# Buffalo Ventures

> Buffalo Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and B2B. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18759000/admin/
- Website: https://www.buffalo.ventures/

Buffalo Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and B2B. Venture Capital, Angel Investment

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 100% |
| B2B | 1 | 50% |
| SMS | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Marketing | 1 | 50% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brad Cahoon | Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SKAEL | SKAEL provides a hyper-automation platform used to help companies to automate and power digital employees. The company's platform is combined with automation and conversational AI technologies and it offers a plug-and-play integration into all the back-end workflow and approval systems, and automatically clears, stores, and benchmarks dataacross peers while layering out predictive and prescriptive insights. Through this, it helps users to eliminate buyer-seller human error, bias, delays, and associated risks while fully automating repetitive business functions.Founded in 2017, SKAEL is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4.1M | Seed | Oct 29, 2020 | https://skael.com/ |
| Emotive | Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $2.7M | Seed | Sep 14, 2019 | https://emotive.io/ |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenoneten-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daher Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daher-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ride Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ride-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Buffalo Ventures invest in?

Buffalo Ventures invests primarily in Software, B2B and SMS startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Buffalo Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Buffalo Ventures?

The team at Buffalo Ventures includes Brad Cahoon (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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