# Capstone Partners

> Capstone Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capstone-partners-lp/
- Website: https://www.capstonepartnerslp.com/

Capstone Partners is a placement agent providing global fundraising and advisory services to private equity, credit, real assets and infrastructure firms around the world.Capstone’s network of relationships reaches out to active investors worldwide, enabling our fund manager clients to raise more quality capital, at a faster pace while minimizingthe impact on their own professional staff.The prior experience of our senior management team as seasoned marketers for and investors in private equity funds allows Capstone to anticipate issues that are important to prospective investors. We will look to identify and draw upon the specific strengths of each client to differentiate and best position them for a successful fundraising outcome.The powerful combination of proven success, global reach, expertise, commitment and independence provide our clients a decisive advantage when competing for limited institutional investor allocations.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 20% |
| Information Services | 3 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 15% |
| Apps | 2 | 10% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 35% |
| Series B | 6 | 30% |
| Seed | 5 | 25% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 13 | 65% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alec Murphy | Vice President, Project Management and Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alec-murphy |
| Attilio Smanio | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/attilio-smanio |
| Clay Deniger | Managing Partner & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clay-deniger |
| James Eland | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-eland |
| Leonard A. Potter | Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonard-a-potter |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FriendliAI | FriendliAI is a generative AI infrastructure platform that enables deployment, scaling, and monitoring, including text, image, video, and audio, from sources like Hugging Face, and integrates quantization techniques such as FP8, INT8, and AWQ to improve inference efficiency. It offers managed services that automate GPU provisioning, auto-scaling,failure recovery, and performance tracking, helping businesses streamline generative AI deployment with reduced infrastructure complexity and cost. It also supports integrations with model hubs and tooling for debugging, observability, and structured API outputs. | $20M | Seed | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Liner | LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product. | $29M | Series B | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| ioCrops | IoCrops is a greenhouse horticulture company based on high technology. They operate glasshouses with AI technologies and automation, overcoming space and time restrictions. The company's goal is to expand IoCrops’ glasshouses so they don’t require any human intervention. | $6.9M | Series A | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Webtoon | Webtoon is data analysis platform that provides service to webcomic producers. | $1.6M | Seed | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Neubility | Neubility is a technology form that offers RaaS solutions by transforming the delivery sector and redefining urban logistics. The company offers a dependable and cost-effective robot delivery service utilizing vision-based localization and autonomous driving technology. | $21M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Musma | Musma provides information technology and services. | $3.8M | Series A | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Nemesis | Nemesis provides bio and medical device vendors and service providers with Intelligent biosignal processing solutions. Nemesis has technologies like biosensors, bio-signal processing, and wireless communication, which provide compact, low-power, and accurate semiconductor solutions that anyone can use. Nemesis semiconductor-based intelligent biosignal processing solution can be expanded to diagnose biomarkers in areas such as heart rate, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, and virus detection. Nemesis will do everything possible to improve the quality of our partners' products and services as a result of this. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Cookat | Cookat is the provider of a food blogging platform designed to deliver new information regarding unique food recipes. | $28.2M | Series D | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| ABLY | ABLY Corporation is an operator of a fashion e-commerce platform designed to act as an open marketplace for sellers of various scales across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and food. ABLY Corporation's artificial intelligence algorithm operates a mobile app where sellers and influencers can open an online store and sell products. | $55.9M | Series B | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| GOPIZZA | GOPIZZA operates service restaurants specializing in single-serving pizzas with preparation systems and delivery-focused operations. The company develops compact store formats designed for dine-in, takeaway, and food delivery services. With operations across several international markets, GOPIZZA continues expanding its restaurant network anddigital ordering capabilities. | $9.8M | Series B | May 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Big Basin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-basin-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KB Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kb-securities) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shinhan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shinhan-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BNK Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnk-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BNK Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnk-venture-capital-c3fd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Capstone Partners invest in?

Capstone Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Capstone Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Capstone Partners?

The team at Capstone Partners includes Alec Murphy (Vice President, Project Management and Business Development), Attilio Smanio (Principal) and Clay Deniger (Managing Partner & CEO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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