# Bill McAleer

> Bill McAleer is a Series B investor at Voyager Capital (Seattle) backing Software and Internet. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-mcaleer/1/144/8a4

Bill McAleer is a Series B investor at Voyager Capital in Seattle focused on Software and Internet. Bill McAleer is the Co-founder and Managing Director at Voyager Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |
| Cloud Data Services | 2 | 11% |
| Q&A | 1 | 6% |
| SaaS | 1 | 6% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 28% |
| Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 56% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ThoughtExchange | Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale. Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly.Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency. ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America. | $13.5M |  | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| ThoughtExchange | Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale. Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly.Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency. ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America. | $10M | Series B | Jun 29, 2020 |  |
| ThoughtExchange | Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale. Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly.Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency. ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America. | $20M | Series B | Dec 05, 2019 |  |
| Zipwhip | Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale. It was founded in2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $51.5M | Series D | Jan 18, 2019 |  |
| TurboPatent | TurboPatent offers A.I.-enhanced patent drafting services to engineer high-quality patent documents. It utilizes the power of the TurboPatent Machine to rapidly evaluate the quality and value of patent assets, creating quality reports for individual patent assets as well as entire portfolios. The TurboPatent Machine also allows our PatentEngineers to generate patent documents at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional methods and with significantly higher quality. | $3.3M |  | Feb 14, 2018 |  |
| Zipwhip | Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale. It was founded in2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $22.5M | Series C | Sep 06, 2017 |  |
| AutoGraph | autoGraph is changing the way personal data is shared, by NOT sharing the actual data. The only way to keep personal data, well personal is by not sharing Founded in 2011 and is based in Seattle, WA, with an office in London. | $4.7M | Series B | Dec 07, 2016 |  |
| Zipwhip | Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale. It was founded in2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $9M | Series B | Oct 17, 2016 |  |
| TurboPatent | TurboPatent offers A.I.-enhanced patent drafting services to engineer high-quality patent documents. It utilizes the power of the TurboPatent Machine to rapidly evaluate the quality and value of patent assets, creating quality reports for individual patent assets as well as entire portfolios. The TurboPatent Machine also allows our PatentEngineers to generate patent documents at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional methods and with significantly higher quality. | $2M | Seed | Nov 18, 2015 |  |
| KodaCloud | KodaCloud, formerly Art2Wave, is the first company to offer enterprise customers with Cloud Service Wi-Fi that’s powered by patented Artificial Intelligence (AI). KodaCloud is a privately held company with Series A investments from Comcast Ventures, Celtic House Venture Partners and Voyager Capital ($10M). KodaCloud is based in Silicon Valley,California with offices in Ottawa, Canada.KodaCloud’s service consists of a network of Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) that are shipped directly to customer location(s), without the need for a customer to buy equipment or a partner to manage an inventory or shipments. With the use of web-based dashboard, or the use of a smartphone app, a customer or partner can install and activate a Wi-Fi business network in minutes with AP-to-cloud activation using existing LAN and Internet. Without the need to buy equipment or software licenses, and for the cost of most vendors’ maintenance contracts, KodaCloud delivers and manages Wi-Fi networks for a low monthly fee. MSPs benefit from unprecedented profit margins with KodaCloud’s recurring revenue model and customer-direct shipments. | $10M | Series A | Oct 15, 2015 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Information Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/information-venture-partners-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Yaletown Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yaletown-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoftventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Voyager Capital

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and connections to build successful technology companies. Voyager leads first venture round investments in software, analytics and cloud infrastructure startups, deploying the firm's domain expertise, go-to-market and teambuilding resources help build market leaders. The firm has offices in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

5 contacts available at Voyager Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Austin Guyette | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-guyette |
| Bill McAleer | Co-founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-mcaleer |
| Bruce Chizen | Venture partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-chizen |
| Curtis Feeny | Venture Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-feeny |
| Diane Fraiman | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diane-fraiman |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill McAleer invest in?

Bill McAleer invests primarily in Software, Internet and Cloud Data Services startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 McAleer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill McAleer closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 18 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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