Elizabeth Engel
Partner @ Dundee Venture Capital
Omaha, United States
Elizabeth Engel is a Series A investor at Dundee Venture Capital in Omaha focused on Software and CRM. Beth joined Dundee VC in 2013. Her path to a career in venture capital is unconventional; start in 1997, where Beth realized her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Notre Dame was better suited to teaching middle-school science rather than attending med school. After two happy years of teaching, and subsequent jobs at two Omaha-basedstartups, Beth was hired as the twelfth employee at Hayneedle, helping manage the company’s growth at a time when they were launching dozens of new product categories and websites every single month.Following a move to the East Coast, Beth received her MBA from Georgetown and worked for four years for the FBI, creating a leadership development program for the Bureau before returning home to Omaha in 2013 to be Dundee VC’s first partner.Beth is primarily responsible for investing in and managing portfolio companies, as well as helping to manage our internal team and assisting with capital raising and investor communication. Beth loves the flexibility and energy of working with startups. She hosts an annual Christmas “Caroloke” party where she wows a crowd playing the piano while her brother leads the assembled in a rambunctious holiday sing-a-long.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
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Industries Elizabeth Engel invests in
Stages Elizabeth Engel invests in
Countries Elizabeth Engel invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (25%)
- CRM 2 (17%)
- SMS 2 (17%)
- SaaS 2 (17%)
- Mobile 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Seed 3 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear,sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People. | $6.1M / Series A / Oct 25, 2018 | ||
| Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear,sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People. | $2M / Seed / Mar 15, 2018 | ||
| Phone2Action is the market-leading advocacy and communications platform which helps organizations engage with supporters, employees, customers and other stakeholders and empower them to communicate with policymakers at local, state, national and international levels via email, Twitter, Facebook and patch-through calling. Our technology has assistedin influencing policy decisions for over 200 clients, ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to the largest associations and non-profits. Named one of DC Inno’s 2016 50 on Fire, CB Insights’ 2016 list of 21 Nonprofit and Charity Tech Startups to Watch, and one of Trending 40’s 2016 Red Hot Companies, Phone2Action is poised for explosive growth. | $4.6M / Jul 18, 2016 | ||
| Capitol Canary provides comprehensive intelligence on all levels of government, as well as the most accurate and up-to-date contact information for officials and staffers. | $4.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 18, 2016 | ||
| RoundPegg is a culture and engagement platform designed for companies, businesses, and organizations. Their software makes complex data science and people analytics easy to use. They quantify each company's unique culture and use the data to achieve measurable outcomes through applications for hiring, performance management and employeeengagement.The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. | $1.8M / Series B / May 12, 2016 | ||
| DivvyHQ is a content planning and production workflow tool for high-volume content teams. It is the marketing industry’s first spreadsheet-free editorial calendar application. It was built to help marketers and content producers stay organized and successfully execute demanding and complicated content marketing and social media marketinginitiatives. Within one simple application, users can capture content ideas, assign and schedule content projects, manage content teams, produce any type of content, and stay on top of production deadlines.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. | $1.8M / Series A / Jun 30, 2015 | ||
| Bulu Box builds and rebuilds subscription box programs. It is one of the first subscription boxes and continues to pioneer the industry. The website bulubox.com continues to operate while the Bulu Box team works with multi-billion dollar companies executing full or à la carte Turnkey Subscription Box Solutions. Bulu Box is the Subscription BoxChampion working with partners to win. It was created in 2011 and launched in 2012. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 08, 2015 | ||
| Bulu Box builds and rebuilds subscription box programs. It is one of the first subscription boxes and continues to pioneer the industry. The website bulubox.com continues to operate while the Bulu Box team works with multi-billion dollar companies executing full or à la carte Turnkey Subscription Box Solutions. Bulu Box is the Subscription BoxChampion working with partners to win. It was created in 2011 and launched in 2012. | $3.6M / Series A / May 07, 2014 | ||
| RoundPegg is a culture and engagement platform designed for companies, businesses, and organizations. Their software makes complex data science and people analytics easy to use. They quantify each company's unique culture and use the data to achieve measurable outcomes through applications for hiring, performance management and employeeengagement.The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. | $2.8M / Series A / Nov 21, 2013 | ||
| Phone2Action is the market-leading advocacy and communications platform which helps organizations engage with supporters, employees, customers and other stakeholders and empower them to communicate with policymakers at local, state, national and international levels via email, Twitter, Facebook and patch-through calling. Our technology has assistedin influencing policy decisions for over 200 clients, ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to the largest associations and non-profits. Named one of DC Inno’s 2016 50 on Fire, CB Insights’ 2016 list of 21 Nonprofit and Charity Tech Startups to Watch, and one of Trending 40’s 2016 Red Hot Companies, Phone2Action is poised for explosive growth. | $600K / Seed / Nov 19, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Dundee Venture Capital
Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.
Dundee Venture Capital Contacts
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Andrea Sandel
Business Manager
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Catherine Williams
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Elizabeth Engel
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Greg Beaufait
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John B. Jenkins
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What does Elizabeth Engel invest in?
Elizabeth Engel invests primarily in Software, CRM and SMS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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