Bill Godfrey
Managing Director, Founder @ 4G Ventures
Carmel, United States
Bill Godfrey is a seed investor at 4G Ventures in Carmel focused on SaaS and Internet. Bill presently serves as an advisor to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. He is an active angel investor, managing 4G Ventures LLC and participating in the HALO Group. Bill co-founded Aprimo in 1998 as the first software company focused on automating the marketing function within companies. Under his leadership as Chairman and CEO, Aprimocreated and became the leader in the markets now known as Marketing Resource Management and Enterprise Marketing Management. Aprimo was acquired by Teradata for $525 million in 2011. Bill earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame. He also earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Bill Godfrey invests in
Stages Bill Godfrey invests in
Countries Bill Godfrey invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (40%)
- Internet 2 (40%)
- Software 2 (40%)
- B2B 1 (20%)
- Email 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a provenagile engagement system.It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana. | $15M / Series B / Oct 10, 2019 | ||
| Bolstra provides a game-changing software solution that enables B2B companies to optimize their customer success outcomes, recurring revenue, and lifetime value. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 26, 2016 | ||
| Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a provenagile engagement system.It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana. | $3M / Series A / Jul 20, 2016 | ||
| Sigstr’s relationship marketing platform allows marketers to turn the billions of 1:1 emails sent every year into powerful brand engagements. With integrations into the leading CRMs, MAPs and Marketing Technologies, Sigstr helps companies get more out of their employee email by turning it into a channel that understands and engages their mostimportant audiences. Leading brands like AT&T, Amazon, SendGrid, Terminus, and Yext are using Sigstr to amplify the value of every email their employees send. Sigstr is headquartered in downtown Indianapolis and is funded by Edison Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Hubspot Ventures, High Alpha Capital, Battery Ventures, 4G Ventures, Elevate Ventures and Grand Ventures. | $1.5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2015 | ||
| Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a provenagile engagement system.It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana. | $1M / Seed / Sep 16, 2014 |
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About 4G Ventures
4G Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana and is managed by Bill Godfrey.
4G Ventures Contacts
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What does Bill Godfrey invest in?
Bill Godfrey invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bill Godfrey invest in?
Bill Godfrey typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bill Godfrey's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bill Godfrey took part in.
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When did Bill Godfrey last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bill Godfrey closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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