# Bull City Venture Partners

> Bull City Venture Partners is a VC fund in Raleigh backing Software and SaaS. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Raleigh, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $53M
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/bull-city-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bcvp
- Website: http://www.bcvp.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bullcityventurepartners

Bull City Venture Partners is a VC fund in Raleigh focused on Software and SaaS. Bull City Venture Partners invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm evaluates investments based on innovation and growth potential. It provides capital and support to these companies. The industries served include technology, healthcare, and consumer products.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.6M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$13M |
| Series B | $8M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 27% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |
| Mobile | 5 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 9% |
| Analytics | 3 | 7% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 27% |
| Seed | 9 | 20% |
| Series B | 5 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Jones | Co-Founder and General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-jones-3 |
| Jason Caplain | Co-Founder and General Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-caplain |
| John G. Scanlon | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-g-scanlon |
| Michael Lee | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-lee-6d34 |
| Noreen Allen | Limited Partner and Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noreen-allen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloneable | Cloneable provides an artificial intelligence platform that generates and replicates human voices for digital applications. The system allows users to create voice models from recorded samples and produce speech in multiple languages while preserving tone and style. It supports use cases such as content narration, virtual assistants, and automatedcustomer interactions through API access and web-based tools.The platform includes features for managing voice profiles, editing generated audio, and controlling how voices are deployed across channels. It also incorporates safeguards such as consent verification and usage monitoring to address ethical considerations in voice replication. Additionally, it enables integration with media production workflows and software systems to streamline the use of synthetic speech in various environments. | $4.6M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Series E | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Tiga Labs | Tiga Labs transforms B2B selling with generative AI. | $2M | Seed | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $15M | Series D | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Ferretly | With Ferretly, employers can limit risk to their brand, employees and profits by identifying candidates and employees that have exhibited undesirable behavior online. Ferretly combines sentiment analysis with sophisticated machine learning algorithms to flag both text and images contained in online posts. Within typically 30 minutes or less, theuser receives a legally defensible report that identifies toxic/obscene language, hate speech, violence, self-harm and even drug/alcohol related images included among 13 distinct risk classifications. | $1M | Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| GreenPlaces | GreenPlaces is a sustainability software that serves as a company's sustainability team -- we help clients gain visibility into carbon emissions, reduce their environmental impact, and reach their climate goals with ease. It's easy to implement, provides accurate and investor grade reporting, and includes guidance to reduce and offset abusiness' carbon footprint. It's an end-to-end sustainability partner for businesses.The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. | $13M | Series A | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Ferretly | With Ferretly, employers can limit risk to their brand, employees and profits by identifying candidates and employees that have exhibited undesirable behavior online. Ferretly combines sentiment analysis with sophisticated machine learning algorithms to flag both text and images contained in online posts. Within typically 30 minutes or less, theuser receives a legally defensible report that identifies toxic/obscene language, hate speech, violence, self-harm and even drug/alcohol related images included among 13 distinct risk classifications. | $1.5M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $14M | Series C | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Get Spiffy | Spiffy is the all-in-one mobile service enablement platform built for franchise car dealerships. We power turnkey on-site oil changes, detailing, tires, and car washes—helping dealers capture high-margin fixed ops revenue, strengthen customer retention, and scale mobile service across their network. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Apex, NC,Spiffy partners with franchise dealership groups across the United States. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, technician management, and customer communication end-to-end, giving dealerships a fully managed mobile service operation without the overhead. Spiffy has raised $90M to accelerate dealer partnerships and platform growth. | $30M | Series C | Feb 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IDEA Fund Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idea-fund-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Bull City Venture Partners invest in?

Bull City Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Bull City Venture Partners's check size?

Bull City Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.6M at Seed, $3.4M–$13M at Series A and $8M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bull City Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Bull City Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Bull City Venture Partners?

The team at Bull City Venture Partners includes David Jones (Co-Founder and General Partner), Jason Caplain (Co-Founder and General Partner) and John G. Scanlon (Limited Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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