Birchmere Ventures
VC Fund
Pittsburgh, United States
Birchmere Ventures is a VC fund in Pittsburgh focused on Software and Health Care. Across five funds and two decades, we've helped build numerous successful companies such as Cvent (event management - IPO) , TenMarks (math tutoring - acquired by Amazon) CyOptics (optical chips - acquired by Avago), Neolinear (EDA - acquired by Cadence), and FreeMarkets (B2B marketplace - IPO).We believe great companies can start anywhere(but to scale quickly they may require a coastal presence), and the best engineers and scientists do not go to just a few schools on each coast. These core principles lead us to invest in companies from across the country overlooked by many other investors, uncovering hidden gems and helping them scale up.
- Total investments:
- 116
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $9.9M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Birchmere Ventures invests in
Stages Birchmere Ventures invests in
Countries Birchmere Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4M
- Series A
- $1.9M–$15M
- Series B
- $5M–$23M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (15%)
- Health Care 14 (12%)
- Internet 9 (8%)
- SaaS 6 (5%)
- Mobile 6 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 32 (28%)
- Series B 22 (19%)
- Series A 18 (16%)
- Funding Round 10 (9%)
- Series C 8 (7%)
Country
- United States 65 (56%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ned Renzi
Fouding Partner
|
Fouding Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Sean Sebastian
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Ivan Koon
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sean Ammirati
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthie offers infrastructure for next generation digital health organizations that offer virtual-first care. Our API-first and fully brandable suite of solutions - EMR, coaching platform, scheduling software, and patient engagement - enable healthcare builders to launch and scale best-in-class experiences for their members and quickly scale aprovider network. Our organizations deliver holistic care in verticals like behavioral health, women's health, pediatrics and caregiving, and health coaching. We also offer a built-in marketplace of business and clinical integrations used by our organizations. Healthie is HIPAA Compliant and SOC-2 Certified. | $23M / Series B / Oct 15, 2024 | ||
| Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. | $5M / Series B / Sep 19, 2023 | ||
| The world’s most important information doesn’t live on the public Internet and never will. That’s why EyeLevel.ai designed GroundX, their next generation RAG (retrieval augmented generation) platform, to run in the most secure data centers, including air-gapped. Born from a team at IBM Watson, GroundX makes deploying RAG with enterprise gradesecurity, accuracy and scalability easy.GroundX is particularly good at understanding complex documents, which cause most RAG systems to fail. It recently topped the DocBench leaderboard for multimodal RAG accuracy, beating OpenAI, Anthropic and even humans. Trusted by Air France, Samsung, Dartmouth and 3,000 global developers, GroundX users have ingested more than 7B tokens of data on the platform. | $1.5M / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants. | $4.7M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $99.2M / Series C / Jun 30, 2021 | ||
| Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is basedin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $20M / Series B / Mar 26, 2021 | ||
| 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $4.6M / Series A / Dec 18, 2020 | ||
| Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $11M / Series B / Dec 15, 2020 | ||
| Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. | $5.3M / Series A / Sep 02, 2020 | ||
| iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants. | $2.4M / Seed / Aug 11, 2020 | ||
| See all 116 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Birchmere Ventures invest in?
Birchmere Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 116 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Birchmere Ventures's check size?
Birchmere Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed, $1.9M–$15M at Series A and $5M–$23M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Birchmere Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Birchmere Ventures?
The team at Birchmere Ventures includes Ned Renzi (Fouding Partner), Sean Sebastian (Partner) and Ivan Koon (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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