# Bill Cariss

> Bill Cariss is a secondary market investor at FM Capital backing SaaS and Automotive. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fm-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Bill Cariss is a secondary market investor at FM Capital focused on SaaS and Automotive.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Automotive | 1 | 100% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 100% |
| Augmented Reality | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Impel | SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising. The company’s 360° WalkAround® and Feature Tour™ technology builds trust between buyers and sellers by bringing the physical showroom experience to car shoppers wherever and whenever they want. SpinCar’sproprietary shopper behavioral data and VINtelligent® Retargeting solution enable dealers to deliver hyper-personalized interactions across the entire car shopping journey. To date, more than 200 million virtual WalkArounds have been experienced by car shoppers across more than 15 countries. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 18, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About FM Capital

VC Fund · Boulder, United States

FM Capital pursues early and growth-stage companies with disruptive technologies that transform the auto-mobility business.

5 contacts available at FM Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chase Fraser | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chase-fraser |
| Mark Norman | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-norman |
| Bill Cariss | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-cariss |
| Charlie Hardwick | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-hardwick-6dca |
| Gordon Taylor | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-taylor-a4db |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Cariss invest in?

Bill Cariss invests primarily in SaaS, Automotive and Marketplace startups, most often at Secondary Market stage. Most of the 1 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 Bill Cariss last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Cariss closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 1 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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