Bruce Taragin
Managing Director @ Blumberg Capital
San Francisco, United States
Bruce Taragin is a seed investor at Blumberg Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Bruce Taragin joined Blumberg Capital as Managing Director in 1998.Bruce has 17 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including CharlesRiver Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University.Bruce serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of DoubleVerify, CaseStack, Insightix, LiteScape, Correlix, Nolio and Revionics. He also serves on the board and the investment monitoring committee of the Jewish Community Foundation of Northern California.Past investments: eVoice - Acquired by AOL [TWX], PureSight - Acquired by Boston Communications Group [BCGI], Vista Research - Acquired by McGraw Hill [MHP], IP Infusion - Acquired by ACCESS CO., LTD [TSE: 4813] and GO Networks - Acquired by NextWave Wireless [WAVEX].
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
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Industries Bruce Taragin invests in
Stages Bruce Taragin invests in
Countries Bruce Taragin invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (17%)
- Marketing 3 (13%)
- E-Commerce 3 (13%)
- SaaS 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (26%)
- Series A 5 (22%)
- Series D 3 (13%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
- Series E 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 11 (48%)
- Canada 2 (9%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Anchor Browser
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Anchor Browser provides a browser agent platform that lets AI systems interact with web applications through cloud-hosted, human-like Chromium instances. The platform supports AI agents that plan and execute deterministic browser tasks, reverting to runtime AI only when necessary. Anchor Browser offers features such as bot detection avoidance,CAPTCHA solving, SSO integration, MFA handling, VPN and dedicated IPs, and Cloudflare-verified bot traffic. It targets SaaS builders, service providers, and enterprises that need to automate authenticated, browser-based workflows at scale. The service is delivered via APIs and can run in Anchor’s cloud or in a customer’s own environment. | $6M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | |
Anchor
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Anchor develops AI agents for performing organizational operations at scale in an internet environment. | $6M / Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | |
Pontera
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Pontera, formerly FeeX, bridges the gap between a better retirement and financial advisors by allowing them to manage and trade their clients' held away accounts. Its goal is to help people retire with more wealth and financial security. The company, which was founded in 2012, works with RIAs, Broker-Dealers, and some of the country'slargest financial institutions. | $60M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 07, 2023 | |
Nexla
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Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $18M / Series B / Jul 25, 2023 | |
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Nexla
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Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $18M / Series A / Jul 25, 2023 | |
Prescient AI
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Prescient is your premier state-of-the-art automation software that provides transparency and precise data insights for marketers and digital DTC brands alike. With the onset of a major shift toward a privacy-first internet, Prescient is the answer to fueling a brand’s success. Our tech helps you measure, forecast, optimize, and continuouslybacktest your marketing funnels with such meticulous accuracy that it saves you the two most important things in business: time and money.We know that the e-commerce space is changing and the internet is evolving. We’re here to set a new tone for the future of tech: predicted profitability. What if you could predict the success of your campaigns with such accuracy that you know your profit margins before advertising your product? Now, what if you could do that while maintaining the privacy of your customers? This is Prescient, and we’re changing the game with novel AI.We are rebuilding a sense of “trust in tech” through transparency in our partnerships and the software that we use every day in business. Have no fear — Prescient has your back, and together, we’re optimizing your business for long-term profitability. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 15, 2023 | |
WorkJam
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WorkJam is an employee engagement suite that unleashes the potential of enterprise workforces through agile scheduling, transformative communication, experiential learning, and tailored recognition, empowering the shift-based, hourly, and non-desk workers. It manages and optimizes the entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamicmobile communication and workforce management to drive operational efficiency and productivity. It also enables employers to improve labor cost management and sales through better communication with their workforce, enhanced employee self-service, and a better customer experience through a more motivated and engaged staff.WorkJam was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $50M / Series D / Nov 14, 2022 | |
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Pontera
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Pontera, formerly FeeX, bridges the gap between a better retirement and financial advisors by allowing them to manage and trade their clients' held away accounts. Its goal is to help people retire with more wealth and financial security. The company, which was founded in 2012, works with RIAs, Broker-Dealers, and some of the country'slargest financial institutions. | $45.1M / Nov 01, 2021 | |
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Nexla
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Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $12M / Series A / Oct 13, 2021 | |
Zone7
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Zone7 is an AI platform to optimize human performance by protecting the health, potential, and durability of athletes & the elite workforce. The future of human performance starts now. Zone7 is used by more than 30 professional sports franchises to track the performance and injury risk of some of the world’s leading athletes. Zone7 is alsobeing used to monitor the physical well-being of medical staff in leading hospitals around the world. By analyzing data from wearables, video cameras, medical records, and various biomechanics metrics, Zone7 provides coaching staff and hospital administrators with actionable advice to positively influence rest, work assignment, and planning to protect and optimize human performance. | $8M / Series A / Jul 22, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Blumberg Capital
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies that empower individuals, businesses and society through the innovative use of AI, big data and other transformative technologies. We are passionate about nurturing B2B technology companies from Seed stagethrough their growth journey, as active board members and hands-on advisors. We were among the first investors in industry leaders including Addepar, Braze, Credorax, DoubleVerify, Fundbox, HootSuite, Katapult, Nutanix, Trulioo and Yotpo. Find us in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Miami and New York or at blumbergcapital.com.
Blumberg Capital Contacts
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Lisa McNamara
VP of Finance
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Steve Gillan
COO and CFO
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Adrian Vanzyl
Director
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Bruce Taragin
Managing Director
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David Blumberg
Founder & Managing Partner
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What does Bruce Taragin invest in?
Bruce Taragin invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Bruce Taragin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Taragin closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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