TA Capital
VC Fund
Houston, United States
TA Capital is a VC fund in Houston focused on Software and SaaS. From its active funds TAC currently invests in Europe and the USA. They invest in all stages (seed, early and growth) of start-ups with capable teams and scalable business models. Their investment sizes go from as low as $200,000 to as much as $15 milion per transaction. They like opportunities in e-commerce, Internet, digital life and softwaredomains. They like to create and shape new markets. They are unconventional, caring and driven, and very fast. They are honest and fair in their daily dealings and in their transactions. They honor their commitments and deliver on their promises, on time. They see it their mission to provide entrepreneurs with the resources required to grow their companies and they exclusively partner with teams who share their values.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries TA Capital invests in
Stages TA Capital invests in
Countries TA Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$2M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (29%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Internet 3 (10%)
- Analytics 3 (10%)
- Logistics 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (26%)
- Series A 8 (26%)
- Funding Round 5 (16%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 9 (29%)
- Germany 8 (26%)
- Israel 3 (10%)
- Belgium 2 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dr. Marcus Englert
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
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Elena Sorg
Office Manager
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Office Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fred van den Bosch
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Katja Nettesheim
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lars Ditrich
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Description
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Description is an AI-powered tool that generates product descriptions for e-commerce businesses. Upload a product image or input features, and receive compelling descriptions instantly. | $150K / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2024 | |
Hoard
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Hoard’s app enables any smartphone user to easily and conveniently pick up deliveries and make exchanges of small items through registered third party operated “pickup-points. | $120K / Seed / Sep 12, 2016 | |
Talixo
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Talixo is revolutionising B2B ground transportation with innovative proprietary technology that integrates seamlessly with all corporate platforms such as Amadeus, Concur and Onesto.Their technology is fully customisable and provides total compliance for all individual corporate travel policies. Now operating in >750 cities globally andgrowing exponentially, Talixo is fast becoming the go to for all the ground transportation needs of Fortune 500 companies, Airlines, Travel Agencies and many other strategic partners. Talixo is backed by Private, Institutional and Strategic investors including Deutsche Bahn, Amman Group and TA Capital. | Convertible Note / May 31, 2016 | |
AdEspresso
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AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual workneeded to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%.The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast.We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting.Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically. | $1.4M / Series A / May 06, 2016 | |
Zyncd
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Zyncd is the smart CV for the gig economy. Helping freelancers and professionals to show better their skills online. | Apr 16, 2016 | |
Riverbed Technology
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Riverbed Technology (Riverbed) develops solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology (IT) performance across wide area networks (WANs). Riverbed’s family of performance products include solutions for branch offices, mobile workers, private data centers, private clouds and cloud computing. The Company’s productsinclude Steelhead products and Cascade product line. The Company’s solution, the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), consists of hardware and software products that address the fundamental performance limitations of distributed computing environments. Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products enable its customers to improve the performance of their applications and access to their data across WANs, by increasing transmission speeds by 5 to 50 times and in some cases by up to 100 times. In July 2011, the Company acquired Zeus Technology Ltd. and Aptimize Limited. | Jan 19, 2016 | |
B2X
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B2X is the provider of customer care solutions for electronic devices to manufacturers, insurance providers, mobile network operators and retailers globally.B2X has created the first shared services platform for unparalleled customer care solutions. Their Smart Service Platform consists of a global organization of highly experienced staff, atrusted and reliable operational fulfillment partner network and best practice service delivery processes. An end-to-end technology platform ensures consistency and quality across your service operations.They manage backend repairs, parts and logistics services and provide frontend consumer facing services making their offering an end-to-end solution for manufacturers, insurance providers, Mobil Network Operators and Retailers for electronic devices.They support consumers from the moment they receive a device to when they have a problem, and all the way through the logistics and repair process of a broken device. | Series C / Dec 01, 2015 | |
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Zyncd
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Zyncd is the smart CV for the gig economy. Helping freelancers and professionals to show better their skills online. | Series A / Dec 01, 2015 | |
Cognilyze
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Cognilyze is the only psychology-based, Motivation Driven Recommendations Engine:tm:. While traditional engines see what you buy, only Cognilyze sees WHY. Cognilyze Motivation Based Recommendations:tm: are therefore highly personalized and relevant, pleasantly surprising the shopper with product suggestions that make sense right now, even ifthey’re not similar to previous purchases, or popular among the crowd (long tail)… because Cognilyze doesn’t care WHAT EVERYONE buys, only WHY EACH INDIVIDUAL SHOPPER is MOTIVATED to buy. | Seed / Nov 03, 2015 | |
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Talixo
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Talixo is revolutionising B2B ground transportation with innovative proprietary technology that integrates seamlessly with all corporate platforms such as Amadeus, Concur and Onesto.Their technology is fully customisable and provides total compliance for all individual corporate travel policies. Now operating in >750 cities globally andgrowing exponentially, Talixo is fast becoming the go to for all the ground transportation needs of Fortune 500 companies, Airlines, Travel Agencies and many other strategic partners. Talixo is backed by Private, Institutional and Strategic investors including Deutsche Bahn, Amman Group and TA Capital. | Seed / Oct 01, 2015 | |
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does TA Capital invest in?
TA Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 TA Capital's check size?
TA Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$2M at Seed and $1.3M–$7M 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 TA Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at TA Capital?
The team at TA Capital includes Dr. Marcus Englert (General Partner), Elena Sorg (Office Manager) and Fred van den Bosch (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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