# William Pruitt

> William Pruitt is a seed investor at Ocean Azul Partners backing Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ocean Azul Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ocean-azul-partners)
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-pruitt-7169206

William Pruitt is a seed investor at Ocean Azul Partners in Miami focused on Software and Information Technology. Bill Pruitt career began with Arthur Andersen & Co. where he remained for 33 years, retiring as the managing partner for Florida, the Caribbean, and Venezuela. Mr. Pruitt is a CPA in good standing and a past president of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.After retirement, Bill continued to be involved in the businesscommunity. He was a founder and the first Chairman of Adjoined Consulting, Inc., which was merged into a large public company in 2006. Bill also served on the board of KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. until its sale in 2006. In addition, he served as an Independent Director on the PBSJ Corporation Board of Directors from 2005 until its sale in 2010 and on the Board of Directors of MAKO Surgical, Inc. from 2008 until it was sold in 2013. He currently serves on the boards of Swisher Hygiene, Inc. and NV5, Inc., both public companies. Bill also serves on the boards of four privately-owned companies including: Greensmith Energy Management, LLC, Coral Gables Trust, Auxis, Inc. and Clarke Industrial Engineering Inc.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Energy | 2 | 20% |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SwiftSync | SwiftSync is a medtech startup developing disposable, dual-chamber pacing catheters. The company's temporary cardiac pacing involves electrical cardiac stimulation to treat arrhythmia during surgery and emergency surgery. Its patented device is moving toward clinical trials on the road to FDA approval and commercial sales. | $3.5M | Series A | May 14, 2021 |  |
| itopia | Itopia is a desktop-as-a-service solution for Google Cloud Platform, providing an end-to-end automated and orchestrated software. Its Cloud Automation Stack (CAS) technology is an enterprise IT life-cycle management solution purpose-built for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. CAS enables enterprise IT departments and service providers torapidly migrate and on-ramp enterprise workloads to GCP, including virtual desktops and applications, graphic workstations, hybrid Active Directory (AD) environments, AD-based disaster recovery, and Windows and Linux virtual machines. CAS drastically reduces the time and cost of managing GCP infrastructure and end-user computing environments all through an intuitive single pane of the glass management portal.itopia was founded in October 2013 by Ubaldo Don and Jonathan Lieberman. It is based in Miami, Florida. | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Taxfyle | Tickmark dba Taxfyle develops accounting-based applications for iOS and Android platforms as well as newly designed web app. The company developed Taxfyle, to make tax calculations with ease. Taxfyle was founded in 2015 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $4.1M | Series A | Jul 24, 2018 |  |
| itopia | Itopia is a desktop-as-a-service solution for Google Cloud Platform, providing an end-to-end automated and orchestrated software. Its Cloud Automation Stack (CAS) technology is an enterprise IT life-cycle management solution purpose-built for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. CAS enables enterprise IT departments and service providers torapidly migrate and on-ramp enterprise workloads to GCP, including virtual desktops and applications, graphic workstations, hybrid Active Directory (AD) environments, AD-based disaster recovery, and Windows and Linux virtual machines. CAS drastically reduces the time and cost of managing GCP infrastructure and end-user computing environments all through an intuitive single pane of the glass management portal.itopia was founded in October 2013 by Ubaldo Don and Jonathan Lieberman. It is based in Miami, Florida. | $2.6M | Series A | Oct 10, 2016 |  |
| Clarke Valve | Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, powerplants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications.Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. | $1.9M |  | Feb 18, 2016 |  |
| Virtustream | Virtustream is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company's secure cloud platform enables hybrid cloud deployments, supports multiple hypervisors, and a sub-virtual machine pricing model that is consumption-based. Their xStream Cloud Platform can deliver private,multi-tenant, or hybrid cloud alternatives, managed within a single pane of glass. They also maximize business’s productivity with Cloud Cover, a set of managed services tuned to optimize the way applications run in a cloud.Virtustream was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. | $9.6M |  | Oct 08, 2009 |  |
| Greensmith Energy Management Systems | Greensmith provides system integration, battery controls, web-based software, and data analytics for stationary energy storage systems. The company’s systems combine cloud computing with battery storage and management technologies to help solve complex problems related to critical changes unfolding on the electrical grid. Its fourth generationsoftware platform, GEMS, is used for voltage and frequency regulation, peak shaving, PV smoothing, microgrids, and back-up power for critical loads. The company started as a battery-agnostic system integrator and software developer, combining multiple battery types and power conversion systems with proprietary firmware and software to orchestrate and maximize performance and safety. Greensmith’s customers include utilities, power developers, independent power producers, and commercial and industrial firms.Greensmith was founded in 2008 and is based in Rockville, Maryland. |  | Series B | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| UnitedLex | UnitedLex is a global leader in providing technology powered legal and business solutions. They deliver success in the fields of litigation, electronic data discovery, document review, contract review and management, intellectual property, immigration and law firm support. Leveraging more than 650 professionals in seven global offices and two datacenters, UnitedLex empowers leading global corporations and law firms by providing them with the insight and applications to reduce costs and solve complex legal and business challenges. There solutions approach has been carefully crafted to take advantage of there unique combination of strategic insight, deep industry expertise and technology. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2006 |  |
| KOS Pharmaceuticals | Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, commercializing, manufacturing and marketing proprietary prescription products for the treatment of chronic diseases with a particular focus on the cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory disease areas. The company’s principal productdevelopment strategy is to reformulate existing pharmaceutical products with large market potential to improve safety, efficacy, and patient compliance. Kos’ strategy also includes making measured investments in new chemical entity research through in-house and sponsored research, scientific in-licensing and general corporate development activities. The company currently markets Niaspan, Advicor, Azmacort, Cardizem LA, Teveten and Teveten HCT. Kos has a strong and growing research and development pipeline including proprietary drug delivery technologies in solid-dose, inhalation and aerosol metered-dose device administration to help fuel sustained, organic sales growth into the future. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2004 |  |
| Adjoined Consulting | Adjoined Consulting was an industry-focused, full-service management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm that offers strategic and operational consulting, leading-edge technology integration, outsourcing solutions and original, independent research. With more that 200 Global 2000 companies as clients, Adjoined is headquartered inMiami, Florida and additionally operates from offices in Atlanta and New York. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2000 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New World Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-world-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jhh-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [JHH vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jhh-vc-4d4b) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-hunt-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fuel Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rokk3r-fuel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ocean Azul Partners

VC Fund · Miami, United States

We are an early stage venture capital fund passionate about helping entrepreneurs bring innovative solutions to market.

5 contacts available at Ocean Azul Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Tellez | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-tellez-f182 |
| David Zinn | Managing Director & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-zinn |
| Kristy King | Managing Director & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristy-king |
| William Pruitt | Managing Director & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-pruitt |
| Salo Sredni | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salomon-sredni |

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## FAQ

### What does William Pruitt invest in?

William Pruitt invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 William Pruitt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Pruitt closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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