# Breakaway Ventures

> Breakaway Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Sports and E-Commerce. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakawayllc/
- Website: http://www.breakawayventures.com

Breakaway Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Sports and E-Commerce. Breakaway Ventures invests in consumer brands at a point of inflection where it can accelerate business growth and value creation. They are passionate about working with extraordinary people to build extraordinary brands. The company invests in emerging brands with >$2MM Revenue that seek $3MM to $8MM in Growth Capital. They believe thatinvestments this size enable us to be a meaningful partner and add meaningful value.Breakaway Ventures has access to exceptional deal flow. Their established Rolodex enables great partnerships that drive growth. They are active investors with the ability to influence the outcome of our investments.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |
| Shoes | 1 | 9% |
| Events | 1 | 9% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Baldwin | Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | — |
| Scott Caras | Managing Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plaza Analytics | Plaza makes data and decision-making easy for real estate private equity firms. Plaza plugs into 3rd party management systems and proformas, and unifies your data across your portfolio. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 21, 2025 |  |
| Spartan Race | Peak.com and Peak Races were founded in 2007 by Joe De Sena, Julian Kopald, and Andy Weinberg. Peak Races, the parent company of "Death Race", eventually went on to create the current Spartan Race series. | $10M |  | Apr 20, 2016 |  |
| M.Gemi | M.Gemi is a new kind of luxury brand handcrafting shoes in the most well-regarded, family-owned artisan factories across Italy. M.Gemi introduces new, limited edition styles every week, and sells directly to consumers, which allows us to offer our shoes at surprisingly attainable prices. They believe that old-world luxury craftsmanship isperfect. But they also believe a revolution is in order. It’s why they’re doing things differently – starting with shoes. | $18M | Series B | Nov 04, 2015 |  |
| M.Gemi | M.Gemi is a new kind of luxury brand handcrafting shoes in the most well-regarded, family-owned artisan factories across Italy. M.Gemi introduces new, limited edition styles every week, and sells directly to consumers, which allows us to offer our shoes at surprisingly attainable prices. They believe that old-world luxury craftsmanship isperfect. But they also believe a revolution is in order. It’s why they’re doing things differently – starting with shoes. | $14M | Series A | Mar 24, 2015 |  |
| Fancred | Founded in August 2012 Hossein Kash Razzaghi, Jeremy Merle, and Craig Johnson, and Michael Pan, Fancred's mission is to unite the world's sports fans by creating a new way to consume sports information and interact with other fans and members of their community. |  | Seed | Aug 21, 2014 |  |
| True Fit | True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highlypersonalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue.True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development.True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors. | $10.6M | Series A | Jun 01, 2014 |  |
| True Fit | True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highlypersonalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue.True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development.True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors. | $4.4M | Seed | Jul 29, 2011 |  |
| IdeaPaint | IdeaPaint is an innovative and environmentally responsible whiteboard paint that transforms virtually any surface into a high-performance, dry erase canvas. Fun and easy to apply, IdeaPaint is incredibly cost effective versus traditional whiteboards, and outperforms all of the other leading dry erase options. With over 75,000 successfulinstallations worldwide, IdeaPaint is the gold standard for dry erase performance, flexibility and environmental responsibility. | $5M | Series C | Apr 27, 2011 |  |
| True Fit | True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highlypersonalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue.True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development.True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 11, 2011 |  |
| CareMedic Systems | CareMedic Systems, Inc. provides revenue cycle management solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States and Puerto Rico. It offers electronic Financial Record, a healthcare financial management system that provides activity tracking capabilities, and recording descriptions and dates for various events that occur inside oroutside the patient accounting system; and VerifyAR, a solution for front-end document management, eligibility verification, compliance checking, and medical necessity review. The company also provides AccelerateAR, a Medicare review and editing solution with document management, all-payer claims formatting and submission, and print and mail service capabilities; and OptimizeAR, a solution that offers tools for managing payments through remittance management, denial management, and paper EOB to electronic 835 conversions. In addition, it offers ImageAR, a document management system with integrated front and back-end scanning, indexing, and storage solutions that enable and streamline various revenue cycle functions; and ResolveAR, a suite of service offerings, including accounts receivables outsourcing, Medicare accounts receivables cleanup, and credit balance resolution. The company provides its solutions in application service provider (ASP) model. CareMedic Systems, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida with additional offices in Alpharetta and Decatur, Georgia. | $19.9M | Series E | Jun 12, 2004 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Breakaway Ventures invest in?

Breakaway Ventures invests primarily in Sports, E-Commerce and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Breakaway Ventures?

The team at Breakaway Ventures includes Dennis Baldwin (Founder & Managing Partner) and Scott Caras (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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