# Ben Patterson

> Ben Patterson is a seed investor at Elementum Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Elementum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elementumventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpattersonca/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/benpattersonca
- Website: https://x.com/benpattersonca
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminpatterson

Ben Patterson is a seed investor at Elementum Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Ben is a General Partner with Elementum Ventures, focused on seed stage investments.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 75% |
| SaaS | 2 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Germany | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ByTeams | With AI coding agents driving explosive growth in code production, there's now an urgent need for solutions that can scale middle management processes to match this pace. ByTeams streamlines everything non-coding in engineering organizations. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Serro | Serro helps engineering organizations scale their TPM capacity. In an era where AI agents are rapidly increasing code output, engineering teams need a new operating layer for coordination, visibility, and follow-through. Serro creates live program memory from scattered engineering signals across code, tickets, meetings, and messages. Delegatecoordination to Serro agents. Scale the shared human oversight. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Trez | Power small businesses with financial services and a cultural connection. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| heyData | heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mashup Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mashup-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascolta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascolta-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mango Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mango-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Picea Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picea-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Elementum Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Elementum Ventures approach to venture is a bit bespoke. They are guided by close study of your company, your market, your needs, and your opportunity. They not only invest capital at the earliest of stages, they also invest theirselves, getting their hands dirty alongside yours, playing roles you wouldn’t expect us to play — COO, CFO, sales rep,headhunter, janitor. they work with founders they like — people with passion, humility, and grit who are building something urgent, necessary, and often unexpected.

3 contacts available at Elementum Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Chelf | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-chelf |
| Ben Patterson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-patterson-2 |
| Kurt Keilhacker | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kurt-keilhacker |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Patterson invest in?

Ben Patterson invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ben Patterson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Patterson closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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