# Ankona Capital Partners

> Ankona Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Software and SaaS. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newport Beach, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 55%
- Fund size: $66M
- Last fund: Jun 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ankona/
- Website: https://www.ankona.com

Ankona Capital Partners is a VC fund in Newport Beach focused on Software and SaaS. Ankona invests $5 to $10M into early growth-stage B2B software companies generating $5 to $15M in recurring revenues. Ankona is a team of experienced investors and founders with over 50 years of combined software experience and is investing out of its debut fund, ACP I.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 34% |
| SaaS | 6 | 21% |
| CRM | 4 | 14% |
| Advertising | 2 | 7% |
| Health Care | 2 | 7% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 9 | 31% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Series C | 4 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |
| Series F | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 41% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ford Blakely | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ford-blakely |
| Jared Smith | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-smith-6 |
| Newth Morris | Managing Director | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newth-morris |
| Steve Dusablon | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-dusablon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RegScale | RegScale's API-centric approach automates the collection, compilation, and reporting of data related to an organization's compliance obligations. This approach ensures that companies are continually compliant, reducing risk and cost while simultaneously increasing productivity. It also includes frameworks for industry-specific regulationsfor the energy and financial services industries, such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and critical infrastructure protection.Founded in 2021, RegScale is based in Mclean, Virginia, United States. | $30M | Series B | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Orca AI | Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. Theplatform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. | $72.5M | Series B | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Canopy | Canopy is the all-in-one practice management platform top-rated on G2 in both Tax Practice Management and Accounting Practice Management.It's built for U.S. CPA, tax, bookkeeping, advisory, and multi-service accounting firms of all sizes. Canopy consolidates CRM, workflow, document management, month-end close automation, time and billing,client portal, and AI into one platform with one login — replacing the disconnected stack of point solutions most firms cobble together over time.Where most practice management tools are strong in one area and shallow in others, Canopy is purpose-built to serve as a firm's entire operating system. Client relationships, engagements, deadlines, documents, communication, and payments all live in one place, giving every person in the firm a single source of truth from onboarding through billing.With good, better, best pricing, firms can start with what they need today and add capabilities as they grow — without switching platforms, retraining staff, or migrating client data to a new system. | $70M | Series C | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Orca AI | Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. Theplatform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. | $23M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 23, 2024 |  |
| Canopy | Canopy is the all-in-one practice management platform top-rated on G2 in both Tax Practice Management and Accounting Practice Management.It's built for U.S. CPA, tax, bookkeeping, advisory, and multi-service accounting firms of all sizes. Canopy consolidates CRM, workflow, document management, month-end close automation, time and billing,client portal, and AI into one platform with one login — replacing the disconnected stack of point solutions most firms cobble together over time.Where most practice management tools are strong in one area and shallow in others, Canopy is purpose-built to serve as a firm's entire operating system. Client relationships, engagements, deadlines, documents, communication, and payments all live in one place, giving every person in the firm a single source of truth from onboarding through billing.With good, better, best pricing, firms can start with what they need today and add capabilities as they grow — without switching platforms, retraining staff, or migrating client data to a new system. | $35M | Series C | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Bonusly | 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 |  |
| Alleva | Alleva provides an EMR platform that delivers evidence-based treatment modalities for behavioral health. Alleva enables clinicians to spend less time charting and more time improving the lives of those suffering from mental illness and addiction by providing insights for evidence-based care and data-driven decisions. Alleva's mission is tosave the lives of those suffering from mental health and addiction issues by supporting those that care for them through technology. | $12M | Series A | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Alleva | Alleva provides an EMR platform that delivers evidence-based treatment modalities for behavioral health. Alleva enables clinicians to spend less time charting and more time improving the lives of those suffering from mental illness and addiction by providing insights for evidence-based care and data-driven decisions. Alleva's mission is tosave the lives of those suffering from mental health and addiction issues by supporting those that care for them through technology. | $12M | Series A | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Rivet | Rivet is fixing the adversarial relationship between healthcare providers and payers, arming providers with more sophistication and productivity to improve financial transparency and operational efficiency. | $20.5M | Series B | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Order | Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, Order is a guided B2B marketplace with a mission to simplify buying for businesses. Powered by predictive applications and embedded fintech, Order sits at the intersection of a business, their vendors, and their payment methods to deliver tailored solutions up and down the entire buying process.With nearly half a billion in annualized spend, hundreds of finance, operations, and procurement teams – across customers like WeWork, SoulCycle, Lume, and High Level Health – rely on Order to guide their company’s growth. For more information, visit order.co. | $30M | Series B | Jan 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ankona Capital Partners invest in?

Ankona Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and CRM startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Ankona Capital Partners?

The team at Ankona Capital Partners includes Ford Blakely (Operating Partner), Jared Smith (Managing Director) and Newth Morris (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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