# Center Electric

> Center Electric is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3812986?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A3812986%2Cidx%3A1-2-2%2CtarId%3A1441738088755%2Ctas%3ACenter%20Electric
- Website: http://cen.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cenvc?fref=ts

Center Electric is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Center Electric believes that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the most revolutionary expansion of computing since the dawn of the personal computer. The Things themselves are a bellwether of the Internet's Third Wave.The First Wave was the prevalence of desktop connectivity. The Second Wave was the rapid connection of more screens,including laptops, mobile and tablets. The Third Wave is the expansion of connectivity to everything else, for both industrial and consumer use. Early indicators of this are the rise of cloud computing, the development of low power wireless technologies, and the initial rise of connected objects.Many venture capital firms interested in this space focus on shiny objects, the Things, the one consumer start up in a thousand that will make it big. These opportunities will not succeed, however, without a powerful and stable ecosystem enabling these concepts to come to life quicker and more efficiently. An ecosystem provides these innovators with context needed to focus on their differentiation.To build this new Internet ecosystem, investments must be made in the underlying infrastructure needed to support IoT as well as the hardware that takes advantage of it. We must scale the infrastructure to support an additional 50 billion devices by 2020. Center Electric is a firm designed to invest in the full stack, for both the Internet as well as the Things.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 27% |
| Consumer Electronics | 3 | 27% |
| Smart Home | 2 | 18% |
| Electronics | 2 | 18% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Smith | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-smith |
| Jay Adelson | General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-adelson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nubix.io | Nubix is a container platform that makes it easy to develop and deploy IoT and edge applications. Nubix runs on the tiniest compute devices (both MCUs and MPUs), enabling developers to easily process data on the sensor device where the data is created. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Colorado, United States. | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 16, 2020 |  |
| Roost AI | oost.ai is an end-to-end and comprehensive testing platform that leverages chatGPT and generative AI to help software development teams ensure high-quality software delivery. Roost.ai converts user stories into meaningful test cases enables contract testing and provides acceptance testing through preview URLs. By using Roost.ai, teams can reducetesting time and effort while improving collaboration, reducing errors, and accelerating time-to-market. | $3M | Seed | Sep 18, 2019 |  |
| Roost | Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of smart home technology, They seek to bring smart home functionality to users through using one-step retrofitting of existing household products to provide affordable upgrades. The team at Roost is working to approach smart home technology in ways never seen before. They emphasize simplicity of installationand utilization of existing household products. | $5.5M | Series A | Sep 02, 2015 |  |
| Spansive | Pi is a company that delivers a wireless charger for consumers. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3M | Seed | Jul 17, 2015 |  |
| NS1 | NS1 is an internet company that provides accurate control over application delivery that values interaction with customers. They build the world’s most intelligent DNS and traffic management technologies, enabling their customers to take unparalleled control over their traffic and infrastructure as conditions change in application environments andacross the global network.They're relentlessly focused on helping their customers succeed in their digital transformation initiatives. Their platform is 100% API driven and DevOps is in their DNA. Through native integrations with leading DevOps tools and vendors, NS1 is removing the barriers to full infrastructure automation.NS1's comprehensive platform technology leverages infrastructure, application, and network data to make intelligent routing decisions in real-time, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability. The company's platform is delivered through its world-class Managed DNS Network for customers including Imgur, MaxCDN, DropBox, SalesForce, and many more. | $5.4M | Series A | Apr 07, 2015 |  |
| August Home | August develops smarter home access products and services that allow physical environments to seamlessly respond to user behavior. Its flagship product, the August Smart Lock, is a new home access system that allows you to use smartphones in place of traditional keys.August is founded by famed designer Yves Behar and consumer technology veteranJason Johnson and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $38M | Series B | Mar 25, 2015 |  |
| ParkiFi | ParkiFi is making parking less of a hassle with their real-time parking occupancy and payment platform. Approximately one out of three cars on the road in downtown Denver is actively looking for a parking spot. Finding that spot takes an average of fifteen minutes of avoidable driving. It was created to take this stress out of people’s lives andreduce the environmental impact of driving.With the ParkiFi app, users simply input an address into the real-time parking map and the app’s parking spot finder directs them to open spaces in garages and lots and automatically allows users to pay for parking via the app at select locations. Metered street parking will be added in 2017. The iOS and Android app launched in downtown Denver in November 2016 and will roll out in other Denver neighborhoods and nationwide in 2017.ParkiFi was recognized as a 2016 “Denver Gazelles” company by the Denver Office of Economic Development. The company has raised $13.5 million in venture capital to-date. To learn more, visit www.parkifi.com and follow ParkiFi on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.It is a Denver-based technology company founded in 2014 by Ryan Sullivan and Rishi Malik in response to a critical insight into downtown traffic. | $1.4M | Seed | Mar 20, 2015 |  |
| Paperspace | Paperspace is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines. |  | Seed | Jan 06, 2015 |  |
| D2iq | The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by runningthem on Apache Mesos. | $36M | Series B | Dec 08, 2014 |  |
| Virtual Power Systems | Virtual Power Systems, Inc. (VPS) is building a software-defined infrastructure for data center power delivery, employing its patent-pending power system virtualization technology to provide a more flexible, mobile, scalable, and lower-cost data center architecture. | $5.7M | Series A | Feb 20, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Industry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industry-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morado-ventures-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [QueensBridge Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/queensbridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Center Electric invest in?

Center Electric invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Consumer Electronics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Center Electric?

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### Who are the partners at Center Electric?

The team at Center Electric includes Andy Smith (General Partner) and Jay Adelson (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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