Ardent Venture Partners
VC Fund
Washington, United States
Ardent Venture Partners is a VC fund in Washington focused on FinTech and Software. High-conviction pre-seed and seed for AI-native apps, vertical SaaS, and B2B fintech.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Ardent Venture Partners invests in
Stages Ardent Venture Partners invests in
Countries Ardent Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$8.5M
- Series A
- $5.8M–$50M
- Series B
- $20M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 8 (30%)
- Software 6 (22%)
- Financial Services 6 (22%)
- Finance 3 (11%)
- Lending 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (33%)
- Seed 7 (26%)
- Series B 4 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 14 (52%)
- India 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dan Preiss
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Wright
CEO Partner
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CEO Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Shehan
CEO & Partner
|
CEO & Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Phil Bronner
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 42 | Find email | |
Phil Herget
General Partner and Co-Founder
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General Partner and Co-Founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linecook is the app for passionate home cooks who want to celebrate every meal they create with their own two hands. We’re building an AI-native social app that helps you store kitchen memories and milestones, track your growth and skills in the kitchen, discover fresh ideas of what to cook, and strengthen the bonds that form over food, even whenyou can’t be at the same table. Founded by Nick Kafker and Nick Stewart, who previously built Recover Athletics and sold it to Strava in 2022. Our vision: to become the record of the world’s home cooked meals and the place where passionate home cooks come together to celebrate every meal they create. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Palla is a REST API that lets banks empower their customers to request, receive and manage international inward remittances. Its product is built to allow its partners to fully customize the experience within their app and includes tailored reporting to drive customer insights and engagement. | $14.5M / Series A / May 28, 2025 | ||
| PilotDesk advances ad operations by automating tedious processes, allowing humans to concentrate on strategy and creativity. | $5.8M / Series A / Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| Crux is a fintech company. They provide a capital markets platform for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact and manage transferable tax credits, aiming to make sustainable finance more efficient and interconnected. They help developers and manufacturers raise capital at all stages of project development andoperation. | $50M / Series B / Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| ecueAI is able to plan more effectively, optimize our resources, and confidently scale. It’s been a game-changer for how we approach growth and e:cue has been transformational for our forecasting and projections at Motimatic. | Seed / Mar 12, 2025 | ||
| Pickleheads is a digital home for pickleball players to find the playing court online. It is a software for pickleball players to create groups, schedule playing time, game guidance, and pickleball playing kits. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout. | $42M / Series B / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| Roe AI is an artificial intelligence data processing platform created to modify data intelligence in businesses of all sizes. | $3M / Seed / Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Lendflow develops a lending infrastructure platform built to change and improve the way businesses access capital. They allow a user to embed financial products into their software to increase engagement, improve retention, and become a source of capital for their business users. They also provide term loans, lines of credit, and invoice factoringto cover businesses of all sizes and credit risks, enabling construction, home services companies, e-commerce, restaurants, transportation, and fitness businesses to connect their users with capital and increase the reach of their businesses. | $11M / Series A / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States. | $20M / Series A / Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| See all 27 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ardent Venture Partners invest in?
Ardent Venture Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ardent Venture Partners invest in?
Ardent Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $5.8M–$50M at Series A and $20M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ardent Venture Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ardent Venture Partners took part in.
How do I contact Ardent Venture Partners?
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Who are the partners at Ardent Venture Partners?
The team at Ardent Venture Partners includes Dan Preiss (Principal), David Wright (CEO Partner) and Michael Shehan (CEO & Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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