# Bridge Bank

> Bridge Bank is a VC fund in San Jose backing Software and SaaS. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 59%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/162785
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bridgebank
- Website: https://www.westernalliancebancorporation.com

Bridge Bank is a VC fund in San Jose focused on Software and SaaS. Founded in May 2001, Bridge Bank is the brainchild of some of the most experienced and creative bankers and business people in our community. Our vision was to create a bank that reflects the unique needs of our business community. By combining the resources and services typically associated with larger banks with an unparalleled commitment topersonal service. Bridge Bank offers banking solutions created specifically to help your business grow and prosper.We understand that successful businesses - and the people who run them - have distinctive needs and attributes and our philosophy reflects this understanding. Like our clients, we are committed to being relationship-driven, fast paced and flexible, globally savvy, and technologically advanced.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 38 | 38% |
| SaaS | 20 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 16 | 16% |
| Advertising | 13 | 13% |
| Health Care | 13 | 13% |

169 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 64 | 63% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 9% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 7 | 7% |
| Series A | 3 | 3% |
| Series B | 2 | 2% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 87 | 86% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Al Williams | EVP & CCO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-williams |
| Bill Wickline | Managing Director Life Sciences Group | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-wickline |
| Blake Reid | Senior Director of Tech and Innovation Banking | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-reid |
| Brian Kirkpatrick | VP | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-kirkpatrick-0adb |
| Daniel P. Myers | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-p-myers |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noctrix Health | Noctrix Health is an early-stage medical device company that focuses on developing a revolutionary therapy for a chronic illness. |  | Debt Financing | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| 1Kosmos | BlockID is the pre-eminent global identity platform providing individuals with secure digital identity controls & service providers with powerful solutions to fight identity fraud while simplifying the user experience. Powered by advanced biometrics and blockchain technology delivered as a cloud service makes BlockID platform extremelypowerful, scalable and effective. The platform addresses a 60 year old Identity & Credentials issue in less than 60 minutes. | $10M | Debt Financing | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Small Door | Small Door provides veterinary services that are elevated, customer-centric, and hospitality-infused. The company provides superior care, unrivaled transparency, and tech-enabled convenience to help pets and pet parents live better lives together. Founded in 2017, Small Door is headquartered in New York. | $20M | Debt Financing | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| ValGenesis | ValGenesis is an Enterprise Validation Life-cycle Management system that manages an entire validation life-cycle process from start to end electronically. Automation of validation process reduces the validation cycle time and cost by at least 40 - 50%. ValGenesis enhances compliance, improves consistency and standardizes the corporate validationprocess. | $16M | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| AudioEye | AudioEye is a breakthrough voice infrastructure technology that expands the functionality of the voice-controlled browser. Their patented technology dramatically expands the power and functionality of the voice-controlled browser. Voice recognition and artificial intelligence engines provide a partial solution, allowing users to get an"answer" to a specific question. It also enables an essential third ingredient delivering audio menus that allow users to choose among multiple responses and navigate the Internet via keypad or voice just as they would with familiar mouse/icon or gestural interfaces.The company's technology Platform, when connected to voice recognition and artificial intelligence engines, can provide for a fully Audio Internet (TM) experience complete with voice navigation and voice-driven transactions. Everything the Internet can do AudioEye can do better without the use of a visual display, mouse, or touchpad. It offers technology that makes digital content more accessible and more usable, for more people.AudioEye was founded in 2005 and is based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. | $20M | Post-IPO Debt | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Catalyst OrthoScience | Catalyst OrthoScience is an early stage medical device company that is bringing the Catalyst CSR total shoulder to market. The CSR total shoulder is an innovative, streamlined solution that is associated with less stretching of the muscles and ligaments in order to place the implants. It is designed to be a more natural solution with a focus onrapid recovery for the patient. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Admiral | Admiral is a Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) company that helps publishers with relationships drive revenue growth. Admiral empowers publishers to engage their audiences to drive and optimize revenue streams from paid subscriptions to adblock recovery. Admiral’s one-tag solution provides free revenue analytics, and a suite of engagement,GDPR/CCPA privacy compliance, subscription, and revenue growth modules. |  | Debt Financing | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Divergent | Divergent has created the world's first end-to-end software-hardware production system for industrial digital manufacturing – the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™) – allowing customers to design, additively manufacture, and automatically assemble complex structures for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. DAPS transformsthe economics and environmental impact of manufacturing complex structures for vehicles of all types by optimizing designs, dematerializing structures, and eliminating upfront capex. | $47M | Debt Financing | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Mad Mobile | Mad Mobile helps companies reimagine how they connect with customers. Our unique platform enables restaurants and retailers to achieve mobility with their existing systems to increase sales and digitize the guest experience.Top clients include Ralph Lauren, Meijer, Ulta, Aramark, Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse Belk, Brooks Brothers, UrbanOutfitters, Estee Lauder, MAC Cosmetics, Anthropologie, McKesson, Talbots, Burlington, Guess, Books-A-Million, The North Face, Vans, Timberland, Free People, Sysco Foods, and Helzberg Diamonds. Over 5,800 customers in 18,000+ locations globally.Offices in Tampa, Houston, San Mateo, Seattle, Bueno Aires, Colombo, SL | $50M | Debt Financing | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Two Chairs | Two Chairs provides high-quality, in-person psychotherapy at thoughtfully-designed clinics. The company tailors care to peoples unique needs, goals, and preferences through personalized matching and concierge insurance support.Two Chairs creates space for conversation about mental health for clients and for themselves. They also prioritizeself-care and learning, growing, and supporting the community they create, together.Two Chairs is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Debt Financing | Apr 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Horizon Technology Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/horizon-technology-finance) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Multiplier Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multiplier-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Third Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/third-point-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cultivation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FIS Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bridge Bank invest in?

Bridge Bank invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 101 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 Bridge Bank?

The team at Bridge Bank includes Al Williams (EVP & CCO), Bill Wickline (Managing Director Life Sciences Group) and Blake Reid (Senior Director of Tech and Innovation Banking), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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