveness of a security stack. The service helps teams prioritize defenses and reduce security risks by analyzing real-world threat behavior. | $4M / Seed / Oct 04, 2022 | |
ThreatX
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ThreatX is the only SaaS-based web application and API protection solution that enables enterprises to confidently secure all their applications against a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Its purpose is built for the hybrid-cloud and delivers complete visibility and the most precise threat detection and neutralization capabilities available bycombining progressive behavior profiling, collective threat intelligence, and deep analytics with a managed service. ThreatX eliminates the false positives and maintenance burdens associated with WAFs and static, rule-based solutions.The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Louisville, Colorado. | $30M / Series B / Aug 17, 2022 | |
Nivati
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Nivati makes access to mental health solutions easy for employees. Nivati provides holistic support with a broad array of tools, including counseling, coaching, meditation, yoga, nutrition, massage, and finance. The solution comes complete with wellbeing and utilization data for employers to track progress within their company. | $4M / Seed / Mar 30, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Access Venture Partners invest in?
Access Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 108 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Access Venture Partners?
The team at Access Venture Partners includes Brian Wallace (Managing Director), Elyse Kent (Head of Platform and Investor) and Frank Mendicino III (Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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