# CityRock Venture Partners

> CityRock Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://h-l.vc/cityrock-ventures/

CityRock Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing in start-ups that focuses on impact with diverse founding teams. It targets companies with which their team can work proactively to help them reach their full potential. It helps to lead the movement of active engagement with its portfolio companies, which they believe results instronger companies and lasting impact.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 19% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 16% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| FinTech | 3 | 9% |

68 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 34% |
| Series B | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 16% |
| Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oliver Libby | Managing Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-libby |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chptr | Chptr is a mobile-first platform for memorialization that collects, shares, and preserves memories of a loved one's life for future generations. is a collection of recollections brought together to describe a loved one's entire life narrative. | $5.5M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Sorcero | Sorcero provides an AI-powered intelligence platform tailored for life sciences teams. It enables medical affairs, safety, scientific communications, and medtech groups to extract meaningful insights from unstructured and structured biomedical data. Through its Instant Insights Engine and agentic AI framework, users can ask conversational questionsand quickly receive medically validated answers linked to their source material. Sorcero also offers tools for literature monitoring, safety signal detection, and converting complex science into clear, plain-language summaries. The platform supports compliant workflows by providing auditability, AI guardrails, and access controls to manage insights securely. | $42.5M | Series B | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Vibrant Planet | Vibrant Planet provides land management services and technology solutions to accelerate land restorations. The company collaborates with scientists, land management leaders, and policymakers to build a cloud-based system that informs and facilitates collaborative planning.Vibrant Planet was founded in 2004 by Allison Wolff and is based in InclineVillage, Nevada. |  | Convertible Note | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| Welcome Tech | Welcome Tech is a digital platform that builds data-driven services for immigrant workforces. The company offers access to essential services, including healthcare, jobs, education, and financial tools. With over 4.5 million registered members and a growing base of enterprise partners, it enables inclusive economic participation while helpingemployers recruit, retain, and serve an increasingly diverse workforce. | $7.5M |  | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Phospholutions | Phospholutions has developed a patented technology to alleviate the environmental impact of phosphorus fertilizer. Current commercial products aim to deliver phosphorus more efficiently to the plant within the soil and reduce unwanted losses to the environment, ultimately minimizing the effect on water quality.Phospholutions is a State College,PA-based sustainable fertilizer startup. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| Chptr | Chptr is a mobile-first platform for memorialization that collects, shares, and preserves memories of a loved one's life for future generations. is a collection of recollections brought together to describe a loved one's entire life narrative. |  | Convertible Note | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Summer | Summer combines innovative technology and policy expertise to serve student loan borrowers. The company's platform provides resources including a personalized loan payment dashboard, payment notifications, student loan policy updates, and customized repayment plans, enabling student borrowers to take control of their loans and save money whilerepaying.Summer was established in 2017 in New York by Will Sealy. |  | Series A | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Sealed | Sealed is the easiest, most affordable way to make your house more comfortable and efficient. In partnership with energy utilities and certified contractors, we solve the problems that make houses too hot, too cold, and too wasteful.Upgrades like HVAC, insulation, air sealing, and smart home technology keep your house working and feeling great inany weather. We coordinate projects from beginning to end, and we stand behind our work. If we don’t reduce your home’s energy use, we don’t get paid.Mission:Sealed is on a mission to unlock comfort, value, and efficiency hidden in peoples' homes. We offer smart home retrofits and turnkey project management to make upgrading your house a snap. Through our innovative performance payment program, we cover the upfront costs of the installations. Homeowners then pay Sealed using the energy they save. We believe in standing behind our work: if Sealed customers don't save energy, we don't get paid.Over 50% of single-family homeowners have significant comfort or other problems (health, safety, etc.) that could be solved with energy-saving upgrades (insulation, new boiler, smart thermostat, etc.). Most homeowners would prefer to pay for these upgrades with their energy savings rather than pay cash or take out a loan. But historically, banks have not been willing to lend money based on residential energy savings unless they feel confident in the underlying analytics.Sealed’s HomeAdvance financing program provides capital to cover the upfront costs of energy-saving upgrades. After the upgrades are installed, customers pay Sealed based on the amount of energy they save, guaranteed. Sealed’s proprietary data, analytics, and software enable investment-grade energy savings predictions. Sealed’s IP has enabled the first debt facility backed by residential energy savings cashflows (New York Green Bank) and the first residential energy savings insurance policy (Munich Re).Sealed reaches customers via local dealers (contractors), utilities, and digital marketing. Sealed recruits, trains, and manages dealers, helping them sell more projects with the Sealed HomeAdvance program. Sealed also works with utilities (National Grid, Con Edison, etc.) that market Sealed’s services in exchange for fixed and lead generation fees. | $30M |  | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| Sealed | Sealed is the easiest, most affordable way to make your house more comfortable and efficient. In partnership with energy utilities and certified contractors, we solve the problems that make houses too hot, too cold, and too wasteful.Upgrades like HVAC, insulation, air sealing, and smart home technology keep your house working and feeling great inany weather. We coordinate projects from beginning to end, and we stand behind our work. If we don’t reduce your home’s energy use, we don’t get paid.Mission:Sealed is on a mission to unlock comfort, value, and efficiency hidden in peoples' homes. We offer smart home retrofits and turnkey project management to make upgrading your house a snap. Through our innovative performance payment program, we cover the upfront costs of the installations. Homeowners then pay Sealed using the energy they save. We believe in standing behind our work: if Sealed customers don't save energy, we don't get paid.Over 50% of single-family homeowners have significant comfort or other problems (health, safety, etc.) that could be solved with energy-saving upgrades (insulation, new boiler, smart thermostat, etc.). Most homeowners would prefer to pay for these upgrades with their energy savings rather than pay cash or take out a loan. But historically, banks have not been willing to lend money based on residential energy savings unless they feel confident in the underlying analytics.Sealed’s HomeAdvance financing program provides capital to cover the upfront costs of energy-saving upgrades. After the upgrades are installed, customers pay Sealed based on the amount of energy they save, guaranteed. Sealed’s proprietary data, analytics, and software enable investment-grade energy savings predictions. Sealed’s IP has enabled the first debt facility backed by residential energy savings cashflows (New York Green Bank) and the first residential energy savings insurance policy (Munich Re).Sealed reaches customers via local dealers (contractors), utilities, and digital marketing. Sealed recruits, trains, and manages dealers, helping them sell more projects with the Sealed HomeAdvance program. Sealed also works with utilities (National Grid, Con Edison, etc.) that market Sealed’s services in exchange for fixed and lead generation fees. | $30M | Series B | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| Loupe | Loupe is an art streaming platform and service on connected TV and the web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of the home, ad-supported on living room TVs or with a commercial licence for public display, and allow users to purchase the artwork, including select prints and originals. Loupe launchedexclusively on Apple TV, where it is ranked as the top lifestyle app around the world, and now has 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo, and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2 million monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theatre/home entertainment, interior design, the art market, music streaming, and hospitality. | $1M |  | Mar 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hatzimemos / Libby](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hatzimemos-libby) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Fifth Wall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifth-wall-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Company Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cyrus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyrus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FootPrint Coalition](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/footprint-coalition) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CityRock Venture Partners invest in?

CityRock Venture Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 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 CityRock Venture Partners?

The team at CityRock Venture Partners includes Oliver Libby (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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