# Ballast Point Ventures

> Ballast Point Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Petersburg, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Fund size: $164M
- Last fund: Jan 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ballast-point-ventures/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BallastPointVC
- Website: http://www.ballastpointventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ballast-Point-Ventures-412341630299/

Ballast Point Ventures is a VC fund in St. Petersburg focused on Software and Health Care. With $360 million under management, Ballast Point Ventures invests in established but rapidly growing, privately owned companies, with a particular emphasis on companies located in the Southeast and Texas. This region accounts for 22% of the national GDP and the region's favorable business climate and strong quality of life make an attractivehome to thousands of talented entrepreneurs working to build great companies. The BPV partners have spent their careers building and investing in outstanding companies throughout the region – partnering with entrepreneurs who prefer to work with high quality partners "in their own backyard" who understand not only their businesses but also the local community. Our proximity to our portfolio companies and emphasis on long term relationships have allowed us to focus on adding value for our companies in ways that other firms investing across the country find difficult to match. We are "growth capital" investors and we work with companies that demonstrate proven business models and have strong management teams. We invest in a diversified group of industries that we believe have favorable growth and investment characteristics, and in which both the BPV Partners and our partners at Raymond James Financial have substantial knowledge and experience. These industries include health care, business services, communications, information technology, financial services and consumer/retail. Our experience shows that by partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs with experience, vision and integrity, we can invest across a broad range of industries and help our entrepreneur partners generate attractive investment returns for both themselves and their investors. We are financial and strategic partners rather than operators, and we prefer minority ownership stakes to control positions.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 27% |
| Health Care | 12 | 24% |
| Medical | 8 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 16% |
| SaaS | 7 | 14% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 31% |
| Series B | 9 | 18% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Rice | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-rice-2 |
| Paul Johan | Founder and Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-johan |
| Robert Faber | Principal | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-faber |
| Carol Bear | Director- Admin | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carol-bear |
| Dick Brandewie | Co-Founder | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dick-brandewie |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Medsender | Modernizing healthcare communication and automating care coordination workflows | $5M | Series A | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Work Shield | Work Shield is a full-service independent solution for reporting, investigating, and resolving harassment and discrimination in the workplace. | $6M | Series A | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Pace mate | PaceMate is one of the fastest-growing cardiac rhythm management software and remote monitoring companies. PaceMateLIVE, the company's flagship remote monitoring software platform, combines the most technologically advanced cloud-native software, research-grade data, and seamless integrations, allowing many of the nation's most renownedelectrophysiologists, device clinics, and healthcare systems to effectively manage their device patient populations. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Uplift | UpLift wants to create a future in which a main mental health practitioner is the new standard by providing everyone with access to affordable care. | $10.7M | Series A | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| Viirtue | Channel Driven UCaaS provider serving 60k+ users across the US&CA. Viirtue’s award-winning ViiBE platform digitizes a local cloud service providers customer journey from quote to cash. With this digital enablement, our partners are able to compete and WIN more than anyone else in the space. Take it for a test drive today and be onboarded inless than 90 seconds with our self service process. | $10.8M | Series A | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Sojo | Sojo is a tech-enabled in-home accommodations platform for the short-term rental industry. Sojo helps hosts simplify operations. Sojo uses technology to automate and streamline turn-day amenities for the vacation rental industry. Travelers are trusting them with their time, money, and memories. They focus on service, guests, and growth.Inventory should mean homes, not soaps and sundries. | $6.2M | Series A | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Careviso | Careviso is a technology healthcare company helping to simplify and streamline patient access for molecular diagnostics. The company is combined expertise in laboratory, technology solutions, and HUB services to help your patients. It offers a secure HIPAA compliance portal for all transactions and completes the Prior Authorization process onbehalf of the physician's office.CMT's mission is to remove barriers and improve patient access to care involving diagnostic testing - through a sustainable solution that efficiently navigates the complex landscape involving payors, physicians, laboratories, and the patient.CMT Solutions was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Falls Church, VA, USA. | $17M | Series B | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Gun.io | Gun.io is the first software development platform that helps fast-growing companies build custom engineering teams. With the highest-quality network of independent developers in the world, Gun.io can tackle any software engagement — whether it requires a few hours of work from a senior engineer — or the combined year-long efforts of an entireengineering team. By streamlining the product development workflow with technology that includes reference checks on both sides, technical assessments for freelancers, and budgetary assessments for companies, companies can build their teams with confidence, and freelancers can work without fear of being stiffed on the bill. | $5.2M |  | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Gun.io | Gun.io is the first software development platform that helps fast-growing companies build custom engineering teams. With the highest-quality network of independent developers in the world, Gun.io can tackle any software engagement — whether it requires a few hours of work from a senior engineer — or the combined year-long efforts of an entireengineering team. By streamlining the product development workflow with technology that includes reference checks on both sides, technical assessments for freelancers, and budgetary assessments for companies, companies can build their teams with confidence, and freelancers can work without fear of being stiffed on the bill. | $5.2M | Series A | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Keen Decision Systems | Keen Decision Systems is a developer of software-as-a-service used to help marketers make courageous, data-driven decisions. Its technology is a real-time resource that accurately calculates financial contribution across all marketing channels that enable marketers to maximize profitability, maximize revenue, or optimize marketing investmentswithin a fixed budget. | $11M | Series B | Jul 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Ballast Point Ventures invest in?

Ballast Point Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ballast Point Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Ballast Point Ventures?

The team at Ballast Point Ventures includes Matt Rice (Partner), Paul Johan (Founder and Partner) and Robert Faber (Principal), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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