# Cardinal Venture Capital

> Cardinal Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: May 2013
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.cardinalvc.com

Cardinal Venture Capital is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Cardinal Venture Capital invests in early stage technology companies in the areas of Digital Media, Financial Technology, Mobility and Software-as-a-Service.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 17% |
| Mobile | 3 | 9% |
| Audio | 2 | 6% |
| Video | 2 | 6% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 31% |
| Series A | 5 | 14% |
| Series C | 4 | 11% |
| Series D | 4 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Hadsell | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-hadsell |
| Derek Blazensky | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-blazensky |
| Christian Borcher | Managing Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-borcher |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Workday Adaptive Planning | Workday Adaptive Planning is powering a new generation of business planning. Driving business agility in a fast-moving world, the Workday Adaptive Planning leads the way for people in companies to collaborate, gain insights, and make smarter decisions faster. Powerful modeling for any size organization, yet so easy for everybody who plans.Workday Adaptive Planning enables a comprehensive set of cloud-based software solutions supported by a powerful, in-memory technology platform that enables functional and company-wide business planning and built-in analytics on a large scale. Today, the company offers Adaptive Insights for Finance, and Adaptive Insights for Sales, purpose-built solutions that allow those closest to the business to plan. Recognized for ease of use, Workday Adaptive Planning ranks #1 in customer satisfaction in independent industry surveys from leading market analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and BPM Partners, and from leading customer review sites such as Gartner Peer Review, Trust Radius, G2Crowd, and Capterra.Workday Adaptive Planning is a privately held company with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. | $45.9M | Series F | May 21, 2013 |  |
| Workday Adaptive Planning | Workday Adaptive Planning is powering a new generation of business planning. Driving business agility in a fast-moving world, the Workday Adaptive Planning leads the way for people in companies to collaborate, gain insights, and make smarter decisions faster. Powerful modeling for any size organization, yet so easy for everybody who plans.Workday Adaptive Planning enables a comprehensive set of cloud-based software solutions supported by a powerful, in-memory technology platform that enables functional and company-wide business planning and built-in analytics on a large scale. Today, the company offers Adaptive Insights for Finance, and Adaptive Insights for Sales, purpose-built solutions that allow those closest to the business to plan. Recognized for ease of use, Workday Adaptive Planning ranks #1 in customer satisfaction in independent industry surveys from leading market analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and BPM Partners, and from leading customer review sites such as Gartner Peer Review, Trust Radius, G2Crowd, and Capterra.Workday Adaptive Planning is a privately held company with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. | $22M | Series E | Mar 14, 2012 |  |
| PlayPhone | PlayPhone provides social gaming solutions to the world's leading wireless carriers, aggregating a global gaming community and offering game developers quick access to millions of gamers, seamless monetization and powerful marketing opportunities.Game developers can use the FREE SDK to give games access to worldwide distribution throughtraditional, indie and carrier app stores, instant player matching, social gaming hooks and social network integration, virtual economy management tools, real-time analytics and the most advanced payment solutions available including one-click carrier billing. Integration takes just a few hours. Headquartered in San Mateo, PlayPhone has a presence in more than 25 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The FREE SDK is available at developer.playphone.com | $67.2M | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2012 |  |
| Zoove | Zoove provides mobile direct response solutions for mobile carriers and brands to deliver content to people. Enabled across all major U.S. carriers, its StarStar platform empowers marketers to leverage media, mobile, and marketing through a single platform, in order to create any offline-to-online brand experience they desire. StarStar drivesmillions of calls every year for the world's top brands including CBS, Dunkin' Donuts, Ford, Hyatt, NFL and Verizon Wireless. | $15M | Series D | Aug 16, 2011 |  |
| Tempo Payments | Tempo is a leading provider of innovative payment technology solutions for issuers and affinity partners. The company's core technology provides a scalable platform for next-generation decoupled debit programs.Tempo Payments, Inc., formerly known as Debitman Card, Inc., was founded in 2000. The company is headquartered in San Mateo,California. | $2.7M | Series D | Aug 10, 2009 |  |
| PlayPhone | PlayPhone provides social gaming solutions to the world's leading wireless carriers, aggregating a global gaming community and offering game developers quick access to millions of gamers, seamless monetization and powerful marketing opportunities.Game developers can use the FREE SDK to give games access to worldwide distribution throughtraditional, indie and carrier app stores, instant player matching, social gaming hooks and social network integration, virtual economy management tools, real-time analytics and the most advanced payment solutions available including one-click carrier billing. Integration takes just a few hours. Headquartered in San Mateo, PlayPhone has a presence in more than 25 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The FREE SDK is available at developer.playphone.com | $15M |  | Sep 30, 2008 |  |
| deCarta | deCarta is the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms for today's cutting-edge Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise location-based service (LBS) applications. deCarta's technology is a crucial link in the LBS value chain as it extends from base map data and content through to theapplication, service provider and on to the end-user. | $10.5M | Series C | May 09, 2008 |  |
| Zoove | Zoove provides mobile direct response solutions for mobile carriers and brands to deliver content to people. Enabled across all major U.S. carriers, its StarStar platform empowers marketers to leverage media, mobile, and marketing through a single platform, in order to create any offline-to-online brand experience they desire. StarStar drivesmillions of calls every year for the world's top brands including CBS, Dunkin' Donuts, Ford, Hyatt, NFL and Verizon Wireless. | $13M | Series B | Feb 27, 2008 |  |
| Workday Adaptive Planning | Workday Adaptive Planning is powering a new generation of business planning. Driving business agility in a fast-moving world, the Workday Adaptive Planning leads the way for people in companies to collaborate, gain insights, and make smarter decisions faster. Powerful modeling for any size organization, yet so easy for everybody who plans.Workday Adaptive Planning enables a comprehensive set of cloud-based software solutions supported by a powerful, in-memory technology platform that enables functional and company-wide business planning and built-in analytics on a large scale. Today, the company offers Adaptive Insights for Finance, and Adaptive Insights for Sales, purpose-built solutions that allow those closest to the business to plan. Recognized for ease of use, Workday Adaptive Planning ranks #1 in customer satisfaction in independent industry surveys from leading market analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and BPM Partners, and from leading customer review sites such as Gartner Peer Review, Trust Radius, G2Crowd, and Capterra.Workday Adaptive Planning is a privately held company with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. | $14M | Series D | Jan 22, 2008 |  |
| Zilliant | Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $4M | Series F | Nov 12, 2007 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Garage Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mobius Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobius-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Labrador Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/labrador-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scale Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cardinal Venture Capital invest in?

Cardinal Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 35 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 Cardinal Venture Capital?

The team at Cardinal Venture Capital includes Christopher Hadsell (General Partner), Derek Blazensky (General Partner) and Christian Borcher (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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