Blacktop Capital
VC Fund
Rocklin, United States
Blacktop Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm.The company was founded by two classmates at UC Berkeley who had spent their careers in software before going back to school to broaden their horizons and their network. With offices in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and many connections in Silicon Valley, Blacktop Capital is well positioned toinvest across California and the West Coast.Blacktop focuses on Pre-Seed and Seed stage companies with ambitious teams that aren’t afraid to challenge conventional thinking. Blacktop Capital prefers software to hardware, brilliant ideas that are a challenge to decent ideas that are easy, and smaller blue oceans to larger red ones.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Blacktop Capital invests in
Stages Blacktop Capital invests in
Countries Blacktop Capital invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Ben Brasher
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Investment Focus
Industry
- IaaS 1 (25%)
- Banking 1 (25%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Internet 1 (25%)
- Messaging 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ben Brasher
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tyson Trautmann
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Yobs
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Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | |
RBC Signals
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RBC Signals is a global space communications provider serving satellite operators in GEO, LEO, & MEO with an improved model for the delivery and processing of data from space to end users. The company’s worldwide network includes both company-owned and partner-owned antennas, capitalizing on the sharing economy model, for best-in-class servicesoffering affordability, flexibility and low latency. | $1.9M / Seed / Mar 29, 2017 | |
Sandbox Banking
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Sandbox Banking provides banking-as-a-service technology to banks, credit unions, and fintech. Its platform, Glyue, enables users to build banking integrations and APIs that typically accelerate connectivity projects by more than 80%. Glyue contains an extensive and constantly growing library of banking system adapters, pre-built solutiontemplates, an Excel-like integration development environment, and support tools. | $570K / Seed / Mar 22, 2017 | |
Banter
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Banter is designed to handle customer questions effortlessly. Your customers use the messaging apps they already know and love (SMS, Facebook, Twitter and more) to ask about anything. | Seed / Oct 01, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does Blacktop Capital invest in?
Blacktop Capital invests primarily in IaaS, Banking and FinTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Blacktop Capital?
The team at Blacktop Capital includes Ben Brasher (Managing Partner) and Tyson Trautmann (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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