# APA Venture Partners

> APA Venture Partners is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Blockchain. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apavp/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/apa_vp
- Website: https://www.apavp.com/

APA Venture Partners is a pre-seed stage venture capital firm. The fund invests in breakthrough technologies in legacy industries

## Contacts

5 contacts available for APA Venture Partners. Shizune tracks 3 team members at APA Venture Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/apa-venture-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $975k–$5.5M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 10% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 10% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 10% |
| Transportation | 2 | 10% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 57% |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 48% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ajay Sharma | Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-s-494f |
| Alex Kaufman | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kaufman-2 |
| Paul Kirincich | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-kirincich |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SEVARO | SEVARO is a healthcare technology company that provides telestroke and teleneurology services to patients with neurological disorders. | $39M | Series B | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Dataplor | Dataplor is a location intelligence platform provider that connects businesses with an on-demand mobile workforce. The platform offers real-time data verification, augmentation, and market research on local firms using machine learning and artificial intelligence models, allowing clients to alter their collecting requirements readily. | $10.6M | Series A | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Vend Park | Vend is focused on unifying access to parking facilities through technology. | $3.8M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Terminal49 | Terminal 49 is a digital freight forwarding service. We help modern logistics teams to arrange international ocean & air shipping, customs filing, trucking, and warehousing/fulfillment while they can track shipments, confirm arrival dates and manage to quote through our simple online platform - all backed up by Terminal 49's expertlogistics team. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Wolf | Wolf is an enterprise SaaS solution for temporary staffing agencies to power their talent marketplaces and help them match their customers with the right talent within hours instead of days. Entrepreneurs and staffing companies can launch their own UpWork style talent marketplace within hours for any industry: from healthcare (similar to: Nomadhealth, Clipboard health, Intelycare etc.), hospitality (similar to: Pared, JitJatJo, Instawork) to light industrial to name a few. Features include: Branded Marketplace, Branded iOS/Android apps, Marketing tools, accounting tools, Billing, Invoicing, Timesheets management, native W2 payroll processing, AI hiring and scheduling and more. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Finery Markets | Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Dataplor | Dataplor is a location intelligence platform provider that connects businesses with an on-demand mobile workforce. The platform offers real-time data verification, augmentation, and market research on local firms using machine learning and artificial intelligence models, allowing clients to alter their collecting requirements readily. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Climatebase | Climatebase offers a talent directory for climate-focused organizations to access for recruiting purposes. They help in the diverse ecosystem of companies and nonprofits developing, researching, funding, and advocating for climate solutions. |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| FoodReady | Automated Software to assist food companies to generate compliance documentation and maintain compliance with daily monitoring. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| FoodReady | Automated Software to assist food companies to generate compliance documentation and maintain compliance with daily monitoring. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Geek Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geek-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stage 2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stage-2-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acronym Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acronym-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BCP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bcp-blitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does APA Venture Partners invest in?

APA Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is APA Venture Partners's check size?

APA Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $975k–$5.5M at Seed and $6.5M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds APA Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact APA Venture Partners?

Public channels for APA Venture Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at APA Venture Partners?

The team at APA Venture Partners includes Ajay Sharma (Founder & Managing Partner), Alex Kaufman (Co-Founder) and Paul Kirincich (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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